The following letter appeared in the Concord Monitor (December 12. 2007)
Uniquely Qualified
More than at any other time in history, the choice we make in this year's election is crucial. It will decide what kind of a country and what kind of a future we bequeath to our children and our grandchildren.
I have watched our country become divided and distracted by the issues that separate us. We all struggle with questions concerning the war, our economy, civil rights, reproductive freedom and global climate change, trying to come to a moral position that we can live with and which sometimes puts us at odds with our neighbors.
Barack Obama is uniquely qualified to deal with these issues. He understands that the place to start is not where we are divided, but where we can all agree.
Obama's biography uniquely qualifies him to bridge the gap in our partisan divide. From his Midwestern-born mother and his African-born father, his early years in Indonesia and high school years in Hawaii, his Ivy League education, coupled with his community organizing in the poorest neighborhoods in Chicago, he straddles the line between races, cultures and socio-economic positions with a poise and a grace that transcends the differences that define us all. Barack Obama is the man to lead us past our differences into a more hopeful future.
Rep. BETH ARSENAULT
Laconia
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