Posted on 11/10/2004 6:02:08 PM PST by Lunkhead_01
It has been a week since the election.
Has anyone heard any liberal commentator mention "the 380 tons of explosives that vanished from the al QaQaa weapons complex"?
Has anyone noticed that the spot price of oil the day before the election was over $55 a barrel. Today it is a few cents over $47 a barrel. Conditions (other than the election is in the past) remain the same. Why did the price of crude drop almost 10% in a week?
I haven't notice too much noise about the 1000 dead troops in Iraq.
Gulf of Mexico production is getting back to normal?
and suddenly we're hearing about a booming economy, all these new jobs, an anticipated hot Christmas shopping season ... just amazing what a difference a week makes.
Are you suggesting that these things aren't the most important things on the planet now that the election is over? LOL!!!!
Because our "allies" in Saudi Arabia finally discovered that they couldn't botch the election against Bush. (They really wanted a jackwit like Kerry that they could push around.)
Soros stopped playing games with the future's market.
Ironically, the left was claiming that the modest pre-election drop in the price of oil, was in anticipation of a Kerry victory.
Assuming that this wasn't a rhetorical question, the price dropped because it was artificially high for the purpose of assuring that the Bush-Cheney ticket wouldn't win the election. Of course that didn't work; but, since it was artificially high, the market couldn't sustain the artificial price, hence the reduction following the election.
Sheesh, do I have to explain everything around here?
The markets like Bush.
And "just by coincidence" China decided that its economy wasn't expanding as much as they thought and so they wouldn't need so much oil.
Much earlier this year I offered the theory that rising fuel prices were a foreign conspiracy to build consumer/voter discontent to throw out the incumbent so that China could get another nuclear giveaway wink and nod man but many scoffed.
That's my bet. It was his way of making back the $$$ he spent trying to buy his own administration help Kerry win the election...
Conspiracies are funny things. Those that are suspected rarely exist, and those that exist are rarely suspected. All the same, I think your postulate has some merit. I wouldn't put it above our many and varied enemies and competitors.
Their favorite despot is dying. They will me in mourning for a few more weeks.
I think it's your point (with which I agree) that networks only cared about the al Qa Qaa (possibly) missing weapons when they could use it as a weapon against Pres. Bush's reelection.
I have yet to read a POLL see the numbers on the percent of Military that VOTED for BUSH vs KERRY? What's up with taht? I have seen White, black, hispanic, bald men, hairy men, wommen that shave, guys that were panties, but not one statistic on the Military vote????? What the Fahualla?
It will be interesting when that is finally published...if it is. I know Army Times did a poll just before the election and over 75% of the soldiers polled were voting for Bush.
Oil has dropped because there was no terrorist attack before the election - there was a risk premium built into the price. The oil market is too large to be gamed by any one individual - Soros et al.
Soros!
I heard about the 75+, but why have we not heard about the actual numbers? not the MSM or conservative talk has reports these statistics..... it can't be bad for Bush or the MSM would be all over it... but why the lack of slince on our part?????
dazed and confused....
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