Obama is right, I'm bitter.

Was it his most articulate moment? No. Was Obama uttering a truth? Yes. If not bitter, try the word disappointed. Try disenfranchised. Try skeptical. Try another word if it makes you feel better, but I'll admit to some bitterness here....

I don't think it is wrong or elitist to say that we are bitter in mid western states that are steeped in recession (oh, just call it a depression already). What the heck? Wouldn't you be a little bitter if your husband worked his butt off 6 days a week most weeks and 12-14 hour days in the summer time while you also worked full time to afford a house in a good neighborhood near your family? Wouldn't you be a little bitter if all that yielded you was an overextended home equity line of credit that puts your home at risk? Wouldn't you be bitter if your taxes were going up and your income was going down? Wouldn't you be bitter if you were watching friends lose their jobs and leave the state? Wouldn't you be bitter if your husband and his father had NOTHING to show but debt for a construction business that had once thrived?

Wouldn't you be clinging to your faith and hope? Did he articulate my bitterness well? Nope. But is he right? Hell yes. McCain and Clinton are kidding themselves if they think we are not bitter out here in the flyover states.

We are bitter. But we keep marching on. March on Barak Obama. I'm still on your team -- me and many of my bitter friends :-) I still agree with the "Yes We Can!" outlook.

I still believe that you have to believe. I want to believe in Obama. I see his as someone who can unify us. I'm disappointed in the other candidates. I wonder if I'm just clinging to hope? Where are we if we don't have hope? No other candidate is selling me hope.

/ Most days I'm not bitter, but once in a while.... it is there. Admit it and move on. There is nothing unnatural about being bitter when you have done your best and still failed. The key is rising up and marching on. I'm marching on. The past is the past... now is the time to save our future.