An Open Letter to John McCain

Dear John McCain:

We, the Democrats, won the Presidential election in 2008. We voted for Barack Obama. We did not vote for you.

Why? Because we believed in change. We no longer accept the validity of your old ways of thinking, or the effectiveness of an already failed Republican economic policy.

You seem to be under the misapprehension that you won. You appear to think you are in a position to dictate terms to the White House. To impose your will - the will of a defeated minority - on the chosen, duly elected president of the majority. You seem to think you are a position to dictate your failed policies to the American people, who have already rejected them.

In case all of this escapes you, you lost. That's right. You lost the election. You are no longer in a position to dictate anything.

We did not vote for Barack Obama so that the Republicans can stay in power. This is now how things work in the United States. We expect actual change to take place.

That change will not occur if the majority continues to follow the failed policies of the Republican Party.

So you want to negotiate? We already did. It was called the presidential election. End of negotiations.

You lost. Please accept this as fact. Please become part of the solution or become irrelevant in truth.