Don't mind Seaton. He's just here to cast aspersions.

First the secondly:

Secondly I would like to know how you square Clinton's vote for the war? If you are not a Clinton supporter who do you support?

And firstly the secondly of the secondly.
I am not a "Hillary supporter", although I like the idea of a woman president (of any color).

I think that by far the best candidate this year would have been Al Gore: experience, vision, right on the war, great international prestige based on action, not "charisma"... It still might happen in a hung convention, but the Democrats are the Democrats...
And secondly the secondly of the firstly:

Certainly you have to have a little confidence America is at least starting to head in the right direction.

Really, do I have to? Four years ago, in perfect good faith, the American people reelected a war criminal who had proved to be totally incompetent... even as a war criminal. Now they are ready to elect president a community organizer under the patronage of Dick Daley, with no experience relevant to managing the affairs of a superpower... pure Frank Capra, "Mr Smith Goes to Washington". Really do I have to have confidence?
And thirdly the secondly or perhaps the thirdly of the secondly.

Who do you support?

Actually I support myself, eating my bread in the sweat of my brow. As to the presidency.

I see different scenarios:

• Obama wins and reality and the interest groups and his desire for a second term cause him to fudge. I don't think he has anything near Jimmy Carter's integrity or anything like Bill Clinton's sex drive, so he will be much duller than people think. The kids will be heartbroken.
  
• Mc Cain wins and this means the end of Goldwater/Reagan Republicanism. (see Peggy Noonan's lament). This would truly transform American politics. Interesting: to survive the Republicans commit ideological harikiri
  

I really like what Obama says and I am horrified by the things McCain says, however, as you have noted, I am rather cynical (the Spanish say that the devil knows more because of his age than because he is the devil) I pay little attention to anything a politician says when running for office and much attention to what he or she has actually done when in office. In this case as Obama has done practically nothing, I am left with what he says. In the case of McCain, he has a very long record, some of it is quite attractive and some less. It does give you the feeling that there won't be many nasty surprises and there might be some pleasant ones.
But since I would vote absentee from Illinois and the Land of Lincoln, will surely adorn itself with leis and hula skirts to vote massively for its favorite son, voting even for Ralph Nader would be a waste of time, so I probably will sit this one out.

your tone and the attitude you project are repellent

Alas, even my own (white) grandmother used to say that. Your tone reminds me of her. She said I was an insolent child... finally I have (sniff) learned to accept myself.