Is this really what you want?

With Barak Obama ahead in the polls I have to ask the title question, is this what you really want. First a couple of truths, the lead is not so large that it cannot be over come. In the last two and a half weeks we could see a change. It will be much tougher though since there is no chance to see the candidates together. This is synonymous with a football team that needs help to get into the playoffs.

I must say I am flummoxed by this. Either the country is starting to embrace leftist principles or the country is so bored by the campaign that they are not paying attention to what the candidates are truly proposing.

Some voters want change. Both candidates are promising change. Personally I think this is like Madison Avenue selling soap. Every politician from the beginning of politics has promised change. It has no meaning. I want change too. I want smaller government, less looting by the government and more responsibility. To examine the backgrounds, Obama has promised change. He came to prominence in the most corrupt cesspool of politics known to man, Chicago. In his years practicing politics there he changed nothing. John McCain has been the definition of change. He has gone against his party constantly (many times he has driven me nuts by the way). He criticized the President of his own party when the Iraq war was not going well. McCain was right. When the Republicans had control of the Senate and were promising to change the rules of filibuster because of the horrible policy of the Democrats to filibuster all judges. At the time I thought McCain was wrong. In retrospect he was right. They got a large majority of the held up judges passed and still have the filibuster intact to use in the case of a despicable nominee in the future.

Some people are obsessed with universal health care. Obama proposes to impose a tax for employers that do not provide health care coverage. Depending on the tax rate (he never tells us) employers will drop their coverage and turn it over to the government. My personal opinion is that this is what Senator Obama and his accomplices in the Senate intend. Senator McCain on the other hand changes the system in favor of the free market. He proposes tax credits for those that do not have the privilege of employer paid health coverage. The Obama campaign accuses him of putting employer paid health care at risk. I say good! We need to remove it from the employer. Let my employer pay me what he pays me for my insurance and together with the tax credit, I will get a pretty good plan. How do I know that? I know that the market will fill the gap and provide what is needed. Through competition the appropriate level of coverage will be provided. Of course not every person will have a perfect plan, but we don't now. The difference is the telling difference in the two candidates. Senator Obama trusts the government and Senator McCain trusts the market. We have been taught by the looters in government and their mouthpieces in the media not to trust the market, but that is the only correct way to handle it. Any other method puts our trust in a monopoly accountable to no one.

Some make up their mind through tax policy. Senator Obama promises tax cuts to 95% of people making under $250,000. Since some 40% of people who will receive these 'cuts' don't pay taxes how can they be cuts when they don't pay taxes? Simple the government sends them checks. I have a word for that: Welfare. Again the difference clarifies the candidates. Senator Obama makes his arguments based on fairness. Senator McCain makes his arguments based on what will help the economy. Since I don't trust the economics knowledge of anyone in government including Senator McCain I will trust the guy who wants to help the economy and leave it to entrepreneurs.

The choice is ours very shortly. I am having trouble believing that the country is leaning left, so I have to assume they are bored.