An open letter to folks like myself who cannot in good conscience vote for Obama

[randome]

231. "Ship of state is already under the waves".

You see, that's not a statistic or observation. That's an evaluation. One you seem predisposed to make. In fact, it sounds like something someone would say who's depressed.

I can't tell you that Obama -or any other politician, for that matter- will right the wrongs you list. Hell, why do we still have starving children in the world? All those things you mention pale in comparison to that, IMO.

You could just as easily ask why YOU aren't seeing that these wrongs are righted. It's easy to say a politician should see to it for you. As long as you spend five minutes on a computer posting on DU, you don't really think those things are important. You think it's important that a politician think they're important.

We are all guilty of that.

I don't like to advocate 'trusting' anyone, especially a politician. I prefer to judge everyone by what they do or say NOW. But my personal evaluation is that Obama will do best for this country. I want the things you listed to be addressed, too. But if anyone stands a snowball's chance in hell of doing that during the next four years, it's Obama.

You work with what you got.