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[Clansgian AT wmconnect.com]

> >Now, James, you have to settle on this business of money. One post you  
> are saying this above and most posts you are saying, hey, we'll just  
> print more money.

Ah, yes, that will help, won't it!  

> 
> Of course not. But a new president might, if not well-connected to the  
> oil business, just might get Congress to subsidize those who are  
> making progress on alternative energy and conservation.

Let them say so now, then.  Candidates have a tendancy to promise the moon 
and tell you later that what they meant was a 'moon pie'.  They promise a 
lot, 
and deliver not a fraction of it.  Obama isn't promising any laternatives 
that 
would make any difference at all.  Solar?  Wind?  Drill in ANWR?   A drop in 
and endless sea.

Let him be loquax about smaller homes, no cars, fans instead of air 
conditioners, sweaters instead of heat pumps, shoe leather instead of parking 
spaces, 
trains, trolleys, and horses.  THEN we might see him advocate a small 
fraction 
of that as prez.  But he is saying nothing of the sort.

> 
> >Any president is limited in what he can do. As the pain, and  
> especially the fear rises, he will gain more power, just as Bush did  
> at 9/11, though more gradually. 
> 

Then that power will become, :"full of sound and fury, signifying nothing".   
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