An open letter to the Presidental Candidate teams
Posted by Andy Donaldson in Politics
An open letter to the Presidential Candidate teams of:
Sen. Barack Obama
Sen. Joe Biden
and
Sen. John McCain
Gov. Sarah Palin
Dear Gang,
Let me start by saying congratulations and a job well done on both of your conventions over the past couple of weeks. They were both full of excitement, energy and provided a lot of points for me to ponder. You see, I'm on the fence about which one of your teams I'm going to support and end up voting for going through this election season. I'm an average schmo. Near forty, I've got a wife, two kids, dog, mortgage, bills, yada, yada, yada. We work hard for what we have and do our best to raise our kids with love and guidance so that they can become productive members of our society one day. I'm no different than anyone else I know, regardless of political beliefs and let me tell you I have some friends on both sides and there have been times where we have had some interesting debates about stuff.
But I have something for you guys to ponder. It's something that is really foremost in my mind right now. It's about the simple fact that I drive about 65 miles a day round trip to work. I don't drive anything flashy, trust me. It's an '02 Ford Focus and even keeping gas in that thing is costly enough. With gas hovering in the $3.50 to $4 a gallon range in NE Ohio, it's got a lot of people on the ropes. Now people usually tell me to just move closer to work. Sure, that would be great, but we have many personal reasons that involve our kids that are keeping us put in the local school district. Plus, even if I could move it is unlikely also due to the housing market. But back to my main point of this post. We need to do something about our oil situation, guys. I mean we are sending billions overseas and what do we as citizens of the United States get in return? Funded terrorist attacks? I know, there is a lot of debate back and forth on that one but the matter is that we are being held hostage to foreign powers when we don't have to be. Let's face facts, we have options right now, people are talking, but no one is doing.
In 1962, then President Kennedy put forth a challenge to the American people. To land a man on the moon and return him safely to Earth. I'm sure there were plenty that thought he was nuts but America did it. Science and technology evolved from it and they found a way to do it! It took guts to make a challenge like that. Now, we need someone to make a new challenge like that. We need someone to stand up and make the difficult challenge to say within 10 years, we will no longer be reliant on sources of energy from anywhere other then the United States of America. Pretty bold, isn't it? But let's face it, technology is getting closer and closer to a point when other sources of energy are within reach, but someone has to be the one to give us that push to do it. Our own oil, natural gas and renewable solar and wind energy. We can do it. We need Washington to push it. We need the partisan garbage to end and action to begin. It's not going to be easy, but neither was putting a man on the moon. Someone needs to make and drive that challenge forward.
Who's willing to do it?
Let us know, we and our wallets are listening.
(Editors note: If you plan on adding a comment to this post, please make it a productive one. Any name calling or anything else I deem unfit will be removed.)
