[Winged Hussar]

This information won't hurt Obama's campaign if it stays at Free Republic. Take it to your Web sites and blogs.

In addition, Obama and Clinton are lying by omission when they give lip service to the Second Amendment by saying they support the right of people to hunt. The Second Amendment is about the right to keep and bear arms for self-defense, not just for hunting. Clinton, who is now trying to be Annie Oakley, was behind the Million Mom March in 2000, and we must remind gun owners of this if she becomes the Democratic nominee.

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[bpjam]

Obama doesn’t know any more about the cause of oil prices than the does about why stock markets go up or down. The guy has NO EXPERIENCE IN THE ECONOMY, the GOVERNMENT or FOREIGN/MILITARY POLICY! The guy is another in a long line of Harvard trained lawyers. Lawyers negotiate and seek settlements.

And somebody outght to tell him that he can’t bring up his student loans when his wife makes $300K to do a job which would have to be banned in his own health plan. People who DO have student loans don’t want to hear about how hard it is for you to afford piano lessons for your girls AND pay your student loans on your measly book royalties. And for a guy who has never invested to be delving into tax issues which could crater the market is what lawyers call ‘practicing outside your area of expertise’.

[SengirV]

$4.00 a gallon - http://www.losangelesgasprices.com/

Oil companies play no part in the present gas prices? Really? You’re going with that?

Sorry, there is plenty to bash Obama about. This just doesn’t rank in the top 100 - IMHO.

[Jeff Head]

I know something you bitter rural white folks don't know...

THE TRUTH ABOUT BLACK LIBERATION THEOLOGY

[Malesherbes]

BO was a guest of the Getty family when he made his speech dissing Bible-thumping, gun toting, xenophobic working stiffs. And where does the Getty family money come from?

[Bender2]

[thackney]

Government is a bigger part of the price we pay than oil company profits.

ExxonMobil 2007
Revenue $404.6 Billion
Profit $40.6 Billion (10.0%)
Taxes $102.5 Billion (25.3%)

Sales-Based taxes $31.728B
Other taxes and duties $40.953B
Income taxes $29.864B

2007 Financial & Operating Review
http://www.exxonmobil.com/corporate/files/news_pub_fo_2007.pdf
Page 16

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ConocoPhillips 2007
Revenue $194.5 Billion
Profit $11.9 Billion (6.1%)
Taxes $30.4 Billion (15.6%)

Taxes other than income taxes $18.990B
Income taxes $11.891B

2007 Annual Report
http://www.conocophillips.com/NR/rdonlyres/3838234F-F20C-4BCE-AE8D-78DE29D67455/0/07RevisedARfinal.pdf
Page 60

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Chevron 2007
Revenue $220.9 Billion
Profit $18.7 Billion (8.5%)
Taxes $35.7 Billion (16.2%)

Taxes other than income taxes $22.266B
Income taxes $13.479B

2007 Annual Report Supplement
http://media.corporate-ir.net/media_files/irol/13/130102/reports/CVX_ARsupp07.pdf
Page 3

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Marathon 2007

Revenue $62.8 Billion
Profit $4.0 Billion (6.3%)
Taxes $8.5 Billion (13.5%)

Consumer excise taxes $5.163B
Other taxes $0.394B
Income taxes $2.901B

2007 Annual Report
http://www.marathon.com/content/documents/investor_center/annual_reports/annual_report_2007_book.pdf
Page F-4

[preacher]

"Big Oil" only gets a small peercentange of the retail price of gasoline.