Republican Grandmother Tells All About Barack Obama
Submitted by gregflynn on Wed, 04/30/2008 - 5:28pm
My good friend Ann Cowperthwaite passed along this Letter to the Editor that her mother just wrote with the simple commentary:
"I am pretty proud of my mother over this one...."
I am a white, female, 87 year old senior citizen. Following the Pennsylvania Democratic Primary last week, CNN TV “The Situation Room” evening news report referred to the senior citizen voters in western Pennsylvania as those of the “Bigotry Generation”. I take issue with the media for painting a whole generation with one swipe of the brush.
I see Barack Obama as a man uniquely qualified to fulfill a desperate need for reconciliation in our country that my generation has loved, fought, and died for. Obama is highly qualified, educated, intelligent and eloquent. He has a keen mind and a calm, thoughtful, and confident demeanor. His multi-racial life experience exceeds in important measure the “experience” his opponent claims to have gained in her 8 years in the Clinton White House.
I am a life-long Republican, but Barack Obama has earned my respect and support, whatever the media chooses to call my generation. He has stayed above the caustic and bitter tone of his opponents’ campaign. He is the right leader at the right time to restore dignity and unity to the United States of America.
Let not the so called “Bigotry Generation” deny him his hard earned opportunity to deliver Hope and Change.
- June Peacock, Raleigh, NC
Yup....the MSM and their cute little labels
Love the letter. Glad she responded.
Robin Hayes lied. Nobody died, but thousands of folks lost their jobs.
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Vote Democratic, the ass you save may be your own.
Thank you, Greg, for this post
It's very nice to read something that is so positive.
And good on Mrs. Peacock for speaking out.
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my grandmother
passed last summer. She was a die hard Reagan Republican. I mean die hard. My grandfather was an elected Republican state delegate for the state of Maryland. My great aunt attended the RNC convention in her hey day. The amount of guff I received from her on a regular basis for my work with the DP was monumental.
However, just after her death, I was on the phone with my mother who told me that she was trying to track down her voter registration card for me. Why? Well, she had changed her voter registration to democrat in order to vote for Barack in the primary.
She didn't get the opportunity, but I will. You go, Grandma! Still the strongest woman I've ever known. This one is for you.
It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.
- William G. McAdoo
Wonderful.
Beautiful letter. Thanks for posting.
"It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit." - Harry Truman
"They took all the trees and put them in a tree museum Then they charged the people a dollar 'n a half just to see 'em. Don't it always seem to go that you don't know what you've got till it's gone? They paved paradise and put up a parking lot."
It's wonderful.
Absolutely - and nice to read. Thanks for posting it, Greg.
Be the change you wish to see in the world. --Gandhi
Pointing at Naked Emperors
My Grandfather
is 80 years old. He is a retired truck driver and WWII vet. He voted Obama with zero reservations. Here is his quote to me:
"I'm an old man. I've lived through depressions, recessions, war, peace, you name it. Before I vote, I listen to every candidate, and I can smell bulls&$t a mile away. Obama is the best candidate. Everything else is just a sideshow."