The kind of change that America needs

Rick Sapp
Published: August 22, 2008

What is change? What is Obama talking about?

Change… is doing things differently. Change is about working together to find the answers. 

When the Republicans controlled Congress, they boasted that they would draft bills, bills that were then passed by the Republican majority and became the laws of our country. that they would draft
these bills in private committee meetings, not even allowing the Democrats to participate in the meetings. 

Silencing the opposition’s voices silences their ideas and limits the intellect to a single point of view. Those liberal, free-thinking Democrats might even have had a suggestion or two that could have saved
us from some of the mistakes of the last few years, but we’ll never know.

McCain is a loyal Republican.  He doesn’t believe that he needs to listen to the Democrats. He believes that Republicans are right.  He believes that he is right. He voted the Republican line 95 percent of
the time.

But no one knows everything, not the Republicans, not the Democrats, not McCain and not even Obama… NO ONE!

But Obama listens to both sides. Obama wants to hear the pros and cons of every argument.  We are living in some tough times with a lot of tough questions.  Obama knows that to find the answers we
will need the wisdom of both sides and everyone in between.

The questions are tough. The answers will be tough too. 

But if we work together, look at the problems from all the angles, together — Democrats and Republicans together as Americans — we will find the answers, the best answers. We will succeed.

This is the kind of change that America needs.

RICK SAPP

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