August 5th 2008
Words Obama Should Avoid
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n describing his pandering energy flip-flop new energy policy, Barack Obama told a crowd in Michigan:
“Breaking our oil addiction is one of the greatest challenges our generation will ever face. It will take nothing less than a complete transformation of our economy.” (BBC, emphasis added)
Words like this should never leave the lips of a presidential candidate with strong socialistic roots. Saul Alinsky would have loved this quote, were the old Red rabble-rouser still alive today, but for most of us it’s fingernails on the blackboard … oops, sorry … board of color.
(Interesting, isn’t it, that Obama was an Alinsky-schooled community organizer in Alinsky’s hometown, and hometown gal Hillary’s college thesis was a paen to the same Alinsky? But I digress.)
In selecting the wording “complete economic transformation,” BO wasn’t being flip. Key elements of the new Obama plan are nothing if not straight out of the economic revolution playbook:
- He reiterated his call for a $1,000 stimulus/energy rebate for low and middle-income families, paid for by a windfall tax on oil companies. As I pointed out earlier, this scheme would likely bankrupt the oil companies, opening the door to nationalization. If he wants to push his Jimmy Carter Memorial Windfall Profits Tax, let him at least read some history first and explain himself.
- He called for the creation of five million new jobs over the next 10 years by investing $150 billion to help private efforts on clean energy. Where will the money come from? At what cost to other programs? Which other programs? And will it do any good at all? The silent hand of the free market is flailing about, seeking to fill the pockets of any fine capitalist who comes up with a good energy solution. Investors should invest, not government, and Obama could help this along if he would support elimination of the capital gains tax, which, of course, he doesn’t.
- And he set a goal of one million fuel-efficient hybrid cars to be put on the road by 2015. All of the above. In spades. And what if I want to drive a Corvette or a Veyron and have the money to do it? Or what if I want to buy a Prius but don’t want the government to use my tax dollars to “incentivize” me to do it because I’d rather just keep the tax dollars than process them back to me via the buck-suckers in DC.
Any Obamaniacs reading this will at this point (or perhaps much earlier) remind me (shrilly) that McCain also shifted his policy on drilling. Yes, but he had the good judgment to do it three weeks ago, before the polls got as strong on drilling as they are now. In other words, he saw the situation change and made a leadership decision to change policies. And he did it without a whole sermon speaking down to us so we’d understand and gain insight from his superior intellect.
Obama, on the other hand, couldn’t be convinced to get cross-wise with his Greenie financial supporters (i.e., “special interest groups”) and get right with the poor downtrodden he supposedly loves until he was sure the poll numbers weren’t flukey. Once the numbers were proved to be stuck on “DRILL!!” he wrote his sermon telling us - as if we didn’t know - that our approach to energy should be “comprehensive.” Really? Not just oil? Wow!
And, of course, he preached that his “comprehensive” plan (a word that’s gained sooo much stature since the immigration debates, by the way) would bring about a complete transformation of the American economy. Why? What’s wrong with it the way it is, temporary down-blip notwithstanding? What completely new type of economy should replace it?
He answered none of these questions. He just hung the word out there, like a big red star.
Honestly, I don’t think I’ve ever been more frightened by any words that have ever been uttered by a major presidential candidate. Only the most radical fringe of the American public wants a complete transformation of the world’s greatest and most enduring economy, so we must ask ourselves: Who is this Barack Obama, and why does he want to change us so radically?
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August 5th, 2008 at 2:57 pm
The weakness with Mr. Obama’s speech is not his statement of the problem, but the fact he wants to be the one to deal with it. When oil prices will go down, as they are bound to, he’s going to say something else.
August 5th, 2008 at 7:50 pm
Hey, Corvettes actually get pretty good mileage. I owned a 2004 at it got 17 town and 28 on the freeway. It’s light car, about 3100 pounds, has very low wind drag, and because the engine has so much torque, it has very high 6th gear which keeps the engine RPM very low when cruising at freeway speeds. It’s too bad, but can’t say anything about the 1001 HP, 250 MPH $1,600,000 Veryon
August 5th, 2008 at 8:29 pm
Parole, parole, parole - Glibama wants it in too many ways. Clearly the global heating is a problem (but not a man-made problem), and obviously we need to get out from this oil racket. Priority #1 is getting out of the oil racket - this will anyway lower the price everywhere on the planet. After that, for those who want, Kumbaya sessions, marmalade sandals etc.P.S. I like Corvette, yet what I’m fantasizing about is a GT 43 - at a later point in my career.
August 5th, 2008 at 8:36 pm
Whoa - didn’t mean to upset the Corvette set - heck I put it in the same sentence as a Veyron.
August 6th, 2008 at 12:21 am
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