Barack comes to my town tomorrow!!! Whoo Hoo!!!

When I opened my e-mail on this past Saturday, I received an e-mail from the Obama campaign announcing that Barack would be holding a town hall meeting at the local high school here in Powder Springs. I closed the e-mail upon glancing at it, and did a classic double-take, when I realized, "Barack is coming to my little town in Georgia!" Now, I know Powder Springs was probably chosen because it's within an extremely Republican leaning county in Georgia, Cobb, but also close to Atlanta, where he and his campaign can quickly get in an out of (he's in Atlanta tonight for a fundraiser dinner) but also make his pitch in a normally conservative area.

As soon as I found out about the event and saw that tickets were free for the town hall event, my heart sank with the feeling of ,"Oh, the tickets are already gone". And gone they were. I'm happy about that, because it re-affirms my belief that a huge groundswell of support exists for the Democrats in this state, it's just that we've been relegated into hiding over the past 8 years. It's good to see Barack coming into a hornet's nest and challenging the status quo.

On my way to work tomorrow morning, there's a part of me that wants to play hookie and go on over and at least stand outside amongst the thousands to be a part of what I think will be history this November. I probably won't go, but I'm at least a bit warm and fuzzy inside knowing that there's a movement for change out there, and it's happening in my "red" backyard.