This is not about celebrity, it is about substantive change. Not the “real change” you speak of, but an idea. It is an idea that citizens like you and me that have never held office can make a change in our country for the better. It is the idea that win or lose, the renewed interest in being pro-active in one’s own community isn’t something to mock, but a structure that will be able to better serve the issues that strike us at our core in our own homes.

It saddens me that while near the town I grew up in, you can’t drive down a road without seeing homes foreclosed upon, and businesses shuttered, yet you are still unwilling to talk to us about issues like the economy. Why? Why do you want to “turn the page” so desperately?

What is your plan to help my neighbors? I want to hear it, as I have heard nothing from you yet about our economy. Something needs to change, and if you are going to tell me that continuing the economic policy of the previous administration is the best course, I ain’t buying it. Try telling that to my community member whose house is for sale.

Instead of substantive debate on the issues, your side continues to engage in the derisive politics of yore. Instead of talking about the economy, you deride by turning a phrase used to talk about a policy into a slur when your own candidate has used the same phrase beforehand. You bring up old tired dirty politics, when you yourself had some questionable connections in the past — McCain as a member of the Keating Five, and Palin in her connection the the successionist Alaska Freedom Party (whom you’ve supported, and your husband was a member of), and to a preacher who deemed a woman a WITCH (!?) only a few years ago. In both cases, the “pig” is bad policy, and to politicize it otherwise is an affront to our country’s intelligence, plain and simple.

We are smarter than that. I’m not just talking about me. I’m talking about the whole of the US.

Instead of talking about how to fix our problems, your negative, divisive politics force us to spend time defending – starving the country of the discussion we need – about what it is we need to do to right this ship.

Don’t call us unpatriotic. It offends me that you would dare to claim we love our country less than anyone else. I for one love this country, as all democrats and Obama supporters do. Why would we spend so much time campaigning and trying to bring our message of change if we didn’t want to make the country we love better. We will defend our borders against attacks against the freedoms we hold dear to the bitter end… to preserve the rights our forefathers established for us, and to ensure the safety and well being of our fellow countrymen. Calling us unpatriotic is simply untrue, an unfortunate casualy in this war against those who have or may attack you.

Let’s bring this back to a discussion about issues and solutions and let the public decide.

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