Obama on his experience

I really couldn’t have said it better than this.  Funny how he forgets all together that she is currently the governor of Alaska and that he has someone else managing his campaign for him.

I’m thinking that I should run for president.  True, I don’t really have any experience, but I will by the time I’m elected, because you know, appointing someone to run your campaign does this.

If guns kill people, then spoons made Michael Moore fat.

I remember seeing this issue a while back, and I unfortunately forgot about it.  However, it is definitely one of the most important issues facing our world today.

The Harrold ISD, has proposed allowing it’s teachers with a CCL and crisis management training to carry a concealed hand gun on campus.  They cited that since they are over thirty miles away from the closest sheriff’s department, it puts them at risk of not being able to get a response quickly enough in the case of an Columbine like emergency.

Naturally, the liberals who believe that the government is the cure for everything oppose this, claiming that it’s not conducive to learning, and that it would only distract students.  They feel as though some signs and a lone police officer are going to be able to keep students, or anyone else for that matter, from carrying a gun onto campus and harming students and teachers.

Personally, it scares me every time I walk into a “gun-free zone.”  It only ensures me that the only people who have access to weapons are those who have obviously malicious intentions.  This means no way of stopping someone who wants to attack and kill students and teachers.

You have to ask yourself, what if teachers at Columbine and Virginia Tech had access to guns before the shootings?  Wouldn’t we have been able to avoid many of the deaths that occurred?  Wouldn’t someone with proper training been able to effectively stop the assailants after many fewer victims?  Couldn’t both of these events been prevented due to the students realizing that they had very slim chances of  being able to achieve their goals in any way?

It is undeniably irresponsible to leave these children at the mercy of disgruntled persons.   To simply hope that nothing bad is ever going to happen is not being prepared.  This should be an overly obvious question to answer, but still people are letting their fear of an inanimate object overcome their reason and are allowing for possibly devastating events to overcome this and many other school districts as well as college campuses.

h/t Laura Elizabeth Morales

I randomly decided to google “Obama Action Wire”

It’s all about energy this time.  I’m glad that this one is just misleading the public, rather than trying to silence the media, kudos for being less terrible.

Anyways, this of course starts off trying to link McCain with Bush, which is far more of a stretch than McCain saying that drilling in America will lead to lower cost of oil (which it will, the Obama campaign calls it a stretch because they use the term “dramatically” in their rebuttal).  They continue to “stretch the truth” when they imply that Obama is beyond partisan politics. (check the ADA rankings, I don’t think he’s ever voted against the liberals, note that when he doesn’t vote, it leads to a lower ranking, but that isn’t a vote against the party.)

On to the actual policy in their article. While Obama is against a federal gas tax holiday, he is also in favor of raising taxes on oil.  Translation: not only is he against lowering the price for you at the pump, he wants to make it more expensive.  He wishes to do this so he can give 500 dollars to each adult person.  This won’t really help you, especially if you have children.  Note, that to pay for this nonsensical program, he has to increase the price of gas, when the already high price of gas is the reason for the program.  Also, it provides no extra benefit for parents, who will obviously have to drive more than individuals without children.  It’s really just another way the democrats are trying to buy your soul.

He of course attacks those who made a profit from oil trade as evil, because it just seems to make sense that they only make a profit by taking advantage of the rest of us.  Simply isn’t the case, while speculators may have raised the price of oil per barrel, it would be almost nothing compared to the raise in price due to increased demand from developing countries and the decreased production from OPEC.  In reality, the only way to fix this problem is to provide a new source of oil.

And, he quite successfully points out that the majority of the increase in oil prices came in the last few years, since the democrats have been in office.

He gives support for a cap and trade program, something I definitely remember hearing from McCain first.

And, the rest of his spiel goes into artificially creating markets that will not be able to stand without the prop of the government, leading to greater inefficiency and probably cause us to miss out on better, more viable options.

Obama needs to rethink his energy policy if he wants to be seen as a real change candidate.  He needs to move away from these typical government theft programs and programs that John McCain has already supported.  Until then, it’s obvious that he is still more of the same ugly Christmas socks, just in a pretty new package.