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Edwards endorses Obama

So, I went to Jacksonville this weekend. I already miss it. I would love to move out there. The city really draws you in. If only I did not have to go through the Georgia licensing process. Anyway, I traveled to Jacksonville for two reasons. The first being a concert and the other was catching up with an old high school friend. Both reasons were very enjoyable. I went to a Tristan Prettyman concert. I’ve been listening to her for about 6 years now. This was my first time seeing her live, sad, I know. Anyway, I instantly fell in love with her. She has such a laid back style. I love female vocals. She is a great performer and quite beautiful. It is hard to beat that. I think she puts herself out there with her lyrics. We hide behind so many things in life and she is willing to let it all out. It is so hard for us to move away from the facades we portray to the world. We are not willing to allow the world to see our vulnerability. We want to be loved and revered by all. However, it is that vulnerability that makes us human, it allows us to make that connection with someone else. I think the vulnerability portrayed in her music has connected her to her fans. Anyone can relate to the lyrics in her music. Basically, it is her saying, this is me, love me or hate me. It is that vulnerability or realness that we all want to be connected to, but we are too scared to show it because of the fear of rejection. Anyway, I digress, the concert was great and the rest of the trip was great as well. I will definitely have to make a trip back.  Her are a few pics and a vid.

What is it about choices that scare us? We are all so quick to to pass that responsibility onto someone else. I guess it is not the choice itself, but rather the possible outcome that may come from that choice. The idea of failing paralyzes everyone. Each individual would rather know what the outcome of their decision will be. We all run around so scare of living our life because of this. We miss out on the little things that make life great, because we allow the fear to consume us. We can't enjoy that cup of coffee, a long run, or friendships because of our over analysis of every decision we make. However, if life decisions do not hurt, or cause some kind of pain at times, then I think we've stopped growing as a person. We need that pain to help us understand our life or another's life that much more. That pain, that failure allows us to enjoy that joy, that success so much more. It is through that pain that we become the individuals we are today. We are afraid of that pain, and rightfully so, our brains were not wired to enjoy pain. Though, our brain was wired to feel the pain. without that feeling of pain, how would we now know not to touch a hot stove. I guess I'm just trying to say that we've all become too scared. I know I have. I'm always scared to put myself out there, but I'm slowly changing that part of me. I still have a little growing left to do. I have a life to live and successes as well as pleasures that I would like to enjoy that much more through the experience of a little pain.

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I am standing upon the seashore. A ship at my side
spreads her white sails to the ocean. She is an object
of beauty and strength. I stand and watch her until
at length she hangs like a speck of white cloud just
where the sea and sky come to mingle with each
other.

Then someone at my side says: "There, she is gone!"

"Gone where?"

Gone from my sight. That is all.

Her diminished size is in me, not in her. And just
at the moment when someone at my side says:
"There, she is gone!" there are other eyes watching
her coming, and other voices ready to take up the
glad shout: "Here she comes!"

And that is dying.
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Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeoning of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find me, unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate;
I am the captain of my soul.

Well, it seems as if Obama has carried his momentum from this weekend into today's primaries. Democrats are coming out in record numbers to support their candidates. I think this, besides Obama winning is the most significant thing about the current primaries. Democrats are making their voices heard and are showing that a change will come. It is an exciting time to be a Democrat. The current administration has mishandled several affairs during this term, and people are showing their disapproval by voting in record numbers in the current primaries. I'm personally excited that people are participating in the primaries, voting does matter. Whomever you support, just go out and show your support by voting. We can make a difference, each vote makes a difference. The current primaries are a great example of this. Anyway, I'm glad that Obama swept the primaries this week. Lets continue showing our support and push forward to election day. Barack and Roll............

Here is the speech Barack Obama gave in New Hampshire:

I want to congratulate Senator Clinton on a hard-fought victory here in New Hampshire.

A few weeks ago, no one imagined that we'd have accomplished what we did here tonight. For most of this campaign, we were far behind, and we always knew our climb would be steep. But in record numbers, you came out and spoke up for change. And with your voices and your votes, you made it clear that at this moment – in this election – there is something happening in America.

There is something happening when men and women in Des Moines and Davenport; in Lebanon and Concord come out in the snows of January to wait in lines that stretch block after block because they believe in what this country can be.

There is something happening when Americans who are young in age and in spirit – who have never before participated in politics – turn out in numbers we've never seen because they know in their hearts that this time must be different.

There is something happening when people vote not just for the party they belong to but the hopes they hold in common – that whether we are rich or poor; black or white; Latino or Asian; whether we hail from Iowa or New Hampshire, Nevada or South Carolina, we are ready to take this country in a fundamentally new direction. That is what's happening in America right now. Change is what's happening in America.

You can be the new majority who can lead this nation out of a long political darkness – Democrats, Independents and Republicans who are tired of the division and distraction that has clouded Washington; who know that we can disagree without being disagreeable; who understand that if we mobilize our voices to challenge the money and influence that's stood in our way and challenge ourselves to reach for something better, there's no problem we can't solve – no destiny we cannot fulfill.

Our new American majority can end the outrage of unaffordable, unavailable health care in our time. We can bring doctors and patients; workers and businesses, Democrats and Republicans together; and we can tell the drug and insurance industry that while they'll get a seat at the table, they don't get to buy every chair. Not this time. Not now. Our new majority can end the tax breaks for corporations that ship our jobs overseas and put a middle-class tax cut into the pockets of the working Americans who deserve it.

We can stop sending our children to schools with corridors of shame and start putting them on a pathway to success. We can stop talking about how great teachers are and start rewarding them for their greatness. We can do this with our new majority.

We can harness the ingenuity of farmers and scientists; citizens and entrepreneurs to free this nation from the tyranny of oil and save our planet from a point of no return. And when I am President, we will end this war in Iraq and bring our troops home; we will finish the job against al Qaeda in Afghanistan; we will care for our veterans; we will restore our moral standing in the world; and we will never use 9/11 as a way to scare up votes, because it is not a tactic to win an election, it is a challenge that should unite America and the world against the common threats of the twenty-first century: terrorism and nuclear weapons; climate change and poverty; genocide and disease.

All of the candidates in this race share these goals. All have good ideas. And all are patriots who serve this country honorably.

But the reason our campaign has always been different is because it's not just about what I will do as President, it's also about what you, the people who love this country, can do to change it.

That's why tonight belongs to you.

It belongs to the organizers and the volunteers and the staff who believed in our improbable journey and rallied so many others to join.

We know the battle ahead will be long, but always remember that no matter what obstacles stand in our way, nothing can withstand the power of millions of voices calling for change. We have been told we cannot do this by a chorus of cynics who will only grow louder and more dissonant in the weeks to come.

We've been asked to pause for a reality check. We've been warned against offering the people of this nation false hope.

But in the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope. For when we have faced down impossible odds; when we've been told that we're not ready, or that we shouldn't try, or that we can't, generations of Americans have responded with a simple creed that sums up the spirit of a people.

Yes we can.

It was a creed written into the founding documents that declared the destiny of a nation.

Yes we can.

It was whispered by slaves and abolitionists as they blazed a trail toward freedom through the darkest of nights.

Yes we can.

It was sung by immigrants as they struck out from distant shores and pioneers who pushed westward against an unforgiving wilderness.

Yes we can.

It was the call of workers who organized; women who reached for the ballot; a President who chose the moon as our new frontier; and a King who took us to the mountaintop and pointed the way to the Promised Land.

Yes we can to justice and equality. Yes we can to opportunity and prosperity. Yes we can heal this nation. Yes we can repair this world. Yes we can.

And so tomorrow, as we take this campaign South and West; as we learn that the struggles of the textile worker in Spartanburg are not so different than the plight of the dishwasher in Las Vegas; that the hopes of the little girl who goes to a crumbling school in Dillon are the same as the dreams of the boy who learns on the streets of LA; we will remember that there is something happening in America; that we are not as divided as our politics suggests; that we are one people; we are one nation; and together, we will begin the next great chapter in America's story with three words that will ring from coast to coast; from sea to shining sea – Yes. We. Can.