Fuck the polar bears, what about Todd's paycheck!

Stella, what the hell are you doing carrying water for these Big Oil people?! Good god.

The fact that everyone one there works for Big Oil might very well just mean that it's a snowy Texas, just as corrupt. So maybe we don't need a corrupt VP from this corrupt state. Or have you not had enough of oil corporate whores in the last 8 years?

Funny how people who work for oil companies keep popping up, over and over again.

Sarah Palin was a horrible choice and only proves John McCain's bad judgement. If he wanted a conservative women on the ticket, Kay Bailey Hutchison or someone else with some federal level experience would have more appeal. It's like passing over the experienced office manager for the hot secretary who can't type. She was mayor of a town of 9,00 for 3 years and has only been governor of AK for not quite two years, this is her only mentionable experience on her resume for VP? This only proves John McCain is shortsighted and shallow, and is only pandering to swing voters (PUMAs). This was a critical decision (esp. considering his age) putting a 44 year old woman (who has no national level political experience) second in line to the throne (and the button) if elected. John McCain has proven himself to be out of touch with the middle class and (IMHO) out of touch with reality. John McCain CLAIMS he is against drilling in the Alaskan National Wildlife Refuge, but puts Sarah Palin on his ticket while she's all for drilling there, or anywhere else for that matter and the sooner she can do it, the better she'll feel. She also pushed/passed legislation in Alaska that essentially handed 500 million American Dollars to a Canadian pipeline company who isn't even qualified to handle the job. Sounds like someone is in bed with big oil, and I bet John McCain won't be too far behind on announcing his approval for drilling wherever we can, if he's ever elected into office. This is a truly scary ticket. She is also involved in her alleged abuse of office, after only holding it for 18 months, for firing a man who wouldn't help her get her ex-brother-in-law fired from the Alaska State Troopers. Not only tried to get him fired, but also LIED in reports made to the Alaska Troopers about her brother in law in the process, not once but many, many times. It's gonna be funny to watch her stuttering her way though a debate against the 30-plus years of Bidens U.S. Senate experience.

Madame, may I please argue with you here, too?

As Stellaa point out, a lot of people in Alaska work in the oil industry. So, Todd Palin works in oil when fishing season's over - but not as a senior exec. Does that really make him Big Oil? After all, he's primarily a fisherman. Does that make him... um... Big Fish?

(I'm sorry, I couldn't resist.)

Big Fish can be just as bad.

Of course she can talk up the oil thing like it was a Midwest backyard issue, and she'll even sound like she means it when she says that "oil must come first to make Alaska and our country strong - shame about the polar bears." This is exactly why McCain and his tribe are so repulsive. Using a 'smart' young thing - a woman too - to roll off the years from his worn image and all the while making a fool of both of them and the American people. So the phone rings at 3 in the morning in the White House, to be answered by a 44-year-old, former sports writer with four kids to care for...and that does not put a shiver up your spine? For if ever there was a president who might check out mid-term, McCain is it. This is a very desperate man.

Hmmm...$10 a gallon gas or a few more polar bears? I'm with Palin on this one!

As for the conspiracists who think every employee of an oil company has sold their soul - and their ethics - you must also believe that Obama takes no special interest money. Good for you.

Looking at what Palin has done to fight and win over her own party's corruption and big oil bullying -- plus her support for gay rights when the rubber met the road... hmm... Palin's judgment is looking pretty good. We were told that judgment is what matters, right?

Of course I disagree with most of her stated positions, but her husband seems to be a solid blue collar guy. That union membership is campaign gold.

Where was all this indignation when the DNC pushed our empty, inexperienced candidate Barack Obama onto the Democratic ticket? Did anyone not see that this man was going to lose? Did you not see that Hillary Clinton won half the vote WITHOUT any of the traditional black voters? Now, you're trying to trash the opposition to make it better for him. Of course, we don't like the platform of the Republicans but we could have used someone at the top of our ticket who had some credible experience and not someone who just puts on a good show. Good grief. And now that he didn't put HIllary on the ticket, we look like the misogynist party. How do ya like that? Forget Roe v Wade, we're not the party that cares about women...we proved that this year. The Republicans aren't going after Biden, they're going after Obama, as they should and we should be going after McCain and leaving Palin alone, the less press for her the better.

Ah, British Petroleum. Which used to be British Iranian Petroleum. Small world. I too am worried about development being hidered by the fucking polar bears sticking their noses where they don't belong. You can't even deface a national treasure without these fucking bears getting all in your face. And the people it really hurts are the oil executives. Men trying to scratch out a simple living raping the earth.

Anyone who believes that drilling for oil in ANWR or off the coast of Florida is going to have a significant impact on the price we pay for gasoline at the pump just does not how prices are set. Prices are set by (1) the price of crude, which wouldn't be significantly affected by the amount of proven reserves on this entire continent, and (2) by refining capacity, which wouldn't be affected and which won't change in the U.S. until Congress commissions the construction of additional refineries.

Oil companies would love to drill in ANWR and off the Florida coast because crude is selling for $120/bbl, or so. Not because consumers will enjoy lower prices.

Oil companies hate the very idea of greater refining capacity, because it reduces their ability to set prices at the pump. That is why it will take an act of Congress to get additional refining capacity. This should be a priority in the next Democratic congress.