ask yourself, why?
Always one to look a gift horse in the mouth, I ask myself why are gasoline prices dropping as they are? surely the world situation has not changed to the point that the supply is considered to be a bit more secure, so why the 20% drop in the last two weeks?
While I am at it, why are the financial markets making modest gains in the face of all the leading economic indicators looking so glum?
Why are we seeing fewer news reports about potential terrorist attacks, fewer overt threats from overseas, (the last video that appeared on al jazeera involved more prosletyzing than ennunciation of fatwa's...) and fewer dismal stories about how the war in Iraq goes and the general state of our military force?
Again, I ask why?
Because it is an election year.
I cannot help but believe that what we have here is an effort to mitigate some of those factors that might cost the party in power a good portion of their hegemony.
That notion in itself has a lot of ramifications, that I will avoid for now, but it does appear to me that strings are being pulled, favors called in or granted to keep the edge off things, thus antagonizing likely swing voters just a shade less. I believe that we will see a more restrained, (I hesitate to use the word sober) monologue coming from the White House and its various agencies regarding the war on terror, as well as a steady ratcheting of the national security issue, just to show us that the president is still at the wheel.
This is an unscientific way of seeing things, but if things go back to what we have come to expect come the week after the election, remember, I told you so.
While I am at it, why are the financial markets making modest gains in the face of all the leading economic indicators looking so glum?
Why are we seeing fewer news reports about potential terrorist attacks, fewer overt threats from overseas, (the last video that appeared on al jazeera involved more prosletyzing than ennunciation of fatwa's...) and fewer dismal stories about how the war in Iraq goes and the general state of our military force?
Again, I ask why?
Because it is an election year.
I cannot help but believe that what we have here is an effort to mitigate some of those factors that might cost the party in power a good portion of their hegemony.
That notion in itself has a lot of ramifications, that I will avoid for now, but it does appear to me that strings are being pulled, favors called in or granted to keep the edge off things, thus antagonizing likely swing voters just a shade less. I believe that we will see a more restrained, (I hesitate to use the word sober) monologue coming from the White House and its various agencies regarding the war on terror, as well as a steady ratcheting of the national security issue, just to show us that the president is still at the wheel.
This is an unscientific way of seeing things, but if things go back to what we have come to expect come the week after the election, remember, I told you so.
posted by eccentric recluse at 7:15 AM
1 Comments:
Funny, too, the discovery of more oil reserves in the Gulf of Mexico was announced a day or two ago. They've had this monster rig there for years, and knew the oil was there over five years ago.
Of course analysts caution that this won't lower the price of gasoline at the pump. Well, sure.
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