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To: Knighty Tin who wrote (114849)	8/3/2008 12:05:17 PM
From: Rarebird	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 132070

<< McCain will not push oil prices higher the way these two partisans did, and Obama would be a total about face of ripping off middle class Americans to pay off oil barons.>> True, but McCain agrees with Bush on the need for the government to go right on spending. McCain is promising to renew ALL of President Bush's tax cuts which are due to expire at the end of 2010. Furthermore, McCain promises to maintain and even ramp up the "war on terror" presently taking place in Iraq and Afghanistan. There is no change here. According to both presidential contenders, their function is to spend. The function of the American "taxpayer" is to underwrite it. I'm an economic conservative, social liberal and a "dove" on foreign policy. So, no candidate fits my philosophy precisely. However, my rebellion against Death will force me to choose "the lesser of two evils" here, namely Obama. If reckless spending is a necessary "evil", I want it to be oriented toward "middle class" tax cuts.

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (114849)	8/3/2008 2:05:09 PM
From: steve harris	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

your crooked oil men have been in power since 2001. The price of oil didn't go nuts until your left coast kooks won the majority in congress in 2006. the facts contained in history doesn't support your allegations used to hope for lower oil prices. History shows oil prices will go higher with NoBama.

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (114849)	8/3/2008 3:00:55 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 132070

NEWSBUSTERS - UPDATE: In what could be seen as an indirect acknowledgement by Edwards that this alleged scandal might have destroyed his political future, comes this report titled, "Edwards ending college program," in today's Raleigh News & Observer: Former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards is pulling the plug on a scholarship program he started at an Eastern North Carolina high school -- a program he once promised would be a model for the nation under an Edwards presidency. Edwards' presidential hopes have evaporated. And he recently informed Greene County officials that he would end the pilot program at Greene Central High School. To the suspicious mind of your humble correspondent, it looks like John Edwards' whole poverty tour shtick was just that...shtick. Once it looked like his scholarship program would serve him no purpose, Edwards ditched it immediately.