Finally: Palin to meet Obama in Philadelphia

he walks a fine line as governor of Alaska. She wants the feds to open up ANWR — though it’s not likely that BHO will do that. I’m not sure if she needs to work with the federal government on her natural gas pipeline, but if she does than she will want to play nice with BHO. That’s politics.

ramrocks on November 25, 2008 at 8:18 PM

ANWR is just the tip of the iceberg, so to speak. They can’t drill where they have leases, either, according to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco. A major drilling effort in the Beaufort Sea was blocked by a ruling that federal officials failed to properly address environmental concerns when they granted permission to Shell Oil to drill there.

Sarah Palin saw this coming before she was officially on the GOP ticket. In a July interview, she said, “There are even bigger sources of crude than ANWR, such as offshore areas like the Chukchi Sea and Beaufort Sea.”

The Alaskan Outer Continental Shelf holds 26.6 billion barrels of recoverable crude oil and 132 trillion cubic feet of recoverable natural gas, according to recent Minerals Management Service estimates. Most of that is in the Beaufort and Chukchi seas.

I don’t think this latest assault on energy independence from the Dems is any accident. Obama said he would bankrupt coal with crushing taxes, and oil is another obvious target. The Dems are fully aware this will make energy prices skyrocket, and they are probably being lobbied forcefully. This would be the most logical reason why Sarah Palin continues to be a media target even after the election, whether she is everything they say or not.

chunderroad on November 25, 2008 at 9:23 PM

Most of you don’t get Obama and have wildly underestimated him.

dakine on November 25, 2008 at 9:23 PM

Sadly, we “get” Obama all too well, and thanks to the stupid 53% we get him for four years. Never underestimate his propensity for corruption is my take on it.

chunderroad on November 25, 2008 at 9:33 PM

pragmatists don’t have a record voting “present” in the Senate instead of selling their votes to the winning side

They do when they’ve already sold their vote to both sides and can’t go on the record breaking a campaign promise.

chunderroad on November 25, 2008 at 9:42 PM

The Jihadi-oil lobby in America has decades of influence in our government, and it has long arms into the system, and it has powerful political allies. It knows when Americans are messing up their own system, and it knows very well how to push them over the cliff, into the abyss of economic calamity.

OPEC has long been in bed with our CIA, who has an undeniable grip on our media and our elections. Maybe I sound a bit conspiratorial, but superstition is a powerful weapon for the elite, as Bertrand Russell pointed out. Oil is believed to be the root of all evil for a world that believes in little else. People go deaf dumb and blind at its mere mention.

To the people who control this resource, though, they have no prejudice that clouds their perception of reality, but rather steely pragmatism. America was punished for daring to change the status quo in the Arab and Muslim world to the advantage of the weakest and the suppressed: Shia and Kurds in Iraq, Syrian reformers, Lebanese civil society, Africans in Darfur, Iranian women and students, artists and liberals across the Arabian Peninsula. In return, the U.S was submitted to economic destabilization, steady, gradual and by small doses. If a world economic crisis is needed to remove the US democratization efforts from the region and to end its post 9/11 campaigns, the end justifies the means.

I really think Sarah Palin could be a revolutionary figure for the United States – as a woman and as a leader in energy policy. She obviously poses a threat to the entrenched interests that currently dominate our politics. Getting the OPEC cartel out of our government could be America’s most dramatic war of independence since 1776.

chunderroad on November 25, 2008 at 10:02 PM