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redstate_democrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-17-08 11:45 PM
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We Must Elect Barack Obama. Our National Security and the Future of this Country Depends On It!
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Edited on Sat May-17-08 11:47 PM by redstate_democrat
Barack Obama is the best shot we have at pulling this country back from the fast circling of the drain we're in right now.

We are on the verge of a total economic and energy collapse that has national security implications. The Bush Administration has suspended all Constitutional restraints on the executive branch and has consistently overreached because it is under the impression that we are in the fight of our lives...not from terror, but in the fight for a scarce resource...OIL. There solution to this national security threat is to wage wars to gain control of the resource.

It is not. Obama is the only sane politician left in this race. He understands that we can't WASTE TIME fighting these wars for oil because sooner or later, there won't be anything to fight over and we would have lost precious lives, trillions of dollars that could have been invested in alternative fuels, and precious TIME. They see Obama, the guy who wants to totally pull OUT of the ME and quit waging these oil wars, as a threat to national security. If we pull out, we don't have control over a scarce resource anymore. That leaves open the opportunity for Iran and China and other nations to move in and take control. But they are mistaken. As we fight for scraps, time keeps on ticking and we fall further behind.

WE DON'T HAVE TIME TO WASTE!

These neocons keep bashing their skulls against the wall believing that if they can only get in control of the resource, then America will be fine. NOT SO! We live in a global economy and the world's economy runs on oil. We are increasing our demand and use of oil faster than they can pump it. Sooner or later, we will be tapped out. They are not spending ANY time trying to figure out a way to become independent of it all together. WHY? A major shift away from oil without any transition in the oil driven marketplace scares the hell out them as well because those who are currently wealthy won't be anymore.

They have known about peak oil since the 70s and know that we are at a critical stage right now in the world. China is becoming a huge threat to our way of life as they compete for the world's energy and America just seems to be blindly going along like business as usual, buying their cheap product, enriching them so they can ultimately drive us into the stone age.

McCain = war for scarce oil

Obama = independence from oil and a total realignment of how wealth is obtained and accumulated.

These stupid wars for oil (Iraq and maybe Iran) will not save us and the sooner these freaks in Washington realize this, the sooner we can begin seriously trying to save this country.

They need this boogyman "bin Laden" to energize and scare us into these wars for oil because they literally see the scarcity of oil as a national security threat. Bin Laden does not have enough power for us to be engaged in these massive wars. It is the oil. The CIA knows this and they are perpetrating the misinformation out there about the so-called "war on terror". McCain, the once "maverick" who was once against these wars, has now come to believe that the fight for oil is a national security interest as well.

We must get a Democrat in office this time. We cannot afford not to. The future of this country depends on it. Not only will we drive ourselves into an economic collapse chasing after the oil in the middle east with these 6 trillion dollar wars, but we waste critical time in doing so. Obama understands this.

If McCain gets into office, he will just blindly follow the Bush/Cheny playbook of waging oil wars and we will still be several years behind in the real fight, trillions of dollars wasted, thousands of lives lost, and on the brink of the post-industrial stone age.

WE MUST VOTE FOR BARACK OBAMA. Put aside all of the stupid shit and ego and vote for whomever has the D after their name. It is as simple as that!

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