The following unpaid, non-politcal announcement…

16. October 2008 by Carol.

In this writing I first want to make clear that I am NOT making any kind of political statement.  I have friends who are voting for McCain and friends who are voting for Obama.  We have free choice in this country and the freedom to vote every four years for a peaceful transition of power in the largest nation in the free world.  We are blessed to have that privilege.  So please don’t take this as either making or encouraging any kind of voting stand.

But I’d like all of you who maybe still read this to consider a statement that Senator McCain made in the debate tonight.  If you are a supporter then please write to him toencourage him to change his position and/or publicly rescind his remarks if he misspoke.  If you are an Obama supporter then write to Mr. Obama’s camp and ask him his stand in this. 

OK  (finally…) all that said - here is the comment Senator McCain made just a few minutes ago during their discussion on healthcare.  He spoke of “golden cadillac” insurance policies that include “plastic surgery and transplants” - you can imagine that comment got my immediate attention.

I went to his website and wrote him an email discussing where many or most transplant recipients would be without having the insurance coverage that helped us receive our lives back.  I was dismayed to hear him equate organ transplants with elective plastic surgery.

 Better yet, here’s a phone number for their naional HQ - 703-418-2008.

So, please, whoever you support, would you ask Mr. McCain to clarify his comments.  And if he indeed stands by those comments that you would continue the dialog by showing him where he is wrong?

I guess I am making the supposition that you would indeed think he is wrong.  I hope you do.

Thanks for all the support you have given me over these 10 months.

And thanks for reading.

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