As I sat at the Atlanta International airport this Friday afternoon in transit, I whipped out Sen. Obama's 1995 autobiography Dreams from my Father to finally finish it up. Sitting there beneath the overhead TV monitor, I heard something on Wolf Blitzer's CNN Situation Room about McCain's latest TV Ad starring his 96-year old mother that perked up my ears.
I felt a twinge of sadness that the woman that Sen. Barack Obama describes so lovingly in the book I was reading could not physically be here to share in this historic moment in her son's life. In fact I recalled a response he gave to Wolf Blitzer during the interview this past Wednesday when asked what his Mom would think of him at this time. He replied:
She'd say, don't let it get to your head, just keep on working hard. But I think she'd be pretty proud. Everything that I am I owe to her. She was the kindest, most generous person I ever met. And her values and her integrity still guide me.
She is somebody who when I am confronted with difficult choices, I have to ask myself, you know, what would she -- what would she expect of me? And I think that's usually a good guidepost.