DO WHAT I SAY NOT WHAT I DO - DEMOCRATICS

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July 15, 2008Bitter PillsDemocratic leaders find their own prescriptions hard to take.by Victor Davis HansonPajamasMedia.com


Almost every argument against more drilling, shale, tar sands, etc. is a loser in political terms. Saying it will take “10 years” and therefore not worth it is equally applicable to claiming cutting carbon emissions will take “20 years” and therefore silly.

The notion that ANWR will only shave off a few cents from the price of a gallon of gas is equally
bankrupt given the multifarious sources — coast, continental shelf, shale, etc. — we could draw upon for another million barrels a day each.
And “we can’t drill our way out of it” is equally stupid, since no one is advocating increased production in a vacuum — but rather concurrent conservation, wind and solar, electric cars etc. Drilling is a transitional solution to get us to new energies without going bankrupt and empowering our enemies.

This is an explosive political issue — ”To Drill or Not to Drill — that is the question!”I wonder…1) When universities open their for-profit, cash-garnering campuses in the oil-rich Middle East, do they extend their “oppression studies” curriculum as well.

I mean does a Saudi petroleum engineering major, like his American counterpart, take a gender studies requirement, mutatis mutandis, learning how his gender-apartheid society harms women?
Do Dubai pre-medical students in U.S. overseas campuses learn about the evils of slavery in an African-experience course, especially how 11 million African slaves were shipped to the Arab, Muslim world?
Or is such instruction left behind at the American shore, money trumping the gospel of multi-culturalism?

If you think about it, a certain sort of truth emerges — that such oppression studies are felt even by those who peddle them to be unserious, since they wouldn’t dare offer them to those who in theory might need them the most. Business trumps PC?

2. How many of Barack Obama prescriptions for a better America apply to himself?
Does he live a healthy lifestyle of the sort he advocates for the rest of us? A cold home, no SUV, smaller portions of food (smoking is a taboo subject)?

Does he speak Spanish as the rest of us are supposed to?

Is he multilingual, speaking French in Paris, Italian in Rome? Or is he simply glib, sputtering two words of French as he castigates Americans with the typical stereotypes, the notion that the Ivy Leaguer need not speak foreign languages since elite liberalism is in itself a sort of annoited creed that exempts its adherents from living the life one advocates for others?

3. How many celebrity spokespeople for environmental causes, whether an Al Gore or Laurie David or various English rock-stars, have made a pledge not to fly on private jets, live in homes larger than 3000 square feet, or drive Lexus, Mercedes or Volvo SUVs?

I could go on and on, but we all get the picture.

The problem this time is that while Obama is very much a condescending Kerry redux, the Bush problem, the Congressional Republican collapse, and Obama’s racial transcendence rhetoric give him advantages Kerry never had.

What? Geraldiene F. sugggested that and Hillery took her head off.

Man would you like to have heard what Hillery was saying about OH Bama in the back room. Man how bad is it when she could not even beat out a ,what was the word that Rev Jessie used to describe OH Bama, see we can't use that word we ain't black. A white man use that N word and the media and the press "hang em high in the street for all to see" You got to love Willy he does write good songs.

Anyway if hope you do appreciate my humor but do not laugh long, this is not a laughing matter its is our country at risk.