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8.13.08 @ 12:01AM

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Third, based on the first and second points, the Saudis are therefore NOT our friends and allies, and could be considered our enemies. In any case, they don't have the US's best interest in mind.

So where do we stand today? Well, Republicans have failed to get the Democrats to increase domestic oil production. We can now pontificate again on several counts.

First, the Republicans failed to increase production. Apparently the Democrats accepted, in this case, that increased production would NOT lower prices immediately. Fair enough, but they also insist that it would ultimately only lower price a few cents or so. We're talking adding more oil to the market than is available in all of Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq, and Venezuela, but for some reason, this addition would not lower price. They want to add less oil via tapping the Strategic Oil Reserve which would only provide a mere fraction of our overall usage and insist that action would reduce price, but the addition of orders of magnitude more oil won't do the same. In any case, the Democrats won't increase domestic oil production.

The second count still stands: it's cruel to not increase production to relieve the masses of the burden of increased fuel costs. Anyone who does this is fundamentally wrong.

Using the same formulation used against the Saudis, the Democrats are by their own measure NOT our friends and allies, and should be considered our enemies. In any case, they don't have the US's best interest in mind.

If the Saudis are "buttheads" for not producing more oil, aren't the Democrats the same by their own formulations? I believe this fits the very definition of "hoisted by their own petard."

And the Dems look so good in petards!
-- Karl F. Auerbach
Eden, Utah

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Re: Jackie Mason & Raoul Felder What's on Our Minds:

As usual I agree with at least 99 percent of what Jackie and Felder say but this article's one percent is a "Biggie." I and many of their admirers would never vote for Colin Powell (no, not even for dog catcher). I especially hold two events against him. One, his refusal to run on a ticket against Clinton. I believe if had ran the nation would have been spared at least one Clinton term. Secondly, I also believe he was less than a loyal cabinet member and that he knew all along who leaked the CIA mess and purposely let Libby and Bob Novak twist in the wind for months. Substitute economist Thomas Sowell for Powell and I and others would vote for him in a "New York Minute" preferably on top of the ticket.
-- Jack Wheatley

I must disagree with the overall theme of this article. Three statements in particular stand out:

1. "We do, however, believe we do live in a post-racial world -- at least here in America."

2. "Now, he must rise and fall on his own abilities, achievements or lack of them."

3. "We do not believe that anyone would or would not vote for Obama (except for a few nitwit plantation owners in the South) because of his color..."

The first statement is, I think, patently absurd; race talk saturates everything these days -- politics, discussions of prison incarceration rates, education (or, more correctly, lack thereof), religion (Rev. Wright, Fr. Pfleger sermons for example), crime, sports, and on an on ad nauseam. And what is not explicitly stated is very directly implied. The second and third statements are completely undermined by the estimated 95% + African-Americans who are supporting Obama. I am not anywhere naive enough to believe that his race has nothing to do with this. One only has to turn on the television or casually socialize and just listen to what others say to realize that the views of Messrs Mason and Felder are far more wishful thinking than fact. The world and America are obsessed with race, and every bit as much on the black side as on the white, or oriental, or...(fill in your own favorite ethnic). While I am sympathetic to their apparent desires, don't try to kid me. As they say, I might have been born at night, but it was not last night.
-- Mike
Delaware, Ohio

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