My Obama (non)moment

No, I haven't met him. I now regret not going to D.C. when he was a new junior senator and
requesting to have brunch with Dick Durbin (who is a very good senator) and him. A bit
late now...

Anyway, my behind the scenes (non) moment happened several years ago. I have
always been on donor lists for the Democrats and would get phone calls for polls,
money requests, and so on. Way before the Senate race in Illinois, there was a very
detailed survey call, asking about a bunch of potential candidates, mostly nothing
special local office-holders, and this guy with a weird name about whom no one had
heard much. They were very into it, with things like "What if we told you he was
the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review", and lots of things
on his positions, and so on. It all seemed quite promising and I said I'd be willing to
learn more and perhaps consider voting for him. I guess a lot of other survey respondents
said so, too, since all of a sudden he was the leading contender in the U.S. Senate race
in Illinois.

Seems very much like there were folks behind the scenes planning and grooming and
scheming for quite some time there. And Now look where it's gone. Wow. I feel
better about national politics than I have since 1992...Woo-hoo and here's hoping....