Obama's Desperate Appeal to Ignorance

I haven't been paying close attention the past few days but it seems clear to me that Obama is trying to appeal to voter ignorance in order to win the energy debate.

--He said inflating tires properly would be the same as offshore drilling.

--He revived the discredited windfall profits tax (i.e. looting) plan that will actually hurt U.S. domestic production and consumers.

--He criticized McCain for taking money from oil companies even though he himself is doing the exact same thing.  Indeed, from oil giants like Exxon he has actually taken more.

--He also criticized him for wanting to give tax breaks to the oil companies.  That's a lie, and Obama voted with Bush to give special tax breaks to oil companies.  This attack is particularly notable since, it's sole purpose is to promote class hatred and resentment, not on economic or fiscal grounds, but rather on the idea that Big Oil needs to be punished because it was much more successful than the rest of us in its work.  Obama shows himself to be more interested in political demonization than promoting energy independence.

--He blames high gas prices on the oil companies (without evidence) which doesn't even logically make sense.  If the oil companies try to keep prices high, why were gas prices so low ten years ago?  Were they just being nicer then?

Any objective observer can see that Obama is peddling nonsense.  The question is: are voters objective observers?

Disturbingly, the McCain campaign has only responded to some of these ideas.  It should be running ads challenging Obama on each one.