[Newman]

LOL!!

Such black and white thinking, just like that from your leader George W. Bush.

It can be both, Bush and Oil Speculators. Things are hardly ever because of one factor. Are the Rockies losing strictly because of Todd Helton or poor relief pitching or untimely hitting. Isn't it almost always a bunch of reasons?

Now you're an economics major in college? From the Ayn Rand school of econ? I admit to not being an expert in that field. It also seems obvious that this is NOT simply a supply and demand issue. More drilling in America is not going to fix the problem short term OR long term.

I'm not an oil speculator. You may be, Incredible. I stick my dwindling wealth into several of the TSP funds that the govt lets us invest in. I'm hardly one of these oil speculators gobbling up all the Exxon stock.

What's wrong with populism, Incredible? I suppose you're opposed to profit sharing in baseball too. I'm guessing you're a closet Yankee or Red Sox fan. Root for the haves. Hope they crush the have nots day after day.

I want people to be smart but also to have a heart. Do you root for Snidely Whiplash in the movies? Do you root for Mr. Potter when you watch "It's a Wonderful Life" every Christmas. He was a crafty predatory lender. Smart dude. Your kind of guy? The ends justify the means. Let's live in Potterville, right, Incredible, where the wealthy live high on the hog and the rest of the people are dirt poor and miserable.

I'm not opposed to capitalism. I'm against price gouging. I'm against excessive profits. I rooted for George Bailey in that movie, not the EVIL Mr. Potter. I don't see why the oil industry has to make 17% profit just because they can.

I'm not a capitalist. I don't see where capitalism helps the everyday Joe like me. I don't make a profit as I deliver the mail. Neither does a cop or a fireman or a mechanic or most jobs. I don't own my own company. Very few people are actually capitalists, owners and CEOs. Most people are workers.

I don't see the govt as evil like Conservatives do. I don't want to privitize everything like your heroes Cheney and Rumsfeld and Crystol do. I don't see what Halliburton and KBR are doing, private contractors with no accountability, in Iraq - I don't see that as a good thing.

Where is the competition in the oil industry (oh yeah, the Evil Environmentalists won't allow it). IN normal economic theory when the price of a product is high other companies rush in to get a piece of the pie. That's not happening in oil and gas. And what are YOUR oil companies doing with their excessive profits? You defend them all the time. Are they drilling in Mexico? Colombia? Elsewhere? No. They are stuffing the money in their pockets. Are you getting really rich with your oil speculation, Incredible? Making a killing on Wall Street with your incredible brilliance? Dining out tonite at John Elway's with your latest dividend check from Sunoco? I didn't think so.

People vote their pocketbook. McCain will lose the upcoming election. Sure the radio talkers and Fox News pundits will sway some of the people, to be afraid, to be racists, to keep voting Republican, to vote a third Bush term because McCain is McSame. And there may be another war in the fall - the October surprise - war with Iran, started by Bush - be afraid - vote for Grandpa McCain because he has military experience blah blah blah. People are sick of this war just like they were sick of the Vietnam War. WE're not going to get every vote. We certainly won't get yours. But if the election is fair we will get enough votes and it will sink the Republican Party for decades, maybe forever. Good riddance.