Time to Press -- let's all do our part
A Message from Lee Ellis of Cumming and close friend of John McCain




Friends the election next week is a critical event in our country.  I have already voted for my friend John McCain.  I encourage you to join me.

 

My friend Orson Swindle (Lt. Col. USMC Ret)  shares his insights below as well.

 

Lee Ellis

 

Phone: 678-455-9514

Cell: 770-540-2080
 


 Subject: Time to Press -- let's all do our part

 

The poll below is quite meaningful  --  we can win this race, but we all need to pitch in now.  We have 8 days left before this country makes either a wise decision by electing John McCain or a tragic decision by electing Barack Obama.  McCain gives us experienced and tested leadership.  Obama is without experience and has never been tested nor has he done a thing of substance in his entire life.  He is clearly not ready to lead.  His election will be a dramatic move toward extremely liberal policies, a liberal Supreme Court and Federal judges, a defeatist mentality for our national security and military and it will set us back a generation.

 

8 days to contact every friend and family member you have, those on your Christmas card list, every business associate, co-worker, classmate and associations from your various professional and social lives.  8 days of effort, phone calls, emails, and any other means by which you communicate.  8 days -- not that long, not that hard to do your part. 

 

When I was a POW, the North Vietnamese kept me awake, chained to a stool for 10 days.  I fought them all the way.  John McCain, nearly dead after being captured, refused early release and the life-giving medical treatment he would receive, because he chose honor and commitment to his country over his own personal welfare.  He would then spend 5 1/2 years in extremely harsh conditions. 

 

8 days of effort by you will make a difference.

 

Please commnicate with all that you know whereever they may be.  We must wake up, America.  We must make our choice wisely or pay a terrible price for poor judgement. Think.  Act wisely. Do that for John.  Do that for me.  More importantly, do that for your country and your children and grandchildren. 

 

In the article below the polling story, Charles Krauthammer says it all.

 

God Speed, work hard for us for 8 days, and GBU.

 

Orson

 

 

 

IBD/TIPP Tracking Poll: Day Eleven

Posted: Thursday, October 23, 2008

McCain has cut into Obama's lead for a second day and is now just 1.1 points behind. The spread was 3.7 Wednesday and 6.0 Tuesday. The Republican is making headway with middle- and working- class voters, and has surged 10 points in two days among those earning between $30,000 and $75,000. He has also gone from an 11-point deficit to a 9-point lead among Catholics. 

 

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McCain for President

By Charles Krauthammer
Friday, October 24, 2008; A19

Contrarian that I am, I'm voting for John McCain. I'm not talking about bucking the polls or the media consensus that it's over before it's over. I'm talking about bucking the rush of wet-fingered conservatives leaping to Barack Obama before they're left out in the cold without a single state dinner for the next four years.

I stand athwart the rush of conservative ship-jumpers of every stripe -- neo (Ken Adelman), moderate (Colin Powell), genetic/ironic (Christopher Buckley) and socialist/atheist (Christopher Hitchens) -- yelling "Stop!" I shall have no part of this motley crew. I will go down with the McCain ship. I'd rather lose an election than lose my bearings.

First, I'll have no truck with the phony case ginned up to rationalize voting for the most liberal and inexperienced presidential nominee in living memory. The "erratic" temperament issue, for example. As if McCain's risky and unsuccessful but in no way irrational attempt to tactically maneuver his way through the economic tsunami that came crashing down a month ago renders unfit for office a man who demonstrated the most admirable equanimity and courage in the face of unimaginable pressures as a prisoner of war, and who later steadily navigated innumerable challenges and setbacks, not the least of which was the collapse of his campaign just a year ago.

McCain the "erratic" is a cheap Obama talking point. The 40-year record testifies to McCain the stalwart.

Nor will I countenance the "dirty campaign" pretense. The double standard here is stunning. Obama ran a scurrilous Spanish-language ad falsely associating McCain with anti-Hispanic slurs. Another ad falsely claimed that McCain supports "cutting Social Security benefits in half." And for months Democrats insisted that McCain sought 100 years of war in Iraq.

McCain's critics are offended that he raised the issue of William Ayers. What's astonishing is that Obama was himself not offended by William Ayers.

Moreover, the most remarkable of all tactical choices of this election season is the attack that never was. Out of extreme (and unnecessary) conscientiousness, McCain refused to raise the legitimate issue of Obama's most egregious association -- with the race-baiting Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Dirty campaigning, indeed.

The case for McCain is straightforward. The financial crisis has made us forget, or just blindly deny, how dangerous the world out there is. We have a generations-long struggle with Islamic jihadism. An apocalyptic soon-to-be-nuclear Iran. A nuclear-armed Pakistan in danger of fragmentation. A rising Russia pushing the limits of revanchism. Plus the sure-to-come Falklands-like surprise popping out of nowhere.

Who do you want answering that phone at 3 a.m.? A man who's been cramming on these issues for the past year, who's never had to make an executive decision affecting so much as a city, let alone the world? A foreign policy novice instinctively inclined to the flabbiest, most vaporous multilateralism (e.g., the Berlin Wall came down because of "a world that stands as one"), and who refers to the most deliberate act of war since Pearl Harbor as "the tragedy of 9/11," a term more appropriate for a bus accident?

Or do you want a man who is the most prepared, most knowledgeable, most serious foreign policy thinker in the United States Senate? A man who not only has the best instincts but has the honor and the courage to, yes, put country first, as when he carried the lonely fight for the surge that turned Iraq from catastrophic defeat into achievable strategic victory?

There's just no comparison. Obama's own running mate warned this week that Obama's youth and inexperience will invite a crisis -- indeed a crisis "generated" precisely to test him. Can you be serious about national security and vote on Nov. 4 to invite that test?

And how will he pass it? Well, how has he fared on the only two significant foreign policy tests he has faced since he's been in the Senate? The first was the surge. Obama failed spectacularly. He not only opposed it. He tried to denigrate it, stop it and, finally, deny its success.

The second test was Georgia, to which Obama responded instinctively with evenhanded moral equivalence, urging restraint on both sides. McCain did not have to consult his advisers to instantly identify the aggressor.

Today's economic crisis, like every other in our history, will in time pass. But the barbarians will still be at the gates. Whom do you want on the parapet? I'm for the guy who can tell the lion from the lamb.

 

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Orson Swindle
1506 Russell Road
Alexandria VA 22301
(703) 838-8576
 

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