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Comparing Barack Obama to Ken Starr is the same as calling him a monster. And yet, no one resigned for saying that. When Hillary Clinton says that Obama is running only on one speech to be Commander in Chief, she not only insults Barack Obama, those words insult me personally, as an Obama supporter. It insults my intelligence. I am hoping that Barack Obama holds firm and does not lower himself to Clinton’s despicable tactics. Yesterday, I heard Bill Clinton talking about what a wonderful President he was regarding US and economics. Well, good for you, Bill. And what does that exactly have to do with Hillary? Is Hillary you or are you Hillary? I have no doubt in my mind Hillary will hand that phone to you at 3:00 a.m., Mr. President. Tsk Tsk. And, I have no doubt in my mind that Barack Obama not only will answer the phone, but will take great care in deciding what’s good for our country. For he is about we and us and you are about "I,I,I…"

I’m standing firm with Senator Barack Obama, and am becoming more convinced that if Hillary gets what she wants by stooping to anything – she is not getting my vote.

A year ago at Mining Nuggets: Surprise!

The flowers on the Christmas cacti and violets are budding and blooming. I can’t believe it! Even the Orchid is budding on the plant stand by the wide window staring out into the woods. All are gently announcing that spring is sneaking in slowly but surely. Women’s History month and "Yes We Can!" time. Drive the cynics out and pull the hope back in. I, for one, am full-to-the-brim with hope. The kind that urges me to become mind and heart involved. I haven’t felt like this for such a long time.

I am hosting a party this evening and am all a-whirl! Time to make those phone calls. Sunday is water-the-plants day and as I carry out my weekly ritual, lighting a candle and burning the Nag Champa there is an excited, tickling feeling in my tummy. "Let’s make it happen," I think silently to myself.

Anything can happen if we apply ourselves. When Obama says that he wouldn’t be where he is today if he did not have hope, his story excites me to my own core. Who would have thought twenty years ago that I could have completed three degrees and written two books? I mean, back in those days I believed a story told to me that a "black star" hovered over my head, promoting a self-fulfilling prophesy as I drove myself down a self-destructive path. Hope is crucial for systemic change. I know that. Hope is deep. Hope is accompanied by great courage. Cynics prefer to feel afraid. I’m all agog – ready to jump on that hope bandwagon. Am sick and tired of being afraid and when Barack Obama speaks, I feel safe. I’m read to change the paradigm. After all, I did it in my personal life – cast out those old, cynical, heavy, sad, stale, mythical family stories that kept me locked away in fear, repeating the same old, same old mistakes over and over again.

As a nation, we can do it too!

My excitement is palpable this morning. Spraying water from the little plastic bottle misting the budding, flowering plants on the wooden stands by the window, and breathing in the Nag Champa I have burned during my same weekly watering-the-plants ritual for over thirty years, I sense spring, movement in the air … yes indeed … hang in there, people … for … change is a-coming …

A year ago at Mining Nuggets: Out of the dawn