Dear Sir or Madam,
It has been 12 days since John McCain announced his running mate, and she has yet to take a single question from the press. This is unprecidented in our nations history, and is a frighteningly similar practice to nations who have dictators.
Sarah Palin read a speech at the convention that had been written for her by George Bush's speechwriters. She hasn't answered any requests from the press for interviews, and the McCain campaign has said that she will do no interviews unless it either benefits them, or until such time that she is treated with "deference". I would like to know why the American press is tolerating this? With such a short time between now and the election, John McCain is asking America to vote for him, a 72 year old cancer survivor, but not to ask any questions about his unknown VP candidate.
This is insane, America. This is not a casting call for a Lifetime Original Movie. Our country is drowning in debt, our jobs have gone overseas because of poorly conceived and poorly executed free trade agreements, our schools are failing, our children are dying in wars that should have never been waged. This is the most serious time this country has faced in my lifetime, and John McCain wants this country to focus on scripted personalities.
Let me be candid. There are people in this country who have been raised to have issues and concerns about electing a black man to our nations highest office. I am blessed, as a middle aged white woman, to have grown up in a home that did not plant this seed in me. I see something in Barack Obama that I have never seen in one of our nations leaders in my lifetime. We have a chance to make things better in America. We have a chance to honor our responsibility to make this nation as great as it can be.
So I ask you, please focus on the issues. Close your eyes and ask yourself, "Are you better off now than you were eight years ago?", "Do you think our country can survive four more years of this?" We're not better off, America and I don't think we can survive four more years of this. So I ask you today to do the right thing for yourself, your children and your country. Help us find our way back. Help Barack Obama turn this mess around. We can't put the same people with the same policies back into the White House and expect anything to be different. John McCain is not different. Barack Obama represents a new way of approaching our problems, and if we have the courage to elect him, we will all be the better for it on so many levels.
I thank you and God bless you..
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