I want to speak to anyone who is still on the fence about Obama. You don't have to like him. That's fine. But if you believe in the principles of the Democratic party, if you believe in the Constitution, if you believe in peace and justice, if you believe in the value of life, you must work for his election.

If McCain is elected, there will be more war. He wants to stay in Iraq. He wants to go after Iran. He wants to play war games with Russia. He's all about continuing the macho swagger of the Bush administration and not about the smart diplomacy.

So if McCain is elected, we will have more soldiers in harm's way for unnecessary wars. We will drop more bombs on more villages in more remote places in the world. We will destroy families. We will kill and maim children. That's what war does.

If McCain is elected, he will continue the Bush administrations policies on veterans, so those soldiers he will send off into hell will come back damaged, physically and mentally, and they will not receive the care they need. Many of them will commit suicide, as thousands upon thousands of other veterans have done in the last few years.

If McCain is elected, we will not get meaningful healthcare reform. We will get something that will cater to the insurance companies so people with chronic illnesses or histories of serious diseases will still be denied coverage or priced out of the market. We will have more people uninsured or underinsured, and some of these people will not get needed medical care, and some of them will go bankrupt trying to pay medical bills, and some of them will die from treatable and preventable diseases.

If McCain is elected, he will continue the Bush administration war on reproductive rights. He will appoint Supreme Court justices who will eventually overturn Roe vs. Wade. He will continue policies that make it more difficult to get contraception or even give our teenagers accurate information about the sexuality. The end result will be more unplanned pregnancies and ultimately more illegal abortions. Women - possibly your daughters, sisters, friends or lovers - will die from botched abortions.

These are the stakes. People will die because of a McCain presidency. If you know people are going to die, and you have the ability to prevent it, then you have a moral obligation to act to prevent it. So act. Prevent John McCain from becoming president.