With recent news of Hillary Clinton pumping $5 million of her own money into her campaign this week, I'm reminded of the saying "slow and steady wins the race" from the fable The Tortoise and the Hare.
Clinton's infusion of her own money into her campaign is an indication she has nearly tapped out her primary campaign funding fueled by a small pool of big-money donors. In contrast, Obama's campaign funding continues to grow by relying on just the opposite with trickles of money continuously coming in from a large pool of small donations made by everyday citizens like me who live paycheck to paycheck.
Sure, my $60 contribution to the Obama campaign may not seem like a lot in the grand scheme of what campaigns cost today, but my donation combined with millions of others across the nation is a display of hope and people believing in the words, "Yes, we can."
This comparison of campaign funding to The Tortoise and the Hare can also be shown in the voting results of Super Tuesday. Even though Clinton is still leading in the number of delegate nominations, Obama is slowly closing the gap after winning more states and delegate nominations than Clinton yesterday.
We are in the home stretch of the first inning of a grueling race for change that started more than seven years ago in Florida. Those of my generation, including me, who were voting for the first time in a presidential election felt robbed of hope and belief in American democracy.
Despite naysayers who believed my generation was nothing more than another group of idealist youth who wouldn't wouldn't walk the walk, we have marched on in the race for change by giving our voice of dissent.
Over the last seven years our voice has only grown louder after continually being pummeled by lies about:
- Weapons of mass destruction,
- Torture scandals concerning prisoners of war,
- An information leak revealing the identity of a CIA agent,
- Help being on its way to Katrina victims,
- The firing of Democratically appointed federal prosecutors for "poor" performance,
- And the list continues to amount.
1 comment:
Vanessa, pardon the length of this but your post reminded me so much of the late sixties, Bob Dylan ...
the young today are doing this at the ballot box .... so for the state of Washington, your next up on the block, "Get Fired up! Ready to go!"
Come gather 'round people
Wherever you roam
And admit that the waters around you have grown
And accept it that soon
You'll be drenched to the bone.
If your time to you
Is worth savin'
Then you better start swimmin'
Or you'll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changin
Come writers and critics
Who prophesize with pen
Keep your eyes open
It won't come again
And don't speak too soon
For the wheel's still in spin
And theres no telling who it is namin'.
For the loser now
Will be later to win
For the times they are a-changin'.
Come senators, congressman
Please head the call
Don't stand in the doorway
Don't block up the hall
For he that gets hurt
Will be he who has stalled
There's a battle outside
And its ragin'.
It'll soon shake your windows
And rattle your bones
For the times they are a-changin'.
Come mothers and fathers
Throughout the land
Don't critcize
What you don't understand
Your sons and your daughters
Are beyond your command
Your old road is rapidly agin'.
Get out of the new one
If you can't lend your hand
For the times they are a-changin'.
The line it is drawn
The curse it is cast
The slow one now
Will later be fast
As the present now
Will later be past
The order is rapidly fadin'.
And the first one now
Will later be last
For the times they are a changin'.
Bob Dylan
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