Fill 'er up
As part of its insidious grass-roots effort, MoveOn.org has reached even into (unto?) red-as-a-pomegranate Utah with its leftist pro-Obama agenda.Barack Obama supporters in Zion recently received an email from MoveOn.org, warning that the Republican National Committee is spending $3 million to frame Obama as the cause of skyrocketing gas prices:
What's scary is that their strategy is working—even though the Republicans' energy policy got us into this mess!What to do? MoveOn.org is "pushing back" by gathering its minions at gas stations in a National Day of Action for an Oil-Free President. Salt Lake's gas gathering is tomorrow at the Chevron station on 1300 East 2100 South. The message is that John McCain is Big Oil's candidate.
Of course, at the rate Obama is sliding to the politcal right, he'll be supporting polar bear refuge drilling and Western oil shale development by this weekend.
4 Comments:
I wish this crazy group wasn't in SLC. Utah, don't let this group poison the people of Utah.You are the one state left that has good conservative values and morals. Don't let this group spew the hatred to your people.
Good Lord, an oil free president? Is that the kookiness MoveOn is cooking up these days?
I am with you grammyk456, let's keep these loons ouf of Utah. In Utah we have some good Democrats, but they don't buy in to the ranting raving fanatacism of the MoveOn sect.
Hasn't MoveOn and their groupies realized they cost John Kerry the last election? Are they trying to help Barack loose this one?
Those documents flying off Capitol Hill from the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform that raised questions about connections between one of President Bush's adivsors and Iraqi oil drew the verbal equivalent of blank stares this afternoon at the White House.
As we reported this morning, the panel chaired by Rep. Henry A. Waxman (D-Beverly Hills) let loose with e-mails and letters delving into Hunt Oil's interest in oil fields in Kurdistan -- adding fuel to the debate over whether the United States' need for oil lay at the root of the Iraq war.
Asked whether anyone at the White House was aware that the oil company, of which Bush advisor Ray L. Hunt is chief executive, had been negotiating with the Kurdistan government, President Bush's press secretary, Dana Perino, above, said "I don't know of anybody who was aware of it."
She did acknowledge that the State Department was aware of the negotiations. Indeed, although the negotiations undercut U.S. government policy, the department did not try to stop the talks, according to the documents.
Perino was asked: "Is it unusual that somebody in the State Department wouldn't have told someone in the White House that this was going on, since this ran contrary to administration policy?"
Perino: "I'm not sure."
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/presidentbush/2008/07/those-documents.html
I was at the MoveOn.org organized protest at the Chevron station (1300 E 2100 S) yesterday. It was a very calm, well done event attended by reg'lar folks of all walks.
What really surprised me was the degree of positive feedback we got from passing motorists. Utah being as Red State as it is, I expected lots of thumbs-down and middle fingers; but to my shock about 90% of the cars honked their approval accented by thumbs up and waves. To be fair, we did get two middle fingers - both from White males (do your own statistical analysis of that).
Far from a good random sample, to be sure, but I took from this that the Big Oil/Big Gas Prices thing spells big trouble for John McCain in this election. Consumers even in this conservative state are royally pissed, and they aren't so quick to give their anger a pass just because another GOP face is coming down the pike once again fighting for the interests of megacorps instead of the common folks.
So kids, put your tin foil hats away. MoveOn.org is no crazy group, but one that has the audacity to help the scales drop from your eyes so that you can see who is really putting the screws to you and your wallets. You owe them some thanks, not curses.
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