Dear Voters,

        I don’t care whether you are a Republican, Democrat, or Independent; all I know is that you are an American in heart and mind, even though, you may be like me, born of mixed heritage from immigrant families who escaped foreign shores to build lives here in this new land.  You are still a product of this great melting pot of Americanism. 

        Yes, my skin is olive and I am now an old geezer left over from World War II, where I served in the South Pacific, but sometimes age combined with many life experiences wakes us up, having given us some knowledge of history and civics.  With that possibility in mind, let’s look at what is facing us in the future.

        Now I also realize that some of you vote the Democrat or Republican ticket because your parents and grandparents always did.  This is OK if the particular party has remained the same.  But, perhaps it has not. Looking at each party, the Democrat Party has been taken over by many socialists, a few Marxists, and even two or more Islamic members.  This new Democrat Party even pushed out Joe Lieberman.

        The GOP has also suffered.  I call RINOS (Republicans in name only) fence-straddlers--people who can fall either way, left or right.  Let us not forget that President Ronald Reagan was a staunch Democrat and the head of a strong, now left-leaning union.  When asked why he left that party, he said, “I didn’t; it left me!”  Thus, we need to look at these two main political parties and see where they currently stand in their philosophy of government.

         Senator Obama, for example, has declared that if elected commander in chief, he will want to get all our troops out of Iraq and move them to the “real war” in Afghanistan.  I hate to tell him this, but while they did train there and also in Iraq, we are not currently waging war against any one nation.  We do realize that no one country attacked our trade towers on 9/11, but, rather that this attack was originated by Islamic terrorist organizations from all over the Middle East!  It had been put together and run at that time by Osama bin Laden.  We doubt that he is still in charge as he had many independent chieftains in charge of groups in all Middle East countries with countless large cells in every country in the world, including here in the USA.  Like the amoeba, these cells keep dividing and reproducing everywhere infecting others, not unlike the streptococcus bacteria that they now try to emulate.

        We are in Iraq in order to gain the intelligence we need to keep innocent Americans from another attack on our soil.  That is and has been our only reason for being there!  Looking at all the places we could have set up a major presence in the Middle East, Iraq was the only spot least costly in lives and money thanks to a corrupt despot who had sided with terrorism by donating money to it and who had also violated so many U.N. resolutions. 

        By the way, we all, including Senator Obama, should remember that we did have human intelligence agents in the Middle East at one time until the Democrats stopped the CIA from using them!   Between the Church committee, Jimmy Carter, and Jamie Gorelick, former deputy attorney general under Clinton, we had lost all our ability to keep informed of any potential enemy attacks by either human foreign agents or cooperation between the various police agencies in the United States.

        Senator Obama also keeps bringing up his old lie that John McCain wants to keep our troops in Iraq for a hundred years.  You and I know that service non-combat troops have been stationed in Germany, Japan, Korea, and other nations for years to maintain peace and help other nations in doing this.  It was obvious that McCain was referring to this possibility in the Middle East after all conflict had ended.

        Just as the new “Democrats” and a few RINOs allowed, through their ineptness, terrorists to secretly attack us, they also tried to keep us from monitoring overseas calls between al Qaeda and its cells residing here in America--cells planning to kill our citizens.  Fortunately the Republicans and some loyal Democrats joined to let the Bush administration continue this monitoring, although, thanks to all the publicity and leaks to the New York Times, I suspect that the terrorists are now alert to this and are using different forms of communications with the suicide bombers they have planted inside the USA.

        Now, Mr. Obama and his fellow Democrats have tried to keep us relying on foreign enemy oil while, at the same time, trying to drain our own reserves of this precious fuel.  This could cause us to lose any future wars due to lack of such energy.  Lowering our oil reserves in order to lower the cost of gasoline by a few cents is like going on a cruise without any life preservers in order to save a few dollars on the cost of the cruise tickets.  

        Again, Bush has stepped up to start us drilling again.  This should allow the futures market to lower the price of gasoline immediately once Congress agrees and acts!   Even the very statement made by our president has already had speculators causing oil costs to drop several days in a row.

        With Senator Chuck Schumer causing the run on the Indy-mac bank and Nancy Pelosi and her cohorts keeping us from drilling for our own local oil as well as wanting to take a share of the oil profits for the government instead of realizing that this money goes not to oil fat cats but rather to pensioners and other retired folk like teachers, blue-collar workers and other middle-class shareholders, shows the continued ineptness of the current majority party.

        Really, after understanding how Senator Obama and the new Democrat Party which has been in control of Congress for the past two years has constantly aided and abetted our enemies with all these tactics, how could any American even think of voting for either Senator Barack Obama or a Democrat Congress again in November?  If we think the economy is bad now, wait until 2009 when Obama and crew, if elected, would raise taxes sky-high for their proposed government spending bills.  

        If we think that the cost of living has been escalating, try living with double the cost of wheat, corn, or dairy products and higher energy prices while fewer jobs are available and our dollar is worth even less. Technically, our dollar bill which was worth 100 pennies is now worth only 60.  If we continue on this path, it is estimated by government sources that a financial collapse of either Medicare or Social Security could occur in 2041!  Is this really what we want to leave for our children and grandchildren to inherit from us?

        Stop voting for the personality of candidates; choose, instead as your decision-making reason, the philosophy of government that each candidate and his or her major party is proposing.  By the same token, don't waste a vote on a minority party, as this can cause the major opposition to win as it did when Perot ran.  How we and our kids fare in the future will depend on what we do in November!  Help America remain a republic under God, returning to our basis Constitution with its original amendments and the three separate wings of  our government--executive, legislative and judicial.

Sincerely,

Lee Ellis

indiolee@dc.rr.com