Dear Senator McCain,
To begin, let me say that I was a supporter of yours in 2000.
But with all due respect (don't you just hate that as an opener?) there is no reason on earth why a member of George Bush's party should win the election in November. You know it, I know it, the world knows it. He has disgraced this nation in so many ways it is difficult to list all of them here.
When your party held the majority you did nothing to exercise the Checks and Balances so masterfully provided to our country by the founding fathers, and you let President Bush get away with murder - literally.
You allowed yourselves to be manipulated - along with many Democrats - into a war that was unneccessary. You failed to ask the tough questions that might have avoided the costly quagmire we now must contend with. Robert Byrd asked them but no one listened.
Your party sat silent while the world watched New Orleans drown and while all of us watched Alberto Gonzalez make a mockery of our justice system.
Nevertheless, you just might win the election in November. The Democratic party is in the midst of a slug-fest of which you may very well be the happy beneficiary.
And so, in all sincerity, I ask you:
Will you reverse the Bush policy of allowing torture? Will you insist on investigations into the possible commission of war crimes by members of the Bush Administration?
Will you make every effort to repair our standing and our relations around the world?
Will you reverse the Bush policy of rendering the FDA and EPA pointless?
Will you explain to the millions of Americans who are having difficulty paying their bills, filling their cars with gasoline and giving their families adequate health-care coverage why the wealthiest Americans deserve tax breaks that they do not?
Will you explain to us whether or not there is a plan to make Canada, America and Mexico into a single entity known as the North American Union?
Will you explain to us why China is our primary lender?
Will you make us safer?
Will you explain what has happened to America and how to save it?