Kirsten Powers’ column tells Sen. Obama to abandon his position on oil- fast. That’s a step in the right direction…sort of:

McCain has been chanting “Drill here. Drill now.” while Obama plays the scold, trying to convince a nation suffering from Attention Deficit Disorder to take the long view.

Obama’s internal polling shows that he’s getting killed on this issue.

Democratic Congress members are ringing the alarms. Someone close to the campaign reported that, at a meeting this week, lawmakers were pleading with the Obama camp to revise its position on drilling.

Ms. Powers isn’t talking about the other thing that’s getting Sen. Obama in trouble, which is his persistence in talking about keeping our tires inflated. Generally speaking, people already keep their tires properly inflated. Sen. Obama’s talking about it is seen as his talking down to them. It’s also seen as BS. People know that we can’t “inflate our way out of this crisis’, as Obama suggests in this video:

What a foolish statement to make. My dad always used to say that stupidity is what gets us in trouble; pride is what keeps us there.” I’d say that Sen. Obama is in the pride phase.

There’s one other portion of Ms. Powers’ column worth reading:

Obama moved in the right direction politically when he signed on to the “Gang of Ten Bipartisan Energy Plan,” which would expand offshore drilling beyond the 68 million acres in which he’d supported it. But his endorsement seemed tepid, and he looked like a follower.

the reason why he looked like a follower is because that’s what he is. Lightweights generally aren’t leaders. I’m not saying Sen. Obama is stupid. I’m just saying that he isn’t a serious man on policies. Had he run in 2012, he would’ve gathered the knowledge required to be president.

As it is, he’s now the most underqualified major party candidate for president in American history.

Technorati Tags: Gas Crisis, Tires, Obama, Drilling, Gravitas, Inexperience, Election 2008

Cross-posted at LetFreedomRingBlog

1. Keep your tires inflated!

   This is the same superiority complex we got from Kerry, Gore and Carter. “Hey dumbshits, quite bitchin’ and inflate your tires.”

   Carter didnt want to give the military a raise in ‘78, he wanted them all to be even more degraded and go on food stamps!

   Gore thought we were stupid enough to believe his “lockbox” bullshit to save social security rather than let people invest in it themselves.

   Kerry desecrated his medals -of dubious authenticity - then had the gall 30 some years later to say he was “Reporting for duty”.

   And now Senator (Oh, Im so cool looking up at the sky while Im talking) tells us to keep our tires inflated.

   Come to think of it, that is pretty good, Keep it up Barack.

   Comment by T.A Gray — August 7, 2008 @ 8:49 am