Honestly, here are my competing concerns.... read them and tell me who to vote for and why -?

Your fears are unfounded. In truth, Obama is is more right than Richard Nixon was. Under the ultra right wing policies of Bush that McCain would continue, this country is finished as a world power. Whether Obama can pull us out of this mess, I don't know. What I'm sure of is there is no chance at all with McCain/Palin. With so many good people to pick from, many of them women, qualified women, why in God's name did he pick her. If for no other reasons than his age, and the fact he was a POW and in communist hands for five and a half years should eliminate him from any consideration for the office of president. When you add that to Palin and the at best one in three chances of him dying in office, it's pretty damn bleak. This man's life experiences have flawed him. His advancing age has magnified these flaws. Any one who knows him, knows that this is not the John McCain of even a few years ago. Study his history from his time at the Navel academy. In his case I think we must.