Can any of you admit how wrong headed you were in these ludicrous comments!!!??
The biggest joke in the history of major party presidential politics. (Well…. I might give you Thomas Eagleton, to be fair.)
You betcha!

At least half of the allegations in that list of “scandals” have been investigated and shown to be unfounded. See

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/
http://www.factcheck.org/

There’s enough in her actual record to highlight without needing to perpetrate false claims that she’s part of a secessionist movement or slashed by 62% funding that she actually increased. Democrats well understand that her views are opposite theirs on issues from abortion to the ANWR, while Republicans should be concerned about her penchant for raising taxes.

http://howinsaneisjohnmccain.blogspot.com/2008/09/sarah-palin-scandals-complete-list.html

All I can say to that is that these companies have been swimming in a larger pool of pure profit than has been seen in all of World history, without having had to do anything.

Since they already have profit on that scale, they have the means to recapitalize and build more capacity with the eye to profitable production in decades when I will no longer be alive, let alone on a ten year timeframe.

But there is absolutely no incentive to do this, or to do this on a scale which would support even the amount of oil that is actually in the ground and would come up from it if we put oil wells all the way up to the White House Rose Garden.

They are swimming in so much money that they even could do it purely as a matter of public spirit and the public interest in support of all those fine people who want to see that many oil wells.

Fifty years ago and more American corporations actually did such stuff. If they hadn’t, we would never have won the largest war the world has ever known. Because that’s how we did win it. It was not our generals, it was not the clear superiority of our weapons [they really were not always the best in the world], it was the sheer scale on which we could turn out military equipment and the large population of fighting men we could fill it with.

I get the drift that Democrats want to ‘nationalize’ the oil industry, ‘nationalize’ healthcare and health insurance industry.

If you think that is a viable solution to all problems, I have this cat that lays golden eggs for sale.

I only have a layman’s explanation.

An oil company intends to build new refineries to expand capacity. After negotiation, compliances to satisfy local, state, and federal governments’ rules and regulations (how long is the estimate?), the investment has been made, a new plant has been built, how long does it take for the company to recuperate its initial investment? Well, from the plan of proposing a new refinery to make even profit probably takes more than 10 years.

During which time, government changed hands and the POWER-in-charge decides on a witch-hunt: not only you are branded EVIL, they also self-righteously decide to tax ‘windfall profit’ (whatever that means).

Sure you could build your refineries in other countries (for example, China, anyone?). But then you run the risk of China pulling a Hugo Chavez.

Do you wonder why there is no plan?

It will greatly help with our foreign relations. Obama has openly stated that he would dialogue with many of our enemies with no preconditions. This is obviously a brilliant tactic on his part. He would tie bin Laden or Ahmadinejad in rhetorical knots without even thinking on his part. And can you imagine Putin, Kim Jong-Il, or Hamas chatting with Biden for a couple of hours? Ha! They’d sign anything.

But the even greater benefit is on the domestic front. Obama understands that the Constitution cannot be bound in some archaic 18th century Enlightenment mold, that it is a fluid document. As a Harvard-educated intellectual, he understands Chomsky, that words themselves are wonderfully flexible and adaptable to our times and cultural changes.

Lawyers are generally smarter than the rest of us, and this is why we need two lawyers running things. The world is a far too dangerous and complicated state right now. I want two lawyers to come in and tell me how to untangle the mess.

“I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a community organizer, except that you have actual responsibilities,” Ms. Palin said Wednesday in her acceptance speech at the Republican convention.

Litigation resulting from the dispute over Ms. Palin’s sports-complex project is still in the courts, with the land’s former owner seeking hundreds of thousands of additional dollars from the city.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122065537792905483.html