Barbara's Daily BuzzFlash Minute for August 22, 2008

Having revealed “information” before, in order to save his skin, can we assume John McCain would also do anything to save his campaign in order to achieve his wildest dream! “U.S. documents proving POW McCain seriously ‘collaborated’… listed below are 5 transcripts of approximately 29 interviews McCain gave the communists.” Emphasis on “U.S. documents” for all those who may doubt the validity of the statement!!! All of which brings us to wondering about McCain’s most recent faux pas “… where did the Georgian president get his information that the United States would be militarily intervening? Given that McCain claims to talk to Saakashvili every day, and given a string of grandiose pronouncements by McCain and his handlers regarding Georgia, is it possible that he misled Saakashvili ...”

A few reasons why you can’t ever trust an oil man, no matter how good it sounds! “Pickens has funneled millions into 527s like Swift Boat Veterans for Truth … He simultaneously committed hundreds of thousands on top of that to the election and inauguration of both Bush administrations, both spearheaded by fossil fools whose kinship with foreign oil producers not only launched an invasion into an oil-rich but nevertheless sovereign nation, but also nearly tripled the price of oil in seven years and handed campaign contributors like Exxon the most bloated earnings in corporate history. Pickens is currently the head of BP Capital Management, a secretive hedge fund … that has extensive connections to the magnate's hated "foreign oil" interests. The most glaring example from its investment portfolio is Halliburton, which was once run by U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney, is currently headquartered not in America but Dubai, and whose main business segments and subsidiaries involve oil exploration, construction, production and refining. And that's not mentioning its resume on rampant fraud and corruption, especially in Iraq but also elsewhere, which has so far cost American taxpayers billions. Halliburton isn't the only BP Cap holding that stinks. Pickens is also heavily invested in Schlumberger, the world's largest oil services corporation; nuclear and conventional energy powerhouse Shaw Group; the embattled ex-Halliburton subsidiary Kellog Brown and Root and so on. For a very rich man who decries the influence foreign oil has on American life, Pickens sure hasn't put his money where his mouth is. He's put his money where the oil is.”