Obama

There are numerous reasons for wanting to see each one of the sitting senators, who are front-runners in the presidential race, lose their seats in the senate. I wish there was a lever we could pull to spit out a different set of candidates. I know that the primaries are a joke, and that by the time the first couple of states have their say, very often the rest of us are screwed. Or you have someone like Charlie Crist, who it turns out is probably even more liberal than McCain, skewing everything the eve before the election. Why aren't we able to vote all at once, like any other primary? But I digress from what I wanted to say.

I just watched Obama talk out of both sides of his mouth, nearly at the same time. I don't know why the commentators didn't catch on to this, but essentially: he criticized McCain's wanting a gas tax holiday over 3 months. Obama says we'd only save 40 cents a day. But that there's no guarantee that the oil companies would lower their rates. Instead he says that there should be a tax cut (?? he is actually suggesting a cut? What's the catch, you know there is going to be one) of $1000 to offset gas prices, food prices, etc. He says that cutting the tax will take away so much needed money that goes towards the infrastructure (roads, bridges, whatnot).

Then in the same breath, he says that we need to go to alternative fuel sources (including bio-diesel, which is apparently just as bad for the environment, but is leading to skyrocketing food costs), and there needs to be tighter laws on ensuring cars have a higher fuel economy.

So.. giving us a tax break is going to be highly detrimental to the roads and highways (even though the government makes the highest profit of anyone on oil). But he's not talking about the fact that if everyone drove cars with really high fuel economy, or they drove cars that ran off of - I don't know, water? - that guess what? All of a sudden, everyone is paying less taxes towards the infrastructure, but is using vehicles at least as much or more than they were before!

It is so nice to be able to say whatever you want without having to actually say anything of meaning!!!

Oh, and he also claims that he is the only one who cares about the troops because he signed a bill to give GIs more college benefits than they are currently receiving (which is apparently only one year right now when they're out?). He says that Bush and McCain are against the bill. I'm not sure McCain knows heads from tails about what bills are good or bad, but since he is suddenly against anything that Bush supports, something tells me that the Dems have tried to force something else entirely into that bill, knowing that they can make the evil Republicans look bad for opposing it, even though the bill will have something else in it to punish the general public.