Time for Obama to Prove he is serious

Up until now Barak Obama was auditioning in front of his family so to speak. The primaries were long and sometimes bitter but he was politicking to people that never disagreed with him. In all of the campaign there was little that any of the Democratic candidates disagreed with each other on.

Now that Obama is the nominee (or presumptive until the Convention). Between now and November he has to prove to people in the center that he can be there nominee. People on the right he cannot convince. Me being a person of the right could never under any circumstance vote for him. He is a Socialist plain and simple.

He has to convince religious people in West Virginia that his comments about guns and God were not really how they seem. He has to convince people in Texas that even though they may work for an oil company he isn't calling them evil. He has to convince the lower income people who's taxes he will be raising that by doing so he is really on their side. He has to convince the same people that by raising taxes he will be ensuring that the wealthy will be paying a lower percentage of the total taxes, and the poor will be paying a greater share of the total taxes.

Maybe he can convince those of us over forty five why, for a man that talks about constantly about change has campaign themes that sound distinctly like those of George McGovern. Lets recount them, surrender in an unpopular war, raising taxes to pay for goodies, and the overriding belief that if only we would talk nice to them the people across the world that want us dead won't want us dead.

That shouldn't be too tough. He is a talented orator after all. Being a believer in government he surely believes that all of us in the heartland are stupid.

I guess we will find out if we really are. If we believe that he can offer all of the services that he has promised and it will only be paid for by the evil rich and the corporations (which are made up of working people by the way) than maybe we are stupid.