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"Rolling the Dice?"
By Charles L. Riccillo
As the election approaches, I find that, wearing my Obama pin provokes a lot of 'thumbs up,' and it's proving as great a spark for conversation as wearing a Coke bottle around your neck - or spinning the bottle!
Frequently, in supermarkets, people stop me and ask me where they can get a campaign pin or yard sign!
While at the State Fair Rodeo Arena, I passed out an incredible number of absentee ballot forms, and sheets for people volunteering to make calls, and go door to door for Obama and McCain.
I lost count, but I know that the volunteers numbered in the hundreds!
Believe me, I'm not just 'blowing my own horn' about this. Other volunteers like myself found the same to be true. By God, get out the trumpets, everyone!
We Democrats have mobilized the greatest grass roots drive for voters in the entire history of these United States!
When someone seems doubtful about Obama, or on the fence, I urge them to read his book, "The Audacity of Hope."
You may find several articles I've written in support of Obama and McCain at http://www.opednews.com . Or you might just "Google" my name: Riccillo, Charles L.
These days as a writer, I find I'm 'blessed by the Angel Gabriel,' who is considered to be the artist's and writer's muse.
I come over to my house, round the block from my ninety year old mother's, with a to-do list. And yet. I never, but never manage to leave without yet another idea that I want people to hear before they arrive at the polls this coming November - and find I've always done fewer of the personal things I set out to accomplish!
As an author, with over ninety articles to my credit for the Pueblo Chieftain, I keep submitting over and over, although I know the newspaper to be a bastion of Republican conservatism.
You see, writing is for me like Michelangelo's sculpting. When you feel you can't put it off any longer, you've got to chip away at it - finally acknowledging that there's a figure somewhere in the proverbial stone, just waiting for you to release it!
I simply can do no less, and am willing to pen as many words as it takes to convince others that, when it comes to the Obama & McCain team they're 'just the ticket!'
"The Change We Need!" is no idle boast!
As days come and go, I increasing feel the pressure, but tonight, as I sang "Luck Be a Lady" with a Sinatra recording, I felt absolutely certain that, at last, our country should say America as a female personification: "Luck, if you've ever been a lady to begin with, Luck be a lady for me!"
