Offshore Drilling Ban to be Lifted by Bush

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Originally Posted by Kevy Baby

Not too many years ago, the exact same things were being said about the Democratic Party.

Who would you rather have making the profits: the "rich oilmen" or the Saudi's? ...

And I have no problem with the money being kept domestically (rather than paying OPEC). That means AMERICAN JOBS ...

How does the kool-aid taste, brother, sweet, or bitter?

Originally Posted by scaeagles

but I realize Obama is not the Messiah and is making himself out to be a typical politician more and more every day.

Hmm, I don't get it, so 'Hope" and 'Messiah' are bound together and can not be separated? I say, no. Obama is not a messiah but he does offers hope. Hope for an end to poverty, hope from being sent to die in Bush's endless war, hope for better health care, hope for better race relations, hope from being lied to, hope for bluer skies and clean drinking water, hope for a return of our Constitution and our rights as citizens. By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power, but they lie. They do not fulfill their promise, they never will.* Obama's FISA vote has shown that he is not the messiah, but a politician, but he may yet be a visionary. Obama has greatness in him, I really believe that to be true and he has within him the power to be the greatest president since Roosevelt or Lincoln. The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed, the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress: the hate of men will pass and dictators die and the power they took from the people, will return to the people ... liberty will never perish ... In the seventeenth chapter of Saint Luke it is written " the kingdom of God is within man " - not one man, nor a group of men - but in all men - in you, the people.
... You the people have the power to make life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure. Then in the name of democracy let's use that power - let us all unite. Let us fight for a new world, a decent world that will give men a chance to work, that will give you the future and security in old age.

So vote OBAMA!

Oh yeh, and stop offshore drilling!

* with sincere apologies to Charles Chaplin and The Great Dictator

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Originally Posted by Tref

Hope for an end to poverty, hope from being sent to die in Bush's endless war, hope for better health care, hope for better race relations, hope from being lied to, hope for bluer skies and clean drinking water, hope for a return of our Constitution and our rights as citizens.

End to poverty? How much money has been transferred from the haves to the have nots? And yet is hasn't done much of anything for poverty - it's still around. If hope for ending poverty means more handouts, there isn't much hope to end poverty.

Endless war in Iraq? All things point to things going exceptionally well over there right now. Violence decreasing, Iraqi soldiers taking over more and more, removing 500 metric tons of yellow cake uranium and moving it to Canada (that they hadn't removed earlier due to fears of sabotage)....endless? Hardly.

Better health care? Doubtful. Again, government involvement typically makes things worse. Matter of opinion, I suppose.

Better race relations....how?

Bluer skies and better drinking water? Yes, as a republican I fully admit that I am against clean air and clean water.

Constitutional rights? I still don't understand this beyond the uproar of FISA, which as you stated, Obama voted for. And perhaps Guantanamo detainees, but they never were US citizens, so I don't understand the ruling. Maybe one or two are/were - I don't recall.

Hope from being lied to....I'm sure Obama will be completely honest about everything.