Election '08 - about Who We Are
November 2, 2008
Letter to Editor, area newspaper
This election is about who we are as the United States of America.
Our direction in the past seven years has been toward America as a failing empire, with a bunker mentality that relies most heavily on war or threats of war to attempt to maintain ourselves. We have a president who decides which laws he will follow and which he won't. We have seen the gap widen between rich and poor.
Which candidates best exemplify the values for which our flag has always stood? All are patriotic people of faith.
Who is appealing to "the better angels of our nature," as Lincoln phrased it? Who can restore the American spirit of generosity and working together? Which candidates emphasize proactive diplomacy with war as absolutely last resort? Who will leave no loopholes for the CIA to use the least effective and most spiritually caustic method of intelligence-gathering -- torture and secret rendition?
Whose economic and tax policies are most just and will best help reduce poverty?
Which candidates best understand that American ingenuity is already prepared to achieve energy security and swiftly end our dangerous dependence on oil?
Who will appoint public servants on the basis of competence, not loyalty to the neoconservativism that has given us the state of our nation today?
Who best embodies the open-hearted, fearless America dedicated to liberty and justice for all?
Whomever we elect, may God crown our good with brother- and sister-hood, from sea to shining sea.
Letter to Editor, area newspaper
This election is about who we are as the United States of America.
Our direction in the past seven years has been toward America as a failing empire, with a bunker mentality that relies most heavily on war or threats of war to attempt to maintain ourselves. We have a president who decides which laws he will follow and which he won't. We have seen the gap widen between rich and poor.
Which candidates best exemplify the values for which our flag has always stood? All are patriotic people of faith.
Who is appealing to "the better angels of our nature," as Lincoln phrased it? Who can restore the American spirit of generosity and working together? Which candidates emphasize proactive diplomacy with war as absolutely last resort? Who will leave no loopholes for the CIA to use the least effective and most spiritually caustic method of intelligence-gathering -- torture and secret rendition?
Whose economic and tax policies are most just and will best help reduce poverty?
Which candidates best understand that American ingenuity is already prepared to achieve energy security and swiftly end our dangerous dependence on oil?
Who will appoint public servants on the basis of competence, not loyalty to the neoconservativism that has given us the state of our nation today?
Who best embodies the open-hearted, fearless America dedicated to liberty and justice for all?
Whomever we elect, may God crown our good with brother- and sister-hood, from sea to shining sea.
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