NEALZ NUZE ^ |JUNE 18, 2008 | NEAL BOORTZ

OK ... so this is rambling ... but someone needs to really start calling this Obama character, and his fawning followers, out.

I just love hearing The Messiah slamming McCain for "flip-flopping" on the issue of offshore drilling. I seem to remember that a few months ago Barack Obama was talking about almost doubling the capital gains tax. He wanted to take it up to 28%. Suddenly that changed. Apparently some advisors who are smarter than him had a little sit-down, and the idea went away. Flip-flopping?

The people of this country, even people who call themselves liberal, want us to start recovering our own reserves of oil, including oil located offshore. Obama says that this is McCain pandering to oil companies. Pandering to oil companies? Obama's ploy here is to play to the ignorance and wealth envy of the American people by slamming oil companies hour after hour, day after day.

The American people want to drill and drill now. Even when you poll liberals you find that a majority of them support drilling for new oil. There are 95 billion barrels of oil in our offshore waters. What in the hell are we doing funding our countries enemies by purchasing their crude when we could be spending that money here at home increasing our own capacity? Well, in an Obamanation I guess you fund your enemies every time you fill your tank rather than pander to those damned oil companies. Yeah ... makes sense to me.

Obama wants you to believe that the American oil companies are manipulating the price of oil. Yeah, sure they are. The five major American oil companies control about five percent of the world's oil. Tell me how in the wide wide world of politics can these five companies who control five percent of the world's oil manipulate oil prices like this? Obama knows this – but he also knows that you don't know. Wake up. He's playing on your ignorance. He wants to spend $150 billion of YOUR dollars screwing around with wind power, solar power and other green dreams. Oh yeah ... let's put the federal government, the same outfit that gave us Medicare and Social Security, take charge or our search for alternative fuels. Let me know how that works out for you.

Barack Obama knows that the voters more likely to support him don't know squat about oil economics. He can sit there without a shred of proof blaming the oil companies for the high gas prices .. and he can get away with it because he knows his supporters aren't intellectually curious enough to demand an explanation.

Obama says that drilling now would have no appreciable impact on gas prices. Sorry, he's wrong. Not that you're surprised by that. I've been sitting here listening to expert after expert talk about an almost immediate affect on oil prices if the U.S. would announce a full-bore exploration and recovery program – then Obama says it ain't so. Oh yeah ... I'm going to take his word on this. After all, he is The Messiah.

Day after day the Obama ocean grows shallower and shallower. The man simply cannot deal with the issues ... certainly not in a meaningful way. Slogans and pabulum .. the Obama diet.

The biggest issue facing our country? Terrorism. OK, so you're asleep on this one; you whistling past the graveyard. Those Islamic radicals are out there, and they have every intent on killing as many of us as they can. To Obama .. terrorism is now a law enforcement problem. Now sit down. I don't want you to fall and break anything when you hear this. Obama actually said yesterday that if we were to capture Osama bin Laden he should be entitled to an attorney and his day in the U.S. Courts. (Emphasis added)This even though he is not a citizen, is not in this country, and is in no way entitled to these protections.

Do you have any idea what happens when someone like bin Laden, or any terrorist for that matter, gets access to the American courts? We are at war! These people are enemy combatants! You don't put them into our court system. You don't let Ramsey Clark represent them in your local criminal court. You don't give them access to the discovery privileges that are afforded other criminal defendants.

Here's an example. When one Islamic goon was (allowed) to get access to the U.S. courts his attorney filed some discovery motions that forced our government to turn over intelligence gathering information. Contained in that information was the fact that we had been monitoring bin Laden's cell phone. Guess what happened within days? You got it. Osama's cell phone went dead. We haven't picked up on his new one yet. Good work.

John Kerry ... pimping for Obama ... says that Bush has been a complete failure on terror. Oh yeah, that's right. That's why our country has been suffering from so many Islamic terror attacks since 9/11. The Poodle is old news.

How do you like being so blatantly manipulated? Do you like this smooth talker taking advantage of your ignorance like this?