Final comments about the election Process

1 comment November 6th, 2008

I am sure that these will be my final comments as the site will be disbanded shortly.  With the election of President-elect Barack Obama, my participation in the election and campaign process has come full circle.  I began my political work with one amazing and visionary candidate, Senator Robert F. Kennedy and end with another, President-elect Senator Barack Obama. 

The journey has been wonderful, enriching,enlightening and educational.  I am blessed to have met so many wonderful people and helped in some small way to shape the elections of many candidates, be they local, state or national.  I began in an era of ignorance and intolerance and end in an era of enlightenment, hope and a vision for our future which is including all persons being measured by the content of their character not other factors such as ethnicity and socioeconomic backgrounds.  We live in the greatest nation on Earth and I am blessed to have been born in the United States.  I am appreciative of the journey for it has enriched and blessed me beyond measure.  I urge Americans regardless of ideology, party affiliation, gender, ethnicity,socio-enconomic status to unite with our President-Elect to regain the stature and restore principles on which our nation was founded, with liberty and justice for all.  There is not a challenge before us that we united as one nation can not conquer.

I now enter another phase of the election process for I haven chosen to begin my candidacy and seek elected office.  Pray for me as I pray for you, our President and the nation.

Sincerely,

 

Dyanna Chandler

The results are in…

1 comment November 5th, 2008

I voted in my first presidential election today for Barack Obama and watched the election coverage excitedly in my friend’s dorm room.

I go to college in Missouri, a bellwether state, and registered to vote here, as well, considering President-Elect Obama needed my vote here more than Illinois would have.  After the initial announcement of Obama’s presidency, shouts of all reactions came from the hallways and from outside: excitement, joy, disappointment, frustration.

Many media outlets often portray college students as liberal hippies, similar to the “College Know-It-All Hippies” of South Park.  This isn’t the case, however, especially not in Missouri. Many of my peers are staunch conservatives and truly dislike Barack Obama, not only as a candidate, but as a person.  They like “their guns and religion.”  These conservative peers fear a socialist nation, possibly even the next USSR.  Thankfully I know our Constitution would not allow for such an attrocity.

I am eager to witness the coming events of the next four years.   I am highly pro-guns — definitely in favor of the concealed weapon law that was on the ballot for Winnebago Co. — and am not too keen on universal healthcare.  That did not stop me, however, for standing behind the rest of the ideals behind which Obama stood, too.

Surprise! Surprise

Add comment November 2nd, 2008

This will probably be my last post to this blog. I’m guessing that it will be shut down after the election on Tuesday. But I just had to make one last comment.

Obama’s aunt is in this country illegally? Wow! Would that be the explanation for his position on amnesty? Why doesn’t it surprise anyone when a politician is caught with his fingers in the cookie jar. I guess it’s stuff like this that makes me feel good about not belonging to or believing in a political party. Neither of them is worth my time or effort.

Until we meet again, it’s been a pleasure knowing all of you and having the discussions we’ve had. Good luck to all.