Our oil production: 8.091 mm barrels per day
Our oil consumption: 19.993 mm barrels per day
What do you think?
Yes, it is possible if Obama is elected and serves eight years
yup our ability to kick the oil habit depends solely on this single factor
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Georgia was tricked, but by Russia or US?
Ian Bell on the new cold war
LET’S RUN through this again. Vladimir Putin is not a nice man. The KGB, with whom the young Vlad earned his reputation as a people person, was not Russia’s answer to the Rotary Club. As a direct consequence, Russian traditions of democracy remain wafer thin, a cracked veneer that fails utterly to conceal thuggery, rigged votes, oligarchic mafias, corruption, and the corpses of journalists. Are we clear?
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Fuck, they’re not answering questions together.
/thread fail
lol @ OT thinking a black man will win
at least we know from previous years that OT is always wrong, thank god.
He’s leading in the polls right now; I think it’s more likely than you think.
Who his biggest life influences were, or something like that.
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It was not the advocates of Capitalism who helped Wilson to whip up a reluctant peace-loving nation into the hysteria of a military crusade. It was the liberal magazine, The New Republic. Its editor, Herbert Crowley, used such arguments as: "The American nation needs the tonic of a serious moral adventure." Just as Wilson, a liberal reformer, led the United States into World War I, to make the world "safe for democracy," so Franklin D. Roosevelt, another liberal reformer, led it into World War II in the name of the "Four Freedoms."
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Too Fit to Be President?
Facing an Overweight Electorate,
Barack Obama Might Find
Low Body Fat a Drawback
By AMY CHOZICK
August 1, 2008; Page W1
Speaking to donors at a San Diego fund-raiser last month, Barack Obama reassured the crowd that he wouldn’t give in to Republican tactics to throw his candidacy off track.
“Listen, I’m skinny but I’m tough,” Sen. Obama said.
But in a nation in which 66% of the voting-age population is overweight and 32% is obese, could Sen. Obama’s skinniness be a liability? Despite his visits to waffle houses, ice-cream parlors and greasy-spoon diners around the country, his slim physique just might have some Americans wondering whether he is truly like them.
The candidate has been criticized by opponents for appearing elitist or out of touch with average Americans. A Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll conducted in July shows Sen. Obama still lags behind Republican John McCain among white men and suburban women who say they can’t relate to his background or perceived values.
“He’s too new … and he needs to put some meat on his bones,” says Diana Koenig, 42, a housewife in Corpus Christi, Texas, who says she voted for Sen. Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primary.
“I won’t vote for any beanpole guy,” another Clinton supporter wrote last week on a Yahoo politics message board. Continue reading…