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Politics : The Next President 2008 -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Nicholas Thompson who wrote (2808)	4/22/2008 5:26:47 PM
From: jlallen	Respond to of 3215

The price of oil amnd gas is determined by supply and demand....like every other commodity. The price of those commodities has everything to do with the increased demand for them in China, India, Pakistan and other developing nations....and very little if anything to do with what President Bush might be able to control. As for GW, it is a huge fraud. Don't even get me started on that one.... J.

To: Nicholas Thompson who wrote (2808)	4/23/2008 1:51:33 AM
From: John Carragher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3215

tap our petroleum reserve, how would this bring down price? several times it has been suggested by democrats to tap into reserve.. and that was when oil was at $60/ a bbl. china is building a petroleum reserve , we are using 2% less gas in the u.s. now. and prices are still rising. I do not see any real impact in pricing. If he floods market with oil, then shipments scheduled for u.s. will quickly be sold on open market at current world prices. petroleum reserve should be used for emergencies like iran , vz shutting down supplies etc. not for pricing purposes. we need the reserve to continue to function for thirty days or more. If you want to control prices , slow down demand further through allocations.. it is much more fair to lower income people than letting prices continue to rise to a point it takes food out of their mouths. prices does not stop those who can afford to pay only those who cannot afford it. allocations is fair to all and cuts into those with ability to buy all the gasoline they want.

To: Nicholas Thompson who wrote (2808)	4/23/2008 11:39:05 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	Respond to of 3215

Geoff Garin, a senior strategist for Mrs. Clinton, said that while race may have had a role in Mr. Obama’s problems in Pennsylvania, his biggest problem was that these events underlined the image of him being out of touch. “Voters came into the campaign with pretty big question marks about whether Obama gets them,” Mr. Garin said. “And those comments reinforced doubts that people had.”“The big question about Barack Obama from the very beginning has been, Is he safe?” said Peter D. Hart, a Democratic pollster not affiliated with any campaign. “Safe in terms of both the cultural values that he has, and about whether he is strong enough to be commander in chief.” For Mr. Obama, race presents two potential problems: Voters opposing him simply because he is black, and Democrats who will not support him because they do not think a black man can win a general election. The results in Pennsylvania suggest that problems exist. A poll of Democratic voters conducted by Edison/Mitofsky for the television networks and The Associated Press found that Mrs. Clinton drew 63 percent of the white vote while Mr. Obama drew 90 percent of the black vote, mirroring a pattern in many other states. More strikingly, the poll found that 18 percent of Democrats said that race mattered to them in this contest — and just 63 percent of those voters said they would support Mr. Obama in a general election.