Stop the Republican Lie Machine!

For the past eight years the Republican Party has established, aided and abetted the most deceitful presidential administration in American history. The abysmal record of duplicity is there, from the lead-up to the Iraq War, to Guantanamo to Katrina – secrecy and doublespeak, talking points over the truth, spin and spin again. And now they are asking for four more years!

We must say loudly no more years! John McCain certainly served his country with valor forty years ago, but this is 2008 and he is now 72 years old and he is representing the political party that has run America into the ground. Our country needs a new direction. He talks of change, but his change is just a new face with the same people who got us here pulling the strings.

Case in point: who is running his campaign – Steve Schmidt, a Bush operative, and a Karl Rove acolyte. The tactics are the same slash and burn, destroy your opponent’s character at any cost strategies that Lee Atwater and Karl Rove used to give us the Bushes. When will America wake up and not be snookered by this rancid game of napalm politics, which is the only way the Republicans win elections. They divide with wedge issues and drive real, healthy debate into the ditch. They cannot win on the strength of their positions, so they win on the strength of their distractions.

Wake up and smell the Starbucks, America! Barack Obama is not perfect, but he and Joe Biden give us the only real choice for change for the better. The Democrats deserve another chance in the White House, because the Republicans have forfeited their chance for four more years by virtue of their performance in the last eight years.

McCain really is more of the same, no matter how he and Bush's henchmen, who surround him and run his campaign, try to trick you with McCain's old folks charm. And Sarah Palin? Well, I have seen community organizers like Barack Obama, and she is no Obama. She could’t carry his clipboard or his constitutional law degree from Harvard. Her mix of extreme religion and governance is eerily similar to George Bush, and we know where that got us.