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In President Bush's 2006 State of the Union Address he referred to our use of oil as an "addiction". Current calls to drill in the Artic and offshore along with responses to Al Gore's plan is nothing but the response of an addict and its enablers.

I pity our children and the world we are leaving them. We are leaving them a world where they will have a huge debt and where energy prices will continue to sky rocket. Yet at the same time we won't even give them the tools to cope. Instead we will finance our selfishness by cheating their educational opportunities.

Scott

One must ask themselves, how can our country be protected from terrorists when the lists used to screen for them have so many errors? There is no excuse why innocent people are harassed just because there is someone, on the list, with a name similar to theirs. Furthermore, if time is spent questioning innocent travelers that is time and resources that could have been spent protecting us from the real terrorists!

Is it not amazing how many conservatives will accuse democrats of being unpatriotic when, at the same time, they are the ones putting troops in harms way. Our troops deserve better than this! They do not deserve to be electrocuted when taking a shower! It is time that those responsible this answer for these deaths. Not just the companies that did the shoddy work but those who stood by and allowed it to happen!

Simply put, a vote for Norm Coleman is a vote against our troops!

Scott

Yet another reason why we must elect Obama as our next president! With his leadership and his ideas, we will be able to end the strangle hold that big oil has on this country! Only be ending the use of oil can we save ourselves!

Finally, after much delay, the EPA released a report indicating that climate change (aka global warming) will result in increased diseases. Once again the Bush Administration did all they could to hide this information from us. This is why we can not afford to allow the McCain-Bush ticket from continuing these policies! We need to take back country of this country and we need to save it!

Congress is currently weighing the pros and cons of opening both offshore areas and the Artic to drilling. Here is the problem both of these are environmentally sensitive areas which are already in distress. While we have made significant strides in reducing our impact, when drilling, it is difficult to believe that these areas will not be adversely affected. It is also astonishing that we have leaders making the claim that there are “vast” amounts of oil in these areas. The truth of the matter is that the “proven” quantities would not even last us three years!