it’s the issues, stupid

A lot of people are going after Barack Obama because of his 20-year relationship with the grievance-nurturing America hater Jeremiah Wright. And then there are those who hate his commie policy ideas:

Obama and others are wrong on this one:

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama’s proposal for a windfall profits tax on oil companies could cost $15 billion a year at last year’s profit levels, a campaign adviser said.

The plan would target profit from the biggest oil companies by taxing each barrel of oil costing more than $80, according to a fact sheet on the proposal. The tax would help pay for a $1,000 tax cut for working families, an expansion of the earned- income tax credit and assistance for people who can’t afford their energy bills.

“The profits right now are so remarkable that one could trim them 10 percent or so, which would turn out to be somewhere in the $15 billion range,’’ said Jason Grumet, an adviser to the Obama campaign.

I simply oppose the notion that the government should be in the business of deciding how much profit is “too much” …

Well, duh.

Now … back to my vacation.