Republicans’ Strategy For November: Letting Obama Be Himself

Watching the Obama campaign is analogous to watching a movie about a train wreck that you know is coming because you know that there's been a massive rock slide up ahead and the tracks just around the bend are impassible. As you watch the train speed along, unaware of the destruction that awaits it, you begin to visualize what will happen next.

Obama should be way ahead in the polls. He isn't. Obama's health plan should be receiving high praise. It isn't. Obama's solutions to the nation's energy needs should find support among the media and those who believe he will bring the kind of change that will make everything right again. But it's not.

As long as Mr. Obama maintains his nebulous rhetoric about "Change we can believe in" and "Yes, we can", the mindless throngs will cheer. Every time he comes close to addressing a real problem, however, the silence is deafening.

His entire campaign is based upon his having been against the Iraq war, but during the 143 days he spent in the U.S. Senate since 2004, when not campaigning to be your President, he voted for every bill that funded it. I contend that Obama, therefore, is NOT A MAN OF PRINCIPLE.

Senator Clinton had it right; not only would his universal healthcare plan not work without requiring that everybody sign up; it would, like hers, bankrupt the nation and destroy our national health system. As it is, Medicare is already piling up debt beyond what the government could ever hope to pay. Some future Congress will hand the bill to our grandchildren.

As for energy, Obama seems to live somewhere that doesn't depend on oil in a thousand different ways. Decidedly, that place is not Earth. Here on Earth, we use oil as energy for transportation of every description other than bicycles. Plastic begins as oil and plastic is in everything we use. Should we be drilling in ANWR? Should we be drilling off the shores of our nation's coastlines? Yes, we should.

John McCain is calling for 45 nuclear plants to be built to meet our need for electricity. We would be lucky if we could build half that number in the next twenty years, but first, there’s the need to get rid of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. This liberal lunatic will not allow the multi-billion dollar nuclear waste storage facility the government has built at Yucca Mountain to open.

Meanwhile, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has told us her job is to save the Earth, but that didn't stop her from turning off the lights and going on vacation. After all, campaigning to stay in office and attending the Democratic National Convention is far more important than serving the people of this Nation, right?

This blogger finds it unceasingly entertaining to watch Obama stumble and stammer. It would be even more amusing to watch his wife, Michelle, but she is clearly being kept under wraps. Michelle, who grew up in middle class comfort, went to both Princeton and Harvard, is just terribly unhappy about America and thinks being black was some kind of obstacle for her.

In a weird and wonderful way, letting Obama be Obama will be how John McCain will defeat the best hope of the Democratic Party.