Barack Obama - Not Getting the Most of His Ivy League Education

In a speech today, Barack Obama refers to the United States as living under "the tyranny oil". Is this the most ridiculous thing Barack has said ever, or just this week? Tyranny of oil? Is he serious? What in the world did the learned senator study while he was at Columbia? We know it wasn't economics or finance, but I guess he also passed on a course on the history of American Business too. Just to fill in the gaps of his swanky Ivy League education, oil has literally been the fuel that drove American economic growth over the past one hundred years. It has been cheap and accessible powering our cars, trucks, trains, and airplanes. It facilitates directly or indirectly everything we have enjoyed from an economic growth perspective since the turn of the last century. It is only the political hi jinks of oil and energy production in general that has created the problems we face today. If we in fact live under tyranny, it is not the tyranny of oil, but rather the tyranny of over zealous environmental ninnies and the weak-kneed politicians who cannot stand up to them. When considering our energy predicament today, the accurate conclusion can never be drawn that we are suffering from a shortage of energy sources, we are suffering from a lack of political courage and the leadership to do what is best for the country, instead of what is best for the next election cycle.

Ironically, Barack Obama plans to make his first visit to Iraq under the umbrella of safety provided by the troop surge he vehemently opposed and publicly stated was not working...until it became politically fashionable to recognize that it was. I never thought I would miss Bill Clinton, but Barack Obama makes me pine for the days when biggest presidential shortcomings were spotty marital decency and an over active, fraternity-boy libido.

I wonder how Barack plans to get to Iraq, maybe it is on a flying carpet which will certainly be part of his "green initiative" if he becomes president. If it was not going to cost us all so much dadgum money in higher taxes and an economy in perpetual recession under the ever-regulatory eye of a president Obama, it might almost be fun to have him in the white house for four years just to see what goofy ideas come out of his mouth next. Who would have thought that a graduate of Columbia and Harvard could seem so pedestrian in his thought process? Takes a little of the shine off those universities if you ask me.