Until last night I was Anti-Bush. Last night made me Pro-Kerry

[Ravenseye]

How many others are there out there like me?

Up until the debate last night I was very very anti-bush. Still, my feelings towards Kerry were mild at best. Did I prefer Kerry to Bush? Definately. Did I like Kerry? Sure.

Still, I hated Bush's Presidency far more. Anybody but Bush.

Last night for some reason, Kerry really nailed it. He seemed presidential to me. He answered strongly.

Last night I switched camps, from Anybody-But-Bush to Pro-John Kerry.

Anyone else want to admit this?

[fudge stripe cookays]

1. I was like this until....

I spoke to a friend of Kerry's from Massachusetts at our state convention in Houston.

He introduced the local candidates before the debate at Gilley's last night, and I spoke to him for awhile in front of the crawfish boil that Chris Bell and Rodney Ellis hosted in Houston.

He told me about a mutual friend of theirs who had been killed near Boston by a drunk driver, I believe back in the 80s sometime.

Evidently, this guy was a lobbyist. It would have looked bad for many of his friends and/or acquaintances (various politicos) to have appeared at his funeral, so they all ignored it. This guy had known many of these people for years, and they completely blew him off because they couldn't afford to be seen at his funeral.

Kerry didn't do that. He not only attended the funeral, he stayed with the widow most of the day at the house, helping her to receive visitors and cope.

That story really moved me. That was when I went from a depressed Deaniac who HAD to vote for Kerry to a happy Democrat who WANTED to vote for Kerry.

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Last night just cinched it and convinced me what I already knew. :-)