Opaque Lucidity

Obama-rific

Barack Obama's transition to a deity is almost complete. We have the mainstream media to thank for this. While John McCain has traveled to Iraq with virtually no press coverage, Obama travels with dozens of reporters and news anchors. The Leftists in the newsrooms of America know they can not run McCain into the ground as they have tried to do with so many other Republicans over the years; instead, they will ignore him.

It is troubling to discover that many of the people I know who support Obama don't know anything about his stand on issues vital to this country and pivotal in this year's Presidential race. Take energy as an example: Obama's own campaign site is so vague on specifics as to be useless. After reading the page, I am left with two facts: the Germans know how to create jobs in the alternative energy industry and an Obama administration will spend hundreds of billions of dollars of your money in an effort to jump-start our move away from oil. This sounds great until you realize he has no plan (other than a small rebate check) for an intermediate step. In other words, the price of gas will continue to damage the economy until we all get solar panels on our roofs and a wind farm down the street.

John McCain is more of a realist. His idea is not to have government spearhead our development of alternative energy sources, but create incentives for private industry to do so. In the meantime, we drill in places that have been off-limits for years. Yes, it will take five years to see results from this, but if we do nothing, new sources of oil will remain five years away. We can not afford to pretend this dream world of electric cars and green homes is going to happen overnight if only the gub'ment spends enough money.

Scratch the surface of Barack Obama and you see him for what he really is: a socialist with a plan to make all of us even more dependent on the federal government. He believes in the Big Lie, the notion that only government can solve big problems. It is no more true now than when Richard Nixon set price controls on oil in the 70's. What else is new? Nothing. And that's the problem.