Republican drives 600 miles to vote for Obama

By GottaLaff

This is one of those feel-good stories. No, check that. Feel great stories:

The “lines weren’t bad” he said, with a broad smile. Lines were the last thing on Aaron Wheeler’s mind as he explained why he drove 600 miles back to his old hometown from Virginia, where he moved this month, to vote in what he called “one of the proudest days” of his life.

“My family has been Republican for three generations,” he said, but “I knew I had to change and vote Democrat in the first time almost ever.” [...]

What’s influencing his vote? The economy was one factor, he said. But said he he made his decision “when I saw Barack Obama beaten down for no reason by negative things by Palin.”

IWRC* Palin does it again. She's really been helpful to the ticket. You know, kinda like the way salt helps a wound. Or yelling helps laryngitis. Or watching Bill O'Reilly helps a bad mood.

Wheeler reminisced about marching with Martin Luther King as a boy, and referred to the slain civil rights leader when he told me he voted for Barack Obama… “not just because of his color….but in the words of Dr. King, the content of his character.”

“Tears come out of my eyes as I cast my ballot,” he said. “I voted for Barack Obama today.”

Tears just came out of my eyes, too.

*"In What Respect, Charlie?"