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I also wondered why he would say "Okay" to drilling off-shore elsewhere in the world, but "No way, Jose" to off-shore drilling in the U.S.

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Originally posted by Kwicko:
That decision I chalk up to "strategy". As in, let's go ahead and let the rest of the world sell us THEIR oil, and then when it really, really, REALLY gets scarce, we'll still have a pretty decent backstock.

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Originally posted by RIPWash:

Could be, but I'm very hesitant to believe that.

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It just goes back to my statement about him being hypocritical.

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If he is so adamantly against it, he should be opposed to it everywhere...

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...and not supply loans for such procedures when the money could be used for other purposes in the U.S. But that's just my take on it.

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Now . . . if this is indeed a "loan" and we are to get a substantial return on our investment, that might be another story all together.

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Originally posted by Kwicko:
It's not like you're just going to wake up one day and stop thinking we're all evil, right?

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A politician? Hypocritical? Banish the thought! Where ever would you get such ideas?

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Kind of like how some of us are opposed to torture everywhere but in U.S. custody, huh? How some of us are opposed to "socialism", except when it's Grandma's Medicare, junior's public school, or the public roads we drive on every day...

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So are you against providing ANYONE with foreign aid? Or should we only cut off foreign aid to those with proven oil reserves, so as not to encourage them to drill for oil?

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And if that happens, you'll find an entirely new way to spin it and claim Obama's done something wrong in doing so...

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