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Is Obama the Hannah Montana Candidate?
National Review ^ | 8/5/08 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 08/05/2008 7:37:07 PM PDT by pissant

I think Obamania and the youth craze may be wearing off, as voters are starting to see that there is no there there...

Consider the latest 70 million barrels ploy.

AP reports: "In a reversal, Barack Obama proposed Monday that the government sell 70 million barrels of oil from its strategic petroleum stockpile to help reduce gasoline prices."

But wait — we have heard nothing from Obama the last 6 months other than a few million additional barrels per day would not make any difference at all. In contrast, 70 million taken out of the reserve equals less than 4 days consumption by Americans, so how can that suddenly matter when a million per day from ANWR or off the coasts and the shelf supposedly would not? Aside from the bad precedent of tapping into a reserve that may some day be necessary — given the prairie-fire nature of the Middle East— how can this short-short term fix (10 weeks of ANWR) be of any value other than to deflect charges Obama's remedies will do nothing to lower gas prices?

What we are seeing is a sad sort of desperation brought on prior sanctimonious assurances for months that 'wind, solar, and green' would get us out of this mess — not a transitional period to alternate energies based on more domestic production of clean coal, nuclear, and domestic natural gas and oil to avoid giving ever more trillions to suspect regimes.

Think of it — in less than a week we are told the answer to high gas prices is to fill our tires with more air and thereby avoid all new drilling, and now to tap into the reserve to get 4-days worth of additional oil. Examine the crazy logic: for months we were not supposed to drill inside the US or its waters to get new supplies, but now we are supposed to pump from limited, finite supplies.

Like the Congressional idea to sue OPEC or beg the Saudis to pump an additional 300,000 barrels a day, this try-anything-that-comes-to-mind approach to energy is not just silly, but downright scary — and it too, along with Obama's race-card preemptive strikes, will ultimately contribute to a further erosion to his stature in the polls.

At some point very soon, millions of Democrats are going to wake up from their hypnoses and realize that they have spurned a veteran Hillary who would have waged a tough, professional campaign in a sure-win Democratic year for a rookie Senator without any record or experience. Again, McCain is the only Republican candidate this strange year who could have won, and a green Obama may be the only Democratic who could have lost.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption
KEYWORDS: 2008; celebrity; democrats; drilling; elections; larrysinclairslover; nobama08; obama; spr; vdh; whokilleddonaldyoung
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Hannah Montana has more talent.
1 posted on 08/05/2008 7:37:07 PM PDT by pissant
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To: pissant
Obama is more like the Hannah Virus candidate.

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THE AUDACITY OF TRUTH ABOUT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA'S CIRCLE OF FRIENDS


CHOOSING THE NEXT PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES




NOBAMA MOVEMENT SPREADS ACROSS THE NATION

2 posted on 08/05/2008 7:38:31 PM PDT by Jeff Head (Freedom is not free...never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
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To: pissant

My granddaughters love Hannah Montana...

But Hannah Montana Obama ????


3 posted on 08/05/2008 7:39:13 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: pissant

The Paris Hilton candidate ...


5 posted on 08/05/2008 7:39:58 PM PDT by BunnySlippers (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: pissant
Paris vs Hannah!!!!

FIGHT!!!! FIGHT!!!!!! FIGHT!!!!!!

6 posted on 08/05/2008 7:43:21 PM PDT by BossLady ("Obama....if you want change......ask 50 Cent for 2 quarters")
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To: pissant
Survey says...He's sassy!


7 posted on 08/05/2008 7:44:38 PM PDT by weegee (Hi there.)
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To: Tennessee Nana

Hannah Montana Obama? Get real.

All the COOL kids are now adopting the middle name Hussein just like their idol.

Hannah Hussein Montana.


8 posted on 08/05/2008 7:45:48 PM PDT by weegee (Hi there.)
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To: BunnySlippers
I had read a very interesting story called coal in your tank. It was about how the Germans during ww2 turned coal into gas, air fuel and desial. The how to’s was invented in the 20’s. All this BS that they used synthetic gas is a crock they just refined the coal on down. How much coal do we have in this country?
9 posted on 08/05/2008 7:46:13 PM PDT by guitarplayer1953 (For the foolishness of God is wiser than human wisdom)
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To: pissant
"a green Obama may be the only Democratic who could have lost."

This statement has got so many accurate meanings I won't even start to list them. Watermelon anyone? (no racial meaning implied, accepted, or intended).

10 posted on 08/05/2008 7:46:26 PM PDT by norwaypinesavage (Global Warming Theory is extremely robust with respect to data. All observations confirm it)
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To: guitarplayer1953

America is the Saudi Arabia of coal producers. Let’s put it that way.


11 posted on 08/05/2008 7:50:10 PM PDT by Proud_USA_Republican (We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good. - Hillary Clinton)
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To: pissant
Think of it — in less than a week we are told the answer to high gas prices is to fill our tires with more air and thereby avoid all new drilling, and now to tap into the reserve to get 4-days worth of additional oil. Examine the crazy logic: for months we were not supposed to drill inside the US or its waters to get new supplies, but now we are supposed to pump from limited, finite supplies.

Heresy!!!

You dare make open mockery of The One's miracle of infinite oil from the air pressure gauge and tapping of our strategic reserves.

No $1,000 rebate check for YOU!

12 posted on 08/05/2008 7:51:25 PM PDT by weegee (Hi there.)
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To: pissant
millions of Democrats are going to wake up from their hypnoses and realize that they have spurned a veteran Hillary who would have waged a tough, professional campaign in a sure-win Democratic year for a rookie Senator without any record or experience.

Probably true, but let's hope it doesn't happen until after their convention.


13 posted on 08/05/2008 7:51:47 PM PDT by Nick Danger (www.swiftvets.com)
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To: pissant
Hannah is an honest decent entertainer, and Obama is a fraud and a thief.
14 posted on 08/05/2008 7:52:39 PM PDT by JasonC
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To: Proud_USA_Republican
Start digging then we don't need to drill we need to dig and explore other alternatives at the same time. Yea I know we've been fed that for 35 years but it would keep the envirowakos busy.
15 posted on 08/05/2008 8:00:17 PM PDT by guitarplayer1953 (For the foolishness of God is wiser than human wisdom)
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Can’t do coal. Somebody might die in a mine. Remember? Mines are an evil device invented by the rich in order to take advantage of poor mountain people who are too uneducated to do anything else. The rich people really have the power to snap their fingers and minerals and such comes shooting out of the ground, but choose instead to watch miners die while laughing like Dick Cheney getting a Haliburton check.


16 posted on 08/05/2008 8:01:37 PM PDT by autumnraine
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To: pissant

Øbama because there is nøthing there.


17 posted on 08/05/2008 8:02:15 PM PDT by ari-freedom (Obamuh uh uh uh uh uh uh ummmmmm)
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To: Nick Danger

oh the convention would be verrry interesting if enough realized it just right before.


18 posted on 08/05/2008 8:05:25 PM PDT by ari-freedom (Obamuh uh uh uh uh uh uh ummmmmm)
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To: guitarplayer1953

“Desial”
Hmmm...Desi Arnez’s brother? A misspelled “denial”? A new brand of soap? I give up.


19 posted on 08/05/2008 8:13:10 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: pissant

So does Chucky Kentucky....


20 posted on 08/05/2008 8:14:11 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (END THIS FREEPATHON NOW!!!!)
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