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Change is a defiantly coming. George Bush will no longer be OUR President anymore, so therefore, there will be change. The question is whether you want "change that you can BELIEVE in", or "change that you can TRUST". The choice is ours, but no matter who is elected, I hope that everyone will give them the respect that they deserve, because after all, they will have been elected by the majority of the voters of this country and that will have been our choice. If you end up not liking the choice that was made, then you will need to be more active and fight harder for the candidate of your choice four years from now, but until then, please be a good loser. McCain promises 'change is coming' AP, ST. PAUL, Minnesota Saturday, Sep 06, 2008, Page 1 John McCain accepted the Republican presidential nomination, vowing that "change is coming" to Washington and that he — not Democratic rival Barack Obama — would be the one to deliver it. Four decades after he was a prisoner of war in Vietnam and eight years after he lost a bitter primary fight to US President George W. Bush, McCain closed out the Republican National Convention basking in cheers from thousands of party leaders, many of whom have not always been enamored of his independent ways. For most of his speech, McCain's understated delivery contrasted with the forceful address a day earlier by his running mate, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin. She electrified the party faithful with a sarcasm-laced attack on Obama and by lashing out at Washington insiders who consider her too inexperienced to be vice president. But he won cheers as he closed out his remarks with a personal touch, recalling how his five years in captivity ended his cocky, self-absorbed ways and taught him that "no man can always stand alone." "I fell in love with my country when I was a prisoner in someone else's," he said. He called on Americans to join him in defending the country's ideals. "Stand up, stand up, stand up and fight," he said. "Nothing is inevitable here. We're Americans and we never give up. We never quit. We never hide from history. We make history." Obama zeros in on Palin's early earmark acceptance She questions Biden as 'agent of change' By James Oliphant and Jill Zuckman | Chicago Tribune correspondents 9:37 PM CDT, September 6, 2008 TERRE HAUTE, Ind. — Barack Obama turned up the heat on John McCain and Sarah Palin at a rally here Saturday, accusing McCain of hijacking his campaign theme and being surrounded by lobbyists, and charging that Palin, as governor of Alaska, accepted federal pork "when it's convenient." In Colorado Springs, McCain and Palin launched a Western swing aimed at pumping up evangelical voters and veterans. Taking the podium, Palin went after Obama's running mate, Joe Biden, for being too comfortable with the ways of Washington. At an event held in a show barn on Terre Haute's Wabash Valley Fairgrounds, Obama employed the strongest language he's used since McCain and Palin formally accepted the GOP nomination for president and vice-president. He also accused them of hijacking his message of change. Then Obama opened a line of attack he hasn't used recently on the trail. "He says, 'I'm going to tell those lobbyists that their days of running Washington are over.' Who's he going to tell?" Obama said. "Is he going to tell his campaign chairman, who's one of the biggest corporate lobbyists in Washington? Is he going to tell his campaign manager, who was one of the biggest corporate lobbyists in Washington? Is he going to tell all the folks running his campaign, who are the biggest corporate lobbyists in Washington?" In Palin's case, Saturday marked the first time Obama has gone after her record directly. He cast her as a reformer only after she had embraced earmarks earlier in her political career. "She's a skillful politician," Obama said of Palin, "but when you've been taking all these earmarks when it's convenient, and then suddenly, you're the champion anti-earmark person, that's not change. Come on. Words mean something. You can't just make stuff up."