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Clinton Sells Wolf Tickets For Votes: Threatens To Break Up OPEC
Clinton: OPEC 'can no longer be a cartel'
Clinton's attacks on oil prices as artificially inflated, Enron-style, keep escalating, and today she appeared to threaten to break up the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries.
"We’re going to go right at OPEC," she said. "They can no longer be a cartel, a monopoly that get to gether once every couple of months" at a hotel in "some plush place in the world" to set prices, she told a crowd a volunteer fire house in Merillville.
It's a potent message, like the attack on "Wall Street money brokers," with deep roots in American politics. It's also very hard to figure out what exactly she means by the threat to break OPEC.
Ben Smith's Blog
Politico
Comments (6)
Its like Bush talking about honesty and integrity.
I'd like to see OPEC broken up but her 3 balls aren't big enough to get that job done.
May 5, 2008 6:39 PM | Reply | Permalink
She also vowed to rid the world of poverty, AIDS, juvenile diabetes and hysterical pregnancy by 2010.
Sadly, she admitted nothing could be done about the frequent dragon attacks.
May 5, 2008 6:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you, I needed that.
May 5, 2008 6:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
I hope OPEC decides to refuse to sell oil to us. We wouldn't know who to attack first.
May 5, 2008 6:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
HRC would obliterate them all, then send our troops in radiation suits to pump the oil.
May 5, 2008 6:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
If they respond to such pandering with real action, like using a different currency than the U.S. dollar we are screwed. These are thing OPEC CAN DO, the WTO is not legally capable of doing anything about oil, as such she is stupid or a liar.
May 5, 2008 8:54 PM | Reply | Permalink
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