2012 U.S. Presidential Election

[Roy Karrde]

I tend to think that if Mr. Obama were a Republican, the whole "Birther" crap and the rumors that he was a Muslim and a socialist would have been dead issues before his first year in office, if they had even been brought up at all. He would have gotten the respect that someone holding his office deserves.

Yep I bet you are absolutely right, because if anything the past decade has shown that the Democratic party above all else has not engaged in idiotic theories about a President.

Hell I remember the minute the truther stuff came out, saying that Bush was responsible for 9/11 or that Bush knew about 9/11 it immediately became a dead issue, because dammit the Democratic party gives the respect to the office that it deserves.

Oh wait...

And by the way, that link you posted was written by a Republican and published in a Republican periodical.

I have said it before, I used to pull this crap with Heald and I am now embarrassed by it, to attack the source as partisan and not dealing with the issue on hand, you succumb to the lowest standard of debating, you make yourself look like a fool.

By the way here are some more information about Obama's oil policy.

“We’re focused on production.”

Fact: While production is up under Obama, this has nothing to do with his policies, but is the result of permits and private industry efforts that began long before Obama occupied the White House.

Obama has chosen almost always to limit production. He canceled leases on federal lands in Utah, suspended them in Montana, delayed them in Colorado and Utah, and canceled lease sales off the Virginia coast.

His administration also has been slow-walking permits in the Gulf of Mexico, approving far fewer while stretching out review times, according to the Greater New Orleans Gulf Permit Index. The Energy Dept. says Gulf oil output will be down 17% by the end of 2013, compared with the start of 2011. Swift Energy President Bruce Vincent is right to say Obama has "done nothing but restrict access and delay permitting."

http://news.investors.com/article/60...rice-myths.htm

The increase in domestic drilling was almost entirely in areas for which the Obama administration exercised no authority, as oil production on federal land declined by 11 percent in fiscal year 2011, according to a study by the Institute on Energy Research (IER), a free-market energy think tank. But oil production on state lands increased that year by 14 percent and increased by 12 percent on private lands.

“A lot of the wells that were supposed to be drilled weren’t because of the moratorium,” Dan Kish, senior vice president for policy at the IER, told CNSNews.com. “Drilling is up in the U.S. on lands he has no say over. On lands he has all the say over, drilling is down.” …

Obama’s insistence that he supports an “all of the above” strategy for energy production is not evident by his actions, said Jack Gerard, president of the American Petroleum Institute.

“Today, 85 percent of the outer-continental shelf has been placed off limits once again. When he took office, there were proposals on the table to open up opportunities in those areas,” Gerard told CNSNews.com. “Today, in the Rocky Mountains, the leasing has gone down 70 percent since taking office. We now have 10 federal agencies, departments, looking at the technology of hydraulic fracturing, which has really opened up this vast game-changer both in natural gas and oil in the United States.”

He added, “The rejection of the Keystone XL pipeline, the proposed increase in taxes, those are all inconsistent with the verbal message of an all-the-above bring along domestic supply.”

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/obam...nergy-analysts