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Is President Obama Smarter Than a Fifth-Grader?
http://grassrootsne.com/?p=8740 ^ | Shelli Dawdy

Posted on 11/15/2011 11:23:42 AM PST by pitviper68

Excerpt: Environmentalist rhetoric has become especially negative-sounding in the last few years as gas prices have generally increased and periodically spiked, new and restricting regulations have gone into effect, more expensive and less desirable “green” technologies have been pushed or mandated, and “green jobs” have been endlessly touted. News of Solyndra and other wasteful and abusive spending (what a shocker!) of “stimulus” dollars have provided additionally legitimate reasons for scorn of the whole environmentalism-gone-wild thing.

The TransCanada project seems a tailor-made solution; it is good old-fashioned oil, evoking images of Jed Clampett (black oil, Texas Tea). It is definitely not a creator of “green” jobs; in fact, such a project seems to involve a lot of brown dirt and black oil smudges on the sweaty foreheads of blue-jean wearing, Big Mac-eating guys with hardhats. And surely, the whole idea of flowing oil satisfies, at least a bit, that growing American urge to “Drill, Baby, Drill!”

I, like every other constitutional conservative would really love to raise my glass in celebratory toast at the idea of a river of good ‘ole oil flowing through a pipe that would provide skads of jobs to my fellow Nebraskans, that would reduce our dependence on foreign oil (oops) “hostile” foreign oil, provide tax revenues from increased economic activity that would result in some tax cuts for Nebraskans (who are taxed, overall, higher than any of our neighbors).

I would also like to raise my glass in a celebratory toast to my elected officials in Nebraska who represented my and my fellow citizens’ interests both at the State Capitol and in Washington, D.C. and for their deliberative contemplation of the issues associated with a large project that affects property owners in a wide path through the state. I would really like to be proud of the honesty, integrity, and principles of my elected officials.

I would like a President who understands his geography to the extent that he knows Canada is not a part of the domestic United States, so when he says we need to develop more domestic oil and gas he is actually talking about the SOVEREIGN NATION that is the United States of America. (You know, the one comprised of 50 states?…I think a map would sort things out…if you don’t own one, I’ve provided a link, Mr. President, just in case, so you can buy one on Amazon: Rand Mcnally Us Wall Map (M Series U.S.A. Wall Maps) 50″x32″.)

There are a lot of things I would like to be true. But I think its more sensible to deal with what is actually true. I am sincerely grieved by the fact that too often, the truth I find is not pleasant.


TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: keystonexlpipeline

1 posted on 11/15/2011 11:23:44 AM PST by pitviper68
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To: All

Short answer; NO!


2 posted on 11/15/2011 11:27:39 AM PST by harpu ( "...it's better to be hated for who you are than loved for someone you're not!")
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To: pitviper68

Not likely.


3 posted on 11/15/2011 11:28:15 AM PST by WayneS (Comments now include 25 percent more sarcasm for no additional charge...)
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To: pitviper68

Dumber than a box of Molted Snake Skins...


4 posted on 11/15/2011 11:29:12 AM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: pitviper68

No. He can barely read.


5 posted on 11/15/2011 11:29:26 AM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: pitviper68

http://grassrootsne.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/GiN-Keystone-XL-Pipeline-Nov42011-Online-PDF.pdf

Documents on file at Canadian and U.S. government agencies, including filings by TransCanada and Koch Industries, and National Energy Board of Canada decision, several market analyses, federal and state legislative reports, campaign
donation filings, and spending by advocacy groups tell a different story from the dialogue that has prevailed for many months.

The Keystone XL Pipeline would result in increased gas and
diesel prices in fifteen Midwestern states to the detriment
of those states’ citizens and economies. All Canadian oil producers would benefit. Analysts project a $.10-$.20 price
per gallon increase in the Midwest region. According to its
own statements, TransCanada wants to build the line to remove oversupply from the Midwestern market and shift types
of oil, either heavy crude or synthetic, based on market conditions, to avoid the discounts Canadian producers currently receive. Once moved past the Midwest, Canadian products would move into the Gulf Coast area, which in addition to providing a new sales market, also affords access to foreign trade zone ports.


6 posted on 11/15/2011 11:32:52 AM PST by pitviper68
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To: pitviper68; All

Do fifth graders go to prison for defrauding taxpayers while in the process enriching his financial supporters? And the dems called Dicky Nixon a crook?

Blockbuster: Obama administration pressured Solyndra to delay layoffs for political gain

http://hotair.com/archives/2011/11/15/blockbuster-obama-administration-pressured-solyndra-to-delay-layoffs-for-political-gain/


7 posted on 11/15/2011 11:40:53 AM PST by Hotlanta Mike (TeaNami)
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To: pitviper68

I would rather have a 5th grader for President. OK,maybe a 7th grader.


8 posted on 11/15/2011 11:47:26 AM PST by Leep
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To: pitviper68

Can’t say for sure. Is that 5th grader the offspring of a Welfare Queen Crackhead? If so, I would say, possibly.

If you are talking about a 5th grader that is parented by a conservative family, not a chance in hell.


9 posted on 11/15/2011 11:47:43 AM PST by Howie66 (I can see November (2012) from my house.)
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To: pitviper68

99% of Fifth graders know that Hawaii is not Asia !( Odumbo doesn’t)


10 posted on 11/15/2011 11:50:51 AM PST by Renegade
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To: pitviper68

Considering the quality of education offered at government indoctrination centers, maybe.


11 posted on 11/15/2011 11:52:50 AM PST by all the best (`~!)
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To: Renegade

Yeah, the latest gaff by his excellency. Then again, perhaps it was a fraudian slip and he will now claim to be Asian. Or maybe Kenya is part of Asia too, just a line on a map to Oturd.


12 posted on 11/15/2011 11:56:26 AM PST by Mouton (Voting is an opiate of the electorate. Nothing changes no matter who wins..)
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To: pitviper68

5th graders know it is not 2008.


13 posted on 11/15/2011 12:01:40 PM PST by treetopsandroofs (Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
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To: pitviper68

A village in Kenya is missing its idiot.


15 posted on 11/15/2011 1:00:27 PM PST by THE_RAIDER (http://www.redstate.com/erick/2011/10/05/the-occupy-wall-street-fools/)
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To: pitviper68
Is President[sic] Obama Smarter Than a Fifth-Grader?

A definite NO; but due to affirmative action he doesn't have to be.

FUBO GTFO! 431 Days until Noon Jan 20, 2013

16 posted on 11/15/2011 1:01:18 PM PST by The Sons of Liberty (Psalm 109:8 Let his days be few and let another take his office. - Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin)
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To: pitviper68

17 posted on 11/15/2011 11:09:37 PM PST by clearcarbon
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