McCain Camp Accuses Obama of Cynical Attempt to Play Victim

From Investors Business Daily:

Start with Congress. It must keep Bush's stimulative cuts in place. If not, it risks a recession for which Congress alone — a Democratic Congress — will be blamed.

Then there's the Fed. With consumer prices in July up 5.6%, the highest since 1991, our recent inflation spurt is worrisome. But core inflation rose just 2.5% in July, below its level during President Clinton's waning months in the White House.

And if oil prices keep dropping, overall inflation will fall fast. This means the Fed should be ready to cut rates, not raise them.

Finally, there's oil. Drilling for oil would enhance our national security by denying petrotyrants from Moscow to Tehran to Caracas the funds they need to harass America and its allies.

But it would do even more. Drilling off our coasts, in Alaska's National Wildlife Refuge, below the Arctic seas and in the Far West's massive oil-shale deposits would add hundreds of billions of barrels to our reserves and push oil prices down. This would set off an economic boom and help pull the world out of the recession that falling global markets now seem to be signaling.

By drilling, we can strengthen our economy enough to develop future clean-energy alternatives. By cutting interest rates, we can help heal our financial system. And by keeping tax cuts in place, Americans' purchasing power will be preserved.

Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Okla called Obama Unpatriotic 24 hours after this pience was written.

First I would like comment on the "70 million acres of leased land". Fist off, in order to even set foot on the land, leases must be purchased for so many years. THEN the energy companies can run seismographs for oil and gas. AFTER the lease has been purchased they find either NO oil, or so little that they would go into the hole extracting it. THIS IS THE 70 MILLION ACRES the democrats have been lambasting about. Cuba and China both are making plans to drill 50 miles of shore of florida in international waters and siphon our oil. (I'm drinking YOUR milkshake). Besides, Coca Colas profits percentage was more than ANY oil company in the world.

It is a PROVEN fact, we have more oil domestically than OPEC. FACT. Yes, it might take ten years, but do you think in 10 years it's going to be any better? By 2015 china will be using as much oil as us, please tell me how it's going to be better in 10 years. THE ONLY we can ever be energy dependent is with nuclear power to create hydrogen. There is no other way.

Back on topic, Obama has run out of race cards. You can only cry wolf so many times before people start ignoring your claims.

Prez:

How do you like the polls being even steven for the two presidential candidates? Are you going to whine, or are your claws going to come out? Or, are you going to act like Annie Oakley with a six shooter? Or, does Obama feel the same way he felt about the alienated Hillary supporters, "They'll get over it!" lolololol I am loving it!

It's been evident for many months that when Obama's political fortunes are under duress, that he and his mentors instinctively resort to playing the victimization of racial bias in the hopes of inoculating him against criticism. However, there is an even greater issue of concern, Obama’s admitted heavy marijuana and cocaine use in high school and college may well have played a decisive role in the development of Obama’s inflated sense of his own importance; and, his pretentious demeanor. Heavy drug use can lead to hallucinations concerning ones status of grandiosity. Another clue is Obama’s frequent confused and unintelligible babblings whenever he is subjected to a public forum where he is devoid of a prepared text by his handlers to read from; which is the reason that Obama's controllers will resist any attempt to have their candidate exposed to town-hall style forums.
Considering the fact that, if elected, Obama would be in proximity to the Nuclear Football 24/7, the American electorate has the right to know if Obama has any residual defect from his admittedly heavy former drug use. Obama's inability to overcome his nicotine dependency suggests that he remains vunerable to such addictions. Obama has the responsibility to submit to an independent medical examination to ascertain the facts concerning his substance abuse.
Until such concerns are put to rest, this man, who has exhibited a profound lack of common-sense, should never be allowed anywhere near the Oval Office. Greg Neubeck

I know how. Get the numb nut, lame brains out of the White House and get out of Iraq. Forget about helping other Countries. You know how to help other countries, you strengthen the US. Their economies suffer when our economy suffers. You know why the Media keeps saying this is a historic election? Because they know if the idiot voters of this country keep voting a Republican in there, we are in huge trouble. I got to give the media a lot of credit, for trying not to be too biased, but it's not bias, it's simple common sense. They know what's going on. They're just not allowed to say much or they'll seem too biased. Then they'll come under attack from the Right. Refuse to give them interviews. Boycott their station. It's all political. They use their power to manipulate what goes out over the TV. That's what makes the internet so great. They can't stop the truth from getting out anymore.

The U.S. is swirling down the pipes and it is because of the voters, not the potential leaders they have to choose between. Your country is broken in just about every imaginable way and collectively you don't have a clue how to mend it. Think New Orleans writ even larger. Heckuva job, brownies.

If Congress approved development in 2008, it would take 10 years for oil production to commence, EIA said. With production starting, then, in 2018, EIA said the most likely scenario is that oil would peak at 780,000 barrels per day in 2027 and decline to 710,000 barrels per day in 2030. Currently, the United States consumes about 20 million barrels of oil per day.

EIA said its projection is that ANWR oil production would amount to 0.4 percent to 1.2 percent of total world oil consumption in 2030. The figure is low enough that OPEC could neutralize any price impact by decreasing supplies to match the additional production from Alaska, EIA noted

davei n lv,

That's the best you've got? LOL. Of course you are right. I totally agree with you. So explain to me again how drilling in Anwar is going to lower prices again? I just explained to you that we still have plenty of places on land to drill. Why are we not drilling? You say there is no oil. Not true. Hell we even have contracts in Iraq? There's a hell of a lot more Oil there than in Anwar. Are we seeing oil prices drop? No. Oil prices are rising. Republican argument drilling an Anwar will increase world supply. Really? By how much less than 1% or something.

Rupert Murdock (Fox News) predicted $20 a barrell after the Iraq war: look at this chart. You think maybe if we get out of Iraq, oil prices may go back down? Hmmmm

To be continued some other time,

Best wishes to all

oil politics

Can we assume oil companies want to make money? If so, if it cost them $50/bl
to drill and sell it for today's price of say, $120/bl why wouldn't they? Their profit of $70/bl would be a nice chunk of change.

Therefor the oil companies in the US are drilling wherever they can legally do so. The same is true for natural gas companies.

Doesn't that make sense?

I'm not sure if you learned your oil politics in the first grade, UC Berkeley or the Daily Kos. Either way, they are not true.

Hmmm it's gotten kind of quiet all of sudden. Is this starting to make any sense? Are you finally seeing the truth here? Are you going to continue to sell your country out to big corporations that export our jobs overseas? You know why no one is stopping illegal immigration? Corporations. Cheap labor. Were being sold out people and you are buying the BS. Your Republican leadership doesn't give dam about you. They are their to serve their own self interests and you keep buying into their propaganda. Do you think anyone would allow oil companies to drill in Anwar unless the price of gas was so high? Who controls the price of gas? They need some BS reason to get you all to agree to drill there. Same BS reasons they gave you for getting into Iraq? They keep making this stuff up as they go and it's getting ridiculous. We've lost your trust McCain, McCain even said it in his RNC speech. And you think you can trust him? Give me a break.

Do you really think Bush (oil man, Iraq), Cheney (Halliburton), McCain (Bush), and Palin (Alaskan Oil) really want Americans to stop using oil?.

Jewel: "Why does Obama call women 'sweetie'?"

Oh that's a good one. But forces me to ask, why does McCain call women 'trollope' and a four-letter word I won't write?

Oil companies know they will still be able to sell the oil in Awar and offshore to the Chinese or export it overseas. They want to get in their and drill before it's too late and Americans stop using their oil. It has nothing to do with lowering our gas prices. That's not going to happen. If it's going to lower our gas prices, than how come the American oil that is being offered is always more expensive to buy than the Middle Eastern oil at the pump. How come we don't see cheaper oil from those gas stations? This whole Anwar offshore drilling thing has nothing to do with helping the American people.

McCain's handlers whined about "sexist" criticism of Palin, like when it was pointed out that she lied about not supporting the "Bridge to Nowhere" and when her various scandals were exposed.

it's the height of hypocrisy for them to whine about Obama playing the "victim" card just because he takes exception to the smear campaign the Republicons are running.

Dave it's fairly simple to understand. It's the law of supply and demand when it comes to oil. The oil from the Middle East is cheaper. The oil produced here is more expensive. There are more people buying the cheaper oil, than people buying the more expensive oil. The market for US oil in the US is already at max. That's why the oil companies are not drilling more oil in the US. Although it's there they don't need it. So why do we want to allow drilling an Anwar? Just to give oil companies more power. The oil companies are scared to death that we are going to stop using their oil. So scared T Boone Pickens wants to switch to Natural Gas, so we become dependent on that for a while, instead of some other alternative, which would make a hell of lot more sense. The oil companies do not want to lose their investments in oil. Their scared and they should be.

Dave in LV,

At a town hall meeting in Arkansas on August 3, 2004, Vice President Cheney told the community that domestic declines in production were driven by western land use restrictions: "In fact, our production is declining. In part, that's because we made a decision as a country — you and I might not have agreed with it — but, basically, we've taken large chunks of the country and put it off limits to any kind of exploration or development... Large parts of the Rocky Mountain West are off limits." But EWG's analysis of government records shows that the U.S. government has, in fact, given the oil and gas industry broad access to public land for drilling, since 1982 offering for drilling 229 milion acres in 12 western states, an area greater than the combined size of Montana, Utah, and Wyoming.

Of the 229 million acres offered for oil and gas development, only 30 million or 13 percent, have ever produced oil or gas.

13%? You mean over 87% of land offered has no oil?

Dave in LV,

Answer me this. We have plenty of Natural gas here in the US, why aren't we using our own Natural Gas?

Same reason we're not using our own oil, because it's cheaper to import it.