The Republicans talk about values and abortion and church, while your wife loses her job.

John McCain slams the liberal media, the elite snobs; the Republicans say gay marriage is a sin…and you lose your house

They rant about sexism, talk about lipstick, meanwhile your neighbor brings home a paycheck that is less than that of her male counterparts doing the same job.

Listen—America—we will solve these cultural problems together. We’ll find an answer to abortion, in our churches and on Main Street and over the dinner table. We’ll find true equality for women, as we argue about it at the water cooler and on park benches. Like we always do—united, together—we’ll find a way to let that person who owns a gun, who will never, ever use it for evil, keep it, while taking another gun out of the hands of the criminal who threatens our very way of life.

We’ll solve these problems together. We don’t need politicians to come in and tell us how to live our lives. That is no kind of liberty, when politicians start to poke and prod at our bodies and our families, what we read and what we think. Our homes, our families—that is no place for Washington to intrude.

So don’t let John McCain and Sarah Palin distract you. Don’t let them make this election about something else. DON'T ELECT THE POLITICIAN YOU'D MOST LIKE TO HANG OUT WITH. This election is about your way of life. Your job. Your security. Keeping your home. Being able to send your kids to college. Being able to retire, and watch your grandchildren grow to be successful and happy and safe.

Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That is our fundamental right as Americans. John McCain doesn’t have a plan to ensure those rights. That’s why John McCain needs to lie, and distort, and distract. That is not leadership. That is not vision.

Barack Obama has a vision for this country. Barack Obama wants to put all the distractions aside and talk about YOUR life. Your rights as Americans. What you can and should expect from this country. A better country than it has been in the last eight years. And he has a plan to take all of us there.