Do you remember in late 2004 when John "F." Kerry just started promising everything to everyone, and flat out making stuff up? Sorta like he did in Vietnam about "Jen-jis" Kahn? He never seemed to catch on to the fact that groups out there were fact checking the details of his exploits - particularly his more grandiose claims.

Given that - one has to wonder if Obama has swallowed some vitamin "F."

As Jake Tapper is reporting today for ABC, Factcheck.org has fisked Obama's new "McCain had Big Oil give him 2 million dollars" ad, and found - surprise, surprise - its full of make believe.

I was asked about this new ad yesterday on Ed Morrissey's show. Something we all need to keep in mind is that as Obama is promising a "windfall tax" on "Oil Companies," you need to know in advance that he will not accomplish it.

Because you can't tax a company...

A corporation provides a good or service. They charge their customers - in this case the American people (at least those of which who drive) a certain price based upon the cost of what it takes to provide that good or service. This includes all "taxes" from the federal, state, and local governments said corporation is subject to.

The truth is they NEVER pay a tax.

You and I do.

Taxes "on" corporations are merely a line item in their budget that increases the cost to the consumer and always is passed on to the consumer.

SO...

If Senator Obama promises a "windfall tax" on "big oil" - what you need to hear in your mind is that he is PROMISING to raise the cost of a gallon of gasoline from say $4 to something like $6, or $10, or $15.

And we shouldn't have to pay more for our own energy - simply because Obama is an economics flunky... and not even a very sophisticated one at that!

Though I can take some comfort that Obama has at least - NOT "won" three purple hearts...

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So 62% of Americans say, "DRILL HERE, DRILL NOW!" When you pay $5 a gallon for gas it's easy to understand why. Every item of food you now eat has become much more expensive to consume (unless you grew it in your own backyard.)

Coupled with that dilemma is the reality that nobody believes the environmental whack jobs anymore.

Al Gore the love guru of the greenies has been shown to not only be the biggest hypocrite/liar/inventor of new imaginations related to global warming (every claim of his movie now being discredited by more than 41,000 meteorologists, climatologists, and earth science academics), but someone that can't even control his own energy usage. Gore this year consumed 10% MORE than he had a year previous. (Gore justifies it by saying, "I'm so important that I HAVE to!") By the way his margin of INCREASE was enough to power more than 230 homes for a year.

But in addition to that - all the "the end of the world is at hand" types have refused ocean drilling because of the fear of pollution to the marine under life. The problem now is that we all have seen that when a level 5 Hurricane swept through the gulf (Katrina) followed by a level 4 (Rita) - even though the rigs in the gulf (over 800) had some damage to the rigs themselves, NOT ONE DROP OF OIL was spilled.

Given that - I expect this 62% to increase - big time the more the price of gas increases. And Barack Obama says - no more drilling, no more exploration, no more depending on ourselves to supply the energy we need...

And that's NOT change we can believe in...

There are good and bad ideas on how to solve our energy crisis... from the Obama corner - here's the dumbest thing that could possibly be done!

And one of the smartest!

John McCain and Barack Obama probably think this headline is good news.

When I'd much rather see people learn lessons from something like this instead...