Wrestling Over War Powers

Do nothing to stop war?. Let Chancellor Hitler lead the way to victory? What is your "Victory" in Iraq? Give no-bid contracts to exxon? we won. lets go home now.

And MCWAR may have even though he cannot differenciate between Sunni and Shia and still thinks Czechoslovakia is a country!!
Yeh, he's real on top of things!!!!

Americans deserve to know the truth about oil and gasoline prices and where the fault lies.

Price of oil when Bush took office - $29

Price of oil when democrats took over Congress - $51

Price of oil today, July 11, 2008 - $145

Price of gasoline when Bush took office - $1.60

Price of gasoline when Democrats took over Congress - $2.34

Price of gasoline today, July 11, 2008 - $4.30

During the first 58 months of Bush's term in office, the price of a barrel of oil increased by $22 and a gallon of gasoline increased by $0.64! In the last 20 months of Bush's term in office, since the Democrats took control of Congress, the price of a barrel of oil increased by $94 and a gallon of gasoline increased by $1.96.

Now, who do you think is more responsible for gasoline prices being so high? Let me clue you in! Speculators are accused of being responsible for high oil prices. But, why would they be blamed? Their intelligence tells them that increased US oil drilling will never be allowed under a Democrat controlled Congress and our dependency on foreign crude will continue to rise. They are not stupid!!

Some ignorant Americans are going around saying that oil companies are not drilling on millions of acres that they have leased. That is a lie!! They are drilling dry hole after dry hole. There is not much oil there to be found. The oil companies know where the oil is and where it would be profitable to drill. Why are we telling them where to drill and where not to drill? Because our Congress contains a bunch of elite politicians that can afford high gas prices since the tax payers pay their expenses.

Congress needs to act on legislation immediately to open up offshore drilling and ANWR drilling. This Congress is killing the American people. Their approval rating is down to 9% and if anymore Democrats are elected, it could go to 0%. If the U.S. commits to using our own resources rather than depending on foreign countries, the price of oil would drop immediately! OPEC cannot afford to lose a big spender like the U.S.! The LOUD AND PROUD AMERICANS need to take action immediately and persuade Congress to get off their hands and accomplish something to help the American people now and in the future.

The Republicans passed an energy bill and Clinton vetoed it. Clinton said that it would take ten years to get the oil to the market. That was twelve years ago and look where we are today. Sound familiar?

Hon,
If Obama becomes Pres., your children will be placed in the Communist Youth Army. And you will not be allowed to make any personal decisions, because the government will make those decisions for you.

Come on Obama! Tell everyone what your strategy is on getting out of Iraq. While you are at it, tell us where you got your military expertise experience. The only experience that I know you have as far as terrorism goes, is your close friendship and working relationship with William Ayers and his girlfriend, and your close friendship with, and your political support from Khalida.

Obama supporters, a good candidate changes their position based on experience and present conditions and not on a whelm or for political expediency. Experience takes many weeks, months and years and must be thoroughly analyzed before you decide to change your mind on important issues. Changing your mind in just a few hours or a few days is called flip flopping and that is an appropriate name for it. We need a president that examines history and past practices very carefully before he changes his mind and changes policy for this country. We don't need someone that flows with the tide and looks at polls to make decisions. Yes, we need someone that listens to the people, but in some cases, based on information that can't be made public, the president must use his/her good judgement.

Obama is controlled and told what to say and where he stands on a particular issue by his election staff. These people determine what the public wants to hear or where the other candidate stands on an issue, and then tells Obama what to say to the voters. Obama reads directly from a teleprompter most of the time and says exactly what his staff has come up with. He sounds like a great politician, but in fact he is just a robot with a lot of shrewd politicians behind him who have created a new political figure. Don't get caught up in their rhetoric and make an important decision that you will REGRET for the rest of your life.

lillea: The how to boil a frog thing is an old saying not a scientific fact. I point this out because there will be those people who will read what you have posted, and take that as 'fact', too.
Also, as to the loss of freedoms: Both liberals and conservatives are guilty for we have lost more of our Constitution recently (FISA & other bills). If you are truly concerned about infringement on our constitutional rights, you should be writing your representatives(as I and many other Americans of both parties do), not posting specious, angry, unsupported opinions as fact.

JFK only sent military advisors. Johnson sent the first combat troops in 1965. you need to do some fact checking

Our Democratic Congress can only do so much with a Vetoing idiot for a President. Even in his last days he's vetoing anything that would help the regular people. He politically wants to send up a smoke screen about off shore drilling when he knows it is ridiculous and will never pass. You don't hear the oil companies asking for it, because they know it is useless. GWB knows that but will say anything so his illiterate following of Repubs can get the not so bright down home folks angry and spew stupid blogs. People really need to think of their situation and what would best serve them and their families if not the country.