CANDIDATES/GAS PRICE PROMISES/ALTERNATIVE FUEL SOURCES

The article linked by pressing this post's title is about how the candidates are promising lower gas prices and their strategies to effectively cut those gas prices. Isn't this the same song and dance we've been getting for months? We keep hearing politicians talk about lower gas prices, but the best they've been able to offer is stabilizing prices so that they aren't continuing to rise $.25 a week.

What an accomplishment! I mean the same week that both Bush AND McCain called over and over again for off-shore drilling for oil as a solution to our energy crisis, Honda rolled out the first few dozen of its commercially available hydrogen/electric hybrid.

We have reached a period of critical mass with our energy consumption: Either we continue to follow the archaic political solutions and power plays of the Cold-War Era ideologies of Bush, McCain and their like, or we adapt NOW to this rapidly emerging technology, one which will become widely available very soon, and which will leave us in the dust in terms of our industrial market. While GM still struggles to get their version of this car ready for mass-production, our government leaders have yet to get the clue that gas, oil, and politics in the Arab states are over. US citizens are tired of it and even if they don't all see this new type of technology as the solution, as soon as it becomes more reasonably priced and gains mass appeal, even doubters will see it as a better solution and Big Oil as an industry will see its downfall.

Whoever is determined to vote for McCain: If you do, we'll continue to see delays in critical technology that will free us from all of these energy woes and dependency on foreign powers, that's on top of the environmental impact of further flooding the oceans with pollutants. Think VERY carefully before you cast your vote.

TRY TO COUNTER THESE STATEMENT

I think the video explains itself, but most important, I think that general policy discussions and the positions of our current regime over the last eight years absolutely affirm these statements, or at least it doesn't offer evidence to refute them.

BUSH CAMPAIGNING FOR MCCAIN

The half-whit is hitting the fundraising trail for the AZ senator, which is funny as they were rivals a decade ago. I wonder what he can say aside from keeping the White House in Republican hands, anything else would point out that we probably would have been better with a McCain presidency than a Bush presidency. As a matter of policy the AZ senator will uphold the same military policy as the idiot, so what will make a McCain presidency any different from a third Bush term, something that Bush is basing his campaign strategies on.

I hope that Bush continues to campaign for McCain, and does so visibly so as to turn off conservative voters. This is critical to cause the country to realize its failure to envision and protect its own prosperity and future development. We cannot continue to operate under the assumption that there is the possibility of infinite expansion, as past imperialism led us to believe. That will be a danger as we move into the future and nations such as China, which have enormous growth potential, have already invaded and secured large portions of our own consumer markets.

All of these things are up for change in this election, but its our responsibility to realize exactly how much corporate interests and money are going to be filtered into the Republican campaign, and how much influence, or ownership, it'll have over our future president. McCain is the candidate of corporations, including those owned partly or wholly by foreign powers. If we don't want China and other countries who already work against our best interests owning our president, it's important for people to realize that voting for McCain is voting for George Bush's shadow.

MCCAIN AS BIG OF AN IDIOT AS OUR CURRENT PRESIDENT

John McCain thinks that 12 years after twelve years of war we will for sure have our victory in Iraq. It will just take courage, resolve, us electing him president and a full term, but by 2013 he knows it'll happen.

I think he's making the perfect choice to tailor his rhetoric and policies after George Bush's, especially since Bush has become a mockery of a modern leader, lost almost all credibility, at least in terms of Iraq and foreign policy, among American voters, and is generally seen as only slightly above a 9th grade reading level.

Keep it up Johnny, it's exactly how we like you!