Originally posted by: Vic
Originally posted by: Fern
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And no one said that it is. Did you get this from the same chain email that said that Obama claims 'change would be painless,' Fern?
Haha, I don't even use email, much less get "chain emails".
Often, what do you don't say, or omit, is as important as what you do say. Thus, "painless" change. We both know Obama doesn't talk the "pain", in spite of your pretending otherwise. Politicians don't get elected upon promises of "pain" - "Hope and Change" and all the other promises of good things, like new found respect in the world etc sound so much better.
Yeah, he only mentioned tire pressure, and left out all the rest. It's fair game to criticize it.
Sort of like how McCain's "100 years in Iraq" seems fair game to many. And in that case McCain didn't leave out the part about if the occupation was similar to Japan etc., it's just the Dem critics who do.
You guys don't get it. I suppose that's what happens when you try to defend the indefensible. McCain mocked himself. For decades, people have been talking about the necessity to conserve, to be efficient, to be thrifty, and to save, while post-Reagan conservatives have been demanding a 'right' to consume in a wantonly-wasteful fashion (as the "American way" no less).
Now your chickens have come home to roost, and -- true colors revealed -- you want govt to step in and save you and guarantee your 'right' to cheap excessive consumption, even though it means screwing those of us who have been thrifty all along.
Sorry, pal, that's as socialist as welfare.
"Post Reagan conservatives & consuming"? What's Al Gore now a post Reagan conservative and the same for all those in Hollywood with private jets?
As for this conservative, I've been driving gas-sipping 4 cylinders for years now, and live only 3 miles from my office. Hah, I didn't even put 3K miles on my vehicle last year.
Hence the tire pressure comment, and McCain's self-pwnage. Take some freakin' personal responsibility. No one forced you to buy a gas-guzzler, or a house in the far-flung suburbs. And if you can't afford to pay for those things on your own, then perhaps you shouldn't have them.
Hehe, so now we're to believe the Dem's message is "take some personal responsibility"? What's this - the freakin Twilight Zone?
Come on, Pelosi told us the real message - we can't drill because we've got to Save The Planet!
That's a "screw you" because we're on a higher mission- message.
"Tire pressure" as a counter to drilling, or an excuse not to, is lame (and disengenuous). And it certainly isn't a government policy.
And BTW, contrary to yoor assertion, no one is asking the government to give us cheap gas. Were asking them to get the hell out of way - get rid of the mortorium. Then if they wanna use their royalty/money (averages 40% take of the revenue) for alt enegy - by all means do so.
Personal responsibility? Damn, that's a twist. Their policy now is - "we won't let you (drill) because we need to prottect you from yourself". Quite the opposite of a "take personal responsibility" stance. No, it's just more Dem nannyism.
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Fern