Obama Locks It Up

Obama has the delegates he needs and Hillary has all but conceded.

I listed to Obama's victory speech on Tuesday night. I saw the crowd of wildly cheering supporters. I still don't get it.

Obama's speech was nothing but platitudes, talking points and pablum. Everyone gets a college education as a birthright. Free health care for everyone from the government. An energy policy that will lower gasoline prices, reduce our dependence on foreign oil, and be good for the environment. Improvements in education which (of course) require better pay for teachers. There was, however, no mention of how he would do these things or pay for them.

Obama is a European-style socialist, who will be unrestrained by a liberal Democrat Congress. I fear all of the costly social experiments that are coming our way. It could be a bitter four years.

Wednesday night my daughter got a President's Award for having maintained a 90+ average for all three years of Middle School. The award was signed by George Bush. I told my son that his award will likely be signed by Barak Obama. Unless, of course, that in an Obama Administration, educators are freed from meeting those pesky standards in Bush's No Child Left Behind Law.

I don't like John McCain that much. But right now, I think he's the only thing standing between us and a really bad situation.