Brother Fire

I can't help but harp on John McCain's selection of Sarah Palin as VP nominee. Not only is it insulting to the voters (especially to the Republican voters), but it has shined a new light on the hypocrite Republican pundits. Jon Stewart did an excellent job at illustrating their hypocrisy.

Yesterday, Sen. John McCain selected Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska as his running mate for this year's presidential election. There are so many worthy candidates he could have chosen to be the Republican nominee for Vice-President. And clearly there are special interest voters that he needed to consider when he made his choice: conservatives, evangelical Christians, young voters, moderates, women, environmentalists, undecideds, etc. So I imagine that he must have thought long and hard about who could produce the most votes, as well as who could fill his shoes as President of the United States if needed. So lets take a look to see which votes that John McCain is hoping to garner with this selection. According to a number of sources (take a look here , here and here ), Palin is the Governor of Alaska for only 19 months, and prior to that was a City Council Member (1992-1996) and Mayor (1996-2002) of Wasilla, Alaska (population less that 5,000). She is a staunch social conservative,...

I have some strong feelings surrounding this upcoming US election -- there's lots of reasons to vote for Barack Obama this fall. There are even more reasons to vote against John McCain. Here's another. One of the greatest causes of the volatility of the oil market is out-of-control oil futures speculation. And it all began with deregulation of the market due to "the Enron Loophole." John McCain recognized this loophole and railed against it until he started to have second thoughts following political connections with Phil Gramm and his wife, Wendy Gramm. See the video below -- it's worth watching. With all that we know about the deregulation of the oil futures market, what is McCain's solution to the problem of rising gas prices? The so-called "gas tax holiday." By the way...you can monitor local gas prices at GasBuddy.com . Search for gas prices by US Zip Code