Obama: "Drill baby, drill"

[LMNO]

BUT IF HE'S HASSASIN, THEN HE IS ALLOWED TO DO ANYTHING TO CONVINCE US OF HIS COVER.
AAAAAH!  OBAMA IS GOING TO ASSASSINATE US ALL!
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[Iason Ouabache]

It would prove he isn't a Muslim.  Sell it on that premise, and you'll have your faction.

I was going to say that drinking beer should have convinced them that he wasn't Muslim, but LMNO summed it up better than I could have.

[Cain]

BUT IF HE'S HASSASIN, THEN HE IS ALLOWED TO DO ANYTHING TO CONVINCE US OF HIS COVER.
AAAAAH!  OBAMA IS GOING TO ASSASSINATE US ALL!
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Rotten.com came up with a conspiracy theory that Al-Qaeda are a modern off-shoot of the Assassin sect based on the fact that the 9/11 hijackers drank, ate pork and frequented strip bars before carrying out the attack.  And something about Cairo University, which I forgot.  Anyway.

[Cramulus]

 
It's starting to look a lot like SOCIALISM
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[Jenne]

It would prove he isn't a Muslim.  Sell it on that premise, and you'll have your faction.

Aw, but unfortunately, they might be savvy enough to find that there's such a thing as Halal beef bacon. 

[Jasper]

I've had that before.  It's kind of bland, y'know, to be called bacon.

[Jenne]

I've had that before.  It's kind of bland, y'know, to be called bacon.

  PURIST

[Jasper]

Compared to some of the pork fans here, I am the Episcopalian version of Bacon Catholicism.

[Jenne]

Compared to some of the pork fans here, I am the Episcopalian version of Bacon Catholicism.

I will admit that I prefer pork RINDS to fucking turkey bacon.  But the beef version is not that bad if it's from a butcher.  That nasty prepacked shit you sometimes find is not good for much, I'll agree.

[Jasper]

True.

/re-jack

Politically sound maneuver or not, this displeases me.  I may be moderately less displeased if he actually passes strong energy reform.  I tend to doubt he can succeed, based on how much resistance his weak healthcare bill had.

[LMNO]

And, politifact just weighed in.

So, has Obama gone from a Half Flip to a Full Flop on the issue of offshore drilling? Not if you're basing the ruling on his position on election day. 

Back in August 2008, he did clearly change his stance on the issue. This time, according to all the environmental advocates and experts we spoke with, his latest announcement isn't much of a departure from his rhetoric during the last part of the campaign and during his first year in the White House. As a result, we say there's been No Flip in Obama's latest stance on offshore drilling.

[Richter]

Now tell those states they can choose between oil rigs or wind turbines...

[Durivan]

He never came out and said that he was opposed to offshore drilling, he did however say it wouldn't effect our energy independence, wouldn't effect gas prices, and gas gotten from these sources wouldn't be available for years. All these things are true, but I guess they don't matter.  I guess Obama said to himself, if this can get me some votes on my energy bill, then the oceans, fish, and fishermen can go and fuck themselves.  This doesn't surprise me, Obama is no friend of the environment, he is just slightly less destructive to it than Bush II.  I have a feeling this energy bill will be to energy independence like the Obamacare bill is to actual health care reform. It will promote energy independence in name only, do lots of damage and little good, and mostly consist of handouts to the energy sector.

[AFK]

I think he's trying to snag a moderate Republican or two for his future endeavours on energy.

In related news, he was in Maine today. 

[Cramulus]

He had some great soundbites in that speech!

THE PRESIDENT:Now, over the last year, there's been a lot of misinformation spread about health reform. There's been a lot of fear-mongering, a lot of overheated rhetoric. You turned on the news, you'd see that those same folks who were hollering about it before it passed, they're still hollering, about how the world will end because we passed this bill. (Laughter.) This is not an exaggeration. John Boehner called the passage of this bill --

AUDIENCE: Booo!

THE PRESIDENT: -- no need to -- we don't need to boo, I just want to give the facts -- called this passage of this bill "Armageddon." You had others who said this is the end of freedom as we know it.

So after I signed the bill, I looked around. (Laughter and applause.) I looked up at the sky to see if asteroids were coming. (Laughter.) I looked at the ground to see if cracks had opened up in the earth. You know what, it turned out it was a pretty nice day. (Laughter and applause.) Birds were still chirping. Folks were strolling down the street. Nobody had lost their doctor. Nobody had pulled the plug on Granny. (Laughter.) Nobody was being dragged away to be forced into some government-run health care plan.

democracy is a messy business. It is the worst form of government except for all the other ones that have been tried.