Yeah, what should Obama's group work on first: bringing the worst of this current administration to "justice" (we all know at worst it will be vacations in white-collar prisons) or trying to fix an economy stalled in 20th-century thinking (forget pre-9/11 thinking nonsense) while the rest of the developed world catches us and passes us?
The America of the good old days would seize on a chance to show the world how we can lead on wind and solar power innovations, but this administration (and McCain because he doesn't seem to know any better) whines and stomps its feet when it can't just dig bigger holes in the ground and sea whenever it wants to -- like it used to.
I don't mind more research into safer nuclear power (does that mean this administration wants to finally stop picking on France), but it's beyond time to look for more places to drill for oil and dig for coal and oil shale. Wind, water, and solar power will be around a lot longer than anything else and (IMHO) it doesn't look as bad when we try to build things to take advantage of wind, water, and solar power.
MB
> From: briada@hotmail.com
> To: misterb_46@hotmail.com; yhkpenguin@yahoo.com; brian_menard@hotmail.com; b.adamson@comcast.net
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> Subject: RE: Is Obama Another Jimmy Carter?
> Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 02:16:27 +0000
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> Michael, Wow! "One reason Obama might be the next Carter is because of the mess left behind by the previous president. There's no way it will get fixed in one term. There should be progress in the right direction if Obama wants another term, but Carter faced the same economic issues (inflation, high gas prices, recession) that Bush would be facing if he was running again." I believe that you really pointed-out our worst fears and perhaps our biggest dilemma. We need a liberal democrat with almost dictatorial powers. We need an FDR for our age. We don't need to compromise on the big issues and we don't need another preacher - - like Jimmy Carter, who asked Americans to sacrifice, turn down the heat and drive slower. Instead, we need a president that will investigate and pursue criminal charges against those neo-cons and others that have broken the law. We need a president that will demand new CAFE standards and implement a new energy policy that goes beyond drilling more wells.
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> The next Democrat has a mess to clean and worse, most Americans probably have no concept of how big, or bad that mess has become.
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> George "Hoover" Bush and Family have taking the largest creditor nation on earth and transformed it into the largest debtor nation the world has ever seen. Our stock market is down, our dollar is weak, our trade surplus is non-existent. In fact, we have become what we used to make fun of. The classic definition of a third world nation is one that exports raw material and imports finished "value-added" products. Free trade and neo-con economic policies have made the United States weaker and more vulnerable today than at perhaps any other time in recent memory.
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> BA
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> To: briada@hotmail.com; yhkpenguin@yahoo.com; brian_menard@hotmail.com; b.adamson@comcast.net
> CC: yhkpenguin.amomai@blogger.com
> Subject: RE: Is Obama Another Jimmy Carter?
> Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 18:19:45 -0700
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> McCain's ads may be sharp, but he himself, is far from it -- other than repeating the same, tired right-wing and neo-con talking points. That's going to be more widely-known later on than it is now.
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> One reason Obama might be the next Carter is because of the mess left behind by the previous president. There's no way it will get fixed in one term. There should be progress in the right direction if Obama wants another term, but Carter faced the same economic issues (inflation, high gas prices, recession) that Bush would be facing if he was running again.
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> Obama is OK, in my opinion, staying above the fray until the debates or the convention. Let McCain dig his own political hole by appearing yet again to sell out the very things that made him so popular across the spectrum in 2000.
