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Well, what do we do now? McCain, hmmm, he wants to censure Iran. No word on limiting the "war" in Iraq, which looks like it's going to be just another Vietnam, no winners no losers. Talks about change, but seems to be willing to follow the party line. Obama, admittedly a neophyte, but with some new ideas. And what's really wrong with conversing with the leaders of countries we may have an issue with in the future. Laying the groundwork for a future accord, seems to me a positive view. I would much rather make talk than bombs. The old GOP line is to ignore any problems at home, or add a tax to fix it, while you're off creating an unneeded conflict. Vote for McCain, let's see what happens when the next hurricane hits, and all our forces are concentrated overseas again. I believe, that the simple fact that Mr. Obama is so in-experienced means that maybe he WILL try harder to actually solve some of the issues that face the every-day American, like lost jobs due to NAFTA, high energy prices, much needed reform for Social Security (it needs a serious COLA), and unrestricted illegal immigrants. This country is in an economic landslide, maybe he can be the barricade. Our govt has become toothless and wit-less at (ignoring) handling these issues. Washington is still in the 19th century, lets move forward with some positive reforms, and get us back on our feet and standing proud as we should be. It's time we took back our position as a world power to reckon with, not militarily necessarily, but at least economically.

Why is a middle class white woman so angry? Well, let's see. NAFTA was passed, companies that moved their jobs overseas received tax breaks. The hard working American worker was left begging for jobs. Bush declared war against those whose politics and religious beliefs were different. The economy is in a non-stop landslide, totally ignored by the Bush administration. Families, mostly hardworking, are losing their homes. Jobs are unavailable. A "Stimulus Rebate" is suppose to fix this, IF we get one, we'll be getting the groceries, meds, and paying up heating bills, not buying extravagant items! I know from experience just how little my vote counts. Ever since the Gore popular win was overturned by the Electoral College, I've known better, let the young ones kid themselves as much as they want, their vote does not count.. Those of us without big incomes, that can't afford to back a candidate, just want to scream. We're frustrated because this is the only voice we have, and no-one listens. Big money has the only voice anyone listens to. The day is long gone, when a young man from a poor family can even dream of being in politics (ie Abraham Lincoln). And no, Obama is not a Lincoln. The anger just grows with the frustration, and you get tired of no-one listening. Now congress wants to cut back on Medicare. I hope they don't have parents that they care about. My generation put men on the moon, fought the Korean war, created much of the electronic toys everyone takes for granted. HELLO! ANYONE LISTENING?

Please, will someone please tell me what a super delegate is. I'm sure that I'm not the only one asking this question, but most will be afraid of looking dumb. This is the first year I've heard them mentioned to any extent. The only thing that I'm sure of, is that this political system is not to be trusted, politicians and lawyers are the bottom feeders, and lying is the way to go. Now we have " Super delegates". Where do they come from and why. Thank you in advance for any answer

 

I want to aim this at those that complain about the Social Security Albatross you'll be carrying during you working years. I carried that very same albatross for 45+ years. The only difference will be the change in the standard of living. You'll pay out more, as we paid out more for each successive generation since it's inception. I am so sick and tired of hearing young kids complain about supporting an aging population. WE RAISED YOU!  We paid for your education, medical bills, fed and clothed you. Are we supposed to just drop dead at the end of our working lives? I'm certainly beginning to think so. Congress wants to cut back on Medicare. Social Security, without a cost of living adjustment, not very secure. Of course, we all know that seniors don't need food, housing, clothing. What  do we need that for. Just sit in the house and knit? There's a  whole generation, full of experience, that no-one wants to hire, because they may be a little more fragile. may have a handicap. "Primitive" populations are so much wiser than so-called civilized polulations. They have the older generation teach the younger, which is the way it should be. Many companies are missing out on knowledge, experience, expertise because of out-dated assumptions. We're not all "set in our ways", or unteachable. Nor does a mild handicap keep us use-less. Oh, what the ^%*&, why should I care, I don't. I'd just like a job, and am tired of being passed over, by-passed, ignored, and ridiculed, for being too old. I actually worked on the space program, now I'm not good enough to wash the floor. Well, I'll wash mine, you'rs can stay dirty for all I care.

Well, not that any-one will listen, but here's my take on this whole stupid election. McCain lost any hope of my vote when he voted against equal pay for women. As far as the other over-fed swine in the running, when one of them comes up with a COLA for those of us on social security, that one has my vote! Groceries are going sky high, my mortgage isn't getting any cheaper, neither are my prescriptions. The price of fuel isn't going to stop rising any time soon. But my pension doesn't rise, neither does my so-called social security. The candidate that actually addresses these issues, will get a following, not the one with the right religion, or ethnic background. Sure I saved, but the jack-a-napes investment counselor conned us into investing into a company that went bankrupt, and left 800 employees without retirement savings. So, I don't want to hear word one on that. Getting a job is out of the question, since no-on will hire, regardless of the law, some-one over 60, and handicapped. So give me a candidate that can come up with some solutions to this economic land-slide, something better than that joke of an "Economic-stimulus", mess that Bush tossed at us, like telling us to go and eat cake. He cost us, in our tax dollars, approx. 34 million, for something that won't be any more than a drop in a tsunami. Yes, I'm angry, furious, and frustrated. I worked my butt off for 45 years for this. I will not vote for a posturing, over-fed, self-rightious fool, that just makes promises to get votes

So, just when is everyone going to stop the posturing? When is the media going to cut to the chase, and tell us as well as they could if they would stop worrying about who sleeps with who, about where the candidates actually stand on the main issues? I don't care what Obamas former minister said, or who slept with who. This is a big election coming up, and already, in two states, it's beginning to look like a script for the Keystone cops. Last election it was Florida that made us look like fools, now one more state is being left out of an important process. Let Michigans and floridas results be counted as are. Why do they need a do-over. There probably would be little difference, and the democrats are only showing just how foolish they can be if they dis-allow the votes of these two states. All this whole fiasco has shown is how seriously flawed the present system is. The rules are a hold-over from times when the population was much smaller,  the problems, while no less important, were in their time, simpler. We're dealing with problems now they could not conceive of, least-wise deal with. Simply because the population is larger, more diverse.  No, I  do not devalue WW2 or the depression. It's just a larger stage now, with more actors. We need education from the TOP down. Now we need to know more about the science and ecology of our times, and we need new folks at the top who can LEAD in these areas.

Could FOX 9 please run the 800 number for locking out telemarketers from our cells. My neighbor and I, along with many other older citizens carry cells for safety. She actually did fall, and since I could not hear her pounding on the wall, she laid there until most of the day had passed, and her son stopped by to check on her. Now we're getting ads on our cells, paid for by us. Enough already! I'm ready to chuck my cell right out the window. No great loss, I lived without it for sixty years plus, but it's nice for safety, obviously, and now they want to take that small security away. The younger folks don't realize what they haven't experienced, like privacy, and the ability to trust the folks we did business with, we do, and we prize our privacy too much to let it go that easily.

I think that what scares me most about this election, is the fact that the majority of the candidates have eschewed science for this idiotic "intelligent design". We need a president with a solid knowledge of both, and who is able to balance faith with reality. And as yet all I've seen is a continuation of the past. Hey folks, evolution is not a theory, it's a fact, with evidence to prove it. "Scientific theory" refers to a verified and tested fact. Faith is just pie in the sky, from folks who fear reality, just air in a balloon. We are falling more and more behind the rest of the world in education, and this is mainly why. Someone with the guts to stand up and tell the fundamentalists, and the "ID" people to take a hike, is what we desperately need. Religion belongs in the churches, not in our schools, or our government . And we are becoming an international joke.

I don't know what happened to the comcept of "seperation of church and state", but I'm getting sick of the religious posturing. Let's get to the ISSUES at hand. The religious fundamentalists, fortunately, are slowly going the way of the dinosaurs as people get more and better educated and leave the primitive superstitions behind. I know, I know, I'm going to get a bevy of answers to this, but that's the way I see it, like it or not. And I'm sick and tired of sitting in the background, staying silent, while being swamped by the over-zealous, and pushy folks,trying to convince me their way is the only way to believe. From Bush, to Mormons pounding on my door. I want to hear how the candidates really stand on the issues, the real issues. Not their ethnic group, religion, etc. just the ISSUES. Namely, the  economy, war in Iraq, health care, taxes, un-employment . Come on, this is one older adult that's about ready to drop out, and say, what' the point, it doesn't end, just one long line of rhetoric and hypocrisy. Just one little example, when the Clintons left the White house after Bush won, they left it it a horrible mess, torn up rugs, damaged computers and walls. Totally class-less, that's the real Hillary Clinton, who wants that back? Not me. I want to hear that my  social security check is going to be enough to buy groceries on, or pay my rent. Barack Obama lost me when he said the Mr. McCain is too old. Since that's what's holding me back from getting a job, I'm voting for McCain. Maybe having an older president will make a difference. But that's a vote that probably won't be cast because I'm so sick of the rhetoric and posturing. Let's just hear the truth for a change.

Something that has been bothering me for a long time. the rudeness of telemarketers. Not that I usually pay too much attention to them or what they "offer", but where on earth did they get the idea that calling someone they don't know by their first name as if they were old acquaintances, and then managing to totally mangle aforesaid name, is beyond me, almost as if they took the time to decide how badly they can mangle it.  All they do is engender resentment. Also, many, if not most of the people they contact during the day are retirees, folks who grew up when there actually was a set of manners that people followed. Now-days, manners don't seem to exist, and I want little to do with modern society with it's foul language, and ultra-violent imagery. For the same reason that I don't patronize so-called family restaurants, since one too many times parents have just ignored the total havoc their kids are creating, and make  it miserable for other diners who just want to relax for a little while, and quite often destroying property in the process. But I'm afraid I digress, I hadn't planned on griping quite this much. It's just that folks seem to have forgotten that manners are the grease that makes society function smoothly. One sometimes wants to really hammer out those rude bumps in the road.

I really really wish that Fox 9 would cease with this slogan. With the reality of the electoral college, and their historical tendency to overlook the popular vote. I've almost given up on the idea that my vote counts at all, except as a fairy tale. Get rid of that slogan. PLEASE!

So Mr. Bush thinks that tossing a couple hundred bucks at the taxpayer is going to solve the problem of un-employment, debt, high medical costs, and excessive taxation. What century is he living in? We've got government that can't control it's spending, has obviously never heard of a budget, yet loves to vote themselves pay raises, while people are begging just for the basics. Any-one for a coup? Unfortunately, that's unlikely. Again, all we can hope for is that the lesser of two evils wins in the coming election, since no-one any-one would actually want as president is crazy enough to run. Next we'll hear some-one say "let them eat cake".