I think Obama’s lack of experience is central to his appeal to “core Democrats.”

Me, I think his experience at being nothing but a politician is the main draw, since that’s what these fools want. “Career politician.” Doesn’t that sound awesomely like just what American needs!?!

Add in the Chicago connection, and man, you’re talking about some real lawmaking stuff, there. Nothing they love more than more laws…laws, laws, laws…wheeeee! I hear there’s some change and hope, too.

America needs to get back to drinking black coffee and smoking unfiltered Lucky Strikes. Four damn doors of “energy drinks” and tap water in the cooler section of the truck stops of Texas is purely ridiculous. VitaminWater, my ass. Five rows of that shit, with five rows of private-label knock-offs from the franchise owner. I saw something called “white tea” yesterday. WTF is white tea? Me, I call it ‘water.’ Who’s the dumbass that buys white tea, and what do you expect to get out of it?

No, it’s black coffee and a hard roll, to quote Mr. James Brown, that built this country. Not kiwi-banana-taurine flavored soda waters. That’s something in a Hi-C can for the grandkids. Preferably spiked with bourbon, so you can get some miles in.

Alan Sullivan:

Geology.com has an article telling everything you could possibly want to know about North Dakota’s great oilfield. Production is now ramping up rapidly. Since Teddy Roosevelt’s day, no one has paid much attention to North Dakota. It is perhaps the only place in the US where a large new oil development could proceed unmolested by decades of lawsuits. But even greater troves of fossil fuel exist in the Gulf, the Rockies, and the Arctic. There is no need for the US to bankrupt itself with purchases abroad. Nor should we tremble over global warming that ended a decade ago, and was never persuasively linked to anthropogenic carbon. A second US oil boom would buy time for transition to other, more technologically advanced fuel sources — and I do not mean the poupourri of so-called “alternative” fuels.

I’ve highlighted the most relevant part of that. God, I detest the NIMBYs. It’s a personal embarrassment to me that our president has to go begging the Arabs for more production (after we showed them how to produce in the first place) simply because we’re far too pussified to do for ourselves. That kind of pusillanimous hat-in-hand crap disgusts me, but I’m feeling very lonely in my place here saying we should pump that shit ourselves. No, we Americans are much more worried about the damn polar bears and caribous and ocean views from the vacation cottages, than we are about our grandkids.

Where are all those bright boys who were saying we should be paying more for gasoline, just like Europe does? Heard much from them lately?