Is it any coincidence that the backdrop for John McCain's speech last night was all green--as in money--as in it's all about money?
Folks, it is all about the money--but not the way they want it to be. It is not about funneling $10 billion a month into a war in Iraq. It is about the mortgage payments, the gas bills, the college tuition bills, the food bills and the health care bills. I haven't even mentioned the fact that people who use heating oil will be in for an even bigger shock this winter.
It all starts at home. John McCain tried to sell his idea of "change". His idea of "change" is keeping the Bush tax cuts. His idea of "change" is staying the course in Iraq, He says that the surge is working in Iraq.
I have a confession to make. Initially I did support the war in Iraq--with reservations about the lives of young people we were putting in harm's way. I wanted to believe that on the world stage we were more honest. I wanted to believe that if our government was saying something that contradicted with what Saddam Hussein's government was saying about weapons of mass destruction....
I was wrong on supporting the war, but a man like John McCain with access to all the intelligence was even more wrong than I was--and now he wants us to trust him. He wants to sell us the idea that he has better judgement on foreign affairs that Barack Obama. McCain with all his experience, was wrong on a huge foreign policy blunder.
Now all these years later there is money flying out of Washington, DC with almost no accountability. It saddens me to think of what has been lost. This administration came into office with a tax code that enabled us to have budget surplusses and look forward to a day when we could pay down a portion of our national debt.
This administration had the opportunity and the financial ability to accomplish extraordinary things that would make us better in so many ways. Instead we took that money and sent out rebate checks to get votes. We cut taxes--when we didn't need to--the economy was humming along nicely.
Now we have plodded along without any policy on energy, or global warming, or education or health care. We've let billions of dollars slip through our hands, and all the lost opportunities that come with those dollars.
It is now time to move on to the battle in November. John McCain will try and sell the idea that he is an agent of change, and that he has so much experience. He may make changes and he may have experience but they are the wrong changes, and he has the wrong experience in public service for these times.
Just remember that we need to control our destiny. It is all about how you want your government to spend our tax dollars, and how we want our government to respond to the very real challenges we face here at home. We can speak in a voice that is unified--and loud and clear. We can take back OUR White House, OUR Government and force them to respond to our calls for change.
This is our time and this is our moment. It has to be our time now and it has to be our time come election night. I am happy today, but we have higher mountains to climb--it is on to November.
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