... when i lost my job a year ago due to a plant closing., and the loss of nearly 300 other jobs of my former co-workers., barrack obama was out of the country at a time we needed his support as senator.

crone, senior citizens? Politicians don't care about anyone who isn't here illegally or who was born before 1970. They seem to think those are the people who vote. Kerry thought that, too. Boy are they going to be in for a big surprise come election day.

The Democrats notoriously raise taxes and Obama will do likewise, regardless of what he says. Worse, he will re-allocate the funds that are barely paying for our social programs to take care of the entire African continent because they are poor, you know.

McCain? Pfffft! He already said he knows very little about the economy and he has proven that by declaring that the war needs to go on and on and on until Iraq becomes a democracy. There is no such thing as a democracy and that includes this country, run by the wealthiest hell-bent on erasing the middle class.

Both parties are essentially the same and they can point fingers all they want to but they all have a chance to vote, they all have a chance to make compromises, and they all have a chance to be heard. Very few of them represent the people who elected them in any way, shape, form or manner. Obama and McCain are too busy campaigning to do the jobs they were elected to do and even before they started campaigning, they weren't up to snuff anyway. So what earthly difference will it make to vote for either one of them? I'm looking toward the 3rd party candidates to turn things around, not the present aristocracy or their puppet candidates.

Where do the senior citizens enter into the equation? What does anyone have planned for us? It is all well and good to cut taxes for the middle class, but most of us retires are existing somewhere below the national poverty level on our pensions, rendered miniscule by escalating costs of living.