We’ve changed our name but not our mission. The name change reflects more accurately what our goal is for the presidential campaign for Barack Obama. This Group is not about partisan politics; this Group’s primary focus is how can all of us come together for the common good.

The ultimate goal of the “All Americans R 4 Barack Obama” Group is to transcend party labels and petty party politics. Our common problems are too large for any one group, alone, to fix. We must recognize and give alliance to the belief, as so profoundly articulated by one of the least experienced of all of our U.S. Presidents, Abraham Lincoln.

Quoting the 16th President during the Civil War of the 1860s, “…that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain–that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom–and that, government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth” from his address at Gettysburg.

Barack Obama is the “Abraham Lincoln” of our time. And, our time is now.

We can pick ourselves up, brush off our excuses, and join together with our neighbors, not as strangers but as fellow Americans who are willing to work together to pursue our shared hopes and dreams. When we come together as one people there will no dream that is impossible to realize. Together we will climb to the mountain top and from there all of us can marvel at the sight of the Promise Land. No it won’t be easy but together the journey itself will bless us all.

May you use Peace as a bridge to the light where all people are valued for what they do and not for how much money they accumulate. May peace be your constant companion.