To John, Barack, Joe and Sarah: A Challenge

I am serious. Just listen and see if you're up for it.

For the next four days, as you go through this final weekend before Election Day, I challenge you to do just this:

Stop. The. Smearing.

Get your opponents' names OUT of your mouth. It's not becoming, on any of you.

Don't tell me what he can't do - tell me what you CAN do. Don't tell me why she's unqualified - tell me why YOU are. Don't waste my time raging against your opponents' beliefs and policies - spend it showing me yours and helping me understand why they're yours in the first place.

Give me reasons to vote FOR you, not reasons to vote AGAINST your opponents.

Smearing is smearing, and campaigning is campaigning. Learn the difference, learn it fast, and stop wasting your time pulling other people down in hopes of making yourself look better. My god, my first-grade teacher taught us that, and we were able to grasp the concept at 6. Figure it out. You are out of time, and so are we.

So spend the next four days of your campaign being the upstanding, honest, hard-working citizens that you claim to be. We deserve that much from you, and I am SICK to death of the bellyaching, then name-calling and the bitching about your opponents. According to all of you, we are screwed if your opponents win...so spend your weekend convincing me that they are wrong by showing me what's RIGHT about YOU.