Gallup has McCain and Obama tied at 45% (June 25) while Heidi Przybyla writes that Obama opens with a 15-point lead as “voters reject Republicans”. Just, wow. How biased is that wording? Tonight (June 26) Obama and Hillary Clinton will unite in Washington as Obama tries to “soothe the bruised feelings of several dozen” of Clinton’s top campaign donors — add that to increasingly apparent tension between the two rivals because Obama is “less than enthusiastic in courting Clinton’s money team”. That’s not all.
Some Clinton supporters are grousing that Mr. Obama has yet to make the symbolic gesture of writing a check for $2,300, the maximum allowable campaign donation, to help retire her debt of over $12 million.” In addition, the Financial Times says while Clinton has “urged supporters to transfer their loyalties” to Obama, “a highly vocal minority of Mrs Clinton’s supporters have chosen to ignore her plea altogether. Under the umbrella group, Just Say No Deal, diehard Clintonites have set up more than 100 anti-Obama websites in the last 20 days, most of them boiling with indignation.”
That’s just something to keep an eye on as Democrats try to unite. And as long as there’s hardcore left-wing bats running the Democratic party while moderate Democrats (ones that I can actually find myself supporting) sit on their hands fearing isolation, then the Democrats will never truly unite.
Moving on.
On Wednesday, Republican nominee, John McCain said “we will break the power of OPEC over the United States. And never again will we leave our vital interests at the mercy of any foreign power.” He countered the argument that “breaking” our independence on foreign oil is unattainable within a “relatively short span of years” comparing it to “nation conceived and carried out a plan to take three Americans to the Moon and bring them safely home.” In one case, you’re asking millions upon millions of people to accept an alternative that simply does not exist, is not affordable or uses an energy that has limited “refueling” stations for. Going to the moon had nothing to do with general Americans other than pride and total awesomeness that we touched the moon — otherwise, it didn’t force Americans to change anything. And when you ask for change, they’ll fight you bitterly. He tried to compare the same thing to World War II “the gathered energies of my father’s generation built the industrial might that overcame Nazi Germany and imperial Japan”. Different scenario because that was out of necessity; war, fighting for the survival of western civilization. We’re simply bitching about $4 gas prices. Sure, it super-sucks (which is sucks more than non-super-suck), but we’re talking about making sure we have more money in our pockets — which millions of people would beg for that $4 you pay for fuel. It should be noted that I believe we need to CHANGE, not delay an inevitable. We have time on our side still.
I’m not slamming his idea (haven’t approach that yet), just stupid comparisons. One of his primary ideas is off-shore drilling, revisiting ANWR and the Atlantic — drilling at either is illegal (thanks to Democrats who scratch their heads pretending to think of “ideas” while coming dangerously close of going against their constituent’s demands). Let me make this clear, we DO need to find independence for energy. Renewable, sure, if that makes the Greenies happy. I’m still amazed however, over 100 years, that nearly every technology in the world has been replaced with something better, yet, we still use vehicles with the same technology created since the late 19th century. Here’s the kicker in that argument though. Unless government regulates both the fuel that we use and the car it’s used in, we’ll have too many VHS/Beta, DVDHD/Blue-Ray scenarios for anyone to take seriously. Thus, an unqualified conclusion. As much as we need to strive for it, there’s too much change within people’s lives that many people won’t afford it; therefore rejecting acceptance. And without that set standard of what the future is, then there’s no way people will risk a dangerous investment.
Anyway (and this was the first paragraph of this post) Thursday, McCain spoke to between 150-200 people (depending on what publication you read) at Xavier University’s Schmidt Hall; one of several cross-country town hall meetings. Off topic: McCain’s two biggest contributors are Merrill Lynch ($235,110) and Citigroup ($231,451).
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