Posted by
Will Penny on Thursday, October 09, 2008 9:42:30 PM
One of my fellow Texicans said “Americans want change…”
My fellow Americans have we not had all the change we can stand already?
Obama is not just “change;” Obama is revolution!
I am not going to recite all of the “cha,cha, changes” we have undergone since the Democrats recaptured the Congress in 2006. I am sure the Dear Reader is all too familiar with them.
However, let us confine the discussion to just one topic that Obama will supposedly change. Let us begin with the most obvious one and the easiest to identify: Gasoline!
{Bear with me; I am only human and my capacity to cope with more than one crumbling pillar at a time is diminishing.}
Prior to the 2006 “Changeover” of the Congress, gas hovered around $2.60 per gallon on the East coast (source: eia.doe.gov). Now gas is around $3.50 ibid and “we” are told by Main Stream Media (MSM) that this is causing pain at the pump.
I think there are a lot of “crocodile tears.” I drive the highways often and I see far too many so-called economy cars flying down the highway well beyond the speed limit.
My all time favorite is a “Prius” driver that flew past me with the Obama Presidential seal and a bumper stick that read “I am saving gas!”
Many so-called enlightened drivers, touting their concern for the environment and bearing the Obama presidential seal seem to drive with total disregard for the price of gas!
Let me cite another one and still related to gas consumption – boaters! I live overlooking a river. I am astounded by the number of boats plying the waters. I am pretty sure these boaters fit the definition of middle class (although that definition keeps shifting depending which side of class warfare one sits on).
The point is that things are not as terrible as Obama and the MSM painted them. To paint them in that manner is convenient and serves their purpose- not America’s.
I have to wonder if $2.50 a gallon was so painful in 2006 and the highways were not abandoned; and now it hovers around $3.50 and the highways are still choked then just what is it America that you want changed?
Do you have to have government to tell to slow down to conserve? Have you lost the ability of self-control or are you just ignoring the obvious in order to drive like a bat out of hell while you still can? Once freedom is lost it is very difficult to regain!
I launched into the discussion on gasoline because I believe the whole “pain at the pump” deal is a red-herring. I want to illustrate that if this economy were truly in the tank, thanks to Republicans and President Bush, then why are all names associated with the catalyst for the meltdown, the collapse of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, ALL DEMOCRATS!
Just in case you missed them here they are: Jim Johnson, Jaime Gorelick, Franklin Raines, Barney Frank, Chris Dodd, and Barrack Obama.
Apparently the voters are so sheepish and so profoundly taken with Obama that they are willing to disregard the facts. Let me take you back 30 years and paraphrase a lyric from Lennon-McCartney in a little ditty called “Revolution:”
“You say you want a revolution, well, you know…We all would love to see the plan…”
In the case of this Revolution "We all want to change your head.”
My fellow Americans if you elect Obama-Biden it is not your fault. You are just uneducated!
Will Penny
BTW: I have been taking my own advice and posting my missives to Politico.com. WP