Opinion - Letters to the Editor

POSTED: Saturday, Oct. 11, 2008

Believes McCain the one to bring responsibility

I have just finished watching the Presidential Debate on TV. I was surprised that the opinion polls favored Barack Obama. I am, and have been, a middle-class citizen of these United States for 60 years. I worried through the Vietnam War. I paid my way through college. I read Eldridge Cleavers' "Soul On Ice." And I have struggled ever since to be able to retire and it is still something that I will have to struggle with.

For the second time in my life I saw an American presidential candidate tell me to get off of my behind. He said government is not going to help me, that if I want to achieve success, I had better get involved.

Ladies and gentlemen, John McCain is giving us an opportunity to change America. You baby boomers and ex-hippies that enjoyed all the freedoms of the 1960s had better get with it if your want your grandchildren to experience the same freedoms in the 21st Century.