To: Barack Obama, David Plouffe, and David Axelrod

From: Robert V. Achen

Subject: On The Nature of the Political Parties – An Open Letter To Barack Obama

So far John McCain has been able to draw you into campaigning in the old style politics of Richard Nixon and George Bush. This is the low life tactics of lying, deceit, and defamation of character. You haven’t taken on the old style politics, and defamed it in the speech and activities of John McCain specifically, and the Republican party in general.. PBS televised a documentary recently that documented the speech and tactics of Bush and Dick Chaney in manipulating the media and the public in galvanizing fear and hysteria as the justification of the attack on Iraq. Chaney and Bush lied repeatedly in the most dogmatic terms to the public and the media. Their deceit was planned, premeditated, and evil. You’re going to have to hold them accountable for their lies and arrogant disdain of the truth. These are egregious politicos who have ruined the reputation of our country in the eyes of the world.. If you remain silent about their lying and deceit you are only condoning it. And that is what has been wrong with our government and its failure to govern and solve the cyclical economic problems, the existence of poverty, the inadequacy of the health care system, the failure to proactively meet the energy situation, the environment, and the host of other problems including corruption that fester in our socio-political system. No one speaks loudly with a clear voice , an honest voice, to get the country to perform honestly in our own country and the world. Everyone just lets despicable ethics be the order of the day. They turn and look away. Then you allow McCain to draw you into the “ do not hold the liars and corrupters accountable for their misdeeds.”

George Bush is a practiced Republican liar. Dick Chaney is a practiced Republican liar. John McCain. is no different. He is a liar. He defames and lies about you every time he gets to speak.. And you want to forgive him because he is a “war hero”. Well, he was no war hero. That utterance is the old tradition of glorifying and condoning war. That is condoning and justifying the murder of humans. There is no place for the warrior mentality in our day and age.