The Democrats, on the other hand, are running on the platform, “If you vote for us, we’ll make everyone poorer. We’ll keep right on making you pay more for gasoline, electricity, and food.”

Some find that far more distasteful than letting people have an opportunity to do better, as Mr. McCain wants to do.

is your contention that McCain would instead find a way to have people pay less for gasoline, electricity and food?

By what, a gas tax? Pretty discredited at this point – http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/04/15/econ…

energy prices? What, through off-shore drilling? Oil companies have explored less than 30% of the land already available to them. They have contracts for output in Iraq coming as well with the ability to pump oil within in a few weeks… as opposed to 5 years.

Drilling in the Alaska wildlife refuge will do nothing but destroy a national treasure.

Exxon-Mobil made more than $11 BILLION in profits in the last three months. You want an energy policy that puts money back in the hands of normal, hardworking american people? How about Exxon-Mobil makes a little more reasonable profit so the workers of america can get to their jobs.

“letting people have an opportunity to do better, as Mr. McCain wants to do”

???

The only people who will do better under a McCain presidency are the ones who have done well under a Bush presidency. The richest of the rich will get richer and middle america will be left with the bill.

Good recitation of Democratic talking points. In fact:
Oil companies make about 7% profit, which is reasonable. Most oil companies plow profits back into drilling and exploration.
ANWAR is NOT a national treasure. It is a vast wasteland, a tiny part of which could be drill and that oil used to fill the Alaska Pipeline, now running at 1/3 capacity, to provide Americans with lower fuel prices.
The only problems with the economy are mortgage failures (not that many in most areas) caused by Democrats forcing mortgages to be given to people who couldn’t afford them, and to speculators during the last buying frenzy.
And, of course, the high fuel prices, caused by Democrats’ refusal to allow more drilling.

Why are polar bears, which eat seals, of such concern when people who hunt seals and sell their skins for warm clothing such criminals?

Greg –

Have you ever noticed what I perceive to be a common practice in the media when reporting on political fundraisers? Whenever a Democratic candidate holds a fundraiser in a well-to-do neighborhood or expansive estate, their is little mention or description of the location. The report may mention who the estate belongs to or what kind of work they do, but the media usually won’t go out of their way to paint a vivid picture for the reader. When a Republican is taking in a nice cash haul from the fundraiser? The reader apparently has to know how many garages is on the host’s property. Coming from the Philly Inquirer, I suppose I’m not surprised, but sometimes the not-so-subtle political agenda of some in print media make me laugh out loud.

We are starting to slip just a bit here. Lets get something with some meat to talk about. This makes fun conversation and good reading, but its not what this blog needs. You know this stuff always turns to Democrats having been this huge powerful force in America even when the Republicans controlled the White House and Congress. Or the Republicans being the party of the Rich & Famous. Greg, feed us something we can really have a conversation about.
Have a nice 4th everybody. Remember, Democrat or Republican, we are all lucky to be Free.
JP

the result of Republican tax policy, Republican defunding of health, education, housing, food and drug safety and the astronomical spending on war toys and endless agressive conflict-all funded by massively gutting the national treasury and indebting our grandkids and destroying the value of the dollar-the 1% in Bryn Mawr have massively benefitted while the other 99% have been thrown to the wolves. THAT IS THE ISSUE!

Indeed!! A single paragraph synopsis of 8 years of the Bush Administration. Even a die-hard Conservative should be embarrassed by the amateur antics of this administration and yet they are falling in line behind a candidate that espouses the same rookie policies that have driven the American people to endure a decimated foreign policy, a domestic economic policy that favors corporate profits at the cost of the hourly wage, and a distrust in the Presidency that dates back 150 years.
JP

No I didn’t find it distasteful.

Sounds like some tax-addicts need a fix, and are counting on Obama to provide it.
For our own good, of course.
For our own good.