I really do wonder what difference any of this makes

[blues90]

Who wins , who loses . Is there anything left of america that belongs to the people . How do we get back the jobs and the economy or get back on the good side of other countries .

I had hope once and watched as our president was gunned down in daylight and to me and to this day this felt like the end of america .

We still had real news yet today we have even more news and faster ways to get it however the truth is more evasive than ever before .

How can we trust politicians since their strategy has advanced where there are no real debates . There are millions of dollars spent on campaigns yet we have less info .

Really , who is there out there that can tackle these enormous issues that are now global to the extreme and that are issue so many in number spread out across the globe .


We were told in 2006 the elections were the most important of all time and look what we got for this . Bush continues on even in his last year and all focus has been taken off the Iraq occupation . All focus has been on elections and after all is said and done it will be three years of constant eletoral focus .

I do not have the sort of hope many here seem to hold , there is no one person who can make the difference , we cannot be certain votes will be counted , we cannot be certain tomarrow one will have a job and if not will one be able to find another .

Perhaps at my age I am just burned out on hope and inspiration after all I have seen through the years , I thought too that things would never get like this again . I remember never again . I remember the war is over if you want it .

I was told in 1961 when GM came to my jr high school and showed us a working model of a solar powered car as the wave of the near future .


Then I watched as did so many others while the world trade towers fell to dust , while the news beat the drums and the small american flags were hung in support of attacking the ME and I knew we were in big trouble once again .

We will never know what happened Nov 22nd 1963 or on Sept 11 2001 or all the horrors that happened in between .

[Fresh_Start]

1. we can all sit together in harmony watching the American dream

expire

[MichiganVote]

2. We've been disenfranchized for so long, we barely recognize it anymore.

Seriously tho', even if in the bowels of the CIA there were definitive proof/memo's/tapes of the "truth" of 11/22 or 9/11....

People would still fight about "it". We are eating each other from the inside out whether we're electing candidates or not.

[blues90]

3. The way I see this after today

Is that there is a definet split between the Dems and the generation gap since Kennedy backed Obama . I really don't care about backers .

This entire election process is so screwed up and all over the place to be honest I don't who I would vote for or even why , It's a media fix and a damn sick joke .

Time will tell soon how very big of a mistake this was because the way things stand now nothing will change .

[BlackVelvet04]

4. Truthfully....

it probably makes no difference. We never seem to learn from the past and just keep repeating the same mistakes.

We're having to fight many of the same old battles all over again.

[SammyWinstonJack]

5. Agree.

[BlackVelvet04]

6. I'll be glad when this election is over....

I'm emotionally weary. How about you?