Democrat, Illinois - The ElectroLounge
Democrat, Illinois - The ElectroLounge
Democrat, Illinois - The ElectroLounge
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Dear Senator Obama,<br />
Letter to United States Senator<br />
Barack Obama<br />
(<strong>Democrat</strong>, <strong>Illinois</strong>)<br />
From Soulard’s Notebooks<br />
June 22, 2008<br />
12:03 a.m.<br />
Coffeetime Coffeehouse—<br />
my armchair<br />
Portland, Oregon<br />
I am writing to you tonight in the full & hopeful expectation that come about seven<br />
months from now, you will be sworn in as the next President of the United States. You’ll<br />
take the vow to defend the Constitution, be nodded toward by a group of important faces,<br />
& a cheer will ring the globe. You will be a kind of new bride not just to this nation, but<br />
also to the six billion souls around the world your words & actions will affect from that<br />
winter’s day on.<br />
<strong>The</strong> nightmare of George W. Bush in elected office will be over. He & his criminal<br />
brothers will be pushed off the world stage. Perhaps to continue their treacherous pursuits<br />
further in the shadows. But you, sir, will be the man chosen by a nation to bring its highest<br />
office back into common light.