Senator Barack Obama, you need to show people where you stand on issues such as health care, labor law reforms and other policies affecting working people.  You need to visit unemployment offices, union halls and soup lines.

Senator, do you or your family ever remember being so broke that you ate macaroni and cheese with water because you couldn’t afford to buy milk?  Do you remember those beans and cornbread or hotdog and bean (if you could afford it) nights?  Have you ever experienced milk toast or eating leftovers for days on end?  Did you ever go to bed hungry sir?

Do you or your family remember wrapping yourselves up with extra blankets wearing double socks and clothes to keep warm because you couldn’t afford to keep the heat too high or you didn’t have any at all?  Do you remember sharing a bath tub of water to take a bath so as to save on the water bill?

Senator, have you ever gotten a ‘last warning’ post card in the mail telling you that your electricity or water will soon be cut off soon if you don’t pay your bill by such and such date?  Have you ever missed a credit card payment or rent payment?

Have you ever gone to a doctor in need of medical attention but felt you were treated differently because you couldn’t pay the bill or had no insurance to help pay for those x-rays?

Have you ever watch your child suffer from an illness because you couldn’t afford to take them to a doctor?  Have you ever had them come to you and say daddy I’m hungry?

When you were growing up with your mom Senator, did any of these things happened that I mention?  Well sir, if they did, you need to ‘re-live’ them in front of Americans.  They need to see that ‘you too’ have suffered in the past.

I’ve seen you talk about your and Michelle’s college bills and how you spent years paying them off.  That’s a start sir; but you need to tell us more.  We need to see the bread and butter issues sir. 

We know about your being raised by a single mom and grandparents; but what happened during that time sir?  Did you experience any hardships during that time?  You mentioned the death of your mom during the convention.  Can you tell us a bit more of what happened?

While I'm sure you have gone through some of this hardships having been raised in a single parent environment - others aren't aware of it sir.

John McCain and his campaign have successfully shown a ‘human’ side of McCain by telling about his POW days in detail (how he couldn’t feed himself and his fellow inmates did it for him, the daily beatings, etc...). 

Senator Obama that’s the part of your story we’ve not seen.  You need to help Americans see ‘you’ as a human being and not just as a skilled politician. 

We need to relate to you sir – what hardships have you endured?

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