The “Shell Game”
By Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy on July 24, 2008 at 3:00 PM in Bamboozling, Barack Obama, Big Oil, Ellen Degeneres, Environment, Foreign Policy, Foreign affairs, Gas Prices, Hillary Clinton, John F. Kennedy, John Kerry, Media Bias, Republicans, Superdelegates, US Senate
Obama continues his Master of the Universe tour,today landing in Germany. He has a big ol’ speech planned to wow them in Germany, and to get their votes. Oh, wait - they can’t vote for him! No matter, he is bound and determined that he will get massive support there. He even went so far as to come up with a handy little poster for them all in German and everything! Of course, that is because his campaign BANNED any other posters. Yes, he did. He is trying to act like JFK, but I think he might remind the Germans of some other leader instead with his stringent requirements and grandiose expectations. But that’s just me.
Meanwhile, back in the United States, the US Senate is actually in session!! I bet you didn’t realize that since Obama is on his World Tour! But Obama not being in the Senate does not stop him from claiming credit, falsely, for one of the big committees in the Senate, the Banking Committee. He flat out said - with hand on his chest to make the point - that the Banking Committee is HIS committee! Here’s the kicker - he ISN’T EVEN ON IT!!! Wowie zowie - with all of the lies this man has told about his experience, especially his legislative experience, it is sure a good thing that his supporters have finally woken up and realized what a lying, conniving, scheming, Chicago-style politician he is!!! Oh, wait - that hasn’t happened yet. But we can hope that SOMEDAY they will realize they have been had. Of course, it would help if the media actually did their job to facilitate that awakening. This is me NOT holding my breath.
So, yes, the US Senate is in session, and there is someone who has been knocking herself out for her constituents, and all Americans. Oh, shoot - I have already given a clue by the use of the pronoun. I can assure you, it is not Claire McCaskill, one of Obama’s sycophantic “my children convinced me” supporters. No, of course not - you know who it is. Hillary Clinton.
That’s right, Hillary Clinton is currently fighting in the US Senate to get us relief from these exorbitant gas prices. Oh, and to argue against offshore drilling. What a silly little woman - worrying about the little people! Yet, she spoke about this on the Senate floor:
Senator Clinton urged her colleagues to support The Stop Excessive Energy Speculation Act to provide short term relief to Americans feeling the pain of rising fuel prices and also called for bold new steps to break the nation’s dependence on fossil fuels and achieve long term energy independence based on clean, renewable alternative energy.
Say WHAT? Gee willikers - it seems that all of her talk during her campaigning wasn’t just TALK! She CARES about these issues because she cares about us, energy independence, and the environment. Well, I’ll be darned! She went on to say:
“I believe we can lower gas prices in the very near term by taking smart, practical, sensible steps to address rampant oil speculation,” Senator Clinton said. “And let’s lead our nation to embrace the great next American endeavor, a national effort to change the way we produce and use energy. It’ll serve our economy. It will strengthen our security. It will bring us together as a nation.”
Oh, she just needs to stop - energy independence AND economic recovery? It’s madness, I tell you!!! Maybe that’s what Jim Cramer of CNBC’s “Mad Money” responded EMPHATICALLY when asked by Ellen Degeneres which candidate would be best for the economy: “That’s actually, hands down, Hillary Clinton.” HERE is the link for the interview on YouTube.com. It’s short, but powerful.
But Senator Clinton doesn’t stop there, oh no. She goes on to tackle the issue of offshore drilling:
“Drilling is the wrong answer. It will do nothing right now. It is literally a Shell game, or an Exxon Mobile game. It’s designed to serve the political interests of vulnerable Republicans and the financial interests of profit-rich oil companies. Average Americans will not see a dime,” Senator Clinton said. “The oil companies say, ‘Drill,’ and the President and the Vice President say, ‘How deep?’ I don’t think that’s the smartest, most effective answer.”
Crazy talk, I tell ya! WHAT is she thinking?? Energy independence? Get the economy on track?? NO offshore drilling?!?!? She is out of control!!!
It seems there is some precedent for these wild ideas of hers:
Senator Clinton has previously cosponsored the Petroleum Consumer Price Gouging Protection Act and the Close the Enron Loophole Act, which would protect consumers from unscrupulous energy profiteers and increase transparency in the retail and wholesale markets.
What has gotten INTO this woman?? Concerned about price gouging at the pump? While ExxonMobil continues to rake in record-breaking profits?? What is WRONG with her?! I swannee, as we say down here in the South, she just seems hell-bent on HELPING people! Not in self-promotion! Or being Master of the Universe and pretending to be former American heroes! Good grief.
So, Senator Clinton was on the floor, talking away, pushing this:
Senator Clinton outlined her proposal to create a Strategic Energy Fund to jump start research and investment in clean energy technologies to promote job growth, energy independence and a cleaner environment. She also underscored her support for providing energy relief to low-income families in New York and across the country. Senator Clinton has long been an advocate of fully funding the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP).
How dare she? She wants a program that will help the people of New York and all Americans? Including low-income people?! She has just gone too far. Apparently, she did not get the memo that her REAL job was to engage in narcissistic, selfish, egotistical, arrogant, CYA actions, not to actually do things that would HELP people, the economy, and the environment! Well, no wonder Kerry, Reid, Dodd, et al, in the Senate didn’t want her!! It has all become clear to me now!
Grrrr. So, to recap: Obama is off on his European vacation on TAXPAYER’S dime, pretending to be JFK but missing the mark by a universe, and Clinton is in the Senate fighting for US.
Once again, Automatic Super Duper Delegates: PICK THE PERSON WHO IS FIGHTING FOR US, who has the intelligence, the passion, the COMMITMENT, to restoring this country to economic health, and to take us to energy independence. HILLARY CLINTON is the only one who will do that. Grow a spine, stop worrying about getting more money for your pet projects, and DO THE RIGHT THING already. Have some integrity. Have some GUTS. Do not foist yet another Pretender on us. Seriously.
For an added bonus, here is the LINK to her speech on YouTube.com. Get a cup of coffee, tea, whatever your beverage of choice is, and watch a REAL leader, Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Obama has violated the Logan Act.
He must be punished.
Contact your Senator or Representative and demand charges be brought against Senator Obama.
No one has the right to make a mockery of the United States on foreign soil.
Any citizen of the United States, wherever he may be, who, without authority of the United States, directly or indirectly commences or carries on any correspondence or intercourse with any foreign government or any officer or agent thereof, with intent to influence the measures or conduct of any foreign government or of any officer or agent thereof, in relation to any disputes or controversies with the United States, or to defeat the measures of the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.
This section shall not abridge the right of a citizen to apply himself, or his agent, to any foreign government, or the agents thereof, for redress of any injury which he may have sustained from such government or any of its agents or subjects.
1 Stat. 613, January 30, 1799, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 953 (2004).
Wow! They’ll never do anything. Our laws don’t apply to him.
Well, the Republicans might, after the Coronation, oops I meant to say, Convention.
Yeah, he transcends laws.
Energy has a well thought out and written Call to Action for all to participate in involving the Logan Act.
Go to the following website:
http://stellarvoices.wordpress.com/ to participate.
Here is more on that action:
President Bush-First your Seal/Now your Negotiating Powers? by energy
July 24, 2008 · 4 Comments
Update: 072308
Contact these six members of the ‘US Senate Select Committee on Ethics’ and respectfully request each and everyone of them to begin an investigation of Senator Barack Hussein Obama (D-Ill) in regards to: (1) Obama’s visit with the Iraqi government discussion of withdrawal time lines of American troops from the region and public disclosure LOGAN ACT-does it apply(2) Obama campaigning on foreign soil as illustrated via a flier written in German with his ‘logo’ and ‘Paid for by Obama for America’ insignia and (3) Obama’s intentional defacement of the Great Seal of the United States.
‘The Select Committee on Ethics’ can be contacted at:
220 Hart Building, United States Senate
Washington, DC 20510.
Telephone: (202) 224 - 2981
Fax: (202) 224 - 7416
ethics.senate.gov
MEMBERS
Barbara Boxer, California, Chairman
Mark Pryor, Arkansas
Ken Salazar, Colorado
Republicans
John Coryn, Texas, Vice Chairman
Pat Roberts, Kansas
Johnny Isakson, Georgia
Posted: 072208
The article below is a motivator to contact every Republican Congressman and President Bush to immediately have the Democratic presumptive nominee Senator Barack Hussein Obama(D-Ill) cease and desist his visit to Europe and the Middle East and be held accountable for engagement in foreign policy talks with world leaders.
Furthermore, action needs to be taken to charge Obama with behavior unfit for a sitting US Senator, impersonating the duties of the Commander-In-Chief regarding US foreign policy with foreign leaders and a possible threat to US National Security, through a congressional investigation.
I cannot think of a more powerful opportunity to have Obama accountable to the State Department;President of the United States;citizens of the USA and removed as the presumptive Democratic nominee and held accountable for overstepping his Senatorial duties. Opportunity and timing is ours right now. Carpe Diem Folks!
Action to contact President Bush that he needs to take formal action against Obama needs to be implemented immediately. Contact the White House at:
Mailing Address
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500
Phone Numbers
Comments: 202-456-1111
Switchboard: 202-456-1414
FAX: 202-456-2461 TTY/TDD
Comments: 202-456-6213
Visitors Office: 202-456-2121
E-Mail
Please send your comments to comments@whitehouse.gov
CNN VIDEO
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
CNN Reporters: Obama “Presumptuous” & Negotiations Overstep His Authority as a Senator
Last night on Anderson Cooper 360, two CNN political analysts charged that Senator Obama overstepped his authority as a United States Senator in acting as a negotiator with the Iraqi government and publicly disclosing statements made during those interviews.
During an interview with Anderson Cooper, David Gergen, CNN’s Senior Political Analyst stated,
“Barack Obama made the first mistake of his trip, in my judgment, in releasing a statement in which he said exactly what Maliki had said in those conversations.
We have a long tradition in this country that we only have one president at a time. He’s the commander in chief and the negotiator in chief. I cannot remember a campaign which a rival seeking the presidency has been in a position negotiating a war that’s under way with another party outside the country.
I think he leaves himself open to the charge tonight that he’s meddling, that this is not his role, that he can be the critic, but he’s not the negotiator. We have a president who does that. So, I think the underlying facts support him, but I think it would be a real mistake — and I think it was a mistake — to get into these conversations and let it be used politically. “
Gergens comments were later echoed by a second CNN Analyst, Gloria Borger, who charged,
“I do agree with David. And Candy, in her earlier piece, talked about walking the fine line between being this candidate and being presumptuous. And I think that he may just have crossed that, because, you know, it is a tradition. You don’t talk about these private conversations. And it’s not up to Barack Obama right now to negotiate troop withdrawals. It’s up to Barack Obama to be on a fact-finding mission, which is indeed what he has said he was on. “
Gergen and Borger have it right, Senator Obama is not the President and in fact is not even the official presidential nominee of his party. Obama’s trip to Iraq is a taxpayer funded “Fact-Finding” mission in which he has no authority granted to him by congress nor the administration to engage in negotiations. His actions yesterday were indeed ‘presumptuous’ and violated his duties as a United States Senator.
The President of The United States is responsible for the course of foreign policy, and although Obama has the right to question or criticize that foreign policy, he has no constitutional authority to act in a negotiative role with foreign dignitaries.
The current administration is in ongoing negotiations with the Iraqi government concerning the role of US forces in assisting that government; a government that has been strengthened by a ’surge’ that Barack Obama opposed and claimed would fail. Obama overstepped his role as a Senator and potentially undermined ongoing negotiations by engaging in diplomatic negotiations for his political gain.
Obama actions yesterday should be condemned by other members of congress, just as former President Carter’s actions in Palestine earlier this year were condemned by congressional members. Obama is not the President and he is on a taxpayer funded fact-finding mission. Senator Obama’s actions in Iraq yesterday clearly demonstrated his use of this trip for political purposes; the military should immediately pull funding for the trip and charge the Obama campaign for the millions of dollars that this overseas farce is costing.
No Congressional Member has the authority to engage in negotiations or dictate US foreign policy. Yesterday’s actions show a clear arrogance and lack of respect for the office of the presidency and state department.
J Brown
Yup, the Obama clique can’t even wait until the election to start grabbing obscene Executive Power. These pols who call themselves are Democrats are Traitors. They’re Autocrats as evil as the Bush NeoCons.
We need a better Party and better government than we’ll get under Obama.
What specifically should be included in letters to reps?
Yes,
I called the White House in regards to this and spoke to a very interested and sympathetic call taker.
I also faxed a complaint to the Senate Ethics Committee:
fax # 202 224 7416
attn:
Barbara Boxer, CA.,Chairman
John Coryn, Texas Vice Chairman
Mark Pryor, Arkansas
Ken Salazar, CO.
Pat Roberts, KS
Johnny Isakson, GA
This Fraud must be stopped
Your tax dollars are paying for his preening self obssessed spectacles and making a laughing stock of America.
Found this in my email. A soldier sent it to an internet friend and wanted her to pass it around. It is about what he witnessed when Nobama visited Iraq. Don’t know how authentic this letter is, but wanted to share.
Here is the letter:
Hello everyone,
As you know I am not a very political person. I just wanted to pass along that
Senator Obama came to Bagram Afghanistan for about an hour on his visit to
“The War Zone”. I wanted to share with you what happened.
He got off the plan and got into a bullet proof vehicle, got to the area to
meet with the Major General (2 Star) who is the commander here at Bagram. As
the Soldiers where lined up to shake his hand he blew them off and didn’t say
a word as he went into the conference room to meet the General.
As he finished, the vehicles took him to the ClamShell (pretty much a big top
tent that military personnel can play basketball or work out in with weights)
so he could take his publicity pictures playing basketball. He again shunned
the opportunity to talk to Soldiers to thank them for their service. So really
he was just here to make a showing for the American’s back home that he is
their candidate for President.
I think that if you are going to make an effort to come all the way over here
you would thank those that are providing the freedom that they are providing
for you. I swear we got more thanks from the NBA Basketball Players or the
Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders than from one of the Senators, who wants to be the
President of the United States. I just don’t understand how anyone would want
him to be our Commander-and-Chief. It was almost that he was scared to be
around those that provide the freedom for him and our great country.
If this is blunt and to the point I am sorry but I wanted you all to know what
kind of caliber of person he really is. What you see in the news is all fake.
In service,
CPT J. P*****
Battle Captain
Great article. I love Hillary Clinton. I love President Bill Clinton. Two actual democrats. Not the trash posing as democrats in our congress and senate today.
This is the truth and I’m not just referring to Democrats. There used to be a time when a difference could be shown on the national level between the parties. Certainly there are differences when voting on social issues, but lately you cannot tell the difference between either party.
There is no backbone in most of our elected officials.
You get what you voted for.
We deserve better folks!
No I don’t! I NEVER do. Well, almost never. :/
Thank you Hillary, you are my hero and a real American hero. While you are working for us, Obambi is rediculing himself in fron of bunch of Germans who are listening to his lies.
Here is a bad news for obambi:
Internet Group Anonymous Files Bar Complaint Against Obama
Anonymous announced that they have filed a complaint with the Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission requesting an investigation into false statements and misrepresentations Barack Hussein Obama made on his own bar application.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Anonymous’ complaint alleges that by consuming illegal drugs Obama was violating New York Penal Law Sec. 220.06, which criminalizes cocaine use.[1] If proven, that level of drug use is a felony. Commission of such a criminal act is ethically prohibited as it reflects adversely on the lawyer’s fitness to practice law. See Rule 8.4(a)(3). The complaint further alleges that Obama engaged in multiple violations of Illinois Rules of Professional Conduct (”Rules”), including Rule 8.1 which prohibits lawyers from making a statement of material fact in connection with a bar application that the applicant knows to be false; Rule 8.4(a)(4) which prohibits lawyers from engaging in conduct involving dishonesty, fraud, deceit or misrepresentation; Rule 8.4(a)(5) which bars lawyers from participating in conduct prejudicial to the administration of justice; and Supreme Court Rule 771 which prohibits lawyers from engaging in conduct which brings the courts or the legal profession into disrepute.
Read the rest of the filing here: http://countusout.wordpress.com/
These rules seem to also be applicable to Obama’s fraudulent loan application for his Rezko House.
Perhaps that should be tacked on.
As “Lying” ‘brings the courts or legal profession into disrepute’ he may also be chargeable for anything he has been caught fibbing about while campaigning.
What a long list that would make!
IF Obama didn’t register for the draft that would also be breaking the law he swore to uphold as an officer of the Court.
This guy has less of a papertrail than a newborn infant! HOW? WHY?
Did anyone….anyone….actually call him out for his Banking Committee claim? What was the WORM on that one?
Calling Obama out on any of his
liesmisspeaks proves that you are a racist. You should know better.Hillary ‘08
Has anyone asked Sen. Dodd for comment?
I think Dodd is busy covering his own Countrywide VIP loan discount taking axx…
frakkers
I sent an email to Dodd yesterday asking whose committe it really was. I didn’t expect a reply and didn’t get one. Will tne media step up with a challege? Doubt it. Jim VandeHei was on FOX news today and his report of Obama’s trip and speech in Berlin was glowing. I never log on to Huffpo now and haven’t watched MSNBC for months. Does anyone know what they are saying there? I watched the speech (all that I could stomach) and I thought the reception he got was a little on the cool side.
He said he meant the BILL that came out of the committee. Uh huh. (clears throat) The bill he played a role in was LAST YEAR and had a very small part of this one … the part that Bush threatened not to sign as a result of its inclusion!
On Fox last night, I think Hannity and Colmes, it was brought out about the Banking Committee lie.
Thank you for a wonderful article. It brought tears to my eyes and gave me goosebumps. She is absolutely the best.
agree…it is good reminder ( sigh ). Now if someone would only Man Up and put that embarrassing Juvenile Fascist in place and tell him to quit this charade….Unfortunately, all my appeals to the Blue Fairy and Santa have been ignored….I guess Obamabots have overun the wishful thinking sites..
Thanks, PGraber and WorkingClass…Glad y’all liked it.
She really is something, isn’t she? AMAZINGLY, she is taking the SAME concepts she had on the campaign trail to the Senate! Are tehy even ALLOWED to fulfill their campaign promises? If Obama is any indication, that is a resounding NO!!!
I miss her. I miss hearing someone who really IS brilliant…
If McCain pick Crist as VP he gets my vote and here’s why look at Crist record
Health Care Cover Florida: $150 a month plan for 3.8 million uninsured. (Mar 2008)
Energy & Oil $200M package for solar, wind, & biofuel from citrus. (Mar 2008)
Propose almost $70 million on alternative energy development. (Mar 2007) GOVERNOR CRIST ANNOUNCES E85 ETHANOL NOW ON SALE TO THE PUBLIC AT TURNPIKE’S TURKEY LAKE SERVICE PLAZA
Civil Rights Florida Gov. Crist Makes History ended permanent disenfranchisement of Florida’s 600,000 ex-felons who’ve paid their debt June 18, 2008 · Florida Gov. Charlie Crist said Tuesday that more than 115,000 former offenders had regained their voting rights after the state revised its rules last April. The governor got a hero’s welcome from the group “The first black governor of the state of Florida,” said Rep. Terry Fields, D-Jacksonville.
“People don’t have to come to me,” Crist http://www.sptimes.com/2007/02/21/State/Crist_may_restore_rig.shtml
Free Trade Opposes NAFTA; supports tariffs; opposes Fast Track.
Wow! He sounds interesting.
Too bad he is teh ghey. The Republicans don’t like that. Doesn’t bother me, though.
I thought I heard he was recently engaged?? Possibly a move to deflect speculation and make him more palatable to the Evangelicals…
I have also heard the gay rumor, and I really don’t care - but you are right, for Republicans it’s a problem. But I also heard from my Aunt that lives in FLA that he’s getting married. So, whether he’s straight, or just going to stay in the closet, maybe he’d be a good VP candidate. And anyway, Obama has his own gay rumors, so who knows.
I lived in FLA when Crist got elected. I didn’t vote for him but he’s turned into a pretty good Gov so far…. and of course he defended the right for FLA to re-vote (I’m sure there was MUI politics involved but he did it well)
If HILLARY isn’t somewhere on the D ticket I would consider voting for McCain/Crist
Crist is okay… Except for his pushing of Amendment One. What a joke that turned out to be. Police, fire-fighters and school teachers are now getting laid off because Crist pushed for a supposed “property tax” amendment which only ended up saving everyone about 200 bucks BUT the impact has been devastating to our local communities. Fees are going up and people are losing their jobs.
I don’t think I want Crist as VP. He’s too much of a political opportunist in my book. He has done some good things, but he’s not been here very much since he’s been supporting McCain.
Oh, and by the way, Amendment One was the reason so many Floridians showed up at the polls in January. Don’t let the Obama campaign tell you that we did not have a good turnout down here. We had a great turnout due to that amendment on the ballot.
if McCain is truly only running for 4 yrs than Crist is perfect.
He’d lose next to Hillary
I read the VP must first do no harm.
Who else? Pawlenty? yack, Jindyl? too young and inexperienced
I mean McCain should want to WOW the PUMAS (there are enough of us to make a huge difference for him)
jmo
be careful Crist, we know how the first black POTUS got turned on..
Hillary has class,
Hillary has the smarts,
Hillary is still the one.
Disappear Obama, disappear.
Wow, there she goes again. Take note SDs…HRC is actually working!!!!
*Poof*
Where is David Copperfield when you need him?
Priceless!
WASTE OF MONEY!!! YOUR MONEY!!!
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/election_20082/2008_presidential_election/63_say_trip_does_not_make_obama_more_fit_to_be_president
The other day I saw Obama speaking about the need for jobs and relief from energy price inflation - in Iraq. He might try and build a record of accomplishment domestically before he takes on the world.
Thanks for sharing with us what Hillary is doing. Sigh.
I like that Clinton is standing up for Democratic values, just as Obama spoke about in Germany.
Democratic values.
Yep barky talks a good game but doesn’t have the backbone to back it up.
HILLARY DOES!
If you consider gaffes, lies, and misinformation strewn together between incoherent uumms talking a good game.
I think he has a very good future as a wind tunnel ….
Pretty soon, the Messiah will claim to be in all of the Senate committees. He must have one of those magical time pieces that Hermione Granger at Hogwards School of Wizardy uses to take several classes simultaneously.
barky is already the dead of every committee it’s just because of his modesty that he ALLOWS the others to take some credit.
Sorry head not dead that would be wishful thinking.
lmao simply freudian dahhhlink
oops…lol!
It’s easy to be the Chairman of every committee if you never have to hold any meetings.
in Obamaland he is the HEAD OOmpaLoompa of every OompaLoompa Committee.
I sincerely believe the american people are doomed. Obama acts as though he is the “Great One”. Boy is he in for a shock. I hope he loses in November and is run out of town humiliated. HE IS AN IDIOT and a WOLF IN SHEEPS CLOTHING. The only thing he is any good at is being a typical politician, that he learned from his co-horts in Chicago. The city is full of them.
Nasty comments Obama made about America
-I know my country has not perfected itself
-we struggle to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people
-our actions around the world have not lived up to our intentions
-we have made our share of mistakes
IN THE OLD DAYS HE WOULD BE CALLED
A TRAITOR FOR THAT
The Obama campaign chose the holliday tax break as attack line. The media followed. Another progressive idea shot down bt THE Precious, like Universal healthcare. Now he is chirping about some break for the oil companies disguised as consumer break.
In 2000 W ran against Gore the same way: mimicking his ideas, coming out with sound-alikes. The media would praise his, ignore Gore’s, lie about them being close in the polls…
If you don’t believe Obama is the new Bush, just watch WSJ: in their poll analysis they compare this election to 1980 - where McCain is Carter and B0 - Reagan! Anything to contradict the very numbers they are looking at
http://edgeoforever.wordpress.com/2008/07/24/is-unease-something-like-malaise/
Wait for it, folks - of course, we won’t have to wait very long - the bot “truth squads” will be out in force:
“How dare that witch Hillary Clinton USE her position in the Senate to stand up for this country and its people! It’s grandstanding, I tell ya, plain and simple - so typical of her - especially when she should be home in bed licking her wounds because SHE LOST. The only reason she’s doing this is to show up our precious - she never misses an opportunity to make our savior look bad - or to threaten to kill him, of course. You notice she’s doing all this “posing” in the Senate while the messiah has to be out of the country on his world tour - presidential business!” (foul language removed)
Appearing soon at a big orange crap house near you!
Wow - did you transcribe that directly, Sharon?
Great job. LOL!
You see, this is why Hillary Clinton won the base of the Democratic Party and more primary votes than any candidate in history.
She is a Democrat.
End of story.
no better than that
she is a Patriot
She looks out for the little people the ones that are bitter and twisted….. the blue collar worker, the waitress working 2 jobs to put food on the table, the hairdresser, the machanic, the small business, the family with no health ins
and yes all of us here.
Up with the H and down with the o…
WE STAND STRONG AND TALL FOR HILLARY R CLINTON
Maybe Samantha on this trip with the o she can just wiggle her nose and he will shoot off to some distant land?
she is both….nuff said
I know we’re probably making her blush. She better get used to it.
Or do something totally uncharacteristic of which I won’t even make a considered thought
I agree with all of it, except Hillary’s position on drilling. If not for being in the political position of having to support her party’s POTUS nominee, she might be in favor of more offshore drilling.
China is going to start drilling less than 90 miles from Florida to help Cuba extract oil. We need to protect our resources.
Drilling is not going to increase gas supplies tomorrow, or next year, but it will increase them for our future. Had we started drilling during the clinton years, we would have more supply, and be less dependent on foriegn oil right now.
Drilling is not the solution, but it is part of the solution. All energy sources, gas, coal, nuclear, and alternative sources such as wind and solar need more development.
The US has the largest known natural gas and coal reserves in the world. Those alone would end our dependance on mid east oil.
Technology to use those resources need to be developed. Tax incentives are needed for development, and would create jobs.
Natural gas is cleaner for the environment than oil. Technology exists to convert vehicles to run on CNG. But, regulatory red tape, and a stubborn auto industry are inhibiting any progress.
Clean burning CNG is available now at the equivilent of around $1.00 per gallon, compared to gasoline. Fleet vehicles for cities, such as busses, are being converted. Most existing personal vehicles can be converted for $1,200 - $2000. But the EPA has an approval cost in the hundred thousand dollar range for approval for a single model vehicle, year and engine.
There are things we can start doing right now today to lessen the impact of burning fossil fuels, and ensure sufficient energy for the long term future.
Stubborn political posturing, and caving in to protect automakers is not going to get us there.
Sorry, there is zero upside to offshore drilling. In ten years, when we would see the benefits of such activity, our entire planet could be in global meltdown.
We need to go into crisis mode now and start developing alternative technologies. Enough with catering to the oil industries. They have made enough money and polluted our planet enough. They need to drag themselves into the 21st Century already.
Exactly. The electric car is the way to go now. That means we can use the savings that Clinton states (6.5 million barrels of oil per day; equal to one-half of our imports) while consumers pay $1 per gallon equivalent in electricity. Wow! Also, the planet is better off because even with our existing coal fired plants, we emit one-third less green house gases. Wow! This is the right way to tackle our immediate problems. With these savings, we then do her plan and create 5 million green collar jobs and really do an Apollo project for energy and be energy independent. Won’t need to send our blood and treasure to invade to protect resources such as oil in unstable areas of the world. What a holistic, comprehensive and realistic proposal.
Doesn’t mean that we don’t also look at other options. Clinton has always stated that the internal combustion engine is the oldest non changing technology we have - I agree - let’s get our young scientists and engineers working on solutions to this. And let’s not forget high speed trains and other forms of mass transit. Hillary Clinton gets it and works hard to get these solutions in place. Obama mouths platitudes and caves in pressure and nothing gets done. The real visionary is Hillary who also is practical, so we can expect that what she says will be done.
Yup! And the best thing is, we already know how to make an electric car, and Tesla Motors is improving the technology.
There’s even an Air Car being made overseas. It actually runs on compressed air! It is supposed to come to America in 2009 or 2010. Awesome!
Good grief yes. Why on earth, and for the earth do we cling to the internal combustion engine as if it was the end of all inventions?
Do woman still wear whale bone corsets? Are men still wearing spats and waxing their mustaches? For crying out loud why are we mired in the past?
Answer: Cause big oil wants it and government is owned by big oil. And big pharma and all the other big corporations that our government is aiding and abetting in robbing out country.
Oh, off topic but did ya hear that the Chrysler Building has been sold? And Budweiser is now owned by a company in Belgium. And poor little Donnie Trump’s seaside mansion has been purchased by an Oil Sheik.
The United States is one giant yard sale. We are a joke!
Electric cars are a possibility but there’s one that’s even better, and the technology already exists. How does the equivalent of 106 MPG sound?
So, why aren’t we hearing about compressed air powered cars? Why isn’t the media full of news about the topic?
Because the corporations focusing on hydrogen technology and battery-powered cars are special interests, exactly like big oil. They know there’s a far more efficient means of energy storage and transfer that doesn’t require what they hope to sell.
If you don’t know about compressed air technology, please check out the article below. This is no pipe dream. This is something that will arrive on the market in the next two years, if corporate America doesn’t figure out a way to kill it.
http://gas2.org/2008/07/15/an-air-car-you-could-see-in-2009-zpms-106-mpg-compressed-air-hybrid/
Picture this: Solar and wind power feeding the existing power grid. (See Pickins Plan) You plug in your compressed air hybrid with an extension cord to fuel up over night. Your car now runs on clean, inexhaustable solar and wind power.
The same inexpensive compressor technology could use cheaper, off-peak-hours electricity to charge up a compressed air tank in your basement. You could use it to fuel up your hybrid in a matter of minutes. You could also use it in reverse, drawing on the tank in your basement to generate household electricity during peak hours when grid electricity costs more.
You wouldn’t have to encourage people to make the switch. They would make the switch because it would quickly pay for itself, and keep on paying.
There would be no need for any other national greenhouse gas strategy than this. We would solve our energy problem and the greenhouse gases problem simultaneously, and the whole deal would pay us, rather than the other way around.
All great and yes I knew about these. Are there all kinds of options - this is really a technological renaissance. What I like about Hillary is she knows about these (Policy wonk extradinaire) and she is practical enough to get us there both by using short and long term solutions. Don’t forget about geothermal. New technology is now showing that electricity can be generated from this even in cold climates such as Alaska.
This is the most exciting times - Hillary is right - we can do this and enough with the no sayers and the Luddites.
It occurs to me that any candidate who wrapped up that entirely do-able package and articulated it clearly to the American people as a certain road away from our problems and toward long-term prosperity would definitely have a winning agenda. It’s a formula for a total turn-around.
So how come no one is?
Money. They want to keep us down on the farm. If people can start manufacturing energy from their own rooftops, instead of sending those checks to oil companies, where will the money come from to buy senators? Eh?
Agreed. I like cheap oil just like anybody else, but if oil prices go down, people will start to be waistfull again and behave as if there’s no tomorrow.
I have an idea dinocrat.. why dont you get your nose out of other people’s lives.
Who the hell are you to tell someone what they can and cannot waste if they feel like it.
It’s only good sense to discourage people from wasting what there’s a limited supply of, when that supply is currently essential to the common good. If there’s a serious drought, for example, you can’t have half the population of a city obsessively watering their lawns.
People understandably don’t like intrusion. But that goes both ways. Some people’s idea of behavior that’s “within their rights” has an intrusive effect on everyone else.
I agree with Johnny on this.
I don’t. Why give more money to the oil companies and speculators to drill off our coasts in order to get 200,000 barrels a day in 2030? How does this tax money/ for this Luddite endeavor that can be used to implement Clinton’s plan help us now or even in 2030?
Because the Chinese are proposing this doesn’t make it the correct way. Believe me, you wouldn’t want to be living in China now - your health would be in extreme risk. Peak oil is real, the price of oil will rise again due to supply and demand not the speculators. That means, we do have to think out of the box and develop alternative technologies.
Thankfully, there are a lot of small innovative companies that are working on this and we can immediately start with the electric car and other sources to heat our homes and businesses. We are on the cusp of an energy renaissance, we only need the political will and thus, the funding to bring this about. Hillary Clinton is right - enough of the Luddites - let’s go with the clean, energy resources that this Country has in abundance.
alexie, there was a documentary last year, “Who Killed the Electric Car?”, and it was fasinating. This is from Wic.
“Andrew Card (frm Bush Chief of Staff) was lobbyist behind the recallThe film details the California Air Resources Board’s reversal of the mandate after suits from automobile manufacturers, the oil industry, and the George W. Bush administration. It points out that Bush’s chief influences, Dick Cheney, Condoleezza Rice, and Andrew Card, are all former executives and board members of oil and auto companies.
A large part of the film accounts for GM’s efforts to demonstrate to California that there was no demand for their product, and then to take back every EV1 and dispose of them. A few were disabled and given to museums and universities, but almost all were found to have been crushed; GM never responded to the EV drivers’ offer to pay the residual lease value ($1.9 million was offered for the remaining 78 cars in Burbank before they were crushed). Several activists are shown being arrested in the protest that attempted to block the GM car carriers taking the remaining EV1s off to be crushed.”
Two of the owners were Ed Begely Jr. and Tom Hanks. Both of them said they loved the cars and Begely hid his and refused to give it back.