This is simply amazing to me. Ever since the Town Hall today - since Henrietta and Julio stood up and spoke their hearts - these two are headliners. As if the media had never seen a real person.

Tweety just said it, straight out: This President has taken us out of Washington. These are REAL people. The Hardball icon seemed astonished that these "real" people could talk and that one expressed themselves differently that he did. Earlier, one of the simpering MSNBC anchors gave Julio a solid thumbs down, stating "You wait all day to see the President and THIS is how you act?"

Well, yes m'am, it is. Millions of "us" out here - millions with heartaches and joys that you know nothing of - and just a few of you in your echo chambers. After eight years of being shut out, penned inside fences, unseen and unheard - our cries and our plights falling on deaf, uncaring ears - we have a President who cares. This excites us. We may shout. More often, we may weep.

Barack Obama hears us. He heard us all along.

Now, you will hear us. All of us.