One of the primary points T. Boone Pickens makes over and over again in his ads is the $700 Billion that flows out of the US annually representing "the largest transfer of wealth in the history of mankind".

McCain's assertion that his running mate "knows more about energy than probably anyone else in the United States of America" is laughable. In a town hall meeting earlier this week, she responded to a question regarding domestic oil production with this:

"But in the sense of the Congress today, they know that there are very, very hungry domestic markets that need that oil first. So, I believe that what Congress is going to do, also, is not to allow the export bans to such a degree that it's Americans who get stuck holding the bag without the energy source that is produced here, pumped here. It's got to flow into our domestic markets first."

So, are we going to tell multinational oil companies that they can drill, baby, drill, but they can't sell their product on the open market? Then what?

I live in Arizona and McCain has never done a damn thing to help create a solar industry here. Nada. So to counter questions on his miserable renewable voting record, he resorts to half-truths by citing the fact he lives in a state "where we have sunshine 360 days a year". The only thing he knows about the sun is that we should all wear sunscreen and a hat.

The problems with our environment and our capital markets are connected. The EU is poised to kick our renewable energy ass if we don't get started applying this technology.

If we're going to win this one, we have to be smarter than we have been in a long time. John McCain isn't the guy to navigate these waters. Making renewable energy a viable industry is going to look like government pork to him. We will fall farther behind and will end up paying other enterprises for the technology.

McCain doesn't bring anything worthwhile to the table and everything in your post is bullshit.

I was talking with God this morning asking for the strength and wisdom to guide us through these turbulent times and to help us find a better path to be responsible stewards of the earth. I prayed that this path will illuminate a new understanding, to help us see those things to which we have chosen to remain blind and endow us with the fortitude to embrace these challenges with our collective intellect and talents for the betterment of the planet and all living creatures.

BTW, God thinks you're an idiot.

The senator had better be careful: At some point, somebody whose name is dropped by The Name Dropper is not going to like it...and speak up about it.

I hope it's Warren Buffet.

I watched Ben Stein on Larry King the other night and it really illustrated how dysfunctional the base of the Republican is currently.

As a fiscal conservative, Stein is outraged by what has occurred on Wall Street and acknowledged that he didn't like the people advising McCain on financial matters - he would prefer Warren Buffet advise McCain rather than Barack Obama as he is doing - and that he didn't expect anything to really change with a McCain administration.

Stein went on to agree with everything Robert Reich had to say (Reich is also advising Obama), but said he couldn't vote for Obama because it would betray his pro-life stance.

My hope is that there are more people who are going to vote with the party that cares more about what happens to you after you're born.

We are in this mess because of a bankrupt philosophy that says we should give more and more to those with the most and hope that prosperity trickles down to the rest of us.

Trickle down economics = pissing on the middle-class

The only time McCain has faced a tough election prior to this is when he ran against George Bush in 2000. He isn't used to campaigning when the numbers are this tight, and it shows. He isn't handling it well.

I harbor no illusions that Arizona will come through for Obama. I am hopeful that Nevada, Colorado and New Mexico will realize what an economic disaster McCain will be as president and vote for Obama.

I think there are counties in Arizona (Pima, Santa Cruz, and Coconino) that could go big for Obama, but Maricopa (Phoenix, Mesa, Glendale, Scottsdale, Paradise Valley) will undoubtedly go for McCain.

So, while the Democrats would like to have some of the resources New Mexico has, those resources are where they need to be. I've donated money to the Obama campaign and I hope it isn't being spent in Arizona.

Give it a rest - nobody is following that link for more dumb diatribes from you. It's annoying enough that you stink up the letters section with your pathological fixation on the name Hussein.

The surge was supposed to quell the violence so there can be political movement.

The troops did their job - where's the political movement?

Unfortunately, he is still very much with us. How can we forget how he endeared himself and John McCain to the public with his "nation of whiners" comment several weeks back.

John McCain said a few months ago that he would make Phil Gramm Treasury Secretary if he's elected president. What a dope.