My First Blog

Hello Bloggers. This is my first blog ever and i'm pretty excited about it.



In my College Literature class we have a "Poem of the day."

The day after election day we read a poem called Election day.



This presidential election was my first one, and it was exciting. I took a Poli Sci class last year and learned a lot more about politics. I became very fond of Senator Barack Obama. I knew I was planning to vote for him and I knew that what he had planned was going to help change our country.

It just so happen that a very close friend to me is a huge democrat along with her family. Her father lives in Washington DC and helped Barack, with his company, through his whole campaign. On November 4th we invited their family over for dinner, they said they were going to this democratic party at the Monona Terrace and asked me and my mother if we wanted to go. I thought "What the heck, this won't happen again and this beats doing homework and cleaning my room," I joined them, along with mother. She took a little bit more convincing, but I knew that something like this wasn't going to happen again. We went to this party and we're very excited to finally be there. The room was full of democrats. Everyone had Barack Obama shirts on. There was a band who sang nothing but songs about him. Six screens around the room and even Tammy Baldwin and Jim Doyle showed up.

The experience was life-changing.

I saw "Barack Obama is the President" and it changed my life. I no longer felt scared. I felt a sense of hope come across my body.

My biggest fear was that my children were going to suffer through all of this, when I could have helped save it. And I could see the fear leave the room after Barack Obama was elected president. I could feel the excitement overwelming everyone around me, because it seems like poeple had the same fears as me, and once they were gone, everyone could finally be happy.

Barack has showed me hope and desire to change.

Our country needs change. We need something to hope for. We need something to live for.

I believe he is the thing.