A word from Obama

Have you decided on who you want for President yet? I haven't either, but I wanted to share something interesting with you that surprised me a bit.

A year ago, when Barack Obama was just coming onto the political landscape, I wrote him a letter saying that he should run for President (I was very interested in infusing some new blood into the old game) and that he should make the recovery of the Gulf Coast one of his top issues.

I flattered myself by thinking that I might get a response back, but never expected it to happen. Sure enough, after many months went by I almost forgot that I'd even written.

Until I got this:

Your eyes do not decieve you, it is a response from Barack Obama that I got about a month ago. Yes, that is his handwritten signature on the bottom of the letter!

As indicated, he enclosed literature on what his position on the Gulf Coast is.

I was really affected by receiving this letter - partly because I never thought it would happen, but more because I could tell it wasn't just a form letter that one of his staff autoprinted and mailed.

I can see that his team is actually reading and responding to the letters he's receiving, and I can see that he played a personal role in writing the letter because of the content of the first paragraph.

Can Obama really be a man of the people? I wasn't too impressed with him when I saw him at the L.A. rally in February, but I think I owe it to him to have another look...