According to Obama, this is what the 2008 election will be about:
""In a contest between myself and John McCain," he said, "there is going to be a very clear choice on policy that I don't think is going to have to do with ideology and who theoretically is more liberal or who's more conservative.
I think it is going to have to do with who has a plan to provide relief to people when it comes to their gas prices, who has a real plan to make sure that everybody has health insurance, who's got a real plan to deal with college affordability." (ABC)
What's wrong with this version of "hope and change"?
To begin with, the president of the US can not do anything about gas prices.
The marketplace sets prices. We don't live in the 1950s anymore. This is a new globalized economy where Indian and Chinese consumers are buying lots of gasoline.
Here is the truth: Obama can't do a darn thing about gas prices.
Let me say it again so that the "yes we can" screamers don't get disillusioned when reality happens:
Obama cant do a darn thing about gas prices!
Second, how is Obama going to make health insurance available? What makes Obama's idea better than failed government insurance programs all over the world?
Here is the truth: We can't afford a government take-over of our health insurance.
Third, how is Obama going to make college more affordable?
Here is the truth: College tuition is not the problem.
We have bigger problems with our education system than college tuition.
We have a public education system that is shortchanging black kids all over. In Detroit, and many other cities, 30% of black kids do not graduate from high school.
Therefore, Obama should focus on teachers' union and their disastrous monopoly over inner city schools.
Like so many Dems, Obama sends his daughters to private schools but carries the flag for the teachers' unions. Why didn't Obama send his daughters to Chicago's public schools?
Shouldn't every family in the US have the same opportunity to send their kids to a school of their choice?
How about "Obama scholarships" for every inner city in the country?
Does Obama have the guts to to fight the teachers' unions? Or, will he wimp out like most Dems?
Did you notice that Obama did not mention Iraq or national security? Wonder why?
The US is a superpower and our presidents usually spend most of their time on foreign policy and national security.
Just ask Clinton and Carter, a couple of other Dems who ran as domestic presidents and found themselves absorbed in foreign policy problems.
Obama is apparently going to lower gas prices, give you health insurance and make your college tuition more affordable.
Of course, he is going to do all of this by "taxing the rich"!
Let's get the McCain-Obama campaign started! I can't wait for this one to get going!
It will be a contrast indeed.
On the left side, 1960s liberalism disguised as "hope and change". On the right, experience and realism.
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