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Analysis
Sen. Hillary Clinton's campaign released her radio ad April 9, and Sen. Barack Obama's rebuttal ad was launched the following day. Both are airing in Pennsylvania, where Clinton and Obama face each other in a Democratic presidential primary election on April 22. Hillary for President

Radio Ad:"Real Life"
Announcer: In his TV ads, Barack Obama sounds like he'll take on the oil companies.
Obama: I don't take money from oil companies.
Announcer: What he doesn't tell you is that "no candidate does … they can't," according to the Annenberg Center's Factcheck.org . . . It's been against the law for companies to donate to candidates for a hundred years.
Listen to Barack Obama some more.
Obama: Now Exxon's making forty billion dollars a year and we're paying three fifty for gas.
Announcer: Obama doesn't mention that he voted for the Bush Cheney energy bill. It was called a piñata of perks and the best energy bill corporations could buy.
Hillary Clinton voted against that bill.
She's the one who will make the oil companies pay to set up a new strategic energy fund that will cut our dependence on foreign oil, invest in new clean energy and create five million new jobs.
It's time for a president who takes on the oil companies in real life, not just on TV. Hillary Clinton.

Oil Money
The Clinton ad criticizes Obama for saying "I don't take money from oil companies," and it cites our March 31 article as evidence to the contrary. Obama's ad says, "Clinton's taken more from big oil and other PACs and lobbyists than any other candidate, Democrat or Republican." Both candidates have a point, but both strain the facts. Actually, both have accepted a few hundred thousand dollars from sources in the oil and gas industry, but these make up a tiny percentage of their total contributions.

Obama accepts no money from oil companies directly (which would be illegal), and he also turns away donations from the political action committees set up by oil companies and other interests and refuses money from active lobbyists for oil or any other industry. We faulted him earlier for a TV ad in which he claimed, "I don't take money from oil companies." In fact, he does accept donations from oil company employees, and he has two oilmen working as "bundlers" for the campaign, collecting donations. In his radio ad he states matters more accurately, saying he's "the only candidate who doesn't take a dime from oil company PACs or lobbyists."

Clinton takes lots of money from lobbyists and PACs from a wide variety of companies and industries. In fact, just as Obama's ad states, she has accepted more from PACs ($1,157,939) and from current and former lobbyists ($865,290) than any other candidate of either party, according to public records tallied by the Center for Responsive Politics. (McCain is second in both categories, with $687,794 from PACs and $590,952 from individual lobbyists.) The figures are based on the most recent reports filed, as of March 20. (CRP also shows $115,163 from lobbyists to Obama, though he says this is all from former lobbyists, not those currently active.)

But the fact is that little of Clinton's money comes from the oil and gas industry, the focus of both ads.
Donations from Oil and Gas Industry

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1. Energy independence

2. Why we have terrorist & how to stop terror the easy way

1. War ends We win: when we pass a law that makes the minimum price of gasoline at the pumps: $1.75/gallon.

The ethanol investors do not build ethanol distilleries because monopoly OPEC would lower the price of crude/gasoline to rust out the billion dollar/million barrel a day ethanol stills.

Brazil is energy independent: ethanol; All their cars come built running on ethanol; The gas station fills the tanks with ethanol, no gasoline.

Archer Daniel Midland made millions in the USA selling $1.00 gallon ethanol in the 1990s;

That trumps any canard/invalid objection to ethanol. Use Cellulose ethanol, not corn ethanol.

Cellulose Ethanol energy independence in the USA, will balance the trade deficit, create full employment, bring down the price of fuel, break the monopoly on the pricing of fuel, balance the USA government budget, create less pollution, make the USA energy independent, and end the war because we will stop funding the bad guys everyday at the gas pumps.

With all the cars running on ethanol; the price of oil will collapse and the radical Moslem hordes will no longer have the funds we used to give them from gasoline sales to finance the war against us.

I built a distillery and converted my GM car to 160 proof ethanol by 1982; and tried 25 years to get the USA off of gasoline. Unless the strategy I am outlining is adopted, the war that is coming, regardless of who is elected, will make Vietnam look like a cake walk.

2. Sharia people are at war with The West because Sharia people believe Islam can not survive against: a free market economy with free speech to criticize Islam.

International law, has defined a set of war rule parameters that guarantee no war can be won by good guys and that guarantee nice long lasting wars with lots of weapons sales.

Generals: Patton. Eisenhower, Marshall , Sherman et al would all be war criminals under international law and Europe would be under Hitler; the American civil war would not be over if fought under the current rules; which, intentionally or unintentionally, are designed for a hundred year terror war.

Cut off terrorist infested countries/areas: no phones, no lights, no motorcars not a single luxury. No food, no water, no ships/airplanes in and out, no trucks cross their borders; nothing till they give up the terrorism. Better the terrorist should die right there than have a war where the world is terrorized for 100 years.

The leadership that sponsors these terrorist suicide murders are the Heads of state in Tehran, Riyadh, and Damascus.

Intelligence analyst: Getzel

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Posted By: Not stupid in Alabama @ 05/06/2008 3:12:08 AM

FatedGolem, a person can be an elitist and a liberal. An elitist believes that he knows what is better for people than they know or can understand themselves. An elitist believes he is smarter than the ones he wants to rule, that he knows what is best for them even if they don't agree with him. An elitist argues they are just too dumb to figure it out for themselves, which is why Obama's "cling to their guns and their religion" comments tagged him as an elitist, and his explanation that they don't know any better than to vote against their own best interests only made it worse.
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Posted By: Not stupid in Alabama @ 05/06/2008 3:05:50 AM

Suspending the gas tax would save over four and a half a billion dollars in trucking costs a year for manufactured goods, or more than a billion for the three months it is proposed. The Clinton proposal translates not only into savings on the cost of gas for consumers, but on the cost of everything being transported to the market where we buy it.

In a period of recession which threatens to get worse, making it possible for consumers to go on vacations, and helping American businesses cut costs so they can continue to employ their workers makes sense to me, especially if there is no loss to the highway trust fund.
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Posted By: getzel @ 04/21/2008 4:13:02 PM

1. Energy independence

2. Why we have terrorist & how to stop terror the easy way

1. War ends We win: when we pass a law that makes the minimum price of gasoline at the pumps: $1.75/gallon.

The ethanol investors do not build ethanol distilleries because monopoly OPEC would lower the price of crude/gasoline to rust out the billion dollar/million barrel a day ethanol stills.

Brazil is energy independent: ethanol; All their cars come built running on ethanol; The gas station fills the tanks with ethanol, no gasoline.

Archer Daniel Midland made millions in the USA selling $1.00 gallon ethanol in the 1990s;

That trumps any canard/invalid objection to ethanol. Use Cellulose ethanol, not corn ethanol.

Cellulose Ethanol energy independence in the USA, will balance the trade deficit, create full employment, bring down the price of fuel, break the monopoly on the pricing of fuel, balance the USA government budget, create less pollution, make the USA energy independent, and end the war because we will stop funding the bad guys everyday at the gas pumps.

With all the cars running on ethanol; the price of oil will collapse and the radical Moslem hordes will no longer have the funds we used to give them from gasoline sales to finance the war against us.

I built a distillery and converted my GM car to 160 proof ethanol by 1982; and tried 25 years to get the USA off of gasoline. Unless the strategy I am outlining is adopted, the war that is coming, regardless of who is elected, will make Vietnam look like a cake walk.

2. Sharia people are at war with The West because Sharia people believe Islam can not survive against: a free market economy with free speech to criticize Islam.

International law, has defined a set of war rule parameters that guarantee no war can be won by good guys and that guarantee nice long lasting wars with lots of weapons sales.

Generals: Patton. Eisenhower, Marshall , Sherman et al would all be war criminals under international law and Europe would be under Hitler; the American civil war would not be over if fought under the current rules; which, intentionally or unintentionally, are designed for a hundred year terror war.

Cut off terrorist infested countries/areas: no phones, no lights, no motorcars not a single luxury. No food, no water, no ships/airplanes in and out, no trucks cross their borders; nothing till they give up the terrorism. Better the terrorist should die right there than have a war where the world is terrorized for 100 years.

The leadership that sponsors these terrorist suicide murders are the Heads of state in Tehran, Riyadh, and Damascus.

Intelligence analyst: Getzel