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Ten score and 30 years ago our forefathers brought forth an American Covenant upon this Continent. A completely new American Dream of all men created equal and endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights. These rights are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. It was said that this nation can not endure with those rights and this Dream. Our forefathers founded the Democratic Republican Party on these principals. Later Martin Luther King also saw this Dream and spoke of it so eloquently.

It is a Dream founded in law and nourished by economic freedom, a gift of the Backbone of Democracy, the small businessman and the Guilds. It is a gift of innocent till proved guilty, the right to face ones accuser, and to have a fair trial with an impartial jury of ones peers. It is a gift ensured by the availability of jobs and business opportunity. It maintained by free trade to create enterprise and the jobs that go with them, not the sending of jobs overseas to the highest bidder, because men cannot be free when they are economically chained to poverty, illness, disease, and need.

It is a Vision inscribed upon the Statue of Liberty that said "send us men, women, and children from all lands yearning to be free." It is the hope and was the foundation of a Nation of Immigrants to create this great new world. It was echoed in "give me Liberty or give me death,'' and it is tied to economic independence and the creation of jobs and free enterprise. Now we have 2 visions competing for this nation, one who wants tax breaks for ultra millionaires and hide scandalous behavior behind closed doors, and one who wants to create millions of new American jobs that give economic vitality to our hard working men and women and give our children back their future.

A clear choice is now available of what America has been and should be, verses a vision that had failed. It is time to now denounce with the righteous indignation that is building over the Scandals of Corruption and the nightmare of a Moral Lack of Leadership that ignores legality and refuses the decency of resignation within the Republican Party. Perhaps the party that claimed personal responsibility and family values as their motto, needs to take the advice they are so willing to give, but in conduct so willing to ignore, and go quietly and quickly into that good night with what principals they do possess. They need to exit a failed direction of hype and failure that now threatens our economic and moral livelihood at its very roots. Certainly the choice is clear: the American Dream or the American Nightmare.

I urge you to choose the American Covenant that was and is the Democratic Party.

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