Rants and Irony's

So I am talking to my friend at work today and he mentions that the only reason that we are in Libya is because of the oil. He says that's what all of us "Liberals were saying during the invasion of Iraq and now he is raising the question of "If that's not the case then why didn't we protect the people of Congo or Sudan", yep it's all about the oil. Lets look at it a different way. We pay a tax to keep oil at around four dollars a gallon as opposed to somewhere like Germany or France who pay huge tax on gasoline. In fact their gasoline price would be the equivalent of around ten dollars a gallon. Oh we pay that ourselves and more. You see they pay that tax directly to the gas pump, their government uses that money to invest in infrastructure such as the Autobahn. Yes the first class highway we have all heard about and I have driven on. We on the other hand finance through our income taxes a military based on keeping peace in the middle east's oil rich nations. We keep douchbag dictators in power (Sadam Hussein, The Shah of Iran, The King of Saudi Arabia)and meanwhile their citizens are some of the poorest people in the world while the ruling elite are some of the richest from the oil dollars that flow from the United States. Obama has proved that he is just like the rest. My friend you are right, its all about the oil.

Obama can't do anything to satisfy certain Republicans. Back in 2004 Newt Gingrich said that you can't be a flip flopper and be Commander in Chief. On March 7 2011 Fox News Greta Van Susteren asked him what he would do about Qaddafi attacking his opponents in Libya. His reply "Exercise a no fly zone this evening, slaughtering your citizens is unacceptable and we are intervening". Can the mighty Newt, if elected President get approval from Congress in hours? Better yet he flip flopped himself on March 23, 2011 telling NBCs Matt Lauer "I would not have intervened" Funny he changed his mind after Obama gave the order to start military intervention. Guess the mighty Newt just ruled himself out of the 2012 Presidential race. By the way this story came from the Christian Science Monitor a right wing publication. Guess they don't like the way he operates either.

And in an ongoing debate I have about Rush Limbaugh, it was his short lived T.V. show on October 5th 1995 he said "Drug use some might say, is destroying this country. And we have laws against selling drugs, pushing drugs, using drugs, importing drugs...And so if people are violating the law by doing drugs, they ought to be accused and they ought to be convicted and they ought to be sent up" I guess it didn't apply to him because in 2006 he was arrested in connection to his addiction to prescription pain pills.