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Dear Friend,
Each morning when I open the newspaper, I am disappointed.
Disappointed as a mother.
Disappointed as a woman.
Disappointed as an American.
I am disappointed in the way the Bush Administration and
Republican leaders are handling the major issues facing our
country right now.
Each morning, I read about another young life sacrificed in
Iraq. As a mother, my heart breaks. These noble young men and
women are carrying out their mission with skill and honor. But
in Washington, our leaders are not doing the same.
The president failed to conduct a full investigation of how we
as a country were misled in the run up to the war in Iraq. The
vice president and his staff continue to stonewall an
investigation into how a covert CIA agent was revealed just to
discredit her husband and why it was so important to discredit
his revelations about faulty intelligence. And unbelievably, the
Republican leadership in Congress defends torture and secret
prisons, the same type of human rights violations that we sent
our young people into Iraq to stop, even though we know torture
yields untrustworthy intelligence, smears our reputation around
the world, and, above all, is wrong.
The
American people deserve better. Contribute to Democratic
candidates who share your commitment to leadership and
accountability in government.
As a woman, I am disappointed and deeply concerned about the
Supreme Court. First, the president nominated his personal
lawyer to a position for which she clearly was not qualified.
When the right wing of the Republican Party determined that she
wasn't enough of an ideologue on their issues, the president
pulled her nomination -- not because she wasn't qualified but
because he couldn't convince a group of narrow extremists that
she wouldn't jettison the Constitution in favor of their
political agenda. His second choice is a judge with a deeply
disturbing record on women's rights and civil rights, one that
will denude the Constitution if he is affirmed and his
perspective prevails.
As the president was making these appointments, the nation was
appalled to read the emails of Michael Brown, the president's
appointee to head the Federal Emergency Management Agency. As
the water was literally rising in New Orleans, Mr. Brown was
more concerned with how he looked on television than with the
lives that hung in the balance. And the "lessons" that the
president assured us were learned from Hurricane Katrina don't
seem to have stuck, because when Hurricane Wilma hit South
Florida, FEMA was again unprepared and inept. I worry about our
preparedness to respond to a disaster -- natural or man-made --
that we cannot anticipate.
The
American people deserve better. Contribute to Democratic
candidates who share your commitment to leadership and
accountability in government.
I am disappointed as an American, because I know the American
people deserve better.
But the same papers that bring news of the disappointing
performance of our political leaders also bring encouraging news
that reminds me of the fundamental decency of the American
people.
Last week, voters in Virginia and New Jersey stood up for
principle and elected governors who are committed to
accountability and leadership. Thanks to your support, John was
able to travel to Virginia and New Jersey and campaign for a
number of state legislative candidates so that these new
governors would have the support behind them to move their
agendas.
Across the country, voters are holding their elected officials
accountable -- and that gives me hope.
Simply put, we need to elect public officials who are as good as
the American people. That's what John and I have committed to
doing, but we need your help. In the past year, your support
enabled us to raise $3.8 million for local, state and federal
candidates who are committed to leadership and accountability on
behalf of ALL Americans. The election two weeks ago shows us
that these candidates can win, IF they have the resources to run
against their well-funded opponents.
Please join John and me today and stand up for leadership and
accountability in government. We don't need to be disappointed
in our elected officials. We need elected officials as good as
the American people.
Help
make that happen now with a contribution to the One America
Committee.
Thank you.
Elizabeth Edwards
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