The 2012 Election Address (Inspired by Lincoln's Gettysburg Address)

    Eleven score and seventeen years ago, our founders declared their independence from England and created a new country.  In 1787, a group of men met in Philadelphia Pennsylvania and created a new government, revolutionary for its time.  The framers created a government which would work best when members of Congress put aside their differences and partisan politics to find that common ground and enact legislation which would be in the best interests of the citizens of these United States.
     Now we are less than two weeks away from the most important election in our lifetime.  The decision before us is clear.  The choice is ours to make.  Will we, like the men of 1775 and 1787, choose to continue to think anew and move forward? Or will we choose to turn back the hands of time to a way of thinking which was not better and helped to create the present problems we now face?
     What is written here will not matter in the end.  What will matter is whether we will choose to protect the poor, the elderly and the families who struggle to survive or whether we will allow the rich to continue to benefit from tax cuts they do not need and this country cannot afford.
     This election will determine whether "government of the rich, by the rich and for the rich" will become our way of life or whether we will honor those who created our Constitution and those who died to preserve our Union by ensuring "that government of the people, by the people and for the people shall not perish from this earth."