The oil companies are baiting you because their share of the world’s oil is continuing to decline as nations choose to use national companies, such as Statoil in Norway or Petrobras in Brazil.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrw_W0ekBIM&feature=related

McCain won’t be just like George W. Bush. McCain isn’t the intellectual lightweight and moral flyweight that George W. Bush is. But McCain’s and Bush’s policies are nearly identical, and McCain’s voting record clearly demonstrates that the strong similarity is far from superficial. If you vote for John McCain you’ll be voting for policy continuity. Don’t let yourself be bullshitted into thinking otherwise.

What you characterize as hopey dopey bullshit is actually a genuine opportunity for change and redirection, coming at a time when America has never more needed it. Some people fear change and redirection. They like to talk about it, but it scares them when they begin to suspect it could actually happen. Those fears are projected on the messenger–on a motivated and motivational guy who’s actually nothing more than a means to an end.

You think the enthusiastic support for Barack Obama is entirely about Barack Obama. You’re wrong. This isn’t about the messenger, it’s about the message. And the message isn’t about an unbending fixation on any one particular policy point. It’s about an entirely new, optimistic outlook, and an entire range of issues, and about the election of a motivator and facilitator who can reach out and work across the divisions that impede progress.

Vote for McCain and things will change, alright. You’ve just got to be willing to embrace change that’s nothing more than the natural progression of all current trends. Generally when you do the same thing you’ve been doing, you get more of the same results.

If I were supporting Hillary Clinton now, I’d be doing it for exactly the same reasons. And if the primaries had worked out differently, that’s exactly what I’d be doing. But I deal with things as they actually exist, not as I wish they were.