No wonder his handlers are restricting press and public access to the Senator.

You know, they could send an intern to the local gas station and it wouldn't cost them anything.

From the same man who finished 894th out of 899 at the academy, but still got to fly fighters (and crash five of them without being disciplined) because dad and grandpa were admirals, and who then calls Obama an elitist.

Double standards: Serious business.

I welcome our new footnote-in-the-headline overlords

subby?

Nestea Plunge:



Just because I like this one a bit better...
Somebody with Photoshop skills shoulf combine the two pictures.

Well, I believe he still knew his name, so, he gets at least 2 points on the test.

dletter: Well, I believe he still knew his name, so, he gets at least 2 points on the test.

Yeah, he'd at least get that bonus on the SATs

Code_Archeologist: Nestea Plunge:


Just because I like this one a bit better...
Somebody with Photoshop skills shoulf combine the two pictures.




/not mine

I wish all news articles were written in the same format as this headline. When someone does something stupid, it should be pointed out immediately and with prejudice. I would watch any news show that would do that.

SphericalTime: I wish all news articles were written in the same format as this headline. When someone does something stupid, it should be pointed out immediately and with prejudice. I would watch any news show that would do that.

I must say I liked that headline and I agree with you.

Fail candidate fails.

SphericalTime: I wish all news articles were written in the same format as this headline. When someone does something stupid, it should be pointed out immediately and with prejudice. I would watch any news show that would do that.

This.

But of course, we love our double standards.

Darconix: So is subby suggesting that Obama has been fulfilling his Congressional activities instead of also campaigning? Kinda falls flat if he hasn't either.

This would be a good point if Obama were criticizing congress for taking a recess.

Why doesn't he tell Bush to get off vacation and sign the farm bill that's been on his desk since May and close the Enron loophole?


why doesn't the media ask these questions?

Oh wait. the oil companies sponsor the news.

nevermind

"He also called Russia's military action in neighboring Georgia. "an act of aggression," and "the biggest crisis since the end of the Cold War."


He also threw in some Cold War refs. John Rambo McCain. Nothing is over. Nothing.

cameroncrazy1984: You know, they could send an intern to the local gas station and it wouldn't cost them anything.

He could just look out the window of his limo. You can't drive through a city in the US and not see gas prices on signs.

Wow, $5 there in CO? What is it in the other 56 states?

Wicked Mint: "He also called Russia's military action in neighboring Georgia. "an act of aggression," and "the biggest crisis since the end of the Cold War."


He also threw in some Cold War refs. John Rambo McCain. Nothing is over. Nothing.

Next up on the agenda: the Vietnamese (or "gooks," as he refers to them), Germans, Confederates, redcoats.

ElPresidente: From the same man who finished 894th out of 899 at the academy, but still got to fly fighters (and crash five of them without being disciplined) because dad and grandpa were admirals, and who then calls Obama an elitist.

Double standards: Serious business.

not to mention killing many, many of his fellow sailors while farking around in the cockpit

wage0048: cameroncrazy1984: You know, they could send an intern to the local gas station and it wouldn't cost them anything.

He could just look out the window of his limo. You can't drive through a city in the US and not see gas prices on signs.

But limo time is naptime for John.

Ball Sack Obama: Wow, $5 there in CO? What is it in the other 56 states?

Assuming you're not just being a snarky douchebag and are actually trying to question Obama's ability to lead against McCain's...

Do you genuinely think that he believes that there are 57 states, or do you think that he simply mis-spoke during that speech?

Ball Sack Obama: Wow, $5 there in CO? What is it in the other 56 states?

Who knows anymore? I hear prices may go up to turmoil on the Iraq/Pakistan border. Probably has something to do with Iran's Sunni government.

Funny...Hey J. Sidney, I'm pretty sure the congress solved the short-term energy crisis a couple months ago, over your objection, in fact. I guess having one of your advisors write the loophole into law in the first place kind of had your judgement a bit skewed. Oh well, you paraded around yelling 'drill' and got nothing accomplished. The rubes will eat it up though so enjoy your bump in the polls.

ODDwhun: Ball Sack Obama: Wow, $5 there in CO? What is it in the other 56 states?

Who knows anymore? I hear prices may go up to turmoil on the Iraq/Pakistan border. Probably has something to do with Iran's Sunni government.

I thought it had to do with Czechoslovakia taking over...um...uh...what was your question again? Well, of course it was the race card! Because of what he said!

Hobodeluxe: Why doesn't he tell Bush to get off vacation and sign the farm bill that's been on his desk since May and close the Enron loophole?

FYI from wikipedia (new window) "The House passed the Farm Bill again on May 22, and the Senate shortly thereafter. President Bush again vetoed the measure, but this veto was overridden in both Houses, so the Farm Bill in its entirety has become law. H.R. 6124."

/Also interesting that Oil has continuously dropped in price starting about two weeks after the veto override (July 22 if memory serves).
//*NB: The above is not meant to conflate correlation with causation. I skimmed the text of the bill (new window) and what I could find of the Enron Loophole closing provisions don't require a final rule by the CFTcoontil 270 after it becomes law.
///Still interesting though.

Did He mention the unicorns?


/senility is a hell of a drug

He also called Russia's military action in neighboring Georgia. "an act of aggression," and "the biggest crisis since the end of the Cold War."

Dear Mr. McCain,

You are running for President of the United States. Please address problems in the United States and do so with some sense of perspective. I personally, as a citizen of the US, can think of a crisis or two that, from an American standpoint, is bigger than Georgia/Russia, and comments like the one quoted above are what I like to refer to as "out of touch".

Tsunami Ditka: ODDwhun: Ball Sack Obama: Wow, $5 there in CO? What is it in the other 56 states?

Who knows anymore? I hear prices may go up to turmoil on the Iraq/Pakistan border. Probably has something to do with Iran's Sunni government.

I thought it had to do with Czechoslovakia taking over...um...uh...what was your question again? Well, of course it was the race card! Because of what he said!

No, President Putin of Germany took care of that.

Well hell, now I'm really not going to vote for him.

(likes pancakes)

GradStudentForLife: NB: The above is not meant to conflate correlation with causation. I skimmed the text of the bill (new window) and what I could find of the Enron Loophole closing provisions don't require a final rule by the CFTcoontil 270 after it becomes law.

The very fact that the CFTC started snooping around into the electronic interchanges have scared away a lot of big money speculators. That, combined with the predictions of a decline in demand, have served to lower prices substantially.

A quiet data revision that has boosted by nearly 25 percent the number of oil futures contracts U.S. regulators think are held by speculators is raising eyebrows in the energy trading community.

The revision means that speculators controlled 48 percent of the open interest in NYMEX crude oil futures and options as of July 15, compared with just over 38 percent under the previous classification.
"That's huge when you look at the numbers," said Phil Flynn of Alaron Trading in Chicago.

"It changes the whole way you look at the recent moves in this market."

The U.S. Commodities Futures Trading Commission announced on July 18 that it was reclassifying some trading positions that it had reported as commercial hedging positions as noncommercial speculative positions.

The data revision converted approximately 327,000 long and 330,000 short NYMEX crude oil futures and options positions into mostly spreading positions held by speculators.

The big shift is all the more surprising, oil traders and analysts said, since the CFTC apparently reclassified only one unidentified oil trader at the same time as the data revision.

"There may have been multiple 'positions' which were reclassified ... but they all appear to have been held by just one trader, and this was a very special trader, with an enormous concentration of positions in crude oil amounting to perhaps 460 million barrels, and not much interest in anything else," noted John Kemp of RBS Sempra Commodities.

I wonder which hedge fund got busted?

Darconix: So is subby suggesting that Obama has been fulfilling his Congressional activities instead of also campaigning? Kinda falls flat if he hasn't either.

No it doesn't. Obama being just as oblivious doesn't change how oblivious McCain clearly is.

This whole session of Congress is a damn joke. They SHOULD have voted on way or another on the energy bill. Pelosi should be strung up by her moldy nuts and biatchslapped.

Fraggler: Darconix: So is subby suggesting that Obama has been fulfilling his Congressional activities instead of also campaigning? Kinda falls flat if he hasn't either.

No it doesn't. Obama being just as oblivious doesn't change how oblivious McCain clearly is.

Obama also hasn't publicly chided Congress for it. It's one thing when the pot and kettle are both black. It's another for the pot to actually call the kettle black.

Prospective State of the Union:

"My fellow Americans, remember that thing? You know what I'm talking about... oh, it's got the... shoot."

Fraggler: Darconix: So is subby suggesting that Obama has been fulfilling his Congressional activities instead of also campaigning? Kinda falls flat if he hasn't either.

No it doesn't. Obama being just as oblivious doesn't change how oblivious McCain clearly is.

Though, Senator Obama has actually made a few more votes...

If Bush went to war because Iraq tried to kill his daddy, Vietnam better watch themselves if McCain wins.

Shaggy_C: a very special trader, with an enormous concentration of positions in crude oil amounting to perhaps 460 million barrels

Wow. That's one interest holding over $50 billion in speculative oil futures? Fully 10% of the market??? My mind is blown.

/Bookmarking that for future evidence. Thanks

And a bit of error correction, after double checking:

GradStudentForLife: /Also interesting that Oil has continuously dropped in price starting about two weeks after the veto override (July 22 I actually meant June 22, but in fact it was June 18 that it became law Link (new window) if memory serves).
//*NB: The above is not meant to conflate correlation with causation. I skimmed the text of the bill (new window) and what I could find of the Enron Loophole closing provisions don't require a final rule by the CFTcoontil 270 after it becomes law.

Skimmed it better this time. Some provisions were immediately effective, but for most of what is probably important, implementation dates range from 120 days after becoming law to 270 days. So mark your calendars for 120 days after June 18.

Sen. John McCain (R-AZ)

* Representing: Arizona
* Votes: 407 votes missed (63.8%), 231 votes cast

Way to represent your constituents Johnny Boy.

McCain cloud pic always gets a chuckle out of me, thank you farkers for giving a dying man some humor...

/not dying

ODDwhun: No, President Putin of Germany took care of that.

Meanwhile, Barry was too busy "winning Michigan" and talking about his dad's service in WWII to notice.

I still remain amazed that McCain, or any republican, has a serious shot at the presidency. The Georgia crisis just brings their ignorance into sharp relief.

There are a hell of a lot of dumbasses in this country.

IXI Jim IXI: If Bush went to war because Iraq tried to kill his daddy, Vietnam better watch themselves if McCain wins.

I just moved to Vietnam, he better not try and pull anything if he wins.

What exactly does a purported free-market small-government conservative think the federal congress should do about the price of a privately sold commodity?

I might have sex with that headline.

It's good to know that McCain would choose to antagonize the situation in Georgia in order to scare people into voting for the "secure the nation" Republicans.

"Start a war? Sure! If it gets me elected!"

GradStudentForLife: Shaggy_C: a very special trader, with an enormous concentration of positions in crude oil amounting to perhaps 460 million barrels

Wow. That's one interest holding over $50 billion in speculative oil futures? Fully 10% of the market??? My mind is blown.

/Bookmarking that for future evidence. Thanks

And a bit of error correction, after double checking:

GradStudentForLife: /Also interesting that Oil has continuously dropped in price starting about two weeks after the veto override (July 22 I actually meant June 22, but in fact it was June 18 that it became law Link (new window) if memory serves).
//*NB: The above is not meant to conflate correlation with causation. I skimmed the text of the bill (new window) and what I could find of the Enron Loophole closing provisions don't require a final rule by the CFTcoontil 270 after it becomes law.

Skimmed it better this time. Some provisions were immediately effective, but for most of what is probably important, implementation dates range from 120 days after becoming law to 270 days. So mark your calendars for 120 days after June 18.

Maybe it had something to do with these guys? link

GradStudentForLife: Wow. That's one interest holding over $50 billion in speculative oil futures? Fully 10% of the market??? My mind is blown.

I've been telling people about this for months but everyone gets too caught up in the 'LIBERALS don't understand Supply and Demand' and 'Conservatives want to DESTROY the environment' to pay attention. I mean, peak oil is a very real problem in the long term but nothing in the market fundamentals justified $145 a barrel.