When George Bush (41) was elected president less than 50,000 Africans were getting the aids drugs they needed. Today, over 2 million are recieving the medicine

C. HIV/AIDS Global Funding: Historic High Levels and Climbing…

$1.1 billion in FY2003, doubles level of funding when he took office 

$988 million in FY2002, a 36% increase over FY2001 

Larry “Drill Drill Drill” Kudlow move over, we now have moved to the next step in the “Drill Wars”. Michael Steele last night at the republican convention coined… “Drill Baby Drill!”

All kidding aside, this election is going to be a referendum on the economy and oil. Larry Kudlow coined the “drill drill drill” mantra, and although he has a great show on CNBC, not many people watch him or even know who he is.

In T Boon Pickens latest ad, he says we should “drill drill drill”. I’m sure it’s Kudlow he is quoting, but he then goes off on another point.

Take a look at Steel’s speech. It was very good.

The choice of Sarah Palin as John McCain’s running mate today was a surprise to me… and just about everyone else I’ve been listening to all day. The more I hear about her, the more I like her.

Maybe she can straighten John McCain out when it comes to drilling for oil in Alaska. Take a look at what she said on Larry “drill drill drill” Kudlow’s show in June.

Among that…

• She said “no thanks” to Congress when they passed an earmark for that bridge to nowhere.
• She has a son being deployed to Iraq later this year.
• She has cut hundreds of projects out of the state budget.
• When gas prices went up this year and Alaska started earning some extra income from the higher price of oil, she arranged a rebate (I believe $1200) to every taxpayer in the state.
• She hunts, fishes and has five children.

Did I mention she was also a women?

Note to John McCain:

The next time you are asked about how many houses or cars or boats you own, just say “who cares”.

Let’s face it, at this point in the campaign, any journalist is going to attempt to catch you in some sort of “awkward” position. The 5 million income remark at Saddleback the other day, admitting you don’t know how many houses you own, these are all things that are absolute gifts for your opposition. You should know by now that your “friends” who were riding with you on the “Straight Talk Express” last year are not your friends any longer.  I know it hurts but the sooner you learn this, the better off you will be.

Now, let’s get to the facts:

• Why did no journalist ever ask John Kerry how many houses he owned?
• Ted Kennedy Owens homes in Boston, Hyannis Palm Beach, and Washington DC among others. Why isn’t this an issue.
• What about Hillary, John Edwards, and all the other former candidates?

So, it’s not that he owns several houses, it’s the fact is he could not come up with a number. That’s the real issue.  But for the question to be legit, you would have to ask, how many homes do you have in your name, how many are in your wife’s name, how many in both names, and are their any in your trust, that you technically don’t own.

He should have just said, “the number of homes my wife and I own is not a factor in this race”.

John, don’t trust those media guys.

Really? He just said, after watching the Olympics he has realized that China’s infrastructure is better than ours (or anywhere else) so businesses are going to be looking into moving their business to China.

Did I miss something? Did he take a day trip to China like he did to Bagdag and get the scoop? Nope. Just saw it on TV. Great resource. The fact is NBC has done their best to make the Beijing Olympics look their best. We never see poor people, rundown buildings, even the smog is not mentioned that often.

But let’s get back to Obama. The infrastructure in China is better? Was he paying attention about a month ago when they got hit by an earthquake? Thousands of children were killed while they were in school. In this country, don’t we use schools as shelters from hurricanes and earthquakes. You will never convince me that if we got hit by an earthquake of equal strength that we would be hurt so bad.

But, he thinks business should move there. Why? Because they don’t have any environmental laws, no labor laws, the use slave and child labor, people make about twelve cents a day.

Get real Obama. The only reason China’s economy is booming is we are buying their products. If our economy hits the toilet (which it will no) then their economy will be in worse shape.  What we are seeing in Beijing is “eye candy” built to impress the world during the Olympics.

Is he really clueless?

What happened? Gas prices fall below $4.00 a gallon at the pump and everyone is happy? I really thought we were going to get the pols to start drilling. The push was really on, but it sure has fizzled. Gas prices are still almost a dollar a gallon more then they were last year at this time.

You can see the trend line here: Gas Price Trend Line

Let’s not loose the focus here. We need to get off our butts and find new sources of oil AND PUMP IT! Sure, I’ll all for the alternatiaves and saving energy, but that doesn’t mean we shoudn’t DRILL DRILL DRILL.

Focus people. We are on the verge of Nancy Pelosi caving and allowing a vote on drilling. Let’s keep up the pressure