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Are the Russkys Meddling in US election?
Given Putin's KGB background, isn't it a distinct possibility that Russia's recent escapades are timed to influence the US election towards McCain? Russia's economic prosperity and its newly-regained strength can be summed up in three letters: OIL. If Obama wins, one expected result would be incentives to conserve and to seek alternatives ...
Posted to Ballot Box by Cincy on September 25, 2008
Barack Obama vs. Sarah Palin
Obama Palin Is Hawaii really part of America? Is Alaska really part of America? Charismatic star power when speaking Ditto Sometimes sounds like an egg-head Sounds like a ditto-head Opponents try to paint spouse as not patriotic (''Proud'' statement) Ditto (Alaska Independence Party) Opposes more drilling for oil in Alaska Asked ...
Posted to Politics by mathpol on September 11, 2008
Obama - "Change You Can Count On"-(flip flop) - part 1
''Change You Can Count on'' What??? CHANGE #1: Despite Pledging To Withdraw American Troops From Iraq Immediately, Barack Obama Now Says He Would ''Refine'' His Policy After Listening To The Commanders On The Ground In July 2008, Barack Obama Said He Will Continue To ''Refine'' His Iraq Policy. Obama: ''I've always said that the pace of ...
Posted to Politics by MiamiVice on August 11, 2008
Obama "Talk the Talk...but can he Walk the Walk" Part 2
Obama “Talk the Talk… but can he Walk the Walk” Part 2 In 1999, Barack Obama was faced with a difficult vote in the Illinois legislature — to support a bill that would let some juveniles be tried as adults, a position that risked drawing fire from African-Americans, or to oppose it, possibly undermining his image as a tough-on-crime moderate. ...
Posted to XX Factor by MiamiVice on August 8, 2008
Re: Obama, Oil, Drilling, Devaluation
What free lunch?? GOP Policies failures due to those Socialist democrats in Congress like Pelosi... Congress has its own ban on offshore energy exploration, and the Democrats who run Congress have shown no sign that they are willing to follow Bush's example. They have preferred to make excuses--about why the price of oil is rising, who is to ...
Posted to XX Factor by MiamiVice on August 5, 2008
Barack Sells Out - Drilling Will Cause Oil Prices to Fall
While I respect Melinda's well-written opinion about Barack Obama ''selling out'', I think that she perpetuates and repeats one of the most well trodden and often repeated myths of the left. The myth is generally same variation of ''Drilling in X place won't yield a drop of oil for Y years so this will have no effect on gas prices and thus there ...
Posted to XX Factor by SkepticalGeologist on August 3, 2008
US Offshore Oil Drilling
Barack Obama and John McCain have made recent statements on US offshore oil drilling while on the US presidential campaign trail. Well, Offshore Drilling is a huge issue right now and rightly so. Between the desire to deal with the economic mess that is being spurred by the price of oil and the on-going longer-term concern of global ...
Posted to Politics by herkayle on July 23, 2008
Why 'almost'? Lighten up!
Why not just title the piece “Sensible Plan” instead of all the almosts, ifs, ands, and buts? I’m with Educatordan on this one. It takes ideas like Mr. Hofmeister’s to break through the dogmas of single-issue, single constituency politics that each year drive Congress to allocate a little bit here for alternatives research, a little there for ...
Posted to Moneybox by Squeek on June 19, 2008