I wonder what will happen when Obama makes good on his promise that I hear him make one night on TV. He was talking about national health insurance. He said that he would bring the health insurance companies to a big table on CSpan. Then he said, with a facial expression that I would describe as a smirk, but others would describe as a beatific smile, that he would have the biggest chair at the table because he would be president. And the audience went wild. Then he said that he and the health insurance companies would start negotiating and would not stop until the problem was solved.

What a load of horse hockey. If he is foolish enough to attempt such a thing those guys will eat him for lunch. The health insurance companies want national health insurance more than anybody else in the country, and they won’t stop until they get a program that is designed to their specifications. I don’t think Obama will be able to do anything about it.

Obama reminds me of Jimmy Carter when he was running. He had a beatific grin, but it wasn’t long until he was dressed in his cardigan, hunkered down in the White House, and lecturing the nation on the “malaise” that was infecting the country.

But Carter is long gone and now so is Hillary, so a really audacious, hopeful man would start getting down to the specifics and instead of telling us what his website says about the issues he would be responding to the questions that come from the People, including people who know something about things such as health insurance.

But that ain’t gonna happen, because that is a little too audacious. The smart thing to do right now, in order to reach that lifelong goal of being king of the world, is to beat on the other guy by calling him “old,” and when he responds with some slur of his own, then call him “racist.” If your curve ball is working, keep throwing it, that’s what I always say.