3BlueDudes tend to be optimistic. Big oil's record profits provide a good excuse for listing bad Bush policies, but it's a stretch to say those profits will be a significant factor in the election. Most voters won't pay attention. Most of the rest may shrug it off as the result of earlier record prices and expect big oil to suffer a bit in the current market.

So much op-ed writing is more gravy than turkey these days, and not just because Thanksgiving is near. The assertion of beliefs based upon values espoused makes for very pregnant contentions in any debate, but without employing statistics, relevent evidence and parallel logic, the basic premise becomes a mere house of cards. This piece in 3BlueDudes was well-researched , mightily fortified with both statistical data as well as empirical evidence of the collapsed economy being a harbinger of impending victory for the Democrats, and neatly packaged under the axiom that one party (vis-a-vis, The Republicans), cannot assign blame to the other party (Dems) for for its metamorphosis into a tsunami of sweeping proportions, which ... More »