A few readers have inquired as to why I haven't written in a while.

Truth be told, nothing much has changed.

McCain and Palin are still spewing the same old distorted, propaganda about Barack Obama's character in a desperate attempt to lure voters away from the man that they know will be able to lead us out of this nightmare.

As the final debate is just a few hours away, I would like you to munch on some food for thought...

What is it going to take?

What is it going to take for the undecided or McCain supports to realize that America is in the toilet, things are only going to get worse, and McCain is incapable of turning our wonderful nation around.

Will more jobs have to be lost? Will more homes have to be foreclosed upon? Will gas prices have to balloon out of control again? Will home heating costs have to increase even more? Will you have to continue to decide about what you can do without at the grocery store? Will you have to go without an operation because you no longer have health care?

Or, worse, will we have to suffer another terrorist attack at the hands Al-Qaeda members that are based in Afghanistan and Pakistan, all because McCain would rather continue to bleed our hard-earned money out the window in Iraq to the tune of $5,000 per second?

Do we as a nation, have to hit even harder times to realize that we cannot, under any circumstances, have more of the same?

For those of you who are not voting for Obama because of his race, will your close-mindedness be the reason that you are out on the street? I don't care if you share the same skin color; John McCain is not looking out for you, no matter what he says.

Unless of course, you're on the board of a large oil corporation.

America, we are living in abysmal times. We as a nation require significant measures to ensure the turnaround of the current administration. John McCain merely represents more of the same failed policies that got out country into this mess to begin with.

One of my favorite novels, A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens, begins with “It was the best of time, it was the worst of times". Yes, the novel is set within the context of the French Revolution, but do those words not still ring true? We do not need the guillotine or a revolution to let our voice be heard. We simply need to vote, wisely.

I will not mince words here. We are on the brink of the worst of times. Do we want to allow our nation to fall off that precipice and plunge into ruin or near ruin? Or, do we want to stand up and make the decision to strive for the best of times once again?

It all depends on your vote.