Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Cowboy Barry
Glad to see Obama emphasizing both the death of Sheikh Osama and the increase of oil production. Especially glad to see him pushing against the greenies on the issue of fracking!
Runs nicely counter to one of our most cherished shared lies: the idea that Bush was a shoot-first cowboy whose main interest was oil. Both "sides" used this lie but depicted it with opposite emotional colors.
The plain fact is that Bush had two chances to kill Sheikh Osama and chose to holster his gun both times. He didn't expand drilling, and actually created new 'protected zones'.
The plain fact is that Obama had one chance to kill Sheikh Osama, and pulled the trigger. He has expanded drilling and production, to the point that we're now importing less than half of our energy for the first time in 40 years.
By comparison, Bush was the Gandhian enviro-hippie and Obama is the cowboy oilman.
I hoped Obama would hit these points in his campaign, but didn't think he'd want to offend the D base by doing so.
He's also hitting the point of manufacturing, but I can't believe him there. From the start he's been saying the right words but doing absolutely nothing to restrict or regulate the Wall Street Mafia. ¶ 5:37 AM
Runs nicely counter to one of our most cherished shared lies: the idea that Bush was a shoot-first cowboy whose main interest was oil. Both "sides" used this lie but depicted it with opposite emotional colors.
The plain fact is that Bush had two chances to kill Sheikh Osama and chose to holster his gun both times. He didn't expand drilling, and actually created new 'protected zones'.
The plain fact is that Obama had one chance to kill Sheikh Osama, and pulled the trigger. He has expanded drilling and production, to the point that we're now importing less than half of our energy for the first time in 40 years.
By comparison, Bush was the Gandhian enviro-hippie and Obama is the cowboy oilman.
I hoped Obama would hit these points in his campaign, but didn't think he'd want to offend the D base by doing so.
He's also hitting the point of manufacturing, but I can't believe him there. From the start he's been saying the right words but doing absolutely nothing to restrict or regulate the Wall Street Mafia. ¶ 5:37 AM
