If there is a shortage of a resource, doesn’t it make sense to find more in your own country?
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By Pejman Yousefzadeh
It’s nice to see that John McCain is in favor of removing the ban on offshore drilling (note the popularity of the proposal). I know that this kind of policy proposal is going to run into a partisan buzzsaw but it is impossible to take seriously the Obama campaign’s argument that a removal of the ban on offshore drilling only serves to benefit oil companies.
It appears that we have to delve into Economics 101; prices are high because demand outruns supply. To remedy that, we need to drill for more oil so that we can bring supply and demand into balance.
I suppose, of course, that if someone has connections with the Magic Oil Fairy, we could avoid all of this but I kind of doubt that this is the case and it should be noted that the Obama campaign has come up with no proposals whatsoever aimed at increasing the supply of oil in order to alleviate current price pressures.
June 15, 2008NV Poll: McCain By a Nose
Posted by TOM BEVAN
New Mason-Dixon poll in the key battleground state of Nevada (June 9-11, 625 LV, MoE +/-4.0%) shows McCain leading Obama by just two points:McCain 44Obama 42Undecided 14In the only other recent survey in Nevada - a Rasmussen Reports poll conducted on May 20 - McCain led Obama by six points, 46-40.
Because of the recent Obama Appeasement Kerfuffle, this video deserves another view. This Zucker video parodies Republican James Baker on his willingness to negotiate with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (محمود احمدینژاد). Substitute Barack Obama for James Baker in this video and you see what an Obama presidency would look like in reference to Middle East policy.
President W Bush gave a speech in Israel a few days back where Bush said,
“There are good and decent people who cannot fathom the darkness in these men and try to explain away their words. It’s natural, but it is deadly wrong. As witnesses to evil in the past, we carry a solemn responsibility to take these words seriously. Some seem to believe that we should negotiate with the terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along. We have heard this foolish delusion before. As Nazi tanks crossed into Poland in 1939, an American senator declared: ‘Lord, if I could only have talked to Hitler, all this might have been avoided.’ We have an obligation to call this what it is – the false comfort of appeasement, which has been repeatedly discredited by history.”
In response to Bush’s comments, Presidential Candidate Barack Obama took offense at the comments even though Obama wasn’t mentioned by name. In fact Obama was so forceful in his denunciation of Bush’s words it seemed that Obama took ownership of the appeasement position and felt a great need to defend it. It is indicative when Obama and other Democrats are so touchy when a general reference to appeasement is made during a Presidential speech. As Shakespeare might have put it, “…[Obama] doth protest too much, methinks.”
