A wonderful endorsement by the UFWA of Hillary Clinton, the wife of the ex-President, William Jefferson Clinton, who left office after 8 years with an approval rating of 66%.

Congratulations for endorsing a woman who, when she becomes president, will try to improve the lot of the hard-working farm workers who perform tasks year after year that very few could endure.

 

I pray everyday for our country because of the idiot running it.  Once upon a time, I would have voted for McCain, but his time is  up.  I definetly will vote for Hillary out of the three choices.  Obama and Edwards are not in her league.  They don't have the foreign policy experience. As first Lady, she visited many countries and was well received along with Chelsea.  As first Man, Bill Clinton can't be beat. Our country thrived under his leadership and it will rise from the ashes with Hillary, Bill and Chelsea as first Family.  They will bring dignity back to our country.   Amen.

I'm liking her more and more and she seems to be getting better and better.  And after the 8 years of George-we-should-have-impeached-you Bush, I think Clinton has the talent, fortitude and intelligence to start fixing things.  I think she'll do it.  

I pray everyday that this country hasn't lost what once made it great.  It's sense of inspiration, honor, and the undying belief that no matter what the odds, no matter what the problem, America can conquer.  America can survive.  And America can be greater tomorrow than what it is today.  That feeling, that same hunger and desire to prosper and grow, is represented today in Barack Obama.  Hillary Clinton is politics as we know it.  No doubt, she would be an effective leader.  But I'm looking for more than somebody who will preserve the status quo.  I want to grow beyond that.  I want this country to once again dare to do the impossible, to turn dreams into reality as it has done so often in the past.  

I pray for a day when we judge people on what they say, not what they spin.  No, I don't vote based on a President's spouse.  If I were doing that, I must admit I would vote for Dennis Kucinich.  

I pray that we have dignity again, just as you do.  But as for returning dignity to our country, you and I must have a very different memory of the late nineties.  All that was on the news were accusations of the President's infidelities.  President Clinton asking the prosecutor to define "is" for him.  Dignity?  I pray for a day when all of our candidates can debate the issues, not cast aspersions.  Dignity?  I have seen none, sir.  None at all.

I pray we can return to a time when dignity does not mean clawing at those we disagree with, but rather growing and learning from them.  I pray for a day when all people of all ideologies sit at the same table and work together for a common goal rather than preservation of power.  I pray for a day when America is no longer hanging her head in shame at the way her government has been twisted into a game of power and slander.

I pray for a day when we don't equate political attacks with bravery, and refusal to fight with cowardice.  I pray for a day when we say "now."  Not tomorrow, but now.  Now we have chosen to take back our government.  Not from Bush, not from Republicans or Democrats even, but from the powers that be.  The powers that tell us we should live in their country under thier rules.  Both parties are guilty of this, forgetting in their fervor for power that we are all Americans, and that no one is greater than the other in stature or worth.

I pray for the hopes of little boys and girls across the nation who are unable to sleep tonight, for they have no blankets.  I pray for the single mother who can't afford health care for her baby.  I pray for the working family who can't afford to send their child to college.  I pray for our soldiers, dying for a war that should have never been allowed.  And I pray that next time such a test is brought upon her, Senator Clinton shows the judgment in Foreign Policy that Barack Obama did.  The foreign policy you claim for her to have in spades, sir.

I pray for us all.  I pray that in November of this year, we wake up to a new America.  An America that remembers that "false hope" is only such when you give up on it.  An America that can do anything it wants so long as it is willing to work for it.  An America that can be respected in the world, yet strong and firm in it's convictions.  An America that feeds her hungry, clothes her naked, and cures her sick.  An America that believes in itself once again.

I Pray for Barack Obama.