<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">My fellow Gathnetters, including those who often disagree politically with me</span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><font><span style=""><strong><font><span style=""><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;">Please think through the following:</span></font></span></font></strong></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold; "> </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><b><font face="Arial"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Arial; "><strong><b><font face="Arial"><span style="font-family: Arial; ">You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. </span></font></b></strong><br><strong><b><font face="Arial"><span style="font-family: Arial; ">You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. </span></font></b></strong><br><strong><b><font face="Arial"><span style="font-family: Arial; ">You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. </span></font></b></strong><br><strong><b><font face="Arial"><span style="font-family: Arial; ">You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down. </span></font></b></strong><br><strong><b><font face="Arial"><span style="font-family: Arial; ">You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred. </span></font></b></strong><br><strong><b><font face="Arial"><span style="font-family: Arial; ">You cannot build character and courage by taking away men's initiative and independence. </span></font></b></strong><br><strong><b><font face="Arial"><span style="font-family: Arial; ">You cannot help men permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves. </span></font></b></strong><br><strong><b><font face="Arial"><span style="font-family: Arial; "> </span></font></b></strong><br></span></font></b></div></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; ">Some Attribute this to Lincoln, but it is apparently more likely Boetcher (born 1873)</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">I do not wish to offend, but as I watched the Presidential and Vice Presidential debates, this is exactly what I saw coming from one side, tearing down this or that company (which apparently didn't give them many funds), and blowing past the horrific fraud of Freddie Mae/Mac which they were associated closely with, which are the core of the current economic crisis.</div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">Please, please we need to build up America and each other. We cannot do this by continuing to elect those who play us against each other, and expect to be a strong country. We cannot expect the same people who were most largely to blame for hiding Freddie Mae/Mac (Sorry, but Dodd, Frank and Obama were all deflecting investigations into these entities by calling those investigating racists) to fix our economy.</div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">There are many issues. Essentials of Freedom of Speech, basic issues of Life and home which hang in the balance. Please take these to heart when you vote, and I do ask you vote for McCain/Palin when you do. </div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">God Bless all of you,</div></div></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><br></font></div></div><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Jonathan Gathman</div><div><a href="mailto:jonathan@stl.gathman.org">jonathan@stl.gathman.org</a></div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span> </div><br></body></html>