Updates from Young Sun Song, a volunteer in Texas.
Tuesday, February 26th
We arrived in Houston around 12:30. even thought it was very tiring, I couldn’t go to bed right away, rather watched cnn rerun before bed. ate cereal, and went over our plan for today. we met Inchul sohn who contacted through the website. Mr. Sohn is 1.5 gen. and lawyer. He spoke Korean very well, and again we heard from him how converstaive KA in houston are. we talked about what would be the best strategy for Houston, and we decided to target KA media to talk about who we are, and why KA should support Obama instead of meeting KA orgs.
Susan Ahn Cuddy, a daughter of Dosan Ahn Chang HoAs the daughter of Dosan Ahn Chang Ho, I grew up in a Korean-American household where there was much discussion of government, politics and democracy. Later, I was the first female Asian-American officer in the United States Navy. I also worked for the government for many years as a codebreaker for the National Security Agency. However, I have never been moved to speak out in a U.S. presidential campaign until now.Today, we are at war, our economy is struggling, millions of people dont have health care, our environment is getting worse, and our political leaders are divided. We need a leader who can unite all Americans, including Democrats, Republicans, and independents, to address the problems facing us.This is why I support Senator Barack Obama. He is the only candidate who is capable of inspiring different groups of people to work together to solve our nations problems. When I see Senator Barack Obama excite the American public with his message of unity and change, I am reminded of my father Dosan. My father was a national leader of integrity and purpose who inspired and led the Korean people to fight for independence from Japanese imperialism in the early 1900s. Today, I see Senator Obama providing similar inspiration and leadership to the American people. (more…)