The Obama Infomercial! Don't miss it! For a limited time ONLY!!

I really don’t have time for this, but I just can’t help myself.

In case you missed the Obama Infomercial last night, let me give you a recap. Sob story, sob story… Obama will fix EVERYTHING! The only line that was missing was, “I’m Barack Obama and I’ll fix that country for $39.95!”

There was a sad story about an older couple that retired, but had some health problems and he had to go back to work. There was a sad story about a family where the dad worked at a factory and the factory cut back his work. There was the teacher who worked a second job. Then we heard about Obama growing up as a kid. How much his mom helped him, followed of course by the heart breaking tale of his mother’s death from cancer. Interlaced through all of this is Obama telling you that he is going to fix that problem.

According to Senator Obama, he is going to create 5 million new ‘green’ jobs that CAN’T be outsourced. Really? That’s wonderful. HOW? Has he already invented some tremendous new technology that is going to produce energy from thin air. Maybe there will be 5 million people harvesting air? I know it sounds great. If there was a way to make so much money that you could afford to employee 5 MILLION people… don’t you think there would be entrepreneurs and businesses JUMPING all over it?

He’s going to cut healthcare costs by $2500 per family. Really? HOW!? By getting hospitals to transfer all of their records to electronic format? Trust me, and I definitely know something about this. Transferring to an electronic system may eventually save money (mainly by cutting people who handle the paperwork), but it costs a lot of money up front and if it isn’t done right can be time and ‘expensive’ labor intensive. Even if it went seamlessly, it won’t save the average family $2500 per year (or $10 for that matter). And while we are talking about that, let’s just think about some numbers real quick. $2500 per family… hmm… let’s be conservative and say that there are 75 million families in the US. That’s $187.5 BILLION dollars that is somehow just going to VANISH from the healthcare industry and no one is going to miss it! In fact while he is at it, he is also going to GIVE healthcare to 47 million people that don’t have it (he doesn’t mention it, but about 15 million of those are illegal aliens). So just do a sanity check here. He’s going to save the American people $187.5 BILLION dollars, while giving you better healthcare and covering 47 million people that aren’t currently covered…. I’m pretty good at math, but Senator Obama must be a lot better than I am if he can make those numbers work.

Occasionally the video (which was HOLLYWOOD quality in its production) would cut away to a Democratic politician saying how great Obama is and how he is a once in a generation leader. Really? What has he done? The only things that they mentioned in the video last night were the times he ‘reached across the aisle’ by working with people like Senator Lugar to push for the containment of old solviet era nukes. Wow, sounds impressive. In fact that sounds like something that everyone would want. As a matter of fact they did! It was unanimously passed. Not because Obama wrote a great bill, because he didn’t write hardly ANYTHING. What they are talking about is an ‘add on’ to an existing bill that was written and passed in the 90s. After the USSR collapsed we passed legislation to allocate funds to help the solviets break down some of their nuclear arsenal so that it didn’t fall into dangerous disrepair, or worse, into the wrong hands. Obama “REACHED ACROSS THE AISLE” to add a couple of lines to the bill to expand the program! COME ON!!! This is ridiculous!! Then they went on to talk about how he had fought against some of the senior people and leadership, but gave NO specifics! BECAUSE THERE AREN’T ANY!!!! He hasn’t done ANYTHING of substance!!! Period. That’s why they have to be vague and fill a 30 minute spot with glurge and sob stories! They want you to think that this country is a horrible place! But somehow, when Obama becomes President EVERYTHING will be better. In an instant! It will be like the rapture, but you don’t have to go anywhere, the rapture will bring you to Obamaland!

Please.

Someone needs to take his medicine. He’s having delusions of EXTREME grandeur.


What you heard last night is the same thing he’s been doing all around the country for the last couple of years. He finds hard cases, and there will always be hard cases to point out, and he talks about them. He goes on about the hard questions and tough issues facing this country and then says that he will fix them. If you ask him how, he tells you how much money he is going to throw at it.

That’s a lot of money. Thrown pretty much EVERYWHERE.

Hmmm… where does that come from again?

I mean, he already said he is going to cut taxes on 95% of working Americans. Which means a good chunk of people that don’t pay taxes will get paychecks from the government… hmmm… that’s more money gone. He is going to increase all kinds of taxes on wealthy people and businesses, which historically speaking means LOWER REVENUE to the federal government, lower profits in businesses, cut backs, fewer jobs… How is this going to solve ANYTHING!?

The man has been running for president for almost two years. We have yet to really see any new, good, or even SUBSTANTIVE ideas.

This is a frightening election.

****Update: Just caught this AP (of all people) article that sheds some light on some of the shady aspects of the Informercial.