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I agree with you on nearly every point you made. However, we are in our current mess (as a whole, not just oil related) because of many
mistakes made on both sides due to pandering and a lack of leaders. Every mistake the Executive, Judical, and Legislative branch creates for the next generation stays with our nation in a perpetual state of forever. We need these problems solved---however, we are a nation that never unmistakes ourselves. I don't even think we are a nation that is built to fix shit.

Indefinate detention? Sure Obama will fix it...maybe... after his next election... War in Iraq? Sure the President has a great time table to leave... in due time... Energy plan with little reliance on oil? Well, 30 years after we should have begun, our greatest accomplishment is that we use more oil! We barely use solar, wind or nuclear energy... The list of problems goes on and on, but corporations do not solve problems, and since we are run by the dollar---they win.

>> ^rougy:
There's just no place to start with someone as blatantly dishonest as you, @<A rel="nofollow" class=profilelink title="member since June 27th, 2008" href="http://videosift.com/member/Winstonfield_Pennypacker">Winstonfield_Pennypacker.
Take BP to court? You mean the same Supreme Court that recently ruled that corporations have the same rights as individuals? The same Supreme Court packed with right-wing ideologues like Scalia, Alito, and Roberts? That's your idea of justice?
You always make these dishonest comparisons. Hollywood, CNN, ABC, CBS, MSNBC, the NYT, AP, and PBS are not liberal bastions. They only appear to be to you because your viewpoints are so hopelessly skewed to the right of the scale.
We need the Fairness Doctrine in radio and television because the right wing, always the money-grubbers, are stacking the deck. Leave the blogs alone. Leave the papers alone. But reinstate the Fairness Doctrine in television and radio and dance to the wailing of the conservative propagandists who would have everybody believe that their point of view is the only point of view.
We're in this mess because of you, man, and because of people like you. We're in this mess because your idea of how the world should work is totally fucked up, only you will never, ever admit it.
You bow to the strong and pick on the week. Now go back to licking your master's boots.

Hey Net, I agree with you and am in pretty much the same area as you... I would like, however, to point out what runs your opponents' mindset. Fear. Now, remember, fear is natural and is even necessary to survival. We are running into the problem of a world with finate resources, and that world is getting ever smaller. America is losing its once mighty grip on the things we have had for so long we assumed we were entitled to the wealth.

Now, blame is thrown all around except back at those who hurried along the process to begin with (Voters and their demands for low taxes and high services... Humans and their undending need to consume, etcetera...) So, social security has been raided to pay, money borrowed, etcetera. The Oceans overfished. Dead zones. Farm land is being compacted... Our debt is soaring... And the piper has to be paid at some point.

We must realize all our blank checks were foolish. This cannot be blamed on the half-black president--though he is a reasonable target. This must be blamed on our grandparents and parents and so on and so forth. And of course--us! Most of our generation does not undersand why things happen the way they do and yet, they are all about fixes... Sad...

>> ^NetRunner:
@<A rel="nofollow" class=profilelink title="member since June 27th, 2008" href="http://videosift.com/member/Winstonfield_Pennypacker">Winstonfield_Pennypacker, @<A rel="nofollow" class=profilelink title="member since August 1st, 2008" href="http://videosift.com/member/GeeSussFreeK">GeeSussFreeK, if the President asks for something from someone, and they voluntarily agree to it, how is it some sort of breach of executive power? He didn't exert any legal authority at all.
For example, BP's own press release says they agreed to establish the fund.
Now, if you guys have some sort of actual evidence that BP was resistant until Obama threatened them, making this a coercive agreement, bring it forth.
Otherwise you're just making bullshit accusations based on your own misguided ideas of who Obama is, based on lies trumped up by the propaganda arms of the corporate overlords (i.e. conservative media) to make it seem like BP is some sort of victim in all this.

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