LEONARD C. GOODMAN

Both parties favor the interests of corporations over their workers and the environment.

While the two candidates speechify, behind the scenes they continue to push policies that favor corporate profits over middle-class workers.

It was Barack Obama's promise to end the lawlessness of the Bush years by closing Guantanamo, and his failure to keep these promises.

The manufacturing and industrial jobs that once sustained a vibrant middle class are gone, lost to trade and tax policies.