[Sir Gawain]

How am I supposed to vote for this idiot? He's not making it easy.

[sarasota]

What is idiotic about trying to shut down the speculators if it will bring down the price of gas?

[Red Badger]

"I believe there needs to be a thorough and complete investigation of speculators to find out whether speculation has been going on...

This man is truly and idiot............

[silverleaf]

aaaaack aaack ack ack (sorry, fur ball)

[Names Ash Housewares]

Obama will get us nuked.
That’s the biggie. Supreme court, a few other things.

Fun huh?

[MarkT]

I went to his site the other day and clicked the link on Issues - gas prices / energy costs / independence were nowhere to be seen. The man is a total ass and I am ill to think I am going help elct the sob.

Speaking of "obscene profits", I guess he's okay with his bride's inherited fortune ($100MM+ ?).

[Red_Devil 232]

Gee, is that not what speculators do ... SPECULATE?

[econjack]

"I am very angry, frankly, at the oil companies not only because of the obscene profits they've made but at their failure to invest in alternate energy to help us eliminate our dependence on foreign oil," the senator said.

Oh, John...John...

How can you be so friggin STUPID! A 10% return on gross sales is "obscene"? By whose standards? You're only saying this because you think it will ingratiate you to the voting public, most of whom envy the intelligence of plankton. Well, for those of us who still have a few neurons firing in the cerebral cortex, you look like a complete IDIOT. If you even think about a windfall profits tax, you can count me out.

[DManA]

unbridled free-market

Gee, wonder where this reporter’s bias lies?

[WarToad]

Just when Obama and his crew are making slip after slip handing it back to McCain, McCain is doing his best to hand it back to Obama.

This election will go to the liberal who makes the fewest screw ups.

[avacado]

"I believe there needs to be a thorough and complete investigation of speculators to find out whether speculation has been going on and, if so, how much it has affected the price of a barrel of oil,"

Oh good Lord! Investigate speculators to see if they have been speculating? May as well investigate doctors to see if they've been doctoring. Investigate lawyers to see if they've been lawyering. Investigate police to see if they've been policing

Dick Cheney, we beg you to step forward and run for President!!!

[unkus]

How am I supposed to vote for this idiot? He’s not making it easy.

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It’s getting more difficult to even watch this guy on Tv with all his “My friends”, etc. The Dems would use him as a door mat.

[Antoninus]

How am I supposed to vote for this idiot? He's not making it easy.

You're right. The only reason is because this is much, much worse:



I'm also not 100% convinced that speculators don't account for at least some of the oil price spike. The financials who are losing their shirts in the bad debt crunch have to have someplace to park their money to make some quick profits.

[mgc1122]

“How am I supposed to vote for this idiot? He’s not making it easy.”

My vote for understatement of the year. McCain is part of the problem which has stupidly gone along with locking up our domestic energy resources - going back to Bush the First who locked us out of the continental oil shelf and dumbass Clinton whose shady dealings with Indonesia caused clean coal reserves in Utah to be off limits.

[YOUGOTIT]

Hay John: The price of oil is the fault of your Royal brothers seated in the Royal 100 Club that will not allow drilling or new gas production for over 35 years. Because of this we must import over 4 billion gallons of gas every year and that drives up the price because we do not have enough to supply ourselves and have to count on delivery, of GASOLINE, from some nations that hate our guts.

DRILL NOW!

[stuartcr]

I would guess that one of the main things a speculator does, is speculate...

[stockpirate]

“I believe there needs to be a thorough and complete investigation of speculators to find out whether speculation has been going on and, if so, how much it has affected the price of a barrel of oil,”

More from McStupid, “complete investigation of speculators to find out IF speculation has been going on...”

What a MORON, what does he think speculators do, knit?

[tumblindice]

“I am very angry, frankly, at the oil companies not only because of the obscene profits they’ve made ....”

Great strategy: when a problem come around you must whip it by getting angry.
I like to take it out on the clerk making $5.00 an hour, even though his boss hates raising gas prices since his profit margin on gas is slim while he makes real money on Big Gulps, Slim Jims, tobacco, etc.
And donuts.
Mmmmmmm, donuts.....

[Biblebelter]

I am very angry, frankly,

He be spinning on that. We have seen just a "little angry" from the RINO relic. His intemperate demeanor is legendary. One day before November come, we will all be witness to "the big angry" from McCain, and when that day come Barry's deal be sealed.

[bmwcyle]

Senator McCain of Arizona sounded more like an economic populist

When hasn't he sounded that way?

[Aria]

OK, I'm gonna dive in here.

Last night on TV Dick Morris was saying he talked to one of the top guys at Oppenheimer who is very knowledgeable about oil and the man was saying that in 1999 there was a change in the rules and this has allowed the speculators to do what they're doing. Apparently the Oppenheimer guy figured that the cost of a barrel of oil without the speculators would be about $60 or so.