Top 3 Lines of the Night:
Submitted by Nick D on Wed, 08/27/2008 - 12:08am.
3. Ted Strickland: "Thanks to 22 million new jobs created and a budget surplus left him by Bill Clinton, George W. Bush started his presidency on third base. And then promptly stole second."
2. Montana Gov. Brian Schweizter: "The Petrodictators will never own American wind or sunshine."
1. Hillary Clinton: "With an agenda like that, it makes sense that George Bush and John McCain will be together next week in the Twin Cities. Because these days they're awfully hard to tell apart."
LOL
Submitted by Nick D on Wed, 08/27/2008 - 9:39am.
3. If by sink, you mean mid-sixties, then yeah, his approval rating is "sinking"
2. US has 3% of world's oil reserves, but uses 25% of the world's oil. A fifth-grader could tell you that means we'll never be self-sufficient on energy as long as we're using oil.
1. Low approval ratings is because they haven't stood up to Bush enough. If they had forced him to bring the troops home, approval ratings would soar.
2--Of Course
Submitted by JimDandy on Wed, 08/27/2008 - 9:46am.
Of course we'll never be self-sufficient. But, we do have oil. And, we do need to use it. We use the domestic oil, we scare the opec nations and our other oil suppliers because they don't want to lose any of our business. They lower their prices and increase their supply to us as well, which helps our customers at the pumps. And in the meantime, we do research renewable fuels. We just can't let the oil sit there (but the oil companies have leases and they're not drilling blah blah blah) while it's a proven fact that putting more of our oil into our country will help at the pump. However, we can just bet the bank on renewable fuel now, forget about helping consumers at the pump by focusing on speculators and unjustly taxing the profits of oil companies, and watch as the oil prices go higher and higher. We know we'll never be self-sufficient (a fourth grader actually told me that). But it doesn't mean we can unnecessarily write off oil altogether now.
Kucinich said it best, "Wake Up America!"
Submitted by JeanLR on Wed, 08/27/2008 - 11:50am.
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/video_legacy/17305068/index.html
Dennis Kucinich, (OH-10)Tuesday, August 26, 2008 at 04:35 PM
It’s Election Day 2008. We Democrats are giving America a wake-up call. Wake up, America! In 2001, the oil companies, the war contractors and the neo-con artists seized the economy and have added 4 trillion dollars of unproductive spending to the national debt. We now pay four times more for defense, three times more for gasoline and home heating oil and twice what we paid for health care.
Millions of Americans have lost their jobs, their homes, their health care, their pensions. Trillions of dollars for an unnecessary war paid with borrowed money. Tens of billions of dollars in cash and weapons disappeared into thin air, at the cost of the lives of our troops and innocent Iraqis, while all the president’s oilmen are maneuvering to grab Iraq’s oil.
Borrowed money to bomb bridges in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan. No money to rebuild bridges in America. Money to start a hot war with Iran. Now we have another cold war with Russia, while the American economy has become a game of Russian roulette.
If there was an Olympics for misleading, mismanaging and misappropriating, this administration would take the gold. World records for violations of national and international laws. They want another four-year term to continue to alienate our allies, spend our children’s inheritance and hollow out our economy.
We can’t afford another Republican administration. Wake up, America! The insurance companies took over health care. Wake up, America! The pharmaceutical companies took over drug pricing.
Wake up, America! The speculators took over Wall Street. Wake up, America! They want to take your Social Security. Wake up, America! Multinational corporations took over our trade policies, factories are closing, good paying jobs lost.
Wake up, America! We went into Iraq for oil. The oil companies want more. War against Iran will mean $10-a-gallon gasoline. The oil administration wants to drill more, into your wallet. Wake up, America! Weapons contractors want more. An Iran war will cost 5 to 10 trillion dollars.
This administration can tap our phones. They can’t tap our creative spirit. They can open our mail. They can’t open economic opportunities. They can track our every move. They lost track of the economy while the cost of food, gasoline and electricity skyrockets. They skillfully played our post-9/11 fears and allowed the few to profit at the expense of the many. Every day we get the color orange, while the oil companies, the insurance companies, the speculators, the war contractors get the color green.
Wake up, America! This is not a call for you to take a new direction from right to left. This is call for you to go from down to up! Up with the rights of workers! Up with wages! Up with fair trade! Up with creating millions of good paying jobs, rebuilding our bridges, ports and water systems! Up with creating millions of sustainable energy jobs to lower the cost of energy, lower carbon emissions and protect the environment!
Up with health care for all! Up with education for all! Up with home ownership! Up with guaranteed retirement benefits! Up with peace! Up with prosperity! Up with the Democratic Party! Up with Obama-Biden!!
Wake up, America! Wake up, America! Wake up, America!
Take that Stereotypes!!
3. Big Ted Strickland. Forgetting that his state is losing money and his approval rating is starting to sink. Somebody else in 2010.
2. Take that oil companies. You'll never own our wind or sunshine, which is good, because those two are known for working as well as scotch tape on a gunshot wound. But, hey, after BO gets elected, we're owning you. Because capitalism, schmapitalism.
1. That shouldn't be too bad of a thing. Bush nowhere gets the credit he deserves. We should say that, well, barack is part of the majority of the Congress which has the lowest approval rating of our time. And instead of working, they go on vacation and neglect the problems of the people they are elected, and paid, to represent. Oh, but Hillary had it right a couple months ago, pointing out Noted Author Obama's many failings and inexperiences to be President. (At least he majored in international relations!)