Somehow when you try to find the core values of Barack Obama it’s like trying to nail jello to the wall.

He said he was never for the war in Iraq and if he became president he would immediately pull our troops out and allow the region to become more of a tinderbox than it already is.

Then he softened his naive position to something short of a total pull out.

This didn’t satisfy his original supporters, so now he is back to a total pull out which is not just naive, but stupid.  And on top of all of this he still hasn’t talked to the General running the war on the ground.

He positioned himself as a left winger for his core supporters, now that he has the nomination he is moving toward the center on issues of importance in order to capture more voters.

There is one area where he is a standup guy, and that is with whom he associates with — proving that there is flawed judgment here.  If there’s flawed judgment here, could it also be in his other positions on Iraq, healthcare, the economy, energy, global warming, education and on and on?

When comparing Obama to John McCain, well it’s like comparing Richard Nixon to John F. Kennedy — and Obama likes that comparison.

When McCain speaks he is boring.  When Obama speaks he is exciting and charismatic with a teleprompter, a device McCain is still trying to learn how to deal with.  However, when Obma speaks extemporaneously he is not so sure mouthed. He tends to stutter, not because he has a speech defect, but because he hasn’t captured his own thought process.   You can’t find his core and that’s because he hasn’t found it either, or doesn’t want to, because then all the voters will know who he really is.

We are moving toward a Madison Ave election process of old – even though Obama runs on the word of new and Change – dating all the way back to JFK.  That is what captured the election for Kennedy and it may very well do the same for Obama.

Obama captures the crowd looking for excitement, something new not old or borrowed, although he would like to borrow whatever it was that JFK captured.

The true signal that Obama is tapping into the Madison Ave approach to get in the White House came when his campaign announced that he would change his venue for his acceptance speech at the Democratic Convention to an arena that will hold some 75,000 people.  A grandstand play to launch his run for the roses.

It is important for voters to do what is right for the country and not to vote for change sake.  We need the right man in the White House with the policies that will represent all the people.  When I reflect on the best eight years this country has ever witnessed, I again long for the Eisenhower years, when there were no wars, the economy was good and our president wasn’t riling-up the people.  The nation was at peace with itself.

It is time for the real Obama to stand up and truly tell us his core values, so the voters can determine if he is right for our country.