I am a Canadian woman, and I feel that I have a huge stake in the US election.  The US is teetering dangerously from 8 years of non-leadership, but it's still a world power and our closest neighbor.  I am deeply concerned about the fact that someone like Sarah Palin was even taken seriously as VP (& potential president **horror**).  She had trouble getting sports journalism degree - Obama has a political science degree from Columbia & a law degree from Harvard - where he sailed to the top of his class.  I was thinking, when this new "bailout plan" was announced - if Palin attempted to read that, it would be gibberish to her (much like her interview with Couric was gibberish to us).  Obama could actually do an intelligent analysis of it himself.  What more do Americans need to know who to vote for?  Why is this woman being taken seriously?  Why are the polls even CLOSE?  In Canada, we would be thrilled to bits if a leader like Obama came along.  We're still waiting.  Yet, there are Americans who do not recognize that Obama is a GIFT to your country???? Somebody, please fill in a bewildered Canadian.

Biden should focus on the fundamental differences between the parties of McCain and Obama. He should focus on the economy and illustrate how the current financial disaster is a direct consequence of "trickle down" economics. Corporate tax breaks and the "hands off" de-regulation policies, which the republican party and McCain specifically tout as the backbone of their economic strategy, have not resulted in job creation and econimic growth but have, in fact, trickled down (or should I say gushed down ?) a big fat bailout bill to the american tax payer.

I'm sorry ladies...but when we have to go eye-ball to eye-ball with Vladimir Putin...and we will have to...I want an expierenced, hard nosed statesman like Biden. My family's future is too important to turn over to a "hockey mom."