12.9.2009 I wrote this blog in November of 2008 and evidently it was prophecy! 

60 Minutes and One Sure-Fire Plan 

As American we love new, improved products and this was never clearer than when Barack Obama was elected president a few weeks ago. After all he is the new, improved and younger version of our previous “products” in government. His whole platform was built on change. He would be changing the old guard of the GOP run show to he new improved, Democratic run show. So let’s review these changes so far, as he picks his cabinet and “new products” for the government. Oh yeah they aren’t new just a little “used” products. The ‘certified used’ version of government. After all his cabinet is starting to look a lot like

While watching President-Elect Obama’s first real interview since his election to office, on 60 Minutes  I was shaking my head, not in disbelief but in a “ here we go again “, way. He sounds like every other politician, but with a more polished version of the quid pro quo.   I thought this guy was supposed to be the “second coming”, the visionary, and the prophet for a new

Barack Obama also said he didn’t want more regulation on companies which sounds very much like the John McCain platform on taxing US companies. He had no answer for why the Treasury and Congress have allowed $300 billion to be sifted through unnamed banks and yet no one is better off. Maybe I missed the answer when I blinked. Apparently no one really knows the answer to that question. And when the subject came to the war in Iraq Obama was sure that our troops would be coming home sooner rather than later. This is easier to say now that

And now for his “New Deal”. Obama doesn’t believe we can recreate the solutions for the Depression on a situation that is different in the year 2008 on the financial crisis but his campaign used that very fear mongering when he was running for his current position. He also says he wants to be a President who is “straight “with the American people. So why did he seal his records at Harvard and his birth records in

It is true that Barack Obama is handsome to some and very charismatic to many but that doesn’t help us in the arena of International politics. His lack of experience evening his job as a Senator scares me. How does one gain experience from job you never actually worked at? He was elected but rarely if ever voted on anything. He didn’t write his won legislation, and I never heard of him doing anything for the people of his own State. Maybe I’m “disconnected” but I would think if he was really great at problem solving they would have been shoving it don our throats for the past two years. Instead they just showed us how inept our current government was; by the way he is actually part of that current government as a Senator.

Even more interesting about the interview on 60minutes was Obama’s claim to be seeking an “orderly” transition while Bush leaves office and Obama takes it. Has anyone ever seen an “un-orderly” transition? I mean by the nature of the job I think men leave the White House running. Bush is probably thrilled by now to be handing the problems of the Nation over to Obama, I know I would. I doubt they will have to tear Laura Bush from the candelabra in the White House. These things are done very orderly and by a list of routine I would suppose. I did feel sorry for Obama and his family though when he mentioned that his routine has been upset greatly by the turn of events and he is beginning to feel “disconnected” from his routines and people due to the Secret Service and pressures that follow being President –Elect. Hmmm, disconnected huh? Sounds familiar. Maybe that is just a by product of being a politician today.

But through it all Obama did in fact express his first concise plan for the Nation…He wants to create a National Playoff for College Football. He explained in great detail how he thought it should work and why. If he could explain his plan for any other problem as well I wouldn’t be so worried. I am put at ease now, knowing that the age-old question of the college football play off debate is now in the hands of the most powerful man in the world, the