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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (35740)	7/21/2008 2:37:08 PM
From: Bill	Respond to of 224755

Obama the war monger... Obama also continued to press for a troop "surge" ctv.ca

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (35740)	7/21/2008 2:50:22 PM
From: puborectalis	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 224755

Heard on CNBC that this war in Iraq was the first war ever paid for by credit card/debt.We've spent 800 billion on a war that never had anything to do with the perpetrators of 9/11.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (35740)	7/21/2008 2:53:35 PM
From: puborectalis	Respond to of 224755

Chutzpah! WASHINGTON (AP) - Republican presidential candidate John McCain is launching a new television ad that blames Democratic rival Barack Obama for rising gasoline prices. The ad, airing on national cable and in 11 battleground states, argues that the cost of fuel is rising because of opposition to oil drilling in the United States. The announcer in the ad says, "Gas prices—$4, $5, no end in sight, because some in Washington are still saying no to drilling in America. No to independence from foreign oil. Who can you thank for rising prices at the pump?" A photograph of Obama appears on the stage as a voiceover of a crowd chants: "Obama, Obama, Obama!"

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (35740)	7/21/2008 2:56:27 PM
From: Bill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224755

THIS IS NOT A DRILL by Ann Coulter July 16, 2008 Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, or as she is called on the Big Dogs blog, "the worst speaker in the history of Congress," explained the cause of high oil prices back in 2006: "We have two oilmen in the White House. The logical follow-up from that is $3-a-gallon gasoline. It is no accident. It is a cause and effect. A cause and effect." Yes, that would explain why the price of oral sex, cigars and Hustler magazine skyrocketed during the Clinton years. Also, I note that Speaker Pelosi is a hotelier ... and the price of a hotel room in New York is $1,000 a night! I think she might be onto something. Is that why a barrel of oil costs mere pennies in all those other countries in the world that are not run by "oilmen"? Wait -- it doesn't cost pennies to them? That's weird. In response to the 2003 blackout throughout the Northeast U.S. and parts of Canada, Pelosi blamed: "President Bush and Rep. Tom DeLay's oil-company interests." The blackout was a failure of humans operating electric power; it had nothing to do with oil. And I'm not even "an oilman." But yes -- good point: What a disaster having people in government who haven't spent their entire lives in politics! That explains everything. A government official with relevant experience or knowledge about an issue is obviously a crisis of gargantuan proportions. This must be why the Democrats are nominating B. Hussein Obama, who finished middle school three days ago and has less experience than a person one might choose at random from the audience of "American Idol." Announcing the Democrats' bold new "plan" on energy last week, Pelosi said breaking into the Strategic Petroleum Reserve "is one alternative." That's not an energy plan. It's using what we already have -- much like "conservation," which is also part of the Democrats' plan. Conservation, efficiency and using oil we hold in reserve for emergencies does not get us more energy. It's as if we were running out of food and the Democrats were telling us: "Just eat a little less every day." Great! We'll die a little more slowly. That's not what we call a "plan." We need more energy, not a plan for a slower death. But there's more! Pelosi announced that the Democrats also plan to push for "an historic investment in biofuels, efficiency, conservation and the rest." The "rest" is apparently what she called our "important and essential" investment in alternative energy. That certainly would be historic: We would make history by throwing our money away on unproven energy boondoggles that have eaten up untold billions since the 1960s without producing a single net kilowatt of power while we all starve to death. The proposal to use energy sources that don't yet produce any energy is like the old New Yorker cartoon with Obama in Muslim garb -- no wait, that was a different cartoon. The cartoon is: A scientist has written out his extremely complicated theory on a blackboard and is showing it to another scientist. The theory consists of numbers and characters and takes up the entire blackboard. About two-thirds of the way across, reading left to right, appear the words, "then a miracle happens," followed by more numbers and characters. That's the Democrats' plan to run cars on biofuels, solar and wind power: Then a miracle happens. The current Democratic mantra on energy is: "We can't drill our way out of this problem." Apparently their plan is to talk our way out of this problem. Democrats are also alleging that the oil companies are sitting on millions of acres of oil but are refusing to drill -- presumably because oil company executives hate the American people and perversely don't want to make money. Manifestly, those acres are being explored for oil or have already come up dry. If the Democrats really wanted oil companies to find more oil, they'd allow oil companies to drill offshore and to drill in ANWR, which we happen to know is bursting with oil. But they don't. They don't want drilling. They don't want more oil. They want humans to ride bicycles and then to die. We deserve it: We were mean to the polar bears. It's good to know that in the middle of a crisis, the Democrats are still liars. As long as we're fantasizing about "alternative" energy sources, what we really need is a car that runs on Democrats' lies.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (35740)	7/21/2008 2:58:31 PM
From: Ann Corrigan	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 224755

Al Gore said yesterday he wants the planet meat-free, Ken. There go your bacon cheese burgers.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (35740)	7/21/2008 4:16:13 PM
From: DizzyG	Respond to of 224755

That's odd, Kenneth... Of course, the Democrat, who was Al Gore's running mate in 2000, means the United States Senate. But he really belongs on the other side of the aisle with the Republicans. According to this site: senate.gov Joe Lieberman is listed as an Independent. This sums it up best: A three-term incumbent, Mr. Lieberman lost his party’s renomination in the Aug. 8 primary to Ned Lamont, a Greenwich millionaire and former selectman who ran on a crisp antiwar message. Mr. Lieberman announced he would run as an independent against Mr. Lamont and the Republican nominee, Alan Schlesinger, this fall. nytimes.com I don't recall any of his fellow Democrats coming to his aid when that happened. Sounds like sour grapes to me from the author. And it sounds like you have received a new batch of marching orders from your handlers. You are such a DNC parrot...:) Diz-