A Teachable Moment

Independent voters and many voters who might otherwise vote for a Democratic candidate do not like running out of gas or waiting for hours in gas lines.
Vote for Senator John McCain and Governor Sarah Palin if you worried about having gas available to put in your gas tank. Atlanta and Nashville voters know that Democratic hot air will not fill your gas tank.
Democrats should be happy, oil companies are not making record profits selling gas because there is now no gas to sell. Democrats have finally accomplished their goal in the Southeast. Independent voters do not like running out of gas or waiting hours in gas lines.
Why should Barack Obama insist that the removing the offshore ban should be part of a comprehensive energy ban? Why should it be a bargaining chip. Lifting the offshore oil drilling ban is the right and appropriate thing to do and should not have been used as a Democratic leadership fillibuster or extorsion tool to extract concessions on other issues. The current gas lines and closed gas stations with no gas in the Southeast including Georgia, Tennessee, and North Carolina are just a prelude of what we can expect under Barack Obama and Joe Biden energy policies of limited offshore exploration and no new refineries.


Although these gas lines are an immediate result of the recent hurricane Ike that hit Galveston and the Gulf coast, they are indicative of the tenuous nature of our refinery capacity and existing supplies of petroleum. Our refineries have been stretched to their limits for decades. Do you think, oil companies are going to invest in the future in new refineries in the United States given the tepid Democratic Party leadership support of the oil industry and their insistence on mandates for alternative energy sources. Oil companies would have to be crazy to invest even a nickel in new refineries or even do basic repairs to existing refineries. It is also a shame that the gas lines and empty gas stations are mainly in the Southeast which will become Redstates for McCain/Palin next month. It would be more poetic justice that the blue states of the northeast should suffer from the gas shortages caused by their Democratic leadership. The Northeast has been lockstep in their opposition to offshore oil drilling, nuclear power, clean coal, and even wind energy in the Massachusetts Bay area.

Let's say Palin manages to cram hard enough to not embarrass herself at the debate. What does that matter? We can't "un-see" what we've already seen. She would already know these things if national and world politics and people had naturally intrigued her. She didn't set out seeking national office and is woefully unqualified for it.

BTW, people have been using the argument that a lot of Americans don't have a passport so it should matter that Palin didn't get one until a year ago. Apples & oranges. it doesn't matter if a private citizen doesn't have a passport. If anyone who isn't aspiring to be a world leader doesn't want to travel, that's just a life preference like all others. Plus, it's expensive and that makes it difficult for many who might like it. What does matter is a person running for second highest position in the country, a WORLD leader, and yet has no interest in visiting ANYWHERE else in the world. It just supports that lack of passion for things for which our VP and President need to have the greatest natural interest.

Sarah Palin should remind everyone that RONALD REAGAN was a gov. of CA. with no foreign affairs experience and look at what he had accomplished.

Furthermore, she is running for VP only and if MCaine survived Vietnam, he will survive a presidency.

Let's get to bottom line and Obama flim flam.

I just cannot understand why the media is so harsh on PALIN and don't acknowldge gross and disapoint comments from the DEMOCRATIC TICKET, such as - 57 or 58 states mentioned by OBAMA and the comments on TV in 1929... this one made by BIDEN.

Come on Howard, The First Dummy doesn't even work since "Sinner" Sarah became the Governor. I wonder if he is the brains behind the governor calling all the shots since he seems to be privy to all her government e-mail. I seriously doubt that the Wicked Witch of Alaska can ever make comments outside of snarky petty partisan talking points. She's just a windup action doll with a few memorized lines. She won't be able to parrott herself out of this debate. I'll be watching the debate this week because I'm in need of some comedic relief and she'll be providing me with many laughs at her numerous gaffes. I think Joe Biden will win the night easily and will shame "Sinner" Sarah into a national joke. I wonder if she'll cry onstage in order to gain sympathy?

In a few weeks we will make a choice that will decide our future. I follow a economist named bob proctor who has called the top and bottom of every market crash since the 70s correctly. He perfectly predicted the current real estate market meltdown ,and the picture he paints about what will happen in the next couple years Is terrifying. He thinks it will be worse then the great depression. Banks in the US are going under one after the other. Country wide the largest morgage bank in the world Bear Stearns and Lehman brothers , and Merrill Lynch which are 3 out of the top 5 wall street firms. And now Fanny and Freddy which hold 50 percent of the home loans in the United States. The goverment took them over because they are essentially bankrupt. If they didn't the entire financially system would virtually shut down, the stock market would crash And we would suffer beyond what any of us have seen before The future of these companies will fall into the hands of our next president
Bush just like Mcain doesn't understand the economy.

That not just my opinion its his own words. Not only does he not understand how to fix it
He does not understand exactly what is broken. Its no surprise that he doesnt. The people that make up these
securities use complex math models very few people understand.
Bush and mccain both can take the credit for this mess since they helped deregulate the laws that were protecting us.


Bush's economic advisor Phil Graham wrote the deregulation bill that allowed banks take risks with all of our future.
Now Phil Graham is the head of mccains economic policy ,and mccain wants to make him the next secretary of the treasury.
No one in this country can afford for that to happen. The last time bush met with his economic advisors was in march. He either didnt realize or didnt care that anything was wrong. Phil Graham had the guts to say we are in a mental recession after he helped create the worst economy in our lifetime.
It will take the best and brightest minds in the world to get us out of this nightmare. As bad as bush has done mccain would be
incredibly worse because things are in much worse shape. The next president will not inherit a surplus like bush did but a tanking economy and a 11,600,000,000,000 deficit. Most of Bush created and it will take decades to pay it back.
If you do what you have always done then you will do get what you have always __________

When it comes to policy bush and mccain are the same 90 percent of the time.
So why are the polls even close then ?

The chairman of mcains campaign recently said that people don't vote on issues

they vote on a personality composite which means. He is trying to sell you personality instead of results.
He believes people will vote against there own self interests.

Lets teach him we are smarter then that .
Hold them accountable now while it will still help
Elect Obama Biden 2008

Here are the things we should be saying on these blogs. Let's stop wasting time attacking people. If the American people keep talking to their legislatures about these universal values, our country could be better than it is.
1) Universal or affordable healthcare
2) High Tech. Green jobs
3) War on poverty
4) Community policing
5) Humble Foreign Policy
6) No more corporate lobbyists

Great Solution for our economic crisis. Bring green jobs to America. Wind power can employ rural people in farming states. Filters used for power plants can be build right here in America. We have lost many great paying jobs to the Europeans and the Japanese. The side benefit of completely going green is our children might have a chance. Sure you could be ignorant enough to argue about it. Do you think e should take a chance though? Plus lose all the econmic money other countries are making.

Do you think the word liberal is a bad thing?
Sweden, Switzerland, Canada, Norway, Germany
Who has the higher standard of living? Who has the lower crime rates? Who has the stronger middleclass? Why can anyone argue against this in America? Unless your a corporate interest, who can send experienced professionals to fool the average American that universal healthcare will create more beaucracy; but in reality we experience more corporate beauacracy than ever before in the medical industry. Why is this message so hard to get across?

What I am afraid may happen is that Palin will get a pass, being able to attack behind the smile and Joe is such a gentleman that he may not ask her the really tough questions where she obviously knows so very little. And I don't care if he said FDR was on TV, he was on the radio and in those days that was the same thing. I do care however that Palin's ex preacher has a problem with witches!

There is one thing that I don't understand. Why the media is so unfair to PALIN for the interview given to CBS and don't acknowledge that OBAMA mentioned 57 states in the UNITED STATES and BIDEN mentioned the TV in 1929...ONLY ONE PERSON HAS TO CARRY THE STUPIDITY OF THE OTHE TWO?... It would be nice if all could be split...

Someone needs to get Palin up to date on McCain's effort to enact financial reforms back in 2005 before her debate. She didn't have the answer when Katie Couric asked, but McCain was a co-sponsor of S. 109.

THERE ARE REALLY SOME IDIOTS WHO ARE REALLY ROOTING FOR THESE TWO TO WIN THIS ELECTION. THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH RACE, BUT IT IS WHO WILL LOOK OUY FOR ALL OF OUR NEEDS; RED, GREEN, YELLOW, BLACK, WHITE AND PURPLE. I GUESS THE ONE'S WHO ARE SUPPORTING THE RUPUB. PARTY ARE THE ONE'S WHO AREN'T STRUGGLING ON A DAY TO DAY BASIS. I AM A FULL TIME EMPLOYEE AND STUDENT AND IT IS HARD B/C EVERY LITTLE BIT YOU SAVE IT IS SHIPPED RIGHT BACK TO THE MAKERS AS SOON AS YOU CAN GET IT. GAS IS REALLY SICK, PEOPLE ARE LOSING THEIR HOMES, JOBS ARE SCARCE FOR THE PEOPLE WHO REALLY HAVE AND WANT TO WORK. I AM 21 YEARS OLD AND I NEVER WOULD HAVE IMAGINED TO BE LIVING THIS WAY. I GUESS THE ONE'S WHO SUPPORT HIM ARE THE ONES WHO THIS INCREASE IN EVERYDAY LIFE COSTS HAS HAD NO EFFECT UPON. B/C WITH HIS TAX PLAN THAT'S WHO'S GETTING BENEFITTED THE MOST EVEN IF WE ARE THE ONES WHO LITERALLY ARE BARELY MAKING IT OFF A JOB THAT WE SHOULD LIVE COMFORTABLY ON. AMERICA THINK LONG AND SMART.

OBAMA/BIDEN "08"