Barack & His Band of Merry Men

We've left Denver and now have entered Sherwood Forest. Are you kidding me? In watching Obama's speech last night, I just kept asking myself - how? and who's going to pay for all these promises? Was his speech riviting? Sure. Eloquently delivered? Of course. But it would seem that the battle cry is now "steal from the rich,middle class and give to the poor" because there is no way that he can pay for all those promises without raising our taxes.

How in the world will he deliver 95% of working families a tax break? What he didn't say is that most of us will not likely qualify under the Barack definition of "working family."

His socialist slip was also showing last night - telling the world how the government needs to take better care of people. Aaarrgh. The government needs to get OUT of the nanny-state mentality. We already have thousands of people we cannot afford and far too many that need assistance. Lovely thought, Obama, but you got this one wrong.

Also, you claimed that our country's leaders were "distracted" by dealing with the war and the terrorists. Seriously? I'd say that's EXACTLY what our leaders should be doing - defending the people of this nation against countries and people that resent America's prosperity and would see us otherwise destroyed. What would Obama have done - have tea and cookies with the people that were out to kill Americans?

The bottom line is that Obama made change sound good. The problem is that sounding good and doing good are two different things. Being President isn't a scripted show like this convention. In this next term, our President will be charged with getting our country back on track - not making us feel good. Experience, strength, fiscal stewardship and ideas for economic growth will be the requirements for this job.

Those qualities will be on display next week in Minnesota.