Obama changeHere is the Barack Obama challenge: He says, over and over and over and over and over again, that he is “the candidate of change.”

Yet, neither he nor his more fanatical followers can articulate in a single, English sentence, exactly what Sen. Obama means by this. Rather, his cult-like supplicants of hope keep chanting mantra- like “he’s about change.”

Really?

Let’s see what Obama would have to advocate if he truly was “the candidate of change”–

  1. Advocate not only universial health care for EVERYONE, but advocate a one payer system such as it is in European countries, with the government picking up the full tab.
  2. Advocate, European-style unemployment insurance, with out of work employees getting as much as 75 percent of their normal take-home pay for a minimum of three years, or till new employment is found.
  3. Advocate free, government financed and controlled day-care centers.
  4. Advocate that military spending, now at its highest level since World War 2, be slashed by at least 40 percent.
  5. Advocate new legislation that would make any and all forms of lobbying government officials a federal felony, punishable by large fines as well as prison sentences.
  6. Advocate free education through the university level (as many European nations currently do) to free students of the burden of huge debt by the time they graduate.
  7. Advocate term limits for Congresspersons and Senators–just as there is a term limit on being able to hold the presidency.
  8. Advocate that ALL television,radio and cable outlets be required to provide free air time to candidates, eliminating the enormous and growing costs of running for high office in the United States.
  9. Advocate a freeze of adjustable-rate mortgages for five years and mandate that lending institutions that provided questionable mortgages be held legally liable.
  10. Advocate a partial ban of automobile traffic into all major city centers, while advocating the building of new mass transit systems aimed at protecting the planet from greenhouse gases.
  11. Advocate strict water conservation measures for the drought striken southwest and southeast.
  12. Advocate criminal investigations of all government officials who had any hand in the Bush administration’s commitment of war crimes against innocent Iraqi citizens who happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.
  13. Advocate that ALL broadcast stations using the public airways once again be required to provide a certain percentage of their air time to social, community programs.
  14. Advocate the re-regulation of the airline industry which is falling apart before out eyes.

The list can easily go on. The point,though, is, when people say they plan on voting for Obama because he is the candidate for change, fine…But, for God sakes, at least know what it is he plans on changing and require him to tell us in as much detail as possible.

Oh! And, don’t hold your breath.