Obama Seems To Promise The Moon, But Can He Deliver?

This election for an American president is absolutely the worst I have ever seen. Every candidate is full of lies, deceit, and backbiting. They check daily to see which way the wind is blowing before daring to say anything--and all three of our major candidates are guilty.

Last night I was listening to a re-broadcast of Senator Obama's speech in Portland, Oregon on Saturday. 75,000 eager, cheering people listened to him promise a $1000 a year tax reduction to everyone, at least a $2500 reduction in health care costs for anyone who already has health care insurance, and complete government- paid health care insurance for those who do not. He said millions of "eco-friendly" green jobs, would be created--especially in Oregon. He promised to lower drug costs, to use wood chips to make biodiesel fuel, to immediately end the war in Iraq, and to fix our education system. And on, and on, and on.

Not once in his speech did he indicate where all the money to fulfill these promises would be coming from.

Eugene, Oregon, the city that adjoins the city I live in has spent the past two years arguing over where they can find money to fill the potholes on their streets, yet their citizens were in the eager crowd applauding Senator Obama as he promised them everything but the moon.

Senators Clinton and McCain make similar vows in their speeches; President Bush did the same when he was running for office. So did almost every politician who has ever run for President or for any other public office. Were their promises fulfilled? Not usually, so why do people keep on believing that the latest politician on the scene will do any better?

I have a great idea. Instead of wasting hundreds of millions of dollars on endless election campaigns every 4 years, why don't we just have a small committee hire an acting president? If he or she doesn't perform well, give them a warning and, if they don't shape up in a month or two, fire them and find a replacement who CAN do the job.