Editor,
There has been a constant stream of letters, comments and editorials about what is wrong with each candidate and why one or the other will lead the country down the road to ruin. The truth is we are already a fair ways down that road. For many years we have been blaming the other guys (Republicans, Democrats, socialists, liberals, capitalists, imperialists, evangelicals, atheists, gays or anyone else not like us) for our problems with the seeming assumption that recognition of that truth will somehow make it better.
Here's a tip: It won't.
The only way we're going to get out of our multiple messes (pick any of them) is to talk to each other as rational and mutually interested and dependent human beings and decide collaboratively what we are going to do and what we are willing to give (and perhaps give up) to do it.
I think Barack Obama is the best-equipped candidate to facilitate this necessary change in how we do public business. He is intelligent. He listens to those around him, including those who disagree with him, and he believes there is little we cannot do if we work together to do it.
John McCain is a good man and has been a good senator, but his campaign of division and derision does not show he has the ability to heal and grow the country that we need right now. It is not what each candidate will do for us that motivates my choice of Obama; it is who can best help us come together as Americans to deal with our problems. That is the change we need.
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Jim Connolly
UNM staff
