Fiends In Stocks

[stratocasterca]

obama will probably nearly double capital gains tax...
http://www.usnews.com/blogs/capital-commerce/2007/9/19/obama-pushes-for-higher-investment-taxes.html

but he wants to exempt the first $50,000 of pensions from income tax for us soon-to-be-retired old buzzards--
which would be like getting a bush "borrow and give a gift" thing every year, and for a lot more money.

and since i don't make $50,000 in capital gains in a typical year (trading pennies), voting for obama's pension exemption is voting my wallet. Plus getting the fuck out of iraq will move spending to domestic spending, which means consulting contracts for retired land managers, etc.

His pension exemption is not present in hillary's or in ol' waterboard McCain's, so i am leaning a little to obama. but he talks in so many generalities and has never been tested under pressure, so is still wayyyyyyy suspect. (in the arena of being tested, hillary's survival of blowjobgate was real pressure, she could have done any of several even stupider things during that time)

McCain is a good guy, is a true hero, but has about zero chance of being elected in the fall. But any politician whose son just got back from iraq, and yet he refused to exploit or even talk about that fact, is in a different league in modern politics.