The true agents of change in this election are John McCain and Sarah Palin. There is a reason that the Democrats are attacking her viciously with lies. They are very afraid of her. She represents small town America.

The liberal orthodoxy of urban America can’t relate to Sarah Palin. They feel small town Americans “are embittered and cling to their religion and guns,” as Obama stated recently.

However, it is the people that live on the East and Left coasts of America that dominate our culture with television, music and media that mock the small town values of family and God — as redneck.

We are inundated with national newspaper editors and celebrities that say repeatedly, that religion and God are for the ignorant. They claim they love the United States Constitution but ignore the Second Amendment to that same contract that guarantees “the right to bear arms” as a stated right, equally as important as our right to free speech.

So, while our culture denigrates the people that live in the heartland of America, they attempt to foist an inexperienced media-made caricature of “change” on us, which goes by the name of Barack Obama.

But there is nothing about Obama that comes close to change. He supports the same liberal positions that support larger government with higher taxes, no drilling for oil to gain energy independence, and demand that we hide from the problems of the world by blaming America first.

No, this is not change. It is more of the same. It is the status quo. It is the elite establishment view of America.

McCain and Palin represent true change. They both took on their own Republican parties. Obama has never challenged his party. Obama will:

1. Raise taxes

2. Refuse to drill for more oil

3. Restrict gun rights

4. Bring back partial birth abortion

Before you contemplate voting for the status quo of Washington politics for president of the nation, consider whether you would even vote for Obama to be your local county commissioner.

Russ Miller

Cumberland