voted for George W.
Bush. Not even in
2000 when I could
claim that I didn’t know any better. I voted for him in the first election that I was eligible, in 2004.
I also voted for Barack Obama as my senator from Illinois that year.
These are two men with very different platforms so it might seem confusing that I would have voted for both. At the time I wasn’t really concerned with politics. I didn’t think it had anything to do with me, my friends or family. Honestly, I couldn’t see how any of it impacted my life. I was happy to continue working in the fashion industry and get my information from E! News every night.
That all changed in 2008 when I returned home from a vacation and my roommate told me she had spent the whole weekend watching coverage of the primary debates.
“You just HAVE to listen to what this guy Obama is talking about!” she squealed as the TV lit up with highlights CNN was showing from the weekend.
Hearing Mr. Obama talk about the problems he saw in our country and his plans to fix them made me curious. So, like my roommate, I started paying attention to more than just the fashion channel. Then I read “The Audacity of Hope” and everything began snowballing for me.
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