Senator Obama understands that in the long term good education is the most important step toward solving all of our problems.

I am so through with being ashamed of the president of my country.  

Good to find you again, Angry Mouse. I have been worried about you and (y)our sisters (and brothers) who are not PUMAs or their ilk in the last few weeks. Those folk must have been causing great pain in those whose respect for the candidate who was not mine  was wiser and deeper than theirs, by their thoughtless  and self-absorbed antics. You have always hung in there for common sense and rational respect for your candidate and for the true feelings of her genuine supporters, and it must have been a great grief. They're fading over there in the corner. And you're still here! Yay.

Please add yourself and the genuine Clinton supporters to the list. For demonstrating steadfastness to the principles of your candidate and mine and the purpose of people of different views working together, despite this flood of (bad word) and holding onto the decent principles of our party when the chips were down, and enriching it even in dark times with  real hope and sense of possibility. The hard part of change is not done by any showy leader, but by those who follow anonymously, making the hopes of S.L. real in people's lives. All those happy swarming folk.

I saw that  weeping Clinton delegate last night who the MSM caught, and was overjoyed to see that, whatever else anyone else saw and notwithstanding her thoughts about experience, your and her candidate had shown her something she had never really seen in her life before, the genuine hope of something better for her in particular, a new place where she really could hope for the possibility of her own dreams without the burden of that ceiling. I think it was a little flake from the crack in her eye that made her heart sing and the eyes tear.

If I have a quibble, it is a little one and is that two ceilings took the big hit last night, and the number is probably 37 million. Two ceilings both sides were glad to see in slivers. In one year.

 I'm a Democrat.

Thanks.  

I'm a human being living on this planet.

I'm a woman with concerns for the interests and rights of my gender.

I'm a Democrat with a stake in all my party believes in and advocates for.

As I've diaried here before...

Historically, each year on average under Republican presidents, the number of people in America living below the poverty line climbs over 400,000.  Each year on average under Democratic presidents, the number of people in America living below the poverty line drops over 800,000.

According to the Census Bureau's most recent data (link, link), during George W. Bush's first six years as president, the number of people below the poverty line rose 4,879,000 (that includes over one million children).  That's an average of 813,000 more people living below the poverty line each year of Bush's presidency.  During Bill Clinton's presidency, the number of people below the poverty line fell 6,433,000 (that includes over 3 million children.) That's an average of 804,000 less people living below the poverty line each year.

In no particular order:

Will those do?

Hi Ya Mouse..

Was there at Kos the day  you...Came over to Obama?

I got only two reasons (very important for me I'm a USSC junkie, try to go 2-3 times per year to watch a case....)

John Paul Stevens

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

I pray they live forever.

They have been the only TRUE liberal voices on the court as long as I have been going there.

I think, it would be a great diservice to them to let McCain and his Federalist Society Buddies name their replacements.

Easy:

My father is an AFSCME member. My mom is a member of the NEA. Me and my five (!) brothers have enjoyed excellent health care and I want a president that will not only protect it, but expand it so that all families can have it.

My best friend died of cancer over a year ago, mainly because he couldn't afford regular doctor's visits. However tragic Tommy's death was, nothing is more tragic than the fact that he wasn't the only one in America who died because of our caste system of health care.

I am tearing up as I type this, because I can't go through that kind of pain again, and I wish it on no one.

How about one good reason.  I believe in internationalism.  And the key to moving to a more liberal conception of foreign policy --- one where force is used as a last resort, where it's used for collective security and not aggressive war, and where the international community truly operates as such --- the KEY to achieving that is a consistent, American foreign policy along those lines.  We had that under Bill Clinton.  Hell, we even had it under George HW Bush.  But Bush, Jr. has totally fucked up the program.  He's set back the cause of true internationalism, of ending the role or theme of "America, the world's policeman", more than we've in quite some time.

OK...two more quickly.

1: We need a Democrat to get us started, in a very serious and full force fashion, on the path to clean energy.

2: Because America has never been as solidly behind healthcare as it is now.  If we elect McCain, and the economy improves, it could be eight, twelve, sixteen, or twenty years before America is behind it while we have strong Congressional majorities.  We need to take advantage of that while we can.  Once healthcare is a RIGHT in this country, once people see that "socialized medicine" (as it would be called by the GOP if the gov't chipped in $50/year toward your annual) is hardly an evil, I do not think they'll ever be able to take it away.  And that will be great!

and I didn't even support her in the primaries. I can only imagine how emotional that must have been for her strong advocates like you.

I look forward to her future work in the Senate.

I am not quite "fired up and ready to go," but I am seriously considering sending in my $15 for an Obama-Biden car magnet. I had sworn not to contribute to Obama's campaign.

Hillary and Bill asked me to.

He talks to me like I'm an adult. He's widely criticized for giving lengthy nuanced answers to questions. They say he needs to be shorter and more direct. I want someone who understands that everything isn't black and white. I don't want someone so arrogant as to say they know exactly when life begins, or to have an overly simplistic view of "good vs evil." I want someone who's going to lay before us all of the complexities of a situation.

I want someone who is going to appeal to my intellect, not try to win me over with fear. Not try to win me over with hate.

Really a privilege to rec this diary. Hey, Go USA!

I want Obama to do what Bush SAID he was going to do, but didn't and wouldn't:  trap, capture, and/or kill the instigator and author of 9/11 and other terrorist actions that have killed untold thousands.

I want a President who's got the sense to NOT put the above man and organization in a chute pointed toward one of the very few countries in the Middle East that has nuclear weapons AND has sympathy for terrorism and lacks leadership to withstand terrorist organizations, Pakistan.

I want a President who recognizes that the men and women of our military are valuable as people first and also as resources to defend our country.  I think Obama understands that these people and their families are real live people and not the "extras" in a shootemup bang bang mythical film about George W. Bush.

Barack Obama, Hillary  and Bill Clinton, Joe Biden, Jimmy Carter and all the politicians, activists and ordinary citizens we saw speak at the convention.  I can't even imagine voting for any other party.

We stumble along the way to getting things right but our idea is everyone should be respected and have equal opportunity to succeed. We believe we are our brothers/sisters keepers.

We have our share of loonies and so does the Republican party.  The difference is our loonies include peaceniks and tree huggers while theirs include gun-toting neo-nazis.