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1, The cheap easy to pump and easy to refine oil has already been found. The offshore and Arctic oil is more costly to drill and pump Tar sand and shale oil extraction is even more expensive, but there is a vast supply. Bottom line is that gas prices go up because refining and extraction costs are up

2, Oil is a world commodity, even if we find more in the US that does not necessarily mean we get a special deal on price. The booming Asian economies are demanding more oil, even if you can extract more oil the demand keeps up with supply. The total oil reserves offshore are a drop in the bucket if you consider world demand. Prices might stagnate at best, or rise at a more gradual rate as tar sand and other sources come on line.

Liberals and Conservatives can scream and yell and call each other Hitler all they want but the whole situation is basic economics, not politics.

Enough thinking, back to name calling!

It’s going to be an “economy stupid” election. And on that issue McCain really is just another doctrinaire Republican.

McCain is a guy with nearly 100% name recognition who can’t break 45%. And his campaign is apparently being run as a sort of extended Borat routine.

Obama advisor Richard Danzig claimed that Winnie the Pooh would be a good model for U.S. Foreign Policy and national Security. “Richard Danzig, who served as Navy Secretary under President Clinton and is tipped to become National Security Adviser in an Obama White House, told a major foreign policy conference in Washington that the future of US strategy in the war on terrorism should follow a lesson from the pages of Winnie the Pooh, which can be shortened to: if it is causing you too much pain, try something else. Mr Danzig told the Centre for New American Security: “Winnie the Pooh seems to me to be a fundamental text on national security.”

It was covered in the U.K Press, but nowhere to be seen in the Antique Media. I wonder why? Could it be that it is so ridiculous that it would make the Obamessiah’s Foreign Policy look like a complete and utter joke? Check out the article and decide for yourself if you think having Winnie the Pooh foreign policy is, or isn’t a monumental gaffe. Check this out: “Winnie the Pooh, Luke Skywalker and British football hooligans could shape the foreign policy of Barack Obama if he becomes US President, according to a key adviser.” http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/uselection2008/barackobama/2139573/Barack-Obama-aide-Why-Winnie-the-Pooh-should-shape-US-foreign-policy.html. Or, just Google “winnie the pooh foreign policy obama. ROTFLMAO

For a fairly complete list of Obama’s gaffes go to: http://jraymondwright.blogspot.com

Here is a post I did a week ago over at slate:

“1. Nominate Sarah Palin as VP. Makes the ticket younger, much more attractive, and more attractive to women. Also boxes in Obama. He either takes a woman and looks “me too” or takes a man and further reinforces the perception that his is chauvinist.

“2. Unleash Palin to talk oil and gas. She is good at it, and she believes it, just like McCain believes in the war on terror.

“3. Gas prices ARE the path to success for McCain, he just doesn’t need to be personally blaming Obama for them. The democrats over the past 15 years will do just fine.

“This is a pocketbook election and, Americans are very wary to candidate’s claims of their ability to “fix” the economy, as well they should be. But, gas prices are, to a not insignificant extent, affected by governmental policy on drilling. McCain-Palin can point to steps such as drilling in ANWAR, uncapping the offshore oil wells, and doing new drilling and say “well, first we will have a speculation premium of $X a barrell removed, which will mean $Y amount off at the pump which will result in $Z more money in the average American’s pocket book over the next year. Then the oil from the uncapped rigs will come on and give us A more barrells of oil, which will then result in…” and so on. That is a lot more tangible than saying “I’m going to increase your pay and keep good jobs here in America.” The workers have been hearing that since the late 70s. I think they’re done believing it. America will take the bird in the hand.

“And, this is an issue that Obama is helpless on. He can’t promote drilling without pi$$ing offf the environmentalist crowd, all he can offer is magic beans about mysterious fuels that will suddenly be invented, be commercial ready, and be infrastructure ready before Exxon can drop a hole in the artic, or remove a well cover 10 miles off of the coast of California.

“4. Lastly, McCain needs to explain why we are going to have to continue to prosecute the war on terror, and why it is important. No unbiased observers really feel that Obama is serious about fighting terror (look at his website and find evidence he is - he found room for “faith” and “disabilities” but not for “war on terror” or “Afghanistan”, and his comments on Iraq were about how to get out quickly). But, that isn’t good enough - McCain has to explain WHY Americans should care.

“If he can do these things, he will win. Obama is a very weak opponent, despite the entire media being in the bag for him. Obama should have a 20 point lead right now, instead he is barely ahead (if at all).”

Now, we add a fifth point about running against affirmative action, that puts the campaign squarely on what should be McCain turf.