Momentum

What a great week so far. Obama is leading Clinton and McCain (my feeling on both: snooze), and Sam's first tooth is coming in! He was chewing on my finger and I felt it. Heaven.

I watched the Primaries in excitement. Don't want to jinx it.

One of Obama's Harvard professors said that he was the most brilliant student he ever had.

I doubt President Bush ever made the honor role. Why spend money on education or poor people's health care when we can spend it on war?

There will always be the poor. There will always be poverty. Hell, several of them lived in my building downtown. Families raising kids in 800 square feet, going off to their menial jobs each day trying to earn...grocery money. They'll never get ahead; and why should honest, needy people suffer at the hands of those who "take advantage" of the system? Don't plenty of corporations take advantage of the system? Um, like drug companies, for instance!

There is no way to monitor who is deserving and who isn't. Just assume that everyone is deserving and let go. My college friend died of cancer because he was only 24, and couldn't "yet" afford health insurance. Did he deserve that?

I remember coming home one evening in high school, and my dad was crying. Worried, I asked him what was wrong; he hugged me and said, "Jill, there are so many people suffering in the world." That is the kind of passion I want to teach my son.

And "liberal" is just a 7-letter word meaning generous, after all. I wish I had more money to give.

My Canadian friends have it right. Would I wait in line to have surgery so a single mother could provide health care to her children and herself? You bet I would.

There is no perfect plan, but there is now hope for others.