Would you feel safe with a commander in chief who thinks we could be in Iraq for 100 years, who sings “bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran” to a Beach Boys tune? A 72-year-old president who doesn’t remember how many houses he owns, regularly confuses Shiites and Sunnis and can’t operate a computer?

Do you like spending $10 billion a month on a war that should have been avoided? John McCain assures us “there will be other wars.”

Shouldn’t we question a candidate’s judgment in selecting a running mate who repeats a self-serving, bald-faced lie about her support for the $398 million pork-barrel “bridge to nowhere”? She doesn’t believe in evolution or understand the Constitution of the United States, and has traveled outside North America only once in her life.

How does McCain represent “change,” when he has voted with President Bush 90 percent of the time?

Can we tolerate continuing the corruption, hypocrisy, lies and bad judgment of the past eight years? Look what happened when we elected a president people wanted to have a beer with! Would we really elect leaders just because one’s a former POW (and she’s a hockey mom), and the other guy is black? I hope not, because McCain and Sarah Palin simply cannot be trusted with our lives.

Barack Obama and Joe Biden are self-made men from humble beginnings, devoted to their families and country. It would be a change indeed to have smart and level-headed leaders with integrity that we can actually trust.

Nancy Glista

Franklin