These pigs can move on a dime. If the republicans become failures, then there is always some democrat out there that will accept their lucre. Fellow dems. Open your eyes. Look where Hillary is leading you. The Clinton's have never supported us, it has always been about them.

I guess when your public approval rating is at its lowest point since 2001 one must seek friends where one may fined them. Let's remember that some months ago Clinton buddied up to Murdoch.

Given that the Clinton campaign is essentially broke, perhaps Senator Clinton is sucking up for a contribution.

I'm actually felling sorry for Clinton, as with each passing day her campaign becomes more of a joke.

The Clintons, the Bushes, the Cheneys and the McCains have more in common than meets the eye.

There is a generational divide, two mentalities:

On the older side, 60+, the psychology that runs the deepest is a 20th century fear of rising countries like Russia and China and independent growing economies that partner with them, like Iran. One goal-- the United States must remain the world's only superpower.

On the younger side, 50 and under, the psychology is collaborative-- a 21st century vision of multi-lateralism--not one almighty country, but a great country among many great countries.

Of course, in places throughout America, there are geographical lags, but for the most part, I think, these two mentalities are competing for the future.

For all the talk by Obama supporters reassuring us rubes that Obama will speak to friend and foe alike, will dialogue with our enemies, find ways to bridge the gap between us and forget those old arguments that have divided us, Mrs. Clinton seems to be walking the walk, unafraid to meet with those enemies so willing to destroy her when they didn't know her, giving them the chance to apologize which some have done and then look to the future and what we must do to secure a place in the future.

Never once did she suggest a war, a worldwide war or a foreign policy based on militance and militant force. Of course, never once did anyone recognize that it took an immense amount of courage to put aside that hate and contempt she must feel for him and his newspaper, and go in that board room ready to answer any questions they dared to ask her, while maintaining her demeanor and calmness. It was something she had to do - she had to tamp down those feelings of humiliation, of resentment, of pain and anguish and hurt and hold her head up high, accept Scaife's apology to her and then move on to the discusion.

It is something that you very rarely see in politics, the dignity and the courage to meet your enemies head on and maintain your decency and dignity in doing so. It reminds me Of Al Gore attending the swearing in ceremony in 2000. Here we had a new administration who in compliance with the press had ruined his reputation by a relentless narrative that Gore was a liar, he was ambitious, he was a girly man, he sighed too much, that he exaggerated his roles in the Clinton administration, "that he would lick the bathroom floor to be president", he would say or do anything to win, he was corrupt, he'd do things the old way and on and on it went, with the so-called liberal press leading the way in this democratic party suicide by press with liberal leading journalists and pundits herding us into the stockyaards.

Mrs. Clinton is asked about three major problems facing the U.S. in the next decade and says we must deal with those problems and Taplin has us at war, which indicates nothing more than Taplin's lack of imagination and narrow world view that all problems we must solve are solved only by war.

If Mr. Taplin is calling himself the Manchurian Candidate he has caste himself well, he takes potshot after potshot at Mrs. Clinton just as he was trained to do by the press he apes and memes.

She met with Scaife because Pennsylvania is her do or die state. She has to win big here or she won't be able to sustain he campaign. Sad to say she's trolling for votes among Penna. Republicans and right wingers as a way to widen the number of votes she hopes to win by.

It was pure politics by Hillary.

@max w

So it was China and India's growing economy that caused oil to triple in price, but not instability in the Middle East?...This might get my vote as the stupidest statement I've read on these boards.

If you compare the rise in prices here and abroad it immediately becomes evident that much of that rise is due to the fall of the dollar. And much of that fall is due to the collapse of the housing bubble, the Fed's attempt to contain it, and fears about the future of our economy.

Those fears are further exacerbated by our massive debt to foreigners which, in turn, is due to our ever increasing appetite for cheap goods produced abroad - mainly in China. This trend has been a long time in the making and has recently accelerated dramatically.

The war has not helped - of course - but its effects are minor in comparison.

None of this should be allowed to obscure the major underlying - and very frightening - reality. We, and the world economy, are increasingly dependent on a decreasing - or soon to be decreasing - supply of oil

Between 1949 and 1956 Hubbard noticed that oil discovery had peaked in the '30s, that the new discovery curve was Bell shaped, and that by calculating the area under that curve he could pretty well estimate how much oil was available to be discovered and used.

Using that knowledge he was able to predict that oil production would peak in the continental United States about 1970 - and it did.

Using the same idea modern scientists and informed investors have predicted that a world production peak would occur just about now.

Meanwhile, China and India and much of the rest of the world are doing their best to emulate our lifestyle. What do you think will happen when everyone realizes it can't be done? That there's not enough oil to go around and no substitute for it is known?

Those fears are further exacerbated by our massive debt to foreigners which, in turn, is due to our ever increasing appetite for cheap goods produced abroad - mainly in China.

Um. no. Our massive debt to foreigners is due to the fact that they've bought our bonds, not because we consume their goods.

Hillary smells blood in the form of bogus republican votes. but she'll take them even if they will revert to McCain votes in the general. Both her and Bill, who complemented Rush Limbaugh and shook his hand at a restaurant last week, will suck up for the "operation chaos" votes. Hey, those Limbaugh bogus votes in TX edged her over the top in popular votes there. She probably wouldn't even be in it if it weren't for her new BFFs.