Obama '08?

Oil is ubiquitous; it affects all products and transportation of goods at this time in America. Pharma and chemical companies at best help a small percentage of the population each; and even then you can choose not to use them. Oil is in a whole different category.



I said YOUR SIDE, Republicans. They are the ones sitting in an empty Congress building and bitching to the wind about the high gas prices people have to pay; there's an easy solution, but they aren't willing to take it, for they are bought and owned by big oil.




Sure, why not? The government steps in to all sorts of financial situaitons; they have determined that large banks and Fannie/Freddie have a minimum profit that they are allowed to make, that is, we are not allowing them to fail; why is that any different then reining in the profits of oil companies during wartime? During WW2 there were strict limits on corporate profits and investigations into those who attempted to be War Profiteers on the backs of the American public. Under Bush and the Republicans, we have NOTHING of the sort going on and it's about damn time that we started! War should not be a for-profit enterprise, yet that's exactly how many companies - including the oil companies, who are making billions off of our activities in the ME - are operating today.

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Farmers make profits on the backs of those who have no choice except to use their product.

Along with the oil companies, I'm sure that the farms should be confiscated , right?

Dems are already publicly calling for nationalization of the energy industry.

Don't deny it.

The socialists in the Democratic party think they see their chance for a command economy.

First, health care and energy. After that , it's all easy to mop up.

Some people want more than to have their cake and eat it too, they want you to have neither.

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False.

I can choose a diet which excludes any type of produce, be it produce or livestock.

Bad analogy.

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Further, How much food is bought just to give away to those in need RL? If we were in need of gasoline who any government in the world buy it and just give it to us?

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Do not equate this POLICE ACTION to WW2. You are sensationalizing this Police Action to something it is not. (Both sides do this and they are using it as a scare tactic).

I find many democrats are upset when a Company earns 8% on revenue and shows they are spending millions on R&D.

Maybe you should suggest a excess profits tax on them and give the money back to the user (Oh, wait, Obama already suggested that).

This way, they can only earn 5% on revenue and spend NOTHING on R&D.

BRILLIANT!

And I don't have a choice whether I want to pay taxes for your bureaucracies. You don't have to buy gas if you don't want to. You don't have to eat if you don't want to. You don't have to have a house if you don't want to. If you want to sit on your behind, go ahead.

Libs need whipping boys, and the oil companies make good ones right now. If they think producing oil is so lucrative, why don't they get into the business, that is my question?

Of course you do. You can leave the country, and pick one that has higher or lower tax rates.

Maybe some of them liberals wouldn't feel good making money off exploiting people and the environment.

Maybe the success of our nation should be measured in money, ever think about that?

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You should know! McCain is grasping for straws, running a downright dirty campaign! Like I said as far as flipping and flopping, McCain is an expert!
He's Bush's Boy!

Obama leads McCain nationally in AP-Ipsos poll

By ALAN FRAM, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 2 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - Solid margins among women, minorities and young voters have powered Barack Obama to a 6 percentage point lead over John McCain in the presidential race, according to a poll released Tuesday.


Obama is ahead of his Republican rival 47 percent to 41 percent, The Associated Press-Ipsos poll showed. The survey was taken after the Democratic senator from Illinois had returned from a trip to Middle Eastern and European capitals, and during a week that saw the two camps clash over which had brought race into a campaign in which Obama is striving to become the first African-American president.

McCain, the senator from Arizona, is leading by 10 points among whites and is even with Obama among men, groups with whom Republicans traditionally do well in national elections.

Thomas Sowell
Rose and Milton Friedman Senior Fellow
The Hoover Institution
Stanford University
Stanford , California 94305
~~~~~~~~~ Professor Sowell's Article ~~~~~~~~~~

Senator John McCain could never convince me to vote for him. Only Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama can cause me to vote for McCain.

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After long and serious thought, I have decided to endorse Senator John McCain for President.
I have always voted for the person and have not voted for anyone because some political party was telling me who I should vote for.

We all know the choices by now and, that said, I do believe that the process of selecting a chief executive is deeply flawed. The words 'money' and 'special interests' come to mind, among many others.

Here's the way I see it:

Barack Obama, you are a fine public speaker. You are also an extremely liberal Senator from the State of Illinois , which has a long and rich history of political corruption of the first magnitude. You are indeed a child of that system.

You have finally insulted my intelligence far beyond my capacity to tolerate your insults. It has nothing at all to do with your skin color. As a matter of fact, it would be so COOL to finally have an African-American for President. What a great statement that would be to the entire world that we are indeed the greatest country on earth!

But, unfortunately, General Colin Powell is not running, and YOU are NOT the man for this job!

Barack baby, you want me to believe that you have never heard the sermons of your own pastor, the Right Reverend 'God Damn America' Jeremiah Wright. It is a matter of record that this has been your church for over 20 years. It is a matter of record that you were married there by this very pastor, and that your children were baptized there.

The good Reverend saw fit to visit Khadafy in Libya with you and to give a lifetime achievement award to Louis Farrakhan, of all people.

We have all now seen excerpts of his sermons all over the airwaves by now. And you have publicly stated that this man IS your 'spiritual mentor. BUT, your pastor is NOT the reason I am NOT voting for you. His words were disturbing enough, but it is your own HUGE church congregation, seen jumping, hooting and howling to his words in the background that disturb me the most. And please don't tell me you attended church there and never once heard a 'discouraging word' in the 20 years you attended there. Don't tell me, that in addition to the good reverend, that you are now not having anything to do with all those other people seen hooting and howling out in the audience in the background of his fiery tirades. Even Oprah Winfrey got disgusted and walked out on your campaign. I am no Oprah fan, but still she did the right thing.

Now YOU look me in the eye and ask me to believe that you never heard such language in all the years you attended there! This is like me telling you that I attended dozens of Klan rallies and never once heard the 'N' word. Yep. And Bill Clinton 'did not inhale'.

Yes, Mr. Obama, we all have friends who have said stupid things that embarrassed us, but NOW you have asked me to believe something that is so incredibly stupid that you are telling me that I am just stupid enough to believe you. THAT is the main reason that I will never vote for you.

I am deeply sorry, that in a country teeming with enormously talented African Americans who would make a good President, that the political system has chosen YOU. You are a pathetic and plastic excuse for an American, who will not even salute the Flag during the Pledge of Allegiance. God forbid you ever get near the Oval Office.

Now, did I mention Bill Clinton?

AH YES! This brings us to MRS. WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON, who this candidate really is, in spite of all the other names she may care to call herself. This 'feminist' piece of work of course would like to be referred to as MS. And we all know who wears the pantsuit in that family.

MS. Clinton, it is just as depressing to realize that there are dozens of women who would also make great Presidents. But, unfortunately, the horrible state of the selection process has selected YOU. Ms. Clinton, I'm sorry, but you could not tell the truth if we water boarded your worthless 'rear end'!

Still you play the role of the 'embarrassed but dignified noble wife'. What utter malarkey! I am not voting for you for a world of reasons, but the main one is the same as my not voting for Senator Obama.

You persistently insult my intelligence. It COULD be conceivably possible that you did not know about Monica Lewinsky, extremely remote, but possible if we stretch our imaginations a bit. But you turn around and then ask me to believe that you also did not know about Paula Jones and the legion of other women who were chewed up and spit out by your lecherous excuse for a husband. Puleese turn off this broken record!!!

But let's set aside your hubby's flagrant peccadilloes. The real reason I will never vote for you is that I don't think the country can survive EIGHT MORE YEARS of Whitewater, Travelgate, Filegate, Sandy Berger stuffing his socks with classified intelligence, Janet Reno's goon squad, and the myriad other corruptions that seem to stick to you like your ugly face. So our former President can't keep his thingy in his pants. The REAL issue is that he committed perjury under oath when he lied about it and the pathetically attempted cover-up that followed.

Like you, he is totally incapable of telling the truth. He could not do it if you tortured him, and in voting for you, we would get the BOTH of you, all over again. The same folks who could have taken out Osama Bin Laden over 4,000 dead Americans ago!

And please stop telling me that you have '8 years of experience' to lead us. You were the freakin' first lady already, not the Commander-in-Chief. Jeez! The sum of your 'experience' is that of the most worrisome and incompetent meddling in the history of the White House. You even cursed your pitiful staff and the Secret Service agents who were and still are unfortunately charged with risking their lives to protect your worthless, thieving hide, and all at the expense of other people who have to work for a living.

Your single pathetic platform is to finance the illegal drugs, alcoholism and bad habits of the very lowest and most irresponsible freeloaders in America and to then 'garnish the wages' (your own words) of every law-abiding and hard-working American to pay for it. This disaster you refer to as 'Universal Health Care.' Where have you been the last 30 years? Did you not see that socialism is a failure wherever it has been tried? Did you not notice that the Soviet Union has collapsed since it gave no reward to those who worked the hardest for the fruits of their own labors to pay for those who will not?

It is interesting to see all the dead bodies that you and your hubby have left in your wake. Suicides, mysterious deaths, cover-ups that make Richard Nixon look like a rank amateur. The utter contempt and unbelievable arrogance of some of your strongest supporters, most notably the recently resigned and disgraced Governor Eliot Spitzer, the epitome of hypocritical and malevolent arrogance gone wild, one of your most ardent, wealthy and powerful political supporters. A man the news media refuses to admit IS a 'super delegate' in your own political machine, a fine example of your own 'adopted' state of New York . No wonder you moved there to run for Senator! The environment there is perfect for the likes of you!

Yes, I would vote for a woman, but I will NOT vote for YOU!

Which leaves us with Senator John McCain.

John, you are a flawed man. You are a bit old, a bit loony, and you have a notoriously bad temper. This perfectly qualifies you, in my humble opinion, to lead us for the next eight years. I WANT your trembling hand on the nuclear button.

Think about it.

We have Kim Jong IL, Chavez and Ahmadenijad all running around like lunatics, threatening America and threatening to plunge the world into nuclear Armageddon. We have Putin and the Chinese blustering and rattling their sabers at us. I want John McCain in the Oval Office and I want him to be really ticked off at all these other nut jobs around the planet.

John, once you are elected, I want you to go into the Oval Office and throw one of your perfect FITS. Jump up and down and throw something through a plate glass window. Rip the drapes down and foam at the mouth a bit. And I want the whole thing on camera so that Ahmadinejad can see it. I want ALL of these 'world leaders' to lay awake at night and to break out in a cold sweat every time they think of messing with the United States of America .

I want the nuclear button sitting right next to the alarm clock on your nightstand. I want pictures of this to be sent to Iran , Russia , China , Venezuela , Cuba , Libya , Syria , Pakistan , and those other dopes in the sheets, the Saudis.

On the domestic front, poor John did try and reach across the aisle to the opposition in a desperate effort to compromise and to get the Congress to do something. You may not agree with his efforts, but at least he TRIED. For all his efforts, all he got handed to him was his head in a basket. The liberals are ticked at him and the conservatives are ticked at him. Just my kinda guy.

I predict that John will select Senator Joe Lieberman as his running mate. Good choice. I want a Jew whose memory of the Holocaust is still fresh in his mind and who is royally ticked off at all of these towel-headed morons in the Middle East to be the next in line if something should happen to John. Shalom, Vice President Joe. One heartbeat from the Oval Office.

Finally. John McCain knows on a most personal level what it is to suffer horrible torture for years and to see others die, right in front of you, for their love of America . When you ask him about it, he will tell you that what he did was 'nothing special.' Even more incredibly, he states that ANY American who truly loves his country would do exactly the same as he did in that situation. You and I will have a hard time believing that, but the real point is that John McCain believes that about the 'average American,' and that, dear friends and neighbors, is why I will cast my one poor ballot on election day for John McCain -- warts and all.'

Thomas Sowell has finally gone bonkers.

That motherf*cker has been crazy for decades...

But he hid his insanity very well - until now.

OK, lets put this to the test.

Do you eat, use, or consume any type of dairy product?
That could be milk, cheese, or anything made from or containing dairy products?

Do you eat bread, cereal, rice, corn, wheat, soybeans, soybean oil, corn oil, or anything containing those products or their byproducts?

What about eggs, or anything containing egg products?

What about meat?
Do you eat beef, pork, chicken, lamb, fish, or any other type of meat or meat product?

And if you try to tell me you grow your own food, where did the original seeds come from?
Somebody had to grow them.

So this statement...


is not completely true.
Try and show otherwise.

Your analogy only works if the Oil companies were the sole source for all forms of energy.

Farmers (especially commercial farms) usually specialize in specific crops or livestock. I my diet can be exclude products from any particular farm or even multiple farms.

Vegans don't eat meat or animal byproducts.
People on the Atkins diet will not eat most carbohydrates.

With an oil company we do not have a choice but to participate in their market. Even if we don't drive a gas car, our goods are still shipped with them etc.

Returning to the original point. I can choose the farmers I want to send my money to. I am forced to give my dollar to the oil companies. We don't have a choice with them.

Don't play dumb.

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