One of the miraculous things about the Obama candidacy is that we can support him for months--whether by giving, volunteering, standing on our respective internet soapboxes and shouting our views to the heavens, or merely voting--and then find out something new about him or his platform that makes us fall in love all over again.
Believe it or not, Obama has a serious plan to help restore Americans' confidence that old age will not leave them destitute. If the war incites my generation's outrage like nothing else, then surely the thought of what awaits us at the end of our working lives triggers our despair more than Armageddon itself (for us, after eight years of George W. Bush, Armageddon is the mere stuff of Will Smith movies).
Retirement is the issue so ugly for us that even the contemplation of it dispirits us before we even consider actual solutions. Thinking about it provokes a dread that overwhelms reason. Hope is pretty alien to this territory.