I have been watching Obama on This Week with George Stephanopoulos and I can not believe what I am hearing. First he discusses tax cuts, tax cuts are welfare if they go to people who do not pay taxes. It is tax relief if it actually allows working Americans to keep their money. Does this guy have any clue about how the economy works, he wants to build the economy from the bottom up. That is ridiculous, every dollar that someone has and spends, grows our economy tenfold. Charity is at its highest when taxes are at its lowest. This is the clear difference between candidates, McCain wants the American people to spend their money however they want, and Obama wants to take our money and spend it however he wants. Next he moves on to National Security experience, somehow Obama thinks voting present on legislation and picking Joe Biden as Vice President is National Security experience but being a Governor of a state that borders another country and being in charge of the National Guard is not. But this comes from a man who thinks running for office grants him more executive experience than being Mayor of a city, I guess he decided to skip over that while he has been running for President she has been a Governor for two years. Last week when discussing Palin he said he said his campaign budget was more than the city of Wasilla for which Palin was Mayor which again reiterates his equating of running for president as experience. In regards to Palin he also says McCain would really show he was for change if he had picked Lieberman as VP. I am so tired of hearing about Lieberman, I am glad he is right on the war but Lieberman is wrong on almost everything else, he is still a Democrat. How is it cow toeing to the right wing by picking a Republican for the Republican ticket and not a Democrat. Why didn't Obama pick Chuck Hagel? Is he giving in to the Democrats by picking a Democrat? This notion is so ridiculous I feel stupid even writing about it. Moving on, when asked if he ever thought about joining the armed forces and if not why, Obama proceeded to compare signing up for the Selective Service in 1979 (which was the law) and knowing people who were part of military families as the same as joining the armed forces. I do not know if he does not understand the questions or he just has set things he says to anything with certain key words. Throughout the interview he does not seem to actually answer the questions asked. He was also asked how what he would do as President that would break from the Democrat party. He said he would support charter schools which the teachers unions have proposed. Since when do unions and especially teachers unions separate themselves from the Democrat party? He also discusses his non-view on abortion which I will discuss further next time because that in itself deserves its own discussion. Obama says he needs to make the choice clear to the American people between himself and McCain, that can only help the Republicans.