Here on the Basin Road in Addison, we know about community support.

This kind of mutual support is what presidential candidate Barack Obama is calling for on a national level. Barack Obama knows that surviving these very tough economic times will require not just tax relief and energy rebates and new jobs, but sacrifice, cooperation and a ready willingness to help our neighbors in these times of trouble.

Small communities like ours are founded on and survive through cooperation and mutual support. The fact that Barack Obama is calling for such community-based attitudes and strategies means that, at the rural, grassroots level, our country can respond effectively to our current crisis by depending on our usual, everyday kindly, cooperative ways of living.

In fact, Addison provides a model for our national survival, as well as convincing reasons for electing Sen. Obama our next president as a man who knows the value and the power of neighborly community dynamics.

Susan Sheridan

Addison