Reply #24: It's elementary, my dear Waterman: Whether Obama can carry it off or not...

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...he's at least talking about it. We who are older deserve respect, but not necessarily the White House, and I think young people are really drawn to Obama, even if they don't have a clue about his platform. Their gut instinct tells them that Obama is stuck in the future, much more than the past, and they want someone they can relate to. How can they possibly support McCain when he is telling them, straight out, that he's planning for the deaths of many of them in an illegal occupation of Iraq????

McCain served, and suffered, honorably, it seems. But it's time for a changing of the guard!

Obama is young, has a young and beautiful wife, and young children. I'd certainly feel more comfortable if voters of all ages were more concerned with his platform than his soaring rhetoric, but America is exhausted from the last ten years of political agony (I include the impeachment of Bill Clinton here), and change, real or imagined, is holding sway.

I am depressed and aggrieved that we as a country seem to be willing to sweep the crimes of Bushco under the rug in the name of change. On that one point, I have grave concerns about both Obama and Hillary.

One thing at a time. Whichever candidate takes the White House will have much more damage to worry about than restoring all the W keys on all the computer keyboards.