If most of Alaska’s state budget (80 percent) come’s from oil producing state that taxes the oil produced their. Maybe the same thing should be done for coal in West Virginia and Wyoming and all the other coal and other fossil fuel mining and drilling states.

Palin should be asked if she pushed for and got more money from oil companies in Alaska, is she going to do the same thing as Vice President of the United States. How is she going to answer, not the usual Republican talking point. That would be an interesting answer to dance around.

I don’t think so.

My guess is that Obama is at the top of the ticket because he excited more people and left them feeling that he had the best personal qualities to lead this country.

Biden, Clinton, and several other people who ran for the Democratic position have more time in office, but Obama won more people over to his side.

Now McCain’s getting a taste of Obama’s appeal.

And McCain is losing because McCain is showing us the real McCain. He’s sold a bag of bogus bunk to the country over the years. Now people are smelling what’s in the bag from not-so-straight talk to being a Bush-bot to not vetting his VP choice.

McCain has the “older” advantage, the “more experience” advantage and the “white guy” advantage and even those leg-up helpers he can’t overcome Obama’s message and abilities.

Once again, I recommend Michael Klare’s good short article:

Palin’s Petropolitics.

Alaska is unlike *any* other US state economically, it is more like Venezuela or Oman.

Gov. Palin hasn’t displayed even the slightest understanding of any energy issues beyond trying to extract more revenue from oil companies. If she even really understands oil-field depletion curves, peak Oil, investment economics, etc, it’s unclear.

From that article:
“At a meeting of the National Governors Association in February, Palin argued against providing subsidies for alternative energy sources, claiming that domestic sources of oil and gas–many located in Alaska–can satisfy the nation’s needs for a long time to come. “The conventional resources we have can fill the gap between now and when new technologies become economically competitive and don’t require subsidies,” she asserted. When pressed by a reporter for Oil & Gas Journal she went further, denouncing government support for renewable energy. “I just don’t want things to get out of hand with incentives for renewables, particularly since they imply subsidies, while ignoring fuels we already have on hand.”

But it’s not something to take lightly. A very substantial number of people really like game show hosts and trust them way ahead of career senators.

Thats why Biden is at the bottom of the ticket despite his many years of experience. You might think that Obama would start at the bottom of a ticket but no – all the other choices have too much time in Washington politics.

This doesn’t really explain how McCain got on the ticket.
But it does explain why he’s going to lose.

I flinched when Biden called for clean coal.

Gee, I don’t know, maybe the people who have actually bothered to study it?

Clue: the Holocene Optimum was 9000 to 5000 years ago.
http://en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/ Holocene_climatic_optimum

We left England to get away from the Divine Right of Kings, surely we don’t want someone with a pipeline to God that’s filled with oil to have their fingers itchy on the button, when Armageddon’s one of their religious scenarios?

But she’s a wonderful character – if only she was fictional she’d be great to read about or see in a movie.

Yeah, she’s all for the environment and energy independence, as long as it involves burning more fossil fuels. Once Palin’s talking points hit facts and substance, the contradictions are obvious. Let’s hope the voters saw that too.