Here I am, in my easy chair. My three young babies are asleep in their beds. I grew up on a family-owned salvage yard in northern Minnesota in a place called the Iron Range. As I grew up, my dad was a diesel mechanic who after being laid off in the 1980s managed the junkyard. Thanks to public schools, public colleges and hard work, I am living a great life.
Barack Obama is the son of a Kenyan man and a Kansan woman, half African and half American, growing up in Hawaii and Indonesia, living in New York and eventually Chicago. From nowhere, he goes from community activist, state legislator to U.S. Senator. Now he has won the Iowa caucuses.
Our upbringings seem to have little in common, but we come from the same country. I am proud to support Barack Obama. The world is a big place. It’s time to think big.
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