The article is now down. Too many Freeper visits, I think.
Too bad , the real meat of the article should of been read, Woody Zimmerman really presented the argument well, that only a Moron would vote for Obama.
Finally got the article: I will post two parts of the article not already posted.
Gas, oil, energy and quality of life. As I write this, oil has hit $137 a barrel on world markets. Mr. Obama has joined other lawmakers in bashing oil companies for “obscene” profits. He wants to tax their “windfall profits” and spend the money on “alternative energy sources”. Yet he is opposed (as most Democrats are) to using nuclear power or coal (of which we have hundreds of years’ supply) to generate power. He will not allow oil recovery from shale, which experts believe might contain some 800 billion barrels of oil. And he is unalterably opposed to drilling in either the Arctic National Wildlife Reserve (where some 10 billion barrels of oil can be tapped) or off our coasts (where experts believe potential reserves of at least 18 billion barrels lie).
Mr. Obama’s positions and oppositions will not produce a drop of new oil, or lower the price by a farthing, or produce the reasonably priced power Americans need. Yet millions of voters - not to mention legions of enthralled reporters - think he walks on water. One is left to infer that his followers either (1) want higher gas prices or (2) are too stupid to realize that their “messiah’s” policies will do nothing about either energy supply or price - two of Americans’ biggest worries.
Mr. Obama has gone on record saying that we can’t expect to keep driving SUVs, eat as much as we want and set our thermostats at 72 degrees, and have the rest of the world say, “OK.” Does he think Americans won’t notice these declarations? Or is he so convinced of his own infallibility that he believes voters will swarm to his camp anyway? Color me perplexed. Other observers are more definite in their opposition, like the blogger Patstand who wrote, “Wake up people! Scary stuff coming out of the mouth of Barack Hussein Obama. Who is HE to tell us what we can drive and what we can eat?” It’s a good question to which I have no answer.
What I do know is that scarce, high-priced gas and promises of a diminished quality of life have knocked two presidents out of the box in the last 1/3 century. Richard Nixon was the first. The conventional story is that Watergate brought him down, but that’s too thin. The real issue was gas. (For your car - not the kind Congress produces.) The Watergate burglary happened in mid-1972. Nobody cared much about it until 1974, after oil tripled and gas doubled in price. Congressional Democrats used the Watergate break-in as a springboard, and Mr. Nixon was toast.
Gas in 1979 was as expensive as now, adjusted for inflation. Jimmy Carter said we should turn out the lights, turn down the heat, and put up with high gas prices - and he told us to quit whining about it. He scolded us - something voters don’t appreciate. In 1980 they gave Mr. Carter the boot and elected the candidate of optimism, Ronald Reagan. After the feds stopped trying to allocate gas supplies and control prices, supplies stabilized and gas prices dropped.
http://www.ahherald.com/content/view/4258/28/