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Why bother with some staged Republican attack?
Look at the Republican record. Obama doesn't need to attack Bush, Cheney, McCain, Lieberman, Delay, Lott, etc.
Their record speaks for itself - and look at their pathetically political choice of a VP - you really want her running the country?
Halliburton and Cheney, British Petroleum and Palin, ChevronTexaco and Condi Rice, ExxonMobile and Tom Delay - the picture should be pretty clear.
What the Bush crowd has been trying to do for their real base is to lock in oil leases for their cronies before they are kicked out of office. That's why Palin was chosen as well - she has a carefully crafted public image as a "small town hockey mom reformer", while behind the scenes, she works for the real corporate welfare queens by helping provide government contracts and $500 million subsidies for her husband's company, British Petroleum, who stands to make billions off of Alberta tar sands.
Here you go:
Shifting tar sands: BP is making a return to the Canadian province of Alberta, which deserves better than to be abused by oil companies
heather mallick, guardian.co.uk, Thursday December 06 2007
So BP is finally returning to Canada's black hell. Welcome back, stout British Petroleum. Eight years after you shunned our tarry oil deposits for the watery, more profitable Russian stuff, your desperate need for oil has brought you back to Alberta, batting your eyelashes and fanning yourself with $10bn in cash...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2007/dec/06/shiftingtarsands
They ran such a nice greenwashing campaign, too. "Beyond Petroleum", wasn't it? Too bad they were talking about Alberta tar sands, not wind and solar.
BP also operates the pipeline in Georgia that was is such a mjor issue in the recent conflict there.
That has nothing at all to do with Cheney's current visit to the region, or with McCain's choice of Palin - nothing at all.
Completely irrelevant - and that's why the "liberal media" isn't covering it.
Yours, Ike Solem
