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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Raymond Duray who wrote (230627)4/25/2005 4:56:51 PM
From: tejek  Read Replies (1) of 1572507
 
I feel that much the same sort of psychological malaise is occurring in America today. Far too many people see the problems that they face in their own lives, and find that they are struggling more and more each month with increasingly expensive fuel, health, housing and food costs yet they love George Bush and completely fail to comprehend that many of Bush's policies are actually very hurtful of Americans in general.

In part, that's because Bush tells the people that others are to blame for their problems. Any oil trader knows that the major culprit for the current high oil prices is the psychology of shortage that pervades the markets. That sense of shortage comes in big part to the war in Iraq and the uncertainty it has brought to the world's oil markets. However, in his weekend radio address, Bush blamed past presidents ie Clinton as well as the Dems for the shortages, claiming that they discouraged drilling in Alaska, ANWR, and off the coastlines.

To someone who doesn't trade oil or understand how limited the reserves are in the ANWR or that the ANWR has only heavy crude whereas we use mostly 'sweet' or light crude in the US, Bush's argument sounds very plausible. After all, who has the time to outthink a president and his BS.

I've heard loyal Republicans on honest call-in shows like C-SPAN's Washington Journal state how much they hate Bush's policies, while they remain completely loyal to their Party and their leader. It's really a pathetic spectacle of human weakness.

They are people who's commitment is more to their own party than their country. They are not worth spit.

ted
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