Quote of the day

The stepgrandson of an illiterate, barefoot woman in this village of mud huts in Africa may be the next president of the United States. Such mobility — powered by education, immigration and hard work — is cause not for disparagement but for celebration.
– Nicholas D. Kristof referring to Barack Obama’s Kenyan roots

Mike Huckabee rally

Laurie and I had a great time at the Mike Huckabee rally tonight in Plano.
We got a lot of pictures (you can find most of them on either of our Flickr pages) and I was able to get about 20 minutes worth of video. Unfortunately Huckabee didn’t get into the meat of his speech till 10-15 minutes into it so I didn’t get as much of what I would have wanted.
But you can see the video via CBS 11 KVTT online.

I thought it was a great speech. Not as inspiring as Obama’s speech from earlier in the day at Reunion Arena, but it contained a lot more substance and made me believe he knows what he believes in and he has a plan to make things happen rather than offer a lot of hope that something’s going to happen.

Should be a fun March 4th in Texas.