Danielle Clarke - homeless vietnam vet sleeping on couch dclakke@aol.com since the Obama campaign prefers we donate directly through http://www.barackobama.com i ask you to go there and donate to Barack and not here at actblue. Barack does help veterans and you can read all his work here = http://www.barackobama.com/issues/veterans/ Part 1 I never donated to a candidates election before. I got out of the USMC in 1974. I then went on to opening up recycling center in N. Calif. Afterwards in 1981 i went east and I built and ran homes for recovering addicts for 13 yrs. I then bought a 200 acre farm which i put into conservation. I then sold it to someone who would keep it that way. I then went on to helping the homeless and opening up shelters from minnesota to NYC to upstate NY to houston texas to conneticut. I then helped to dig bodies out at 9-11 and saw how people volunteered and how officials stole. I then went on to helping the elderly as a caregiver from 2004 to the present. I had to give away my Rv in 2004 because i could no longer afford the fuel. I then went back to hitchhiking as i had done before i joined the USMC. I had left home as a teen and had many spiritual meetings along the way. In the USMC i was trained to make the oxygen president nixon would breathe when flying above 20k ft in the airforce one. In september 2006 I had hitchhiked from N. calif and then came east and voted in phila pa last november. part2 This yr I went to the march on wash DC jan 27th and well i am a spiritually minded woman who is guided by above. I made a sign called the psychology of politics. I didn't hear Baracks speech in 2004 though i do remember another man of color coming to illinois to run against him. I never read his book. I guess you could say i didn't know why i was making a sign saying Barack Obama was a balanced politician who understood and used his mirror nuerons. But i did and then 14 days later he decided to run and i joined his site. I had listened to gravel with his speech at the winter democratic meeting. I liked him. I also joined Edwards site and i kinda had hope in him. Finally everything just fell into my lap. I was being spiritually guided to Barack. I joined feb 11th 2007. The more i read the more i liked him. About 2 months into this a woman in the grassroots campaign sent me an email about a chicago collumnist attack on him telling me i should read it because it would show me that he isn't who he appears to be. I read it and i was shocked. He was more than i had ever expected. he had real ethics. many times people kept telling me negative things about him and to my relief i found the opposite to be true part 3 I later went to a gay pride event and a man told me he was against Obama because of the coal to oil coalition. I had no argument. Then next thing i know is Barack changed his mind on this issue. I was like wow even Barack is willing and able to grow and listen to above and be guided by the truth. Then he came out with his earmarks and a statement saying anyone who ever works for him in the whitehouse can never be a lobbyist. It just keeps getting better and better. Barack Obama is not his staff which at times needs some spirituality. Barack though keeps shinning through. What can i say? Yes i could have come here and mentioned my whole life and how i have been guided to meet and see truths the average person never sees (many "so called" conspiracys theorys about other parties and candidates) but now this is what above is guiding me to write. So in closing this is not about just an earthly decision. This is about a spiritual life decision. This is bigger than me. This is bigger than you. This is beyond ego. I can only share what has happened to me and know that i must hear the words i say and if they speak to anothe, then i shall know that it is not of me, as i am just the vehicle for something greater than us all. May the spirits above guide your lives like they have done for so many others, who have an ear to hear. part4 PS: I have never seen Barack Obama in person. I drove a family to see him when he was in phila. Earlier I missed him at temple university. I also missed him when he was in downtown center city philadelphia. A few weeks ago I worked outside the take back america conference in wash DC while he spoke to thousands inside. I gave away hundreds of applications, to join the Obama campaign, to many people as they left hearing him speak. Barack Obama isn't just a man named Barack Obama. Barack Obama is a "we the people" group of citizens, catching something that is magical and spiritual and beyond description. It can't be explained. It can't be proven. It just is and i know i must follow as hundreds of thousands are doing across the USA. I can only think we are all of like minds and like spirits all following the spirits above who are giving hope to a nation in so much need. However, i have gotten very wise on the issues as i always watch the senate and house on cspan and read bills and keep my mind open to the truth. But everyone, who offers me information telling me i am making a mistake (and i keep an open mind) well that information turns to a wonderful truth as i grow and we grow and as even Barack Obama grows. Let me tell you, i look for the negative but as hard as the ego me, wants to find something wrong, above keeps laying the truth right in front of me. I would hope and pray that you would support t Barack Obama here or at http:www.barackobama.com because both of these men are working to establish homes for veterans. I have met many veterans living on the streets since i got out in 1974. I was depressed working for Nixon while he was being impeached and eventually resigned in august 1974. I left the following week. I know How our soldiers feel with Bush as their presidents own. 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