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Sir; your name rings a bell, and something suggests a certain deviance of behavior, so I will comment, but I may not shake your hand. Now; are you worried about coupon clipers. Good for you. I am trapped in a beat up body collecting a pension that will never increase by a dime while the value of the dollars I get goes down the tubes. I am worried about the rich too. I would like to know what this country is going to do with them once they discover how badly they have managed this society and our resources. But that is a long time off; Right? If you think Mr. Obama should lay out more of his plans so pundits can cut holes in them, I don't. I think he ought to be vague. Only two things can kill a candidate, and one is what he has done or said, and the other is hypothetical questions. Now, Mr Obama does not have much of a history; but he is black with a foreign sounding name, and that is just like having done something really terrible. So if he is smart, and I think he is, then he should just say that his best quality in this campaign is not his charm, but is who he is not. He is not some shriveled up fossil dug out of the past named McCain; and he in not Mr. Bush. The fact is, that anybody could do it better, but few have the dollars to spend on the people who can get them there. And something else I would like to say is this. All these candidates and officials should know that office is not just honor, but obligation; and so many of these people spend gobs of other peoples money getting to a place with power and honor, and forget the obligation to leave this place better off and more virtuous than before. Our government is not like the blind leading the blind, but has become those without virtue leading the population into ever greater feats of vice. Societies rot from the top down and take life from the bottom up. We have some fixing to do. If we ever expect to get home we are going to have to trim some gangrene off our souls. Thanks; Sweeney