michaelr: Want to be famous and revered for generations to come? I'll tell you how. Simply invent a automobile that doesn't require gasoline to operate it with.

Obama is merely making a stab at trying to move more toward the right of center. He's making a play to independent voters who were fooled by his rhetric during the campaign and thought they WERE voting for a center right candidate and have, since his election, awakened to the fact that Obama is indeed a left of center liberal.

DougR