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["Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>]

The speech wasn't new.  All he did was patch together everything he's been 
saying, word for word.

However, the total lack of logic when viewing what he says is, to me, 
astounding.

He's going to cut taxes for umpty ump number of people.  Ah, precisely how 
is he going to do that when he's said he is going to raise Social Security 
taxes?

On the one hand he talks about inflating tires instead of more drilling and 
on the other he votes for "the development of oil and natural gas resources 
in coastal areas."

However, I think the worst thing he's said he will do is "provide sufficient 
funding for NCLB" while tooting what a great program it is and how it will 
work wonderfully if only it was funded.  So, if he's elected, that will make 
4 in a row that are totally clueless about education and he'll be marching 
in lockstep with Read My Lips, Billy Boy and Dumbya when it comes to the 
brainwashing of the sheople.

Sheesh, that about says it all about his ability to deal with reality.

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Clansgian AT wmconnect.com>
> > > In his speech tonight, if I remember correctly, Obama said he is
> > committed to having us end our dependency on foreign oil in ten years.
>
> I've followed Obama's energy pronouncements closely and I am convinced he
> gets the overall situation.  I was hotly annoyed when the loyal opposition
> ridiculed his tire gauge thing.  His point was not that inflating tires 
> would solve
> the energy situation, but that it would solve it more than all the 
> offshore
> drilling combined.
>
> He is right.
>
> He gets it.  He is right. (On energy).  But every single policy he has
> proposed is based on the notion that energy will be more or less business 
> as usual
> for the foreseeable future.  This is why I do not expect great things from 
> him.
>
> The social programs, medical programs, greening programs and all the other
> social programs in his are based firmly on the paradigm that we will all 
> still
> be driving around in cars in the near future about as cheaply as we drive
> today.
>
> I see a disjoining of his view on energy and everything else in his 
> platform.
> Owing to the fact that we must contend with less energy in the future, and
> likely the immediate future, we need LESS socialism, not more.  Except for
> getting our heads out of our posteriors and building a feasible rail 
> system, the
> bloated, energy dependent federal government needs to largely go away.
> Obama's vision is in just the opposite direction ... and bids fair to make 
> us even
> more dependent on foreign oil.