Obama Gives Hope to a Son at Portsmouth, N.H., Campaign Stop
FIRST PERSON | PORTSMOUTH, N.H. -- I received news that my mother had passed just after midnight on Friday. Despite her Alzheimer's, she had been my biggest fan. She was the first to see the photos I took at campaign events; she had even accompanied me to several events. She had the honor of having her picture with her hero, Bill Clinton, and published in the Concord Monitor.
One, a Romney-Ryan rally at Saint Anselm College, had been an ordeal for her and she had asked me to take her away, away from the hate and bombast.
I sat with her until well past three in the morning saying my goodbyes. By the time I left -- if I was going to get to the Obama-Biden rally at Portsmouth's Strawberry Banke Museum -- I had slept all of one-half-hour in the past 24.
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The motto of the Romney-Ryan campaign seems to be "every man for himself," a command given sailors on a sinking ship. They had given up on America. I wanted to see Obama and his message of hope.
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