A letter

For what it's worth, here's a copy of the letter I just mailed to Obama:

Dear Senator Obama:

Yesterday I mailed my $2,000 contribution to your campaign, a contribution which I pledged several months ago, wrote the check for, and then decided to hold because of your decision to support telecom immunity and the FISA bill.

I did not mail the check yesterday because I find your positions to have improved. If anything, I think they have worsened. Nevertheless, a McCain/Palin presidency, which is beginning to look ever more likely, would mark the end of America as we know it and usher in an era of irreversible changes that would forever undermine both our moral standing in the world and our physical well-being here at home. We can't risk that, and I will do everything in my power to prevent it.

However, as I watch you campaign, I truly wonder if you are doing everything in your power to prevent a Republican victory. You don't appear to have any "fire in your belly" about anything, and it makes me (and many others) wonder if you really care about the issues, or whether this is just a debating game for you.

Unless you catch fire quickly, I'm afraid we're going to have the same result we had in 2000 and 2004. In my view, you need to energize your campaign, hit McCain/Palin harder, stop praising McCain before making your own point, get more direct and concise in your own statements instead of sounding like there's truth on all sides of each issue, and pound home your message without introducing ambiguities.

One final point, stop using pronouns to refer to your opponents. There was a TV clip the other day where you said, "I voted with Bush 95% of the time." Presumably you were quoting McCain, but the network didn't show that part of the clip, and it sounded like you were crowing about your own Republican bona fides.