This is just a nice friendly heads-up about something that may just have slipped your attention. YOU LIVE IN THIS COUNTRY TOO! You also have a big stake in the ones we elect in November.
For eight years you have ignored, glossed over, downplayed the criminality of the Bush regime. Instead of actually being a journalist, you blithely accepted Rove’s talking-point-of-the-day and went with it. Even if you questioned in the back of your mind (and I have to believe that in your heart of hearts you had to have had a sliver of doubt that those talking points were entirely legitimate) you just happily filed your little stories and went on your merry way to whatever "inside" cocktail party was occurring that night. God forbid you should raise a question or voice an incertitude about how A plus B could equal C and at the same time equal Q if Q and C were different.
For many years you have swallowed hook, line, and sinker, the hypocritical platitudes of John McCain because you couldn’t imagine not being included in his next barbecue. You have been blind to his inconsistencies, his questionable moral values, his gambling problems. It must never have occurred to you that there could be a connection between his gambling and his hard-hitting(?) investigation of Abramoff, et al, when it just happened to hit the very ones who had defeated him in 2000.
You never questioned his dogged refusal to support the families of MIA’s, or his opposition to children’s welfare issues, his complete 180° turn on issue after issue when the campaign was getting into high gear. Apparently, you never cared enough to investigate the reason for the views of fellow POW’s who somehow disagree with the appellation of "hero" applied to him while in Hanoi.
You never seemed curious about his other crashed planes. You seem to have wanted to hide his pugnacious temper, especially the horrendous explosion toward his wife, even though there were plenty of witnesses that could have been questioned. You have let him get away with his appalling record in regard to veterans’ issues without ever raising the issue with him.
Well, let me tell you. If McCain/Palin are elected, you will be included in the debacle that will follow. You will bear a major responsibility in whatever train wreck comes as a result of your dereliction of your duties as watchdogs over our politicians. You will have to live with the results of this catastrophe along with the rest of us.
Please don’t confuse his former friendly banter and "good guy" attitudes with genuine caring on his part. I believe you will find very quickly that it was all a façade, a masquerade to achieve his purposes.
I think you will find that he is ten times worse than Bush!