Together Today

At My Rural America, we've often said that we rural Americans care about the same things urban Americans care about, including that we want ...

• Our children to have it better than we did.
• Our nation to be safe.
• Our land to be protected.
  
• Our friends (and ourselves and even people we don't know at all) who work hard and study hard to have the opportunity to climb the "economic ladder" to success.
• Justice and fair play for all, including economic justice and/or fairness, or more personally, access to health care and an end to discrimination.

Right now, our nation is at the beginning of a long haul that will result in our choosing a new American President. For those of us who watch politics and policy making closely, this year already feels like the "long haul" should be almost over but it's not. Instead, today may be the demarcation line of the real beginning ... a beginning that offers as much opportunity to be straightforward and honest as it also offers opportunity to be diverted onto wrong paths.

We share with you Barack Obama's speech today because we found it outstanding. Just when have we heard a candidate who answers hard questions straightforwardly -- yes ... no ... absolutely no spin?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWe7wTVbLUU

Once you watch it, please let us know what you think?