Things we probably won’t get to discuss here:

Bushney secretly aiding Hunt Oil Co., a major contributor, while publically denying it. Isn’t that, like, lying?

Obama asks NOT what your country can do for you, but what YOU can do for your country. Loosely paraphrasing, of course.

Responding to unrest in the Military Industrial Complex, Bushney warns Israel against bombing Iran. No doubt the complex is already gearing up for THIS country’s bombing of Iran.

sycophant — noun – a person who flatters someone important in a servile way.

Not that most of us needed that.

Sure miss HRC. If SHE had been making the missteps currently emanating from the BHO camp, you can bet certain certain RS reporters would be having a field day denigrating the poor girl.

We’d have a little more lively discussions than what the drivel offered up as National Affairs is currently spawning.

Fortunately, Johnney Boy is proving to be an even greater marksman than BHO in shooting one’s foot/feet. However, if we’re to rely on THAT contingency as the key to taking back the Oval Office, we’re screwed.

PS How long has this thing been spellchecking. Of course, it’s not much of a spellcheck if it can’t offer a replacement.

I guess the technical quality of this site is improving. Thank goodness for that.

I find it a joke if anyone finds this Tim Dickerson a reporter or journalist or even a genuine blogger at all… his agenda is so apparent, report all the great things Obama’s done and find all of McCain’s problems. I’m personally offended in how much free coverage and support this supposedly unbiased magazine gives to Obama. They do everything except tell you directly to vote for him. This is disgusting…

@ Dirty Dennis, Ha, how can you possibly put JFK and Obama in the same scentence??? Hillary and Obama each admitted that the people will vote for whoever offers more to the people… The whole Democratic stance is more government programs, taxes and MORE government! The two even battled each other, trying to out bid who would do more for every citizen. And the Republican stance is not what the government can do for you, its what can the government LET us do, drilling for oil in America is not only an intelligent decision but one that the Government shouldn’t even restrict under circumstances of reason. Democrats are the ones blocking drilling. Common sense economics is that if their is a shortage of something, creating more supply will lower the price, so if Anwar even can create 1 barrel of oil, I say we do it…

Annonymouse,

Aside from your comments on this site’s blinders and rose-colored glasses, I must take exception. And thank you for that. It’s been a barren wasteland of discussion of late. All those who used to beat me about the head and shoulders for my support of HRC have taken to the bush as a result of BHO’s recent actions. More the pity.

I clearly made a reference to JFK but never intended to state BHO and he were alike in anyway. Not that I didn’t want to; I just wasn’t thinking in that direction. But since the subject has been broached, I think it’s fair to say that BHO has at least one similarity with JFK. They both projected themselves as media-savvy, excellent orators disguising, if you will, that both were accomplished pols as well. And I don’t mean that negatively. With BHO, as with JFK, you can get caught up in their ‘aura’ and forget that they’re politicians. Very good politicians.

As to the paraphrased quote, and your reference to both BHO and HRC’s comment to, paraphrasing again, give the people what they want, I don’t think JFK let on he was going to ask the people to sacrifice BEFORE he was elected. That’s just not good politics. Perhaps, therefore, I should revise my opinion of BHO’s political acumen.

Moving on, you’ve brought up a subject near and dear to my heart that I can’t speak to NEAR enough: more government. Since you hide under the cloak of annonymouse, I can’t tell if you’ve visited this post much. If you had, you would have seen/heard/read me opine that government’s role is to protect the little guy. That would be thee and me, NOT Exxon or CitiBank. If that takes more government, start erecting new buildings. But it’s important to add that wanting more government doesn’t preclude wanting good, smart, efficient government. I, for one, do not think they are mutually exclusive.

If it’s gov’t you wish to eliminate, I suggest you start with a few thousand counties spread out through the MidWest. Counties are a throw-back to horse and buggy days when transportation limitations, and politics, dictated more gov’t seats. We sure as HAIL don’t need a sheriff every thirty miles any more.

As for drilling, I suppose you missed the voluminous comments that whole subject unleashed some time back. Since RS almost NEVER puts up something to discuss anymore, it should only be a couple of pages back. In answer to your proposal, I suggest you peruse them for a time. Since I doubt you will, I can sum up the consensus, to wit, 1) adding oil is NOT going to change the current economic picture since the ‘open market’ dictates the price of oil, 2) it would be years before domestic oil reached the market anyway, 3) speculation is the ‘culprit’ in the rising cost of oil and 4) demand and refining capacity are the reasons behind the high price of gas.

If you wanted to read further, you would discover that alternate forms of propulsion are the popular remedies to the problem although there is a schism between those who think that can happen relatively soon and those who disagree. Young Jed has been touting up a modification to existing reciprocating engines which would at least let us get more MPGs, something that is beginning to appear in the MSM, which might give it a chance for existence. At the moment it requires significant ‘retrofitting’ of the automobile to the tune of several hundred $$$. That has been mostly for diesel, while it is said to work for gasoline engines, I haven’t heard if it’s more difficult and/or more expensive; I have a hunch it is. That’s usually the case when no one talks about it.

I have no problem drilling in America. As long as it’s done with serious GOVERNMENT oversight. I shouldn’t have to say so, but experience in recent years dictate that I should, but make that a government that BELIEVES in oversight. Not the current version. We seem to have a pretty good track record with off-shore drilling and I see no reason we can extract a little oil from the hinterlands without upsetting the balance of nature. It might cost a little more, but to my way of thinking, drilling in our own back yard should be a last resort. Not because of $$$, but because there will always be a need for some oil, lets save our own for the days when it’s scarce. Burning it up in a combustion engine to befoul the air makes less sense than smoking. We can use it for a lubricant and in the manufacturing of other products.

Tnx for the opportunity to vent.