"My Lord, I feel something is happening"

Volunteering for an inspired Obama campaign in Pittsburgh, I couldn't help feeling that politics is being reinvented.

PITTSBURGH, Pa. -- I am sitting at a call table at a Barack Obama campaign office with churchgoing black ladies. We are in East Liberty, a black neighborhood in Pittsburgh. The office sits on the same block as the county assistance center and a liquor store. Out on the street, old men are drinking out of paper bags and young kids are hanging out on the corner, watching a steady stream of volunteers with clipboards and Obama signs pour in and out of the ... Full Story »

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Fabrice Florin
3.4
by Fabrice Florin - Nov. 4, 2008

A moving personal account from an Obama volunteer reporting from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He shares his own experience as a canvasser, working with a diverse community from all walks of life -- and his epiphany at a political rally, where he felt more connected than ever, and truly proud to be an American.

It does seem like a dream to see a black man speaking in front of such a wide cross section of America. “Our opponent says that there is a real America,” Obama continues. “But I am sorry there aren’t a real America and an unreal America. Soldiers in the trenches don’t ask each other if they are red or blue. You can support the war and be a patriot, and not support the war and still be a patriot. We are tired of these old divisions and ways of separating Americans from each other. We are all Americans and what we share is greater than what divides us.” The big hall, reverberating with shouts and applause, feels small and connected. I am not sure I have ever said this: I am truly proud to be an American.

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