I feel inspired, tonight, to give my salute to President Obama

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8. living in his hometown, i know a lot of people who knew him when.

i rode the bus with the members of the cook county black nurses assoc. they had many stories about the days of him hauling the girls around to meetings in church basements.
when he ran for senate, many of his colleagues in springfield gave him a warm hand up with some amazing words of praise and acts of loyalty and hard work.
when he was a us senator, a friend of mine was involved in trying to extradite a criminal from another country. both senators worked all the levers, but barack obama also administered many of those famous hugs and helped in other ways.

yup. he is the real deal.
i hope he stays in public life, tho i hope he can do it in a way that michelle approves of. (sorry scotus fans. michelle is not gonna spend the rest of her life in dc.)