I watched an interview with Barack Obama the other day. There's something about the guy that is spellbinding. He could explain how quantum physics works and you'd eagerly ask him stuff like:

"Please tell me again, Barack, why energy is not continuous, but comes in small but discrete units!"

Some folks are trying to suggest the guy is light on experience -- as he is relatively young and has been a law professor and politician since he got out of law school -- and that he's getting by on charm. Fact is, he IS a charmer -- he's got extraordinary political skills and he just ride them into the presidency.

All I ask is that folks press the guy more on what his ideas are -- what he plans to do. The thing is, he's been telling us. He's been telegraphing, like an over-confident boxer, exactly where he's going to strike: higher taxes on the "rich," lots of new government programs and lots of expansion to existing ones.

Go to his Web site to see what he's got in mind. The guy is ambitious, to be sure, and his ambition is to drive change by government intervention -- not by unleashing the creativity of individuals, a more libertarian approach I favor (because, for starters, it works!).

In any event, I wrote about the Obama phenomenon -- pointing out simply what the fellow plans to do -- and have got a surprising amount of response on the piece. It would appear a fair number of people are wondering why a fellow whose left-leaning policies is riding so high in the polls -- particularly when the rest of the world is embracing the low-tax, low-regulation, pro-growth policies that unleashed investment and ingenuity and produced massive wealth in America since the early 1980's.

Does America really want to move toward the big-government policies that are strangling countries like France?

I guess we'll find out as this campaign unfolds. I just hope people dig into what each guy is really about before yanking the lever, because my taxes are plenty high enough, I being a "rich" fellow and all.