Then you miss the point completely.

This isn't a Republican or Democrat issue.

I'm as computer-illiterate as most people I know my age. I can type, and that makes handling email and word processing (although I sure get sick of each year having to figure out "upgraded" programs) reasonable. I don't play games with computers, can't handle ExCel or any of the spreadsheet programs, and the project manager software is too cumbersome to be worth anything to me. However, many of my colleagues ten-thirty years younger whiz through this stuff. Yet, these computer-literate types are the ones who are lost when the batteries die and can't count to 21 without being arrested for indecent exposure.

Does that make me a fossil ready for the tar pit? As long as the brain still works, they always end up coming to me (and others like me) for the answers to problems that with all of their computer-literacy they still can't answer.

So, if the goal of the Obama/Biden campaign is to pander to the youth by saying those of us who are of "the Villages" age are incompetent, then Obama/Biden don't need my vote or my money. This former Democrat now again an Independent has learned a lot of the character of the Democratic ticket by its latest message.

As far as "not saying veteran," that's weasel-wording. The message was clear that the man, Sen. McCain, should have been put to pasture, and we all know the man, his history and his situation and how he got there.

Now, I'm only one vote, but it is mine and I try to spend it on people of character, dignity and principle. The O/B campaign sure isn't showing any of those characteristics. They just show total intolerance and bigotry.

That's my opinion. I really don't care if Obama followers find this as heresy. Please tell your candidate he has really shown his true colors, and may he and Hanoi Jane be very happy with each other.

And one last thing - there used to be a time when being a Democrat meant being able to think for yourself, caring about your fellow man, and trying to emulate a principled life in spite of others. This campaign makes it look like the party philosophy is now "It's what the DNC says that counts, and one shall not question the DNC's position in the slightest."