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U.S. Loan to Brazilian Oil Company Riles Conservatives in Favor of Offshore Drilling
Fox News ^ | 08/20/2009 | James Rosen

Posted on 08/21/2009 9:33:23 AM PDT by MNJohnnie

President Obama has opposed any expanded oil drilling off American shores largely on environmental grounds, turning a deaf ear to conservative cries of "Drill, Baby, Drill."

But now Obama may start hearing cries of "foul" after the U.S. Export-Import Bank promised Petrobras, Brazil's state-owned oil company, $2 billion in loan guarantees to help finance lucrative drilling off the shores of Rio De Janeiro.

Some see a contradiction in an executive branch agency, independent but with board members appointed by the president, facilitating abroad the very kind of energy exploration Obama opposes domestically.

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TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: antiamericanism; cultureofcorruption; democratscandals; drillbabydrill; drilllikebrazil; georgesoros; globalmarshallplan; milliondollarmarxist; obamascandals; offshoredrilling; palinsaidit1st; payola; petrobras; petrobrasscandal; puppetmaster; scratchmyback; soros
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Cut out the usual hair spiltting absurities insterted into any "News" story showing Democrats behaving badly, seems Palin was right again.
1 posted on 08/21/2009 9:33:24 AM PDT by MNJohnnie
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To: MNJohnnie

The Chicago community organizer is organizing......


2 posted on 08/21/2009 9:34:37 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: MNJohnnie

This is a pay-off to George Soros’s company for the millions he wasted trying to beat George Bush and fund the Obama campaign.


3 posted on 08/21/2009 9:35:38 AM PDT by Deb (Beat him, strip him and bring him to my tent!)
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To: MNJohnnie

It is a payoff to Soros, a big Petrobras investor.


4 posted on 08/21/2009 9:36:30 AM PDT by FormerACLUmember (When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.)
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To: MNJohnnie

Soros pays the despicable democrat party millions to stop US drilling, and get cheap loans from the democrats to finance his own massive drilling in Brasil.


5 posted on 08/21/2009 9:40:19 AM PDT by FormerACLUmember (When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.)
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To: MNJohnnie

I understand the Brazilian company is George Soro’s single largest investment. Seems like the Dear Leader is paying back his supporters like Axlerod’s old firm is being paid back with federal dollars.


6 posted on 08/21/2009 9:40:39 AM PDT by airedale ( XZ)
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To: MNJohnnie

Some see a contradiction in an executive branch agency, independent but with board members appointed by the president, facilitating abroad the very kind of energy exploration Obama opposes domestically.

A contradiction?

A re-affirmation is more like it, the pay off of Soros
defines Obama to a t.

If any administration deserved investigation and imprisonment it’s his.


7 posted on 08/21/2009 9:41:11 AM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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Meanwhile, 2 days ago, MMS conducted Lease Sale 210 in the western gulf.

Bidders were sparse.

And guess what, Petrobtras was the #3 bidder.

8 posted on 08/21/2009 9:49:57 AM PDT by Ben Ficklin
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To: tet68

Again, at risk of repeating myself. Why are the republicans all over this. Hold press conferences showing the total hypocritical stand taken by this administration. Hold the press conference and take note as to who is in attendance then call them to task when this story is not put on the news. Easy game to play but we seen unwilling to play. If we don’t play we will never win.


9 posted on 08/21/2009 9:50:43 AM PDT by Cyclone59 (Everything that hits the fan is not evenly distributed)
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To: MNJohnnie

Between this travesty, and sending a convicted terrorist responsible for over 200 lives home on a private jet plane before his sentence has been served tells me more than I want to know about the scoundrels in power today. And we ain’t seen nuthin’ yet!


10 posted on 08/21/2009 10:07:17 AM PDT by Paperdoll (DL Hunter/S Palin or S Palin/DL Hunter 2012)
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To: MNJohnnie; Timesink; martin_fierro; reformed_democrat; Loyalist; =Intervention=; PianoMan; GOPJ; ...
But now Obama may start hearing cries of "foul" after the U.S. Export-Import Bank promised Petrobras, Brazil's state-owned oil company, $2 billion in loan guarantees to help finance lucrative drilling off the shores of Rio De Janeiro.

Ahem. This is the same Petrobras that Obama's master George Soros funds.

Petrobras: Buy and Sit Tight Like Soros (seekingalphacom 8/19/2009 David Enke)

As reported at Bloomberg.com, George Soros purchased an $811 million stake in Petroleo Brasileiro SA (PBR), (better known as Petrobras) in Q2. The Brazilian oil company is now the largest holding in his fund, amounting to 22 percent of the total $3.68 billion of stocks and American depositary receipts held by Soros Fund Management LLC.

11 posted on 08/21/2009 10:08:03 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Barry Falsewitness is proud of his "healthy skepticism" of organized religion. He's a deceiver.)
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12 posted on 08/21/2009 10:08:37 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Barry Falsewitness is proud of his "healthy skepticism" of organized religion. He's a deceiver.)
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Soros, owns a ton of Petrobras.


13 posted on 08/21/2009 10:10:17 AM PDT by edcoil (If I had 1 cent for every dollar the government saved, Bill Gates and I would be friends.)
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To: parsifal

Care to try and explain this action of your Dear Leader?


14 posted on 08/21/2009 11:03:06 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (Obamanomics: we have to destroy the US Economy in order to save it!)
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To: MNJohnnie

If the Health Care Bill isn’t 0bama’s Waterloo, perhaps the Brazilian Drill Bill will be.


15 posted on 08/21/2009 11:34:28 AM PDT by HighlyOpinionated (In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. George Orwell)
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To: FormerACLUmember

Yeah it’s one of his top five holdings.


16 posted on 08/21/2009 11:39:58 AM PDT by Rick_Michael (Have no fear "President Government" is here)
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“Care to try and explain this action of your Dear Leader?”

Yes. Realizing that the GOP is running around like a chicken with its head cut off, BO thinks he can get away with anything.

He has been advised by Rahm “Ras Al Ghul” Emanual, that conservatives are so busy trying to find a Kenyan birth certificate and inventing “death panels” they probably won’t notice it.

parsy, who also thinks BO wants an excuse to go to Brazil to meet that little hottie he saw at the G-8 conference.


17 posted on 08/21/2009 1:33:55 PM PDT by parsifal ("Where am I? How did I end up in this hospital room? What is my name?" Anonymous)
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Oh come on Parsy, you are so obnoxiously arrogant on every other thread lecturing us Conservatives about our supposed addiction to “Araco-capitalism”, please enlighten us all on what your Dear Leader is doing here.


18 posted on 08/21/2009 1:36:23 PM PDT by MNJohnnie (Obamanomics: we have to destroy the US Economy in order to save it!)
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If I have been “obnoxiously arrogant” I apologize. I was just aiming for mildly pedagogic.

What “here” are you referring to?

parsy, who is trying to be more humble


19 posted on 08/21/2009 1:49:17 PM PDT by parsifal ("Where am I? How did I end up in this hospital room? What is my name?" Anonymous)
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To: parsifal
Oh come now, surely you can do better then that pathetically inept response.

After all it is only us evil right wingers that are all "aracho capitalists". There must be SOME explanation to explain why your holy righteous Democrat Leaders are doing this.

20 posted on 08/21/2009 1:53:27 PM PDT by MNJohnnie (Obamanomics: we have to destroy the US Economy in order to save it!)
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