Aunty,

Apparently I've been asleep at the wheel these nigh on nearly two decades. I've heard Gore's speil about global warming (some of it seems right and some of it seems wrong - pretty typical for politics). I'm not dialed in to Gore's two decade old social experiment plan to be achieved via high gas prices. I'd be interested in a good citation source or two.

Now it's pretty hard to complain about Obama's qualifications to be prez. He meets the Constitutional requirements, and Bush proves that any American born jackass over 40 years of age can be prez.

I'm not cheering or booing the high gas prices. I agree that we've needed something like this for a long time. The US is on an unsustainable energy path. But like Gore, I guess, I'd druther the higher prices be in the form of taxes to build a more sustainable transportaion infrastructure. The current prices are fueling off shore bank accounts and won't provide anything for improving infrastructure.

I do agree with you that the Democrats are engaging in an arrogance that could cost them the election. They seem so confident that the Republicans have screwed up so badly, that even a female or black Democrat can skate into the White House. Either confident or stupid. I'll vote for any Democrat just to be voting against the Republicans for inflicting Bush on me the last 8 years. However some Americans will vote for McCain simply because they will not under any circumstance vote for a black person. For the Democrats not to be giving that a major consideration in their electoral strategy reeks of incredible arrogance or major stupidity when every indicator is that the election will be close. If it's gonna' be close, only an idiot runs a candidate knowing he or she will alienate some percentage of the voters. Oh well.

Sg