Originally Posted by Professor Peabody

Too bad that's not going to happen. There are almost a dozen bi partisan alternate energy legislations sitting in committee since Jan '07 when the Democrats took over. The one that made it out of the Democrats energy dungeon was so laden with un-related pork, even I couldn't believe it. No one in their right minds would vote for more than that. That's issues for sophisticated voters. But it's the Democrats position on domestic drilling that's gonna murder ya in November. People are having to choose between feeding their kids and putting gasoline in their cars, and yes that would be the poor and middle class, the Democrat base. These are not terribly sophisticated voters, to them more oil = more gasoline = lower prices and the Democrats are blocking the way. Save your fancy explanations, most of the low income Democrat base aren't educated enough to understand that mumbo jumbo, all they'll see is the Democrats stopping the oil that can bring the prices down and take the squeeze off of them. So you go on and believe that the low income, poor and disenfranchised give a rats backside about whether the snail darter fish won't like the new oil rig.

Add in the party divide and how the floor vote at the convention is surely to open old wounds between the Clinton and Obama camps and push them even further apart. Then with Obama's numbers dropping like a brick, Hillary can possibly pull off an upset at the convention causing Black voters to go nuts that their guy was robbed.....Good Luck. McCain is enough of a Democrat to draw the angry Democrats because he's liberal enough, after all the Democrats wanted him to be Kerry's running mate in '04

I'm sure you'll find a way to marginalize what I've said to save face in public, but deep down inside you know what I'm saying is absolutely true and so does everyone else.