Why don't people realize that neither Obama or McCain have real solutions for our country?

Politics! This election on every front has been less about positive solutions and more about referendums against the opposition. Will they tax? Won't they tax? This is just food for the masses. Obama will definitely tax. McCain says he won't tax, but this goes against previous positions and votes he has taken. Neither has presented a plan for balancing the budget and both propose new spending. However, there is a deeper concern which is that Congress has shown zero fiscal responsibility in the last 8 years and without a concerted effort from this group, campaign promises by the potential President are useless anyway. The first steps to fixing anything that is wrong with our country is to rein in spending. People need to remember that we are not only electing a President this year. We are also electing 435 house members and 33 Senators. The selections made in this area are just as important as the big decision. What will happen in the next 4 years good and bad will be determined more by the make-up of Congress than who actually controls the Presidency.

I'm with Barr too - but with the election being close - can't risk

a vote for Barr and then McBush gets in. "Don't draft me Bro". All these peeps that are pissed Hillary didn't win should Not vote McCain or stay home - they should vote Dems as they are and Hillary Is. I like Paul the most but he will never leave the Repubs. Why? Because he is smart and knows this country is a two party system for now. I really like the Libertarian platform: Jefferson/constitutional/minimal government and maybe after 4 years of dems more of us will be organized to vote for a third party and really get them in next time. Paul's second convention in Minn will be a thing to watch but I'm sure the Repub press won't cover it much. I found it interesting when reading up on it - libertarian and liberal meant the same thing until the liberals starting taking money for higher taxes, bigger government and in process forgot personal freedoms. That is what separated the two. The Repubs say they want less gov. but are spending us into bankruptcy with war and have more government agencies than when Bush first took office. Don't get me started on Homeland Security. I will be registering Libertarian after the election. Times they are a changin.

None of them do, indeed.

Nothing positive can happen in this country until a strong independent third party blasts the Dems and the Reps, two huge mafia-like organizations sold to their own special interests. For an example, on the Reps' side, oil barons amassing colossal profits and stockholders gleefully selling the American manufacturing industry to China, and on the Dems' side, teachers' unions and illegal immigration activists supporting each other. As long as the citizens of this country don't find a way out of this noxious combination, this country will not be able to move forward and will lose much of its power and its quality of life in this century. One of the most intelligent debates I heard in the past was when Ralph Nader and Patrick Buchanan were courteously and intelligently debating our future. They were not that far apart on some very important issues in fact. There should me more of this to break apart the asinine hold of special interests on American life. It is crucially important to contemplate the long term situation, and not the short term gains. Check the faces of the day traders anxious to make a buck on speculation at the NYSE. These people, and their puppeteers, definitely don't care a hoot about this country and must me put out of business and told to get a real productive job.

But Bob Barr??? as some suggest, please, be real! I wonder how many people can stand this guy.

The only thing McCain talks about is war, probably because his dad, and his uncles never talked about anything else, and it is embedded in his brain. He said quote " I never was any good at financing, I probably should take a course or something" And he don't remember how many houses he owns. Must be nice. Yet how much did he pay in taxes last year? Ask yourself, is this what we need now to fix the financial mess we are in? He cannot even balance his own checking account and we should let him fix the mess George Bush put us in. Or are you going to try to blame Bill Clinton? When everyone knows he had a surplus of money in our budget for every year he was in office. When are we going to find Georges buddy Bin La Din? Lets see we didn't find him in Iraq, but we did get a good grip on the oil. We didn't find any weapons of mass destruction either." But boy did we rip off the money for this war, didn't we Dick" I remember when, he wanted to cut medical spending for our soldiers. I remember when our soldiers were being bombed right and left and they had not had a hot meal in six months, Dick Cheney had that contract to feed them I remember when George wanted those soldiers who came home wounded to give back the $30,000. he bribed them with to enlist, because they didn't stay a whole year. Obama will run this country fairly and I think he is the right man to get us back on our feet. McCain has passed his years, senility is setting in. Besides he is as just another Bush

Because the media tells them otherwise. Most people don't think these days. They let the media think for them.

McCain and Obama are both jokes. One has hardly any experience whatsoever, and the other one is 73 years old! You really think that either of these people are fit to be president?

Just because the media says something doesn't mean it is true. They, too, have their own agendas.

THINK!

For the same reason people haven't figured out that they've lost the right to choose their elected officials. They only pay attention once every four years while three of those four years their rights are robbed.

Nazi Pelosi shut down congress and went on a six week vacation to sell her book while there was business to finish. Her approval rating is in single digits. Can't get much lower than that.

Well, They are the 2 choices we have!!!

Unless something serious happened to any of the two. They are THE ONLY two running for president. Knock on wood that nothing happens to them. I don't wish anything bad on those two they have thier work cut out for them, but look where this current administration has gotten us deeper and deeper in debt. Now one of these canidates has to clean up the mess! But how? Obama says he is going to end the war responsibly? That's what we want to hear. BUT HOW why is he not working to end it NOW or when he was senator? I didn't know who this guy Obama was until 2 years ago.

I don't agree that there have been NO solutions presented. Whether they are entirely practical and/or whether the new president can get them instituted is another matter.

If Barr has something better...let's hear it. Knocking the other guy is the EASY part.

A thorough reading of their platforms (go to their websites) suggests that they both have "real" ideas. As for solutions that make sense, McCain's do.

If the people don't rise up and tell the powers that be what exactly it is that the people want, they won't get it. If you want to mold and shape the destiny of our country you must participate.