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<\/p>\nI had a quiet day – a follow-up doctors appointment, brunch with a friend, a catch-up nap, sat on the porch with a friend\/neighbor. It’s full-color Fall here in the Georgia Mountains, breath-talking. Cool in the mornings. Balmy through the day. And for some reason, the election anxiety that has gripped me for longer than I’d like to admit was strangely absent.<\/p>\n
I got in touch with the gratitude I’m feeling towards Barack Obama himself. I saw his speech in Cincinnati last night. It was great, but he seemed tired, drawn, and exhausted. Today, I was thinking back on that when I heard that his grandmother died. It made me really sad. I realized I was worried about him. He’s been campaigning for two years and I was afraid that it has taken its toll.<\/p>\n
Then I ran across a picture:<\/p>\n
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Barack Obama is just a guy. He’s remarkable because he’s smart, right thinking, appropriately humble, and capable of feeling joy. They’ve made fun of him as a celebrity, or a super-star, or "the one," but his appeal is that he’s not any of those things. He’s a regular dad, and a regular guy. I feel an enormous amount of gratitude towards him for running, for coming along at a time when we need what he is. It’s interesting. I have a felt sense of personal affection for someone I’ve never met, but that’s how I feel.<\/p>\n
One thing I learned as a physician – patients take care of their doctors. They worry if you’re sick or off the mark. They try to keep you on track. It’s their way of saying thanks and<\/u> of keeping you working for their well-being. And that’s how I feel about him. I want to take care of him, keep him safe from the negative characters in our midst, protect him from the jerks on talk Radio or Fox News. I want him to go bumper car riding on Saturdays, to play pick-up basketball, and to go see funny movies. I don’t want the weight of this job to get to him. It’s my felt way of both saying "thanks" and<\/u> keeping him working for us. And I want him to never miss moments like the one in this picture…<\/p>\n I had a quiet day – a follow-up doctors appointment, brunch with a friend, a catch-up nap, sat on the porch with a friend\/neighbor. It’s full-color Fall here in the Georgia Mountains, breath-talking. Cool in the mornings. Balmy through the day. And for some reason, the election anxiety that has gripped me for longer than […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/images\/votenov4th.gif\")
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