A guest copied and pasted an entire article by Glenn Beck on this poll, without quote marks or credit of any kind. It was very long, and not particularly relevant to the topic at hand, but those who want to read it can do so here. (I would not have deleted it from this page, except for the fact that it was being passed off as the guest's own words.)
Not that Bush would know ANYTHING about where to drill offshore for oil. If he had, then the oil wells that his company drilled would not have been DRY.
Shouldnt the president be everything Americans aspire to be? And isnt one of those things being skinny? WHAT DO YOU WANT, PEOPLE, ANOTHER TAFT??? *end sarcasm*
He ISNT as inexperienced as GEORGE W BUSH who was a governor of a state that had only a part time legislature, and ran a baseball team, and ran a half a dozen different oil companies into the ground.- Obama has very WIDE experience. Studied Political Science specialising in International Relations. Edited the Harvard Law Review. He spent years as a civil rights worker,lawyer focusing on civil rights and economic management, law lecturer, was in the State Legislature, and finally the Senate. In between, he found time to write a book. This makes him just about as much as experience as Lincoln and more than Kennedy. Furthermore, us foreigners just LOVE him, which will do a lot to heal the damage that Bush has done to America's diplomatic relations.-
I was stunned about the thinness issue myself, and a little amused. That's why I put up this poll.-I heard Rush bloviate about Obama's remarks, and misleadingly imply that O thinks that this (the tire inflating and all) is THE answer to our energy problems. I understand that FOX news picked up on this same meme as well. It is a mischaracterization of Obama's position.-Interesting thing about how the OCS drilling is being presented. President Bush keeps talking about "our oil" off the coast, and that we should be allowed to solve "our" energy problems by drilling for "our oil." He seems to imply that American oil is a public resource, or that the oil business has been nationalized. It hasn't. Turning over public areas to private concerns is the reality of it. That is, opening up the OCS to Exxon, BP, Shell, etc. does not guarantee that the oil they pump goes to helping our needs. These are multinational corporations, and they can sell their oil on the international market if they want to, but somehow that little factoid gets left out of the discussion. They don't have to provide the U.S. with a single drop if they don't want to. We've had nearly eight years of privatizing and de-regulating everything, and the results of these policies have benefitted the very few at the expense of the many. Sure Obama is kind of a "roll of the dice," but after so many years of disastrous politics from the Right, I believe that America is in a dice-rolling mood. -Besides, (and this is my opinion) in the ten years or so that any offshore drilling would produce results, we as a country should be well on our way toward exploring alternatives.
I'm just stunned that his "thinness" is an issue. He said if we inflat our tires and get regular tune-ups, we shouldn't have to drill offshore for oil. This is very troubling to me. That's not a solution.
I know you think that, but that wasn't the question.-Strangely, Bush's lack of experience was touted as a PLUS when he was running for President back in 2000. He was "one of us;" he was the outsider going to Washington to clean it up and restore dignity back to the Oval Office. A little earlier in 1989, when asked if he would ever consider running for governer, he said: "You know I could run for governor but I'm basically a media creation. I've never done anything. I've worked for my dad. I worked in the oil business. But that's not the kind of profile you have to have to get elected to public office." At least he answered THAT question honestly.
A guest copied and pasted an entire article by Glenn Beck on this poll, without quote marks or credit of any kind. It was very long, and not particularly relevant to the topic at hand, but those who want to read it can do so here. (I would not have deleted it from this page, except for the fact that it was being passed off as the guest's own words.)
In that case, let's talk about the fact that McCain is as old as dirt...
Not that Bush would know ANYTHING about where to drill offshore for oil. If he had, then the oil wells that his company drilled would not have been DRY.
Shouldnt the president be everything Americans aspire to be? And isnt one of those things being skinny? WHAT DO YOU WANT, PEOPLE, ANOTHER TAFT??? *end sarcasm*
He ISNT as inexperienced as GEORGE W BUSH who was a governor of a state that had only a part time legislature, and ran a baseball team, and ran a half a dozen different oil companies into the ground.- Obama has very WIDE experience. Studied Political Science specialising in International Relations. Edited the Harvard Law Review. He spent years as a civil rights worker,lawyer focusing on civil rights and economic management, law lecturer, was in the State Legislature, and finally the Senate. In between, he found time to write a book. This makes him just about as much as experience as Lincoln and more than Kennedy. Furthermore, us foreigners just LOVE him, which will do a lot to heal the damage that Bush has done to America's diplomatic relations.-
I was stunned about the thinness issue myself, and a little amused. That's why I put up this poll.-I heard Rush bloviate about Obama's remarks, and misleadingly imply that O thinks that this (the tire inflating and all) is THE answer to our energy problems. I understand that FOX news picked up on this same meme as well. It is a mischaracterization of Obama's position.-Interesting thing about how the OCS drilling is being presented. President Bush keeps talking about "our oil" off the coast, and that we should be allowed to solve "our" energy problems by drilling for "our oil." He seems to imply that American oil is a public resource, or that the oil business has been nationalized. It hasn't. Turning over public areas to private concerns is the reality of it. That is, opening up the OCS to Exxon, BP, Shell, etc. does not guarantee that the oil they pump goes to helping our needs. These are multinational corporations, and they can sell their oil on the international market if they want to, but somehow that little factoid gets left out of the discussion. They don't have to provide the U.S. with a single drop if they don't want to. We've had nearly eight years of privatizing and de-regulating everything, and the results of these policies have benefitted the very few at the expense of the many. Sure Obama is kind of a "roll of the dice," but after so many years of disastrous politics from the Right, I believe that America is in a dice-rolling mood. -Besides, (and this is my opinion) in the ten years or so that any offshore drilling would produce results, we as a country should be well on our way toward exploring alternatives.
I'm just stunned that his "thinness" is an issue. He said if we inflat our tires and get regular tune-ups, we shouldn't have to drill offshore for oil. This is very troubling to me. That's not a solution.
I know you think that, but that wasn't the question.-Strangely, Bush's lack of experience was touted as a PLUS when he was running for President back in 2000. He was "one of us;" he was the outsider going to Washington to clean it up and restore dignity back to the Oval Office. A little earlier in 1989, when asked if he would ever consider running for governer, he said: "You know I could run for governor but I'm basically a media creation. I've never done anything. I've worked for my dad. I worked in the oil business. But that's not the kind of profile you have to have to get elected to public office." At least he answered THAT question honestly.
He's too INEXPERIENCED to be President.