Post by Cambist on Sept 5, 2008 13:01:02 GMT -5
Senator McCain:
I would like to first start off by saying that I am not voting for you. Nothing personal, its' just that my ideas for Americas future are more in line with your competitor.
Please Senator, allow me to commend you on a well run race. Both you and Senator Obama have managed to keep this election cycle as clean as one could possibly expect. And while I know that there is plenty of time left (roughly 60 days) I'm sure that both of you will continue to find the high road and focus on the issues.
My purpose in this letter is to address the notion that you are out of touch with mainstream society. If you will, please allow me to offer some advice on how YOU can best combat this and start to address issues from the standpoint of a man in touch the people at the bottom of the social totem pole.
Your experience as a POW is legendary. As the son of a Vietnam Vet, I have the greatest respect for your commitment to this country and its creed. This experience, obviously a defining moment in your life, is where you should start forming your social policy.
True, a hot box in Hanoi is much different than anything that can be experienced here in the U.S. Well, maybe. I hear Mississippi and Louisiana prisons are pretty bad too. Getting beaten, sometimes daily, is a unique experience that is unparalleled by anything a US citizen could comprehend. Well, that is unless you could being constantly gang raped by other prisoners in U.S. prisons. Hmm...well, let's move on.
What I'm saying is that you should be use your experience as a POW to appreciate the desparate lives being lived by the poor in this country. Link yourself to these people by a shared experience....how you say? Try this:
There are millions of young Black men and women who grow up in war zones. Their lives are filled with dispair, violence, survival, in many cases they have a lack of love or support, etc... These children (and adults) live every day in a POW camp.
They are prisoners of a War of Drugs. They are prisoners in the War of Crime. Hell, they are even prisoners in the War on Poverty!? How the fvck did that happen?!
So Brother McCain, please see this, your election, as an opportunity to reach out to fellow prisoners of war. Unlike your days suffering in that hot box in Hanoi... probably spent thinking of home and a safer place...this is all they have. This prison of poverty, drugs, violence IS their reality...no safer place exists.
Yours truly,
Concerned Citizen in Arkansas
P.S. Sarah is kinda hot. I'm sure you chose her because of her experince.
I would like to first start off by saying that I am not voting for you. Nothing personal, its' just that my ideas for Americas future are more in line with your competitor.
Please Senator, allow me to commend you on a well run race. Both you and Senator Obama have managed to keep this election cycle as clean as one could possibly expect. And while I know that there is plenty of time left (roughly 60 days) I'm sure that both of you will continue to find the high road and focus on the issues.
My purpose in this letter is to address the notion that you are out of touch with mainstream society. If you will, please allow me to offer some advice on how YOU can best combat this and start to address issues from the standpoint of a man in touch the people at the bottom of the social totem pole.
Your experience as a POW is legendary. As the son of a Vietnam Vet, I have the greatest respect for your commitment to this country and its creed. This experience, obviously a defining moment in your life, is where you should start forming your social policy.
True, a hot box in Hanoi is much different than anything that can be experienced here in the U.S. Well, maybe. I hear Mississippi and Louisiana prisons are pretty bad too. Getting beaten, sometimes daily, is a unique experience that is unparalleled by anything a US citizen could comprehend. Well, that is unless you could being constantly gang raped by other prisoners in U.S. prisons. Hmm...well, let's move on.
What I'm saying is that you should be use your experience as a POW to appreciate the desparate lives being lived by the poor in this country. Link yourself to these people by a shared experience....how you say? Try this:
There are millions of young Black men and women who grow up in war zones. Their lives are filled with dispair, violence, survival, in many cases they have a lack of love or support, etc... These children (and adults) live every day in a POW camp.
They are prisoners of a War of Drugs. They are prisoners in the War of Crime. Hell, they are even prisoners in the War on Poverty!? How the fvck did that happen?!
So Brother McCain, please see this, your election, as an opportunity to reach out to fellow prisoners of war. Unlike your days suffering in that hot box in Hanoi... probably spent thinking of home and a safer place...this is all they have. This prison of poverty, drugs, violence IS their reality...no safer place exists.
Yours truly,
Concerned Citizen in Arkansas
P.S. Sarah is kinda hot. I'm sure you chose her because of her experince.
