Sen. McCain, you posed a question about who those mysterious, sinister people are who have donated to Barack Obama's campaign. Well, I am one of them. From my meager Social Security pension, I contributed a whole ten dollars! I wish it could have been $10,000, but that's about what I get for a whole year. Being in a prison in Nam didn't really acquaint you with what it's like to be poor in America, so how could you possibly be empathetic with us peons? Unlike you, most of us haven't had an opportunity to feather our nest -- or should I say "nests"? -- by marrying into money. That's as good as inheriting it! Even better, considerig the fringe benefits. As a former resident of Tucson, I had the privilege many years ago of seeing Barry Goldwater and that grand old man of REAL Socialism, Norman Thomas, debate at the U of A (my alma mater). Goldwater went on and on about how degrading welfare is because it isn't earned by hard work. In rebuttal, Thomas said adroitly, "I've never noticed that inherited money is degrading." Goldwater had the sensitivity to turn beet red. You, sir, have no such sensitivity. You wear your meanness of spirit and arrogant snobbery on your lapel next to your flag pin. All the cozying up to the "Joe-the-plumbers" in the world isn't going to change that, and he, by the way, is so patent a fake that, like Palin, he should be a source of inexpressible embarrassment to you. I hope this election signals the end of your (and Palin's) political careers.