Palin’s Pipeline to Nowhere

John McCain picked Governor Sarah Palin because he intends to follow through and make his Project Lexington for United States energy independence the dominant issue in this campaign. Governor Sarah Palin is a strong supporter of increased offshore drilling and she knows that Alaska has an offshore coastline greater than the rest of the country combined and is also comes in second among the states in oil production. Alaska Governor Sarah Palin and John McCain understand that Obama and the Democrats would never consider government loan guarantees or tax breaks for a sure thing that will produce energy for the American gas tank. In fact Democrats are trying to put together a so-called windfall profits tax which will have the effect of discouraging future investment in the United States oil industry. John McCain also knows that Governor Sarah Palin family situation also illustrates that longterm Democratic leadership hostility and policies toward United States owned energy companies have caused our current energy crisis. Her husband works for British Petroleum but instead should be working for the former American owned Arco Oil Company. Arco Oil Company developed and explored the Alaska North Slope and formerly owned eighty percent of our proven Alaskan reserves. With its substantial oil reserves Arco Oil Company should have bought British Petroleum instead of British Petroleum buying out Arco Oil Company during the second Bill Clinton administration. With the right business environment and support from both political parties in the United States, Arco Oil Company might have been more successful and been able to buy out British Petroleum instead of British Petroleum buying out Arco Oil Company. Look at Apple Computer and Microsoft. Their success in the computer world have made them bullet proof to corporate takeovers. Longterm Democratic hostility and opposition to offshore drilling and periodic talk of windfall profits taxes contributed to the takeover of Arco Oil Company.

Gee whiz, if that happens, where will Pickens' and his "green weenies" be with their natural gas powered cars? I think the pipleline to nowhere goes directly to your brain! Besides, natural gas isn't the miracle we're looking for. It's barely an interim solution unless every natural gas user has a gas pump in their garage. It's true natural gas is cleaner and cheaper than gasoline. However, you can only go 1/2 the distance on the same natural gas that fits in the same space your gasoline tank takes. In addition, you've got to wonder what drivers will say when they have to give up space in their back seats to install natural gas tanks instead. If the NG sellers are required to scent their product, guess how nice your car will smell after a fill-up. Furthermore, anyone who smokes or builds up static electricity will be dangerous to themselves and others. Natural gas isn't the best way to do. Blut, we'd better do something. All population groups will have to sacrifice in order to get our energy resource policy on a good footing, ALL Americans - not just the Natives. If they value freedom, then they should be willing to sacrifice along with the rest of us. While I don't believe we should arbitrarily ignore their complaints, but they often have solutions non-natives would ever think of. Gas line to nowhere is just that if there isn't some intelligent brainstorming by us all. The "nowhere" you speak of is when our machines all grind to a halt without the energy needed to keep them running.

I am an Independent and quite frankly she scared me to death. They say the only way you can tell if a lawyer is lying is that his lips are moving. I feel that everytime the Barracude bright red lips are moving the same thing is happening. Then someone has to straighten things out by shaying ""She meant to say." Poor McCain should have picked someone who know about political things and not about firing a librarian cuz she won't take Huckleberry Finn off of the shelves. Oh yes, also Harry Potter. Send her to Russia, she would make a good dictator......

Seems all Palin does is step on someone's toes. Firing the employee, Bridge to Nowhere, now the oil line, plus charging hotel room fees while she was at home. Todd in turn submitting bills for supposedly going on trips for state business. I didn't know the spouse of a governor or major was allowed a travel expense. She should be bashed, smashed and lashed.,

I love it, D E M O C R A T S are scared to death by Sarah Palin.

Get a Life Newsweek and stop the constant bashing of Palin.

Oh Stop! Quit the constant Palin bashing, it's getting old and boring.

Get a Life Newsweek and stop the constant bashing of Palin.

the honor they are trying to save by keeping our troops in Iraq is not the troops, it's theirs.

So many uneducated bleeding heart false patriots who never take the time to get the facts. If someone tells them something they believe it regardless. Take all and I do mean ALL that you get with a grain of salt from both parties. Stop being led around by your noses and start finding out what each candidate is really about and not just what someone tells you they are about. See beyond the rhetoric and get to the facts. I support Obama. I have seen numerous cases where McCain has had to change his mind, change his policy or views on subjects becaue he was what? WRONG! As for Palin look at the fact that her state has a lower popluation than most major metroplitan cities. Yes it is very vital that our next President and Vice President have knowledge of foriegn goverments and terrorist issues. But as a Repulican look at this your favorite president Ronald Regan was an actor and a state senator and had no foriegn policy experience and you loved him. So why is it you can find stones to through under the same circumstances. Just look at the REAL facts this country's economic status is in the toilet. This election needs to be purely about domostic issues or our country is going to slide right into the ocean of the free world market . You say that your taxes will be raised by Obama then you must make over $200,000 per year. Otherwise your taxes will be lower and you will be given more tax advantages. Know the facts. Vote with your brain not your heart.

What would prompt Palin and her advisors to commit to building this pipeline at such great expense to the state, when it's chances timely, or actual completion, are so uncertain? Only a few possable answers, any of which may be very telling.

Ooooh, raise the spectre of big bad terrorists and we'll all vote Republican. They did a great job protecting us from 9/11. If Bush really thought national security was our nations biggest priority throughout his presidency, he would have beefed up our security beforehand. Sure, you can blame Clinton for not taking the threat seriously, but who was holding the ball at end game?

to Country1st - exactly of what concern is it to you how premature the baby was - and how Gov. Palin was able to come back to work soon after having a baby - how about you concentrate on more important issues rather than questioning every move people do - b/c if you want me to start questioning Obama and Bidens moves I will and that will put your party further into deep deep shame (which you guys have already done to yourselves!) Perhaps you concentrate on the issues of security for our country and the economy - both of which Obama has NO experience in and Sen. McCain does have experience in - as well as has shown to do a good show in those regards!
Shame on you for questioning people like that!

Have McCain bomb, bomb, bom, bomb the Canadian Indian tribes and steal their land. Look out here comes Iron Dog champ and hatchet man Todd. Environment be damned full speed ahead with the pipeline. The more pipes from the far notrth the better. Who needs polar bears, baby seals, whales, karibou, wolves anyway? They just impede the progress of the greedy to get their share of the swill.

McCain/Palin, what a joke.

NEW YORK (CBS) ??? Hillary Clinton won't be speaking at Monday's anti-Iran rally at the United Nations -- and neither will Republican Sarah Palin or any other politicians for that matter.

The reason? A heated behind the scenes tug-of-war.

Sources tell CBS 2 HD that a decision to disinvite Palin from the high profile rally after Clinton pulled out in a huff came as the result of intense pressure from Democrats.

"This is insulting. This is embarrassing, especially to Gov. Palin, to me and I think it should be to every single New Yorker," Assemblyman Dov Hikind, D-Brooklyn, told CBS 2 HD.

Sources say the axes were out for Palin as soon as Sen. Clinton pulled out because she did not want to attend the same event as the Republican vice presidential candidate.

"I have never seen such raw emotion -- on both sides," said someone close to the situation.

The groups sponsoring the rally against Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaking at the UN were reportedly told, "it could jeopardize their tax exempt status" if they had Palin and not Clinton or Democratic VP candidate Joe Biden on hand.

So all politicians were disinvited, most prominently, Palin.

"It's an absolute shame that this has happened," Hikind said. "To threaten organizations ??? to threaten the Conference of Presidents that if you don't withdraw the invitation to Gov. Palin we're going to look into your tax exempt status ??? that's McCarthyism."

Another Jewish group tried to step into the breach by inviting Palin to a different protest a day earlier.

"I'm absolutely appalled at the behavior of the Democrats," said Bob Kunst of Defenders.net. "I'm a Democrat and for the first time in my life I'm going to vote Republican. I can't take it anymore."

As for Sen. Clinton, she brushed right past CBS 2 HD's Lou Young when he tried to ask her about the issue on Thursday night.

Lou Young: "Were the organizers of Monday's rally right to depoliticize it?"

Clinton walked past Young, said "Thank you all very much" and started hugging people.