As I have said many times, change for change sake isn’t a good thing…the people of America want moves in a positive direction and over time Obama doesn’t deliver.

Yet despite the sycophantic media frenzy, average Americans aren’t yet convinced Obama’s “change” is what they need. When it comes to identifying with the candidates’ values, far more likely voters in the NBC/Wall Street Journal poll, 58 percent, say they could identify with John McCain’s background and values than with Obama’s, 47 percent. And when it comes to their assessment of his knowledge and experience or his ability to be commander in chief, Obama’s deficits in voters’ minds are so great it’s hard to imagine he can ever reassure them. Only 19 percent said he was the more knowledgeable and experienced candidate, and only one in four said he would make a better commander in chief.

Americans have seen far more of Obama than McCain in the last year, but they still aren’t sure they know or fully trust him. The nonpartisan Project for Excellence in Journalism found that Obama has led campaign coverage in 78 percent of stories since he clinched the nomination. The McCain campaign has even taken to mocking the obsequious attention the media have bestowed in an amusing web video featuring Frankie Valli’s “Can’t Take My Eyes Off You” and clips of MSNBC’s Chris Matthews telling viewers he fills “this thrill going up my leg” when Obama speaks.

Everybody loves a novelty and that is exactly what Obama is.  Let’s face facts; Obama has 143 days of real experience (from the day he took office to the time he turned his attention to campaigning).  It would be hard for a McDonald’s employee to make manager in that amount of time and we want to elect Obama to the most important job in the world?  He has no track record of effectiveness and no ideas that hold a resemblance to reality. 

Every domestic policy he wants to put in place is supposed to be funded by taxes on the rich which is asinine.  The reality of it is that while rich people may hold a lot of assets those aren’t taxed, in fact having a tax increase on what their real annual taxable income is wouldn’t fund the least of Obama’s grand government spending plans.  His plans have no mention of verifiable progress but instead call for throwing money at a problem in a most irresponsible manner. 

The windfall profit tax on oil companies has already failed in the past why bring it back?  To fund research into new forms of energy technology?  Well if you were a for profit research company and someone told you that they were going to give you $150 billion dollars for that research at exactly what point would you miraculously discover the new technology?  My guess would be somewhere between the $149 billion and $150 billion mark.  His plan is really a single approach idea that has no tools for the measurement of progress in it.

Let’s face it people, McCain has over two decades of experience on Obama.  He has a proven track record of effectiveness, more experience in foreign policy, and realistic plans for the future of our country.  It’s your vote and your right to cast it any way you like…just put some thought behind it before you do.