I fight for Americans. I fight for you. I fight for Bill and Sue Nebe from Farmington Hills, Michigan, who lost their real estate investments in the bad housing market.

They're a normal couple, living in a normal town where over 40% of the people are in the upper quintile of income ($100k+), that just lost their real estate investments (plural) in a bad housing market. That's a concern everyone can relate to! Aren't we all concerned that our multiple housing investments will depreciate?

I will fight for Jake and Toni Wimmer of Franklin County, Pennsylvania. Jake works on a loading dock, coaches Little League, and raises money for the mentally and physically disabled. Toni is a schoolteacher, working toward her master's degree.

We must fight for Jake and Toni, unless Toni's classes do not show improvement in mandatory standardized testing under the guidelines of the under-funded No Child Left Behind Act. Then we must fire her and help her find new work, perhaps as a Wal-Mart greeter.

I fight for the family of Matthew Stanley of Wolfeboro, New Hampshire.

Matthew died serving our country in Iraq. I wear his bracelet and think of him every day.

Like our current president, John McCain will never forget the people who have died in the Iraq War, so he wears Matthew Stanley's bracelet. Of course, he would wear the bracelet of everyone who has died in the Iraq War, but if the bracelets were an eighth of an inch thick, he would need arms 21 feet long.

But these ordinary people are the ones John McCain is fighting for all (or at least some of) the time!