Obama aired his infomercial last night and it was astonishing in what it did not say.
The family story that struck me the hardest for what was unsaid was the one from Albuquerque. Since I have lived there and taught there for a number of years, I could see between the lines so to speak. What was not said was whether or not the woman was an actual teacher or some kind of aid. The ad says she takes teacher training classes to advance and better herself. so is she a teacher or not. If I'm not mistaken the store she walked out of was a Smiths not a Walmart, which is considerably cheaper. The house they showed as hers looked pretty big. Real estate is expensive in parts of the city but affordable housing does exist. Numbers would have made his case more credible. One problem I had with all of his examples of people having a "hard time" is that they were problems many people have who are not looking for the government to bail them out. You take the hand your dealt and you find a way to deal with it yourself. That is called personal responsibility. As Rush Limbaugh pointed out an abundance of programs exist to help with the whole host of problems this woman had. But my biggest problem was the lack of information on which to judge whether or not this woman was someone who really deserved our sympathy.

I think the guy is just a liar. He is saying whatever he thinks he has to to get elected. The biggest lie was when he said he would rebuild the military to meet 21st century challenges. Just the other day Barney Frank said the democrats would cut the military by 25%. That is the reality of what the Democrats will do. Obama has for the last 19 months never said anything supportive of the military and did in fact vote repeatedly to cut funding for the military in Iraq and Afghanistan.

One other thing that he is trying to blow by people not paying attention. He cannot do anything without the congress to go along with him. Maybe they will, or maybe they won't, but he is presumptuous to suppose that they will. Even a Democrat congress may not agree with him. And if they do, we are in so much trouble. He is spending money like we can print it. Oh yeah, they can. Fifteen billion a year for renewables to produce five million new green jobs. what is that and how can he know this? You see it is just talk. I could go on and on. Hearing it a second time (you can get it all on youtube.) makes its foolishness all the more evident.
For example, (I'll go on for a little bit more) he said that he would make Washington tighten its belt since families are having to tighten theirs. That won't happen. He says he will expand the domestic production of oil when he opposes drilling off the continental shelf where we know the oil is. He said he would tap our natural gas reserves. But how is he going to do this when his environmentalist supporters do not want it to happen. So many contradictions, so little time. Watch it if you have not. Go to youtude and look for Obama infomercial. Have to go. More tomorrow.