This is a letter I got from a good friend of mine in Wisconsin - it is one of the best framings of McCain - enjoy the read.
McCain says he puts his country first. But what country is that?
The country of Cindy and John McCain who have never worried about
their house payment medical care, never worried about, retirement,
never worried about their children's education. Never had to think
about those things and have never had to worry about how to pay for
gas or medicine. Mr. McCain you can talk all you want about walking
the walk but my friend, with all due respect to your service to our great
land as a pilot and your 26 years in the Senate, you wear 500. dollar
loafers and those shoes were't even made by a company from the United
States shoes so how can you tell me you understand. You tell us you
want to give us a 7,000 tax credit to pay for health insurance. But
Mr. McCain the people who need the help don't pay 7K in taxes. They are poor.
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Obama knows what struggle is. from the wheatfields of Kansas to the
beauty of Hawaii to the eastern shores to the inner city of Chigago he
has walked and worked by and with the people to bring about the change
we need. From THAT perspective he knows what can be accomplished
because..he has been apart of it. Because He has not observed it from
above, he has not read about it in his office. Because he has walked
the walk among the people and with the people he serves. He sees a
country, our country, where once agaain there is opportunity for all.
He sees a country, our country, where once agaain there is opportunity for all.
He sees a country whose foriegn policy is linked to it's economic
policy a strong ecomomic policy that does not sell our country to
foreign investors nor mortgages our future to other countries. He
sees a country whose energy independance is linked to a lasting
security for America and for all Americans. He knows what our foreign
policy needs be. The foreign policy of the United States is To
protect and defend the people of America. It is not waging a war that
has squadered our children's future by spending their money.
George Bush told us he wanted us to spend our money but thay was not
true. George Bush who has never worried about his health care or
retirement or like John McCain has never worried about a house payment
for certian Geore Bush has never ever worried about the price of gas
has taken the surplus, the safety net, the savings account of these
hard working men and women and their children's education fund and
spent our future. Spent it on a war whose sole purpose was to make
money for his friends. Barak Obama's solidly grounded foreign and
ecomomic policy is linked to a vision.
He sees a country that once again has strong safe bridges an effective
mass transport system a country where the freedoms of the privileged
few of the Washington insiders and the rich like John McCain are the
freedoms for all Americans. He sees an America whose levys are built
to keep out the waters that would devestate our people and He sees
that those strong safe bridges are a bridge to somewhere. He can help
American build those levys and take America across those bridges to a
new era. A new awakening in the hearts and minds of all of us. He
will lead us to that new beginning of prosperity of new ideas of
protecting what we have and the values we hold dear.
I would love to see a speech based on this theme by Obama's VP choice.