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Black GOLD

Yes, as oil prices are now past $120 a barrel, market watchers are now looking foward to $200 barrel oil, it’s causes and effects.

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Maybe it’s because of all the Bush Derangement Syndrome rantings that have left my eyes in a near-permanent rolling motion, but I have to wonder:

If the Iraq War was all about oil [can I get a "NO BLOOD FOR OIL"?], then what will have the more devastating effect on oil prices next year: staying in Iraq and stabilizing the place, or retreating and letting it collapse?

Lord help me, but…I don’t see “Iraq” anywhere in this article.  Could it be [COULD IT BE?!] that the war in Iraq isn’t about oil?  Could Operation Iraqi Freedom be about Freedom?  I know, it’s crazy talk, but the coffee’s strong this morning, so I wonder, while the candidates are whining and pandering and bribing their way to nomination (abomination?), what idea addresses the cost of oil in 2009 best:

• a gas tax holiday
• a windfall profits tax on any company that makes too much money (oil companies to start with, computers to follow?)
• staying in Iraq to stabilize it
• retreating from Iraq and gambling on its collapse (if it does collapse post withdrawal, there is no doubt at all that a subsequent third invasion would be infinitely more costly in blood, treasure, and duration)
• Or perhaps something else?

What’s the best thing the next President can do to keep oil from reaching $200 barrel next year, and what’s the best course in Iraq given the prospect of $200barrel oil?

Additionally, what should the next President do in terms of Iran given the prospect of $200 barrel oil next year?

Is it any wonder Hamas endorses Barack Obama for President? The man is soft as jello:

So, its fine and dandy to invade an ally, ie Pakistan, but if Iran nukes Israel its not fine to attack Iran? Read the rest of this entry »

Here is Hillary speaking about the big bad oil companies recently. She tells us that she wants to confiscate the profits of the oil company and put it towards greener energy sources. Nothing Communist about confiscating profits right?

Here is the messiah on the same subject:

Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama called for a windfall tax on oil company profits Friday, as pump prices in the United States hit a new record high.

“For the well-off in this country, high gas prices are mostly an annoyance. But to most Americans, they’re a huge problem, bordering on a crisis,” he told reporters at a gas station in Indiana, where he is campaigning. Read the rest of this entry »

Shouldn’t surprise anyone but at least we get a straight answer:

She won’t enforce federal laws as President but she will suck us dry for every penny possible to pay for her brand of Socialism.

Nice!

The chickens…..have come home…..to roost:

In the race for the Democratic Presidential Nomination, the Wright impact is especially evident. Clinton now has a statistically insignificant two-point edge over Obama, 46% to 44%. However, that represents a ten-point swing since Wright’s press conference. Before Pastor Wright appeared at the National Press Club, Obama led Clinton by eight points…

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Fifty-four percent (54%) of New Hampshire voters say it’s at least Somewhat Likely that Obama shares some of Pastor Wright’s controversial views about the United States. That figure includes 73% of Republicans, 55% of unaffiliated voters, and 36% of Democrats. Read the rest of this entry »

This new ad by Hillary Clinton took quite a bit of guts to make due to the hypocrisy involved:

“Right here over 200 Hoosiers built parts that guided our military’s smart bombs to their targets. They were good jobs, but now, they’re gone to China. And now America’s defense relies on Chinese spare parts. George Bush could have stopped it, but he didn’t. As your president, I will fight to keep good jobs here, and to turn this economy around. I’m Hillary Clinton and I approve this message because American workers should build America’s defense.”

The balls of this woman. She decries the jobs lost to China but fails to mention that it was her husband who rubber stamped the sale. Instead she blames Bush. Read the rest of this entry »

Who arranged Reverend Wright’s speaking engagement at the National Press Club?

Our World As We See It:

Barbara Reynolds, a former USA Today editorial journalist who just happens to be
1. A Minister
2. A Hillary Clinton Supporter
3. A Woman who has her own Personal Blog

According to DD2, Reynold’s blog was taken down at 9:30am this morning (link to her website; also, while checking cached posts, this link to her blog works). He copied down one paragraph from her blog, before it happened:

“Like many African American women, I have struggled with the dilemma of selecting a black man or a white woman to go against warmonger Sen. John McCain. My problem was that both Senators Obama and Clinton are darn good. Finally I voted for Senator Clinton. My first reason was that as seductive as Obama’s mantra of hope, the Clintons legacy of help is more substantive and stronger. Hope by definition is not based on facts. It is an emotional expectation. Things hoped for may or may not come. But help based on experience trumps hope every time. How do you abandon someone like Hillary Clinton, who at every opportunity worked for causes benefiting the poor, especially children? Her work began in her early days with her mentor Marian Wright Edelman, founder of the Children’’s Defense Fund and at Yale Law School, where she pursued children’’s studies. Early on her stated life’s goal was to be a “voice for America’s children.”

*UPDATE* The blogspot link appears to work now; but the last entry shown is dated April 2nd.  Did anything get deleted?

Blogging:
Bookworm Room
Our World as We See It
The Anchoress
The Strata-Sphere
Wizbang

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Pandering to victimhood has been the Democrat forte for decades, and now they are reaping what they sow:

The protracted and increasingly acrimonious fight for the Democratic presidential nomination is unnerving core constituencies — African Americans and wealthy liberals — who are becoming convinced that the party could suffer irreversible harm if Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton maintains her sharp line of attack against Sen. Barack Obama.

Clinton’s solid win in the Pennsylvania primary exposed a quandary for the party. Her backers may be convinced that only she can win the white, working-class voters that the Democratic nominee will need in the general election, but many African American leaders say a Clinton nomination — handed to her by superdelegates — would result in a disastrous breach with black voters.

“If this party is perceived by people as having gone into a back room somewhere and brokered a nominee, that would not be good for our party,” House Majority Whip James E. Clyburn (S.C.), the highest ranking African American in Congress, warned yesterday. “I’m telling you, if this continues on its current course, [the damage] is going to be irreparable.” Read the rest of this entry »

She has a point here:

The pressure was on Clinton today to win by a large margin. Clinton won 53 percent of the vote, to Obama’s 47 percent, with 18 percent of the precincts reporting so far. Read the rest of this entry »

Don’t you wish they would just settle this thing the old fashioned way?

Even if you’re not a wrestling fan, you’ll want to see this video from WWE Raw Monday night! It’s a hoot.

“What are you going to do when Hillary and her superdelegates come for YOU?”

Well, not really:

Clinton further displayed tough talk in an interview airing on Good Morning America Tuesday, ABC News’ Chris Cuomo asked Clinton what she would do if Iran attacked Israel with nuclear weapons. Read the rest of this entry »