Watching the second presidential debate that I taped and finally got around to, Obama said something that gave me this creepy feeling. He was talking about how we've got to stop sending money to people who don't like America. He said we need to stop buying oil from Russia, Venezuela, and "even Iran."And that's it.
It seemed strange and even ominous that he didn't mention Saudi Arabia. There is no way he didn't think of Saudi Arabia. Why didn't he say it?
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One thing that is rarely noted about the USA is that we are the only nation in the world who actually attempts to choose who we will purchase oil from based on our morality.
We haven't bought oil from Iran since 1979. We didn't buy oil from Iraq from 1991-2003.
However, because we didn't buy oil from these huge suppliers of oil, we have found ourselves in the position of being beholden to Saudi Arabia.
No one, not Bush, Reagan, Clinton, or Obama, can at this point consider the idea of discontinuing our relationship with Saudi Arabia.
Not until we start drilling in the Rockies and in South Dakota/Montana, and off all of our coasts.
I also found two more personal connections Obama has with Saudi oil:
Would Obama Pass a Standard Security Clearance?
"The Khalid al-Mansour connection: According to former Manhattan Borough president Percy Sutton, Al-Mansour "was raising money for" Obama's expenses at Harvard Law School. Al-Mansour, a black American (né Don Warden), became advisor to Saudi prince Al-Walid bin Talal, CAIR's largest individual donor. Al-Mansour holds standard Islamist views: he absolves the Islamist government in Sudan of sponsoring slavery, he denies a Jewish tie to Jerusalem, and he wrote a booklet titled "Americans Beware! The Zionist Plot Against S. Arabia." (Both Obama and al-Mansour deny Sutton's account.)"
"The Mazen Asbahi connection: The Obama campaign's first Muslim outreach coordinator resigned after it came to light that he had served on the board of a subsidiary of the Saudi-sponsored North American Islamic Trust, with Jamal Said, another unindicted co-conspirator in the 2007 Hamas funding trial. Asbahi has ties to CAIR's Chicago and Detroit offices, to the Islamic Society of North America, yet another unindicted co-conspirator in the Hamas funding trial, and to other Islamist organizations."
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