I guess my problem is that if he's that sick/disabled, why does he have unsupervised access to the internet, a dangerous place for naive people? And yes, I guess this goes for children and teens, too.

I voted, but not for Obama or McCain. I finally realized, due to the incessant telemarketing (especially those damned robo-calls!), that neither cared any more about my privacy than the current bozo. It demonstrated to me that both were same stuff as the past, different packages.

The people who came to my door to tout their candidate were irritating, but understandable. I look upon telemarketing as conversion of something I pay for into their marketing resource, and not as a freedom-of-speach issue. I don't care how much junk mail they send me, as they are paying for that, and I can use it for scratch paper.

The fact that Obama's mailing list was UNCONFIRMED opt-in (allowing me, if I was so inclined, to sign up anyone from coworkers to 419-ers) showed either an ignorance or lack of care about privacy, or at least polite internet practices. When I got the first of my calls from McCain's telewhores, I sent a message to McCain's web site describing what I thought of his practices, and telling him that I wanted neither e-mail or phone calls from anymore (that worked about as well as you would have thought). I didn't get any spam from McCain until 11/4, when I received a spam from him, and I figured it was because he was desperate and the account was going to be useless on 11/5 anyway. I also sent a message to Obama's web site telling him, politely, my thoughts on campaign telemarketing and spam, and politely requested that he not follow in McCain's footsteps and please not to call or e-mail me. That message was read by noone past the ethernet jack, and I was added to the "spam-this-guy-to-death" list. I did get one more spam several hours after I requested to be removed from the list.

Despite my disagreements with him on a couple of issues, I would have voted for Obama IF he hadn't incessantly telemarketed me with both volunteers and robo-calls (I received 3 calls, 2 volunteers + 1 robo-call in the space of 15 minutes while I was working on my ham radio setup one Saturday). McCain wasn't an option because he did the same thing. I think the only reason I got fewer McCain calls was he didn't have as much money to spend. As I said before, the telemarketing showed me that "change" probably wasn't happening...

YMMV -- you all have the right to your opinions. I can hope that a change for the better occurs, but I'm not too confident right now.

-- Tom