Obama's many bad ideas about change

Would-be President Barack Obama's many brilliant ideas include a "windfall profits" tax, appeasing our nation's enemies, snubbing the United States' strongest ally in Latin America, undermining our less-than-perfect authoritarian allies and finding fault with America.

Well, Obama has heralded himself as an agent of "change," and I'd have to say he is right. This litany of bad ideas calls for a change to the definition of insanity made famous by candidate Bill Clinton in a 1992 presidential debate. Thanks to Barack Obama, insanity can now be defined as "doing the same things Jimmy Carter did, and expecting different results."

That's change America could live without.

Larry Naselli

West Chicago