I'm not saying that on Day One Obama will nationalize the industrial base.  But his ad is very revelatory of his mindset: that the government, rather than the free market, should direct invesment and employment. 

like some James Bond villain

Uhuhuhbama: Mr. Bond. We meet again.

James Bond: you already lost Uhuhuhbama. The G.O.P. nominated Condaleeza Rice as presidential Candidate and John Kasich as her V.P.

Uhuhuhbama: No-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o!!!!!!!

"They're both doofuses!" --Mark Levin (speaking of Obama and McCain)

When Obama patiently explains to us how the hands that made X can make Y, he apparently thinks we don't already know that. But we already know that America can make progress. We already have a core conviction that America is the best engine for progress that the world has ever seen. But our system of creating progress is chaotic, capitalistic, occasionally destructive, and it never happens on schedule. People get hurt. With all his airy inspiration, Obama projects that we can solve all problems without anyone getting hurt. Ain't gonna happen.  

Here's what I mean. The reason why we haven't invented the carbon-clean, fuel-efficient cars isn't because we're just oil-addicted sluggards that need his inspiration. An economically-feasible technology just isn't there yet. The trick is how to get there.

• We don't have a good shot at alternative fuels right now, so we have to keep working until we create the conditions where it can happen. When? Where? We don't know yet. To use a basketball metaphor, we have to keep dribbling until a shot opens up. That's what tax breaks and regulation reform are all about. That's how we "dribble." We loosen up every obstacle to invention and technological development.
• Frankly, when you think about it, it's terribly unfair. This is what I mean by people getting hurt. We lure investors into risky schemes so they'll try new things, and after they lose all their money, we learn from their mistakes. But over the course of time, we collectively learn enough from all those mistakes and failures until someone puts it all together.
  • Everyone remembers the Wright Brothers, but a lot of people crashed (physically and economically) trying to come up with a flying machine. We reaped the benefit of their destruction. 
  • The race for every technological breakthrough has one winner, but they're preceded by dozens of failed attempts. Remember BetaMax? 8-tracks? WordPerfect?
• Future-fuel cars won't come by Obama planning. It'll come after a few dozen electric/hybrid/fusion/whatever startups try things, go belly up, and see GM and Toyota swoop in and buy off their ideas.

Obama will be irrelevant to that success, but he could prolong things. That's why this "change" motto is nonsense. We are changing. Obama doesn't seem to understand that.

I think there is ample evidence that Obama has leanings that can be characterized as socialist.  Let's look at Obama's silly and counterproductive plan to tax the oil companies and redistribute the spoils to the "poor".

It is a great idea for further depressing domestic oil production.  He will also encourage oil companies to ship their non domestic oil production away from the United States under foreign flag.  His tax will be an incentive for oil companies not to undertake capital intensive projects in the United States.  Right now Exxon Mobile produces about 4.9 million barrels of oil per day.  They have no new exploration projects in the United States. Saudi Arabia produces 10 million barrels of oil. If Obama wants to increase our dependency on foreign producers of oil, he has hit upon a great scheme.  

Sorry Barack, people don’t work for nothing. Exxon Mobil paid 32.361 billion in taxes this quarter (although 9.5 billion of that were sales taxes). Notice that this   socialist is not promising to use any of that 32.361 billion for rebates.  Over the past 25 years oil companies have paid over 2.2 trillion in taxes.   

If Obama wants to create a two price market, his best bet is to increase domestic supply of oil. Revenue from new exploration on government land goes into state and federal coffers – similar to state owned systems in Saudi Arabia and elsewhere. Absent that approach oil will flow to the highest bidder.  http://www.taxfoundation.org/publications/show/1168.html 

I hear that Matthews keeps a roll of said toilet paper under his desk for those moments when he soils himself while talking about Obama.

"Forget change, I want improvement!"

The New Messiah doesn't need toilet paper...silly you.

"we should immediately give every working family in America a
$1,000 energy rebate, and we should pay for it with part of the record
profits that the oil companies are making" Barak Obama, Communist

You raise an interesting point, Candance, about His Obamaness wanting to change our economy, given his fundamental ignorance of how it works. Could that be the reason why he wants it changed?

So was "a chicken in every pot."

He was thinking about going with Tippecano and Obama Too, but then someone reminded him that he didn't have any military experience.

So he borrowed "hope and change" from Hugo Chavez with the assumption no one in America would know.

M aybe that's it. I couldn't think of a connection.

But that song reminds me of another more appropriate song

♪And we know Flipper ♫ Flipper lives in a ♪ world full of wonder ♫

I ♣ my seal

Cella, I couldn't agree with you more.  I too turned it on to see if Matthews had come to his senses during his vacation, but he was just a bigger nutcase than before yesterday.  I had to turn it to Fox and fast.  I couldn't take more than a few minutes of his babbling.  He was interrupting everyone, asking questions and answering them all without taking so much as a breath in. And he drooled a couple of times.  I swear!  I couldn't change the channel fast enough.

Mark, the only reference to Kelly that I could think of he meant was that he thought the ad had a sense of style like Grace Kelly.  I don't know though.