It’s over Obama fans

Posted by bruni on September 10, 2008

wow man that’s deep
she was runner up at a beauty contest

runner up!!!
yeah, because a Semi atheist, Ultra PRO-CHOICE is gonna sweep all those neo-conservative, right wing christians, Right up, right?!

you sure about that?
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To the conservatives & pro-oil republicans:

Posted by bruni on August 28, 2008

Why is it that you love oil so much and want to push so hard to bring in more oil? I don’t see you pushing for alternative energy research and merely state "nuclear is the answer" when it’s plainly clear that it isn’t. So what are you planning on doing when you’ve been pushing oil so hard and it turns out that we won’t have a drop of oil for 10-15 years?
If we’d stop subsidizing damn corn and ethanol so much, maybe alternative energy would move a little faster. Then food prices would start going down and the price of a pizza will be back to normal
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Obama’s Economic plan = income redistribution

Posted by bruni on August 26, 2008


Obama’s ‘emergency’ economic plan

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August 1, 2008 10:53 AM EST

Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) on Friday announced an “Emergency Economic Plan” that would give families a stimulus check of $1,000 each, funded in part by what his presidential campaign calls “windfall profits from Big Oil.”
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Serious question: was Obama ever actually opposed to drilling?

Posted by bruni on August 25, 2008

That is, did he ever actually say it was really a bad thing? Everything I ever heard from him simply said it was a distraction and wouldn’t help our problems with foreign oil and gas prices. (Which he still says).

I might be wrong though, it’s not an issue I’ve followed closely.

Obama is pressed on the issue repeatedly on the campaign trail, but he refuses to budge, preferring to take pains to spell out his reasons.
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Here’s a good read on windfall taxes and why it’s silly to levy them against Big Oil

Posted by bruni on August 24, 2008

What Is a ‘Windfall’ Profit?

August 4, 2008

The “windfall profits” tax is back, with Barack Obama stumping again to apply it to a handful of big oil companies. Which raises a few questions: What is a “windfall” profit anyway? How does it differ from your everyday, run of the mill profit? Is it some absolute number, a matter of return on equity or sales — or does it merely depend on who earns it?
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