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[BarackTheVote]

'ello, ev'rybody!

I'm 28, work in TV, and went to Columbia College Chicago as a Film/Video major and got to be in the crowd at Grant Park on election day 2008! My grandpa was a flight engineer at Bolling field during WWII, worked on FDR's plane, was part of FDR's honor guard, and even walked Fala a few times! But despite all that, half of his 10 kids went right wing NUTS in the 80s and 90s. I'm in Central Illinois now and... man do I miss Chicago. This county went purple in '08, but it's traditionally red... like the rest of down-state.

ANYWAY! I'm also a practicing Roman Catholic, and I was just recently kicked out of the youth group I've helped to run for over a decade because I went on a tirade against our Bishop after he started politicking for Romney from the pulpit. Since most of the kids from the youth group are my facebook friends, I've really gone all-out in my social network campaigning for Obama, if for no other reason than just to show the youth that you can be a good, moral Catholic as well as a Democrat (in fact, I personally think being a Republican in this day and age is absolutely morally indefensible).

My mom's been reading DU since the presidential usurpation of ought-double zero and she's been reading me threads from here that whole time (whether I liked it or not LOL)... and before THAT, it was Buzzflash. I've been an off-and-on reader here through college, and I finally joined election night of 08 out of sheer JOY! And I've just recently started to post more because, let's be frank here, I'm lonely. I need some chicken soup for my democratic soul, and I need a good amount of ammo for this campaign of mine to bring sanity back to my diocese!