“There is no substitute for victory.”

~General Douglas McArthur

 

Taxes, Spending and the Next President

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_aXQjCY9_Y

 

Barack Obama on Taxes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=po7J0f5TMrQ

 

Response to Obama, 5: Tax Rates and Job Creation

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUxOk-G3VS0

 

Barack Obama on Federal Spending Transparency Bill

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYgDAmtrcJQ

 

Response to Obama, 4: What’s wrong with Obama’s Leftist View

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8IAfkDBjr0&feature=user

 

Drill Here. Drill Now. Pay Less.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLd_xUUR4Bg&feature=related

 

Candidates On The Energy Crisis

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaDLzfLvDdw 

 

Obama and McCain differ on drilling

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1smrLDacA4

 

Former Speaker Newt Gingrich discusses his view on Iraq war

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03MLlDhPUT0&feature=related

 

Bloody Bill Kristol Claiming We’ve Achieved Victory in Iraq

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdxr1S7lTMk 

  

Chris Matthews: The Surge Is Working

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vTaJWviSFg 

 

John McCain and Barack Obama Trade Blows on Foreign Policy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmAoTrJSpvE

 

With gasoline and food prices rising and victory in Iraq likely, what are the positions of the Republican and Democratic Party presidential candidates on the top three issues, the economy, energy, and war?

McCain wants to cut both taxes and and Federal government spending.

McCain wants US energy companies to drill for oil off the US coasts and build nuclear power plants.

McCain advocated the surge strategy and victory in Iraq.

Sounds like a winner.

The American people love a winner.

Obama wants to significantly increase taxes and Federal government spending.

Obama favors expanded alternative energy such as ethanol which is resulting in higher food prices worldwide as more corn is grown to supply ethanol plants.

Obama does not favor increasing the supply of gasoline and heating oil by drilling offshore but gradual price increases.

Obama opposed the Iraq war and surge strategy and believes that we should end the war in Iraq.

Obama would leave Iraq as soon as possible, but within sixteens months.

Sounds like a loser.

The American Elites love a loser.

The American people will elect Senator McCain the next President and former Governor Mitt Romney the next Vice-President of the United States of America.

The conservative movement base of the Republican Party will have a very high turnout for the simple reason they understand how dangerous having a unqualified, inexperienced, green, radical, socialist such as Senator Barrack Obama as President of the United States.

Obama would be worse than another Carter or for that matter another Clinton Presidency. 

Both Senator Obama and Senator Clinton will return to the United States Senate to run again in 2012.

The political battle in 2009 will be over the next attempt at comprehensive immigration reform, a code word for amnesty, and a cap and trade tax.

President McCain, Senator Obama and Senator Clinton will all support comprehensive immigration reform and a cap and trade tax.

The American people and the conservative movement will oppose both and win. 

Both Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich will be running for President in 2012.

“Back in the thirties we were told we must collectivize the nation because the people were so poor.

Now we are told we must collectivize the nation because the people are so rich.”

~William F. Buckley, Jr. 

 

 

Background Articles and Videos

 

 

 

 

Obama: Higher Oil Prices Are Good? What???

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gehaf7_TBAs

 

Democrats Vote Against Drilling for U.S. Oil – TREASON?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9gr1N8Y-nk

 

Liberals (Democrats) Want High Gas Prices.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNP8tf78pXc

Newt Gingrich – We Must Drill for Oil NOW

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9O1QzKgIuk

 

73% of Americans Support Offshore Drilling

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aanSprhrhTk&feature=related

 

Glenn Beck’s Real Story – Energy Independence

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWZ_4EXeyaA

 

Energy Information Administration – United States Energy Profile              United States Energy Profile        Western Sahara Yemen Zambia Zimbabwe
Energy Data Series	Download Full Series: 1980-2007 (xls)
1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 Petroleum (Thousand Barrels per Day) Total Oil Production  Production of crude oil (including lease condensate), natural gas plant liquids, and other liquids, and refinery processing gain (loss). Negative value indicates refinery processing loss. 9460.94 9278.01 8993.41 9057.78 8957.01 8999.90 8797.29 8700.20 8321.92 8330.46 8487.28 Crude Oil Production  Includes lease condensate. 6451.59 6251.83 5881.46 5821.60 5801.40 5745.55 5680.70 5418.85 5178.39 5102.07 5102.45 Consumption  Consumption of petroleum products and direct combustion of crude oil. 18620.30 18917.14 19519.33 19701.07 19648.71 19761.30 20033.51 20731.15 20802.16 20687.41 20697.53 Net Exports/Imports(-)  Net Exports = Exports – Imports. Negative numbers are Net Imports. Note: Data range begins with the year 1990. -9159.36 -9639.13 -10525.92 -10643.30 -10691.70 -10761.40 -11236.22 -12030.95 -12480.24 -12356.95 -12210.25 Refinery Capacity  Crude oil distillation capacity as of January 1. Sources: U.S. data from EIA; Other countries from Oil & Gas Journal. 15452 15711 16261 16512 16595 16785 16757 16894 17125 17339 17397 Proved Reserves  As of January 1. Sources: U.S. data from EIA; Other countries from Oil & Gas Journal. (Billion Barrels) 22.017 22.546 21.034 21.765 22.045 22.446 22.677 21.891 21.371 21.757 21.757   Natural Gas (Billion Cubic Feet) Production  Dry natural gas. 18902.0 19024.0 18832.2 19182.0 19616.0 18928.0 19099.0 18591.0 18074.0 18531.0 NA Consumption  Dry natural gas. 22737.0 22246.0 22405.0 23333.0 22239.0 23007.0 22277.0 22389.0 22241.0 21821.0 NA Net Exports/Imports(-)  Net Exports=Exports-Imports; Net Imports=Imports-Exports. Negative numbers are Net Imports. Data begins with 1990. - 2837.0 - 2993.0 - 3423.0 - 3538.0 - 3604.0 - 3499.0 - 3264.0 - 3405.0 - 3612.0 NA NA Proved Reserves  As of January 1. Sources: U.S. data from EIA; Other countries from Oil & Gas Journal.                                          166,474.0 167,223.0 164,041.0 167,406.0 177,427.0 183,460.0 186,946.0 189,044.0 192,513.0 204,385.0 204,385.0   1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 Coal (Million Short Tons) Production  Production of primary coal (includes anthracite, bituminous, lignite, and for Estonia, oil shale). 1089.9 1117.5 1100.4 1073.6 1127.7 1094.3 1071.8 1112.1 1131.5 1161.4 NA Consumption  Consumption of primary coal (includes anthracite, bituminous, lignite, and for Estonia, oil shale) and net imports of metallurgical coke. 1029.5 1037.1 1038.6 1084.1 1060.1 1066.4 1094.9 1107.3 1125.5 1114.2 NA Net Exports/Imports(-)  Net Exports=Exports-Imports; Net Imports=Imports-Exports. Includes primary coal and metallurgical coke. (Trillion Btu) 1959.5 1806.5 1240.2 1149.4 741.3 549.4 440.5 433.4 467.5 296.7 NA Electricity (Billion Kilowatthours) Net Generation  Conventional thermal electricity, hydroelectric power, nuclear electric power, and geothermal, solar, wind, and wood and waste electric power generation. 3496.2 3624.8 3700.9 3807.6 3745.5 3867.2 3891.7 3979.0 4062.0 4059.9 NA Net Consumption  Net generation+electricty imports-electricity exports-electricity distribution losses. 3301.8 3425.1 3483.7 3592.4 3557.1 3631.7 3662.0 3715.9 3815.7 NA NA Installed Capacity (GWe)  One billion watts or one thousand megawatts of electric capacity, as of January 1. 759.3 756.3 766.4 792.2 828.6 884.9 927.9 942.2 956.7 NA NA Total Primary Energy (Quadrillion Btu) Production  Production of petroleum (crude oil and natural gas plant liquids), dry natural gas, and coal, and net generation of hydroelectric, nuclear, and geothermal, solar, wind, and wood and waste electric power. 72.6 73.0 71.9 71.5 71.9 70.9 70.3 70.4 69.6 NA NA Consumption  Consumption of petroleum, dry natural gas, and coal, and net hydroelectric, nuclear, and geothermal, solar, wind, and wood and waste electricity. Also includes net electricty imports. 94.8 95.2 96.8 99.0 96.3 97.9 98.2 100.4 100.7 NA NA Energy Intensity (Btu per (2000) U.S. Dollars)  Total primary energy consumption per dollar of gross domestic product using purchasing power parities. 10888.1 10497.9 10223.2 10082.0 9739.1 9738.2 9533.9 9375.5 9113.5 NA NA Carbon Dioxide Emissions (Million Metric Tons of CO₂) Total Emissions from the consumption of petroleum, natural gas, and coal and the flaring of natural gas. from Consumption of Fossil Fuels  5544.3 5581.4 5653.2 5823.5 5723.1 5763.1 5812.8 5935.5 5957.0 NA NA

 

 

http://tonto.eia.doe.gov/country/country_time_series.cfm?fips=US

Last Update: June 16, 2008 Next Update: July 15, 2008 (Petroleum), As available (Other fuels) Print this page

Data   2006 2007   28 year history United States North America OECD World  Rank   United States Petroleum (Thousand Barrels per Day)             Total Oil Production  Production of crude oil (including lease condensate), natural gas plant liquids, and other liquids, and refinery processing gain (loss). Negative value indicates refinery processing loss. 8,330.46 15,326 21,586 84,591 3   8,487.28 Crude Oil Production  Includes lease condensate.   5,102.07 10,883 16,013 73,539 3   5,102.45 Consumption  Consumption of petroleum products and direct combustion of crude oil.   20,687.41 24,957 49,336 84,622 1   20,697.53 Net Exports/Imports(-)  Net Exports = Total Oil Production – Consumption. Negative numbers are Net Imports.   -12,356.95 -9,631 -27,750 – 1   -12,210.25 Refinery Capacity  Crude oil distillation capacity as of January 1. Sources: U.S. data from EIA; Other countries from Oil & Gas Journal.   17,339 21,040 45,582 85,345 1   17,397 Proved Reserves  As of January 1. Sources: U.S. data from EIA; Other countries from Oil & Gas Journal. (Billion Barrels)   21.757 213 230  1,293 11   21.757     2005 2006   27 year history United States North America   World Rank   United States Natural Gas (Billion Cubic Feet)   Production  Dry natural gas.   18,074 26,161   101,528 2   18,531 Consumption  Dry natural gas.   22,241 27,406   103,700 1   21,821 Net Exports/Imports(-)  Net Exports = Exports – Imports. Negative numbers are Net Imports. Note: Data range begins with the year 1990.   - 3,612 -552   – 1   NA Proved Reserves  As of January 1. Sources: U.S. data from EIA; Other countries from Oil & Gas Journal.                                     192,513 263,963   6,046,062 6   204,385 Coal (Million Short Tons)   Production  Production of primary coal (includes anthracite, bituminous, lignite, and for Estonia, oil shale).   1,131.498 1,215   6,490 2   1,161.444 Consumption  Consumption of primary coal (includes anthracite, bituminous, lignite, and for Estonia, oil shale) and net imports of metallurgical coke.   1125.476 1,212   6,483 2   1,114.176 Net Exports/Imports(-)   Net Exports = Exports – Imports. Negative numbers are Net Imports. Includes primary coal and metallurgical coke. (Trillion Btu)   467.524 393   – 8   296.713   Electricity (Billion Kilowatthours)   Net Generation  Conventional thermal electricity, hydroelectric power, nuclear electric power, and geothermal, solar, wind, and wood and waste electric power generation.   4061.98 4,895   17,351 1   4059.91 Net Consumption  Net generation+electricty imports-electricity exports-electricity distribution losses.   3815.67 4,540   15,747 1   NA Installed Capacity (GWe)  One billion watts or one thousand megawatts of electric capacity, as of January 1.   956.673 1,129   3,872 1   NA   Total Primary Energy (Quadrillion Btu)   Production  Production of petroleum (crude oil and natural gas plant liquids), dry natural gas, and coal, and net generation of hydroelectric, nuclear, and geothermal, solar, wind, and wood and waste electric power.   69.640 99   460 1   NA Consumption  Consumption of petroleum, dry natural gas, and coal, and net hydroelectric, nuclear, and geothermal, solar, wind, and wood and waste electricity. Also includes net electricty imports.   100.691 122   463 1   NA Energy Intensity   Consumption per dollar of gross domestic product using purchasing power parities. (Btu per 2000 U.S. Dollars)   9,113 –   – –   NA Carbon Dioxide Emissions (Million Metric Tons of CO₂)   Total from Consumption of Fossil Fuels  Emissions from the consumption of petroleum, natural gas, and coal and the flaring of natural gas.   5,956.98 6,988   28,193 1   NA

Top World Oil Producers, 2006 (thousand barrels per day)
Rank	Country	Production
1	Saudi Arabia	10,665
2	Russia	9,677
3	United States	8,330
4	Iran	4,148
5	China	3,845
6	Mexico	3,707
7	Canada	3,288
8	United Arab Emirates	2,945
9	Venezuela	2,803
10	Norway	2,786
11	Kuwait	2,675
12	Nigeria	2,443
13	Brazil	2,166
14	Algeria	2,122
15	Iraq	2,008

http://tonto.eia.doe.gov/country/index.cfm

 

Short-Term Energy Outlook

“…Highlights

• The spot price of West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude oil increased from $122 per barrel on June 4 to $145 per barrel on July 3.  Global supply uncertainties, combined with significant demand growth in China, the Middle East, and Latin America are expected to continue to pressure oil markets.  WTI prices, which averaged $72 per barrel in 2007, are projected to average $127 per barrel in 2008 and $133 per barrel in 2009.
• Regular-grade gasoline is expected to average $3.84 per gallon in 2008, more than $1 per gallon above the 2007 average price.  The U.S. average regular-grade gasoline price, about $4.10 per gallon on June 30, is projected to remain over $4 per gallon until the fourth quarter of 2009.  Retail diesel fuel prices, which averaged $2.88 in 2007, are projected to average $4.35 per gallon in 2008 and $4.48 per gallon in 2009.
• World oil consumption of liquid fuels and other petroleum is projected to grow by almost 900,000 barrels per day (bbl/d) in 2008 and by an additional 1.4 million bbl/d in 2009, while U.S. consumption is expected to decline by about 400,000 bbl/d in 2008.  Adjusting for increased ethanol use, U.S. petroleum consumption is projected to fall by 530,000 bbl/d in 2008.
• The Henry Hub natural gas spot price averaged $7.17 per thousand cubic feet (Mcf) in 2007 and is expected to average $11.86 per Mcf in 2008 and $11.62 per Mcf in 2009.
• Rapidly increasing delivered fuel costs for power generation, particularly for natural gas, are pushing up electricity prices.  Residential electricity prices are projected to increase by an annual average of about 5.2 percent in 2008 and 9.8 percent in 2009 compared with an increase of 2.2 percent in 2007.

http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/steo/pub/contents.html

 

Pickens Plan

http://www.pickensplan.com/
 

Drill For Oil You Hypocritical Democrats. DRILL DRILL!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbJcnhUG-28&feature=related

 

Bill O’Reilly’s “Drill for Oil or Prepare for a World War”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoIn8sPd01Q&feature=related 

 

Obama on Iraq; Pull Out, Stay, Pull Out, Stay Longer?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4XY1SB7FFU

 

Side-By-Side: Obama Then About Iraq Withdrawal And Now

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prWPubIFHpI&feature=related

 

Barack Obama on Iraq, Opposition from the Start

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhpKmQCCwB8

 

Barack Obama: Withdrawing from Iraq

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eipN1iX9v9s&feature=related

 

2002 Barack Obama Interview: Against Iraq

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXzmXy226po

 

Sen Barack Obama pt.1: Gen Petraeus Iraq Surge Hearing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8fv7CWekXQ

 

Sen Barack Obama pt.2: Gen Petraeus Iraq Surge Hearing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tv33OFJa8K8&feature=related

 

Barack Obama: Pre-war Iraq assessment

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYwte0TSaso 

 

Amid Controversy, Obama Reaffirms Iraq Withdrawal Plan

By Al Pessin
Pentagon
14 July 2008

 

Going Through Withdrawal
It speaks volumes about Obama that his plan comes before going to Iraq.

By Pete Hegseth

 

“…Sen. Obama’s piece once again perpetuates the fallacious notion that the Iraqi government “has not reached the political accommodation that was the stated purpose of the surge.” This assertion — backed up by wishful thinking — runs directly counter to reports from the ground; reports which Sen. Obama will himself receive in just one week.

 

Obama to ‘refine’ Iraq plan

“…The original Obama plan, still on his website, promises: “Obama will immediately begin to remove our troops from Iraq. He will remove one to two combat brigades each month and have all of our combat brigades out of Iraq within 16 months.”

In a separate six-page Iraq plan, he says in a section headed “All Combat Troops Redeployed by 2009”: “The best way to protect our security and to pressure Iraq’s leaders to resolve their civil war is to begin immediately to remove our combat troops. Not in six months or one year — now.”

David Axelrod, Obama’s chief strategist, began backing off during remarks Wednesday on CNN’s “Situation Room,” telling guest host John Roberts that Obama has actually advocated “a phased withdrawal, with benchmarks for the Iraqi government to meet, that called for strategic pauses, based on the progress on these benchmarks and advice on the commanders on the ground.” …” 

 http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0708/11517.html

 

Obama Softens on Iraq Withdrawal Timeline

“…Sen. Barack Obama left open the possibility of slowing his promised, 16-month withdrawal of combat forces from Iraq, saying he would consult with military commanders on an upcoming trip to the region to ensure a withdrawal would keep troops safe and Iraq stable.

“My 16-month timeline, if you examine everything I’ve said, was always premised on making sure our troops were safe,” Obama told reporters as his campaign plane landed in North Dakota. “And my guiding approach continues to be that we’ve got to make sure that our troops are safe, and that Iraq is stable. And I’m going to continue to gather information to find out whether those conditions still hold.”

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/07/03/obama_softens_on_iraq_withdraw.html

 

 

Corn Prices and the Global Food Economy – Paul Roberts

“…Paul Roberts discusses how biofuels have driven corn prices up, in turn, causing a “ripple effect” throughout the global economy. …”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ws3iGja4LA&feature=user

 

Paul Roberts: The End of Food

“…More than 1.1 billion people worldwide are at risk of obesity-related illness, while roughly as many people are starving. Meanwhile, global food production faces dangers, including some chemicals, destructive farming techniques and contamination. Roberts takes a close look at food production, transport and consumption on a global scale, uncovering disturbing trends about the system we all entrust to handle our food. Will people take heed and work to improve the health of our food supply and distribution chain, before it is too late for millions of people around the world? – The Commonwealth Club of California …”

http://fora.tv/2008/06/18/Paul_Roberts_The_End_of_Food

 

How Ethanol is a really bad idea

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBg8CY4bEqI&feature=related

 

Myth: Corn Ethanol is Great

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9QQcP_Y1II&feature=related

 

Ethanol Scam

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYxD9VIH4L8&feature=related

 

Congressional Democrats Vote For Dependence on Foreign Oil

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9nY9Oxgfqo

 

Newt Gingrich calls the Left Murderers opposes US victory

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtIwM8FK56A

 

Response to Obama, 1: The Destructive Effects of Segregation

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTOzfHKKjII&feature=user

 

Response to Obama, 2: Why have things gone wrong?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-YpfLwS6fo&feature=related

 

Response to Obama, 3: Bad Culture and Bad Government

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MwMqUjNzlU&feature=related

 

Response to Obama, 4: What’s wrong with Obama’s Leftist View

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8IAfkDBjr0&feature=user

 

Response to Obama, 5: Tax Rates and Job Creation

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUxOk-G3VS0

 

Response to Obama, 6: The Difficulty of Change

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gg6YMLkJN-0&feature=user

 

Response to Obama, 7: Liberals and the fall of Detroit

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNM6HHJTUMM&feature=user

 

Response to Obama, 8: The Importance of Culture

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dohoGx7QeVw&feature=user

 

How Does McCain Beat Obama in November?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1hPCXYOGvI

 

How Does Obama Beat McCain in November?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddVTS7nk43c&feature=related

 

Robert Bryce Believes Energy Independence is a Pipe Dream

http://fora.tv/2008/03/18/Robert_Bryce_Believes_Energy_Independence_is_a_Pipe_Dream

 

LOL

John McCain wants to LOWER Gas prices…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qW8W_KS52FI

Alternative Energy Sources…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTJAI1oushw&feature=related 

 

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