It is time in America to make decisions. Do we stand with the conservative movement that has brought our country to its present state or do we need change?

One only has to realize that the best of our past is a free press that tells us in certain terms and photographic images that the policies of the past are not working. It is time for new thinking. We are ready for new ideas and a new direction for our country.

I look at the candidates for the coming elections, and I look to see who is open to new ideas or who is committed to the failed ideas of the past. I believe that John Kerry and John Edwards are a breath of fresh air from the stale and worn-out ideas that we have seen repeated in the last four years.

I express my deepest gratitude and appreciation to the American free press that I might vote in the coming elections as an informed citizen of the United States of America.

Richard C. Maxwell, Auburn

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