Ooooh! I love Lou Dobbs! "Big oil isn't the Bogyman... the Bogyman

[Auntie Bush]

is in Washington! How right he is!

[durtee librul]

1. Love Lou!

He can be irritating at times, but he always make one think with his comments.....

And he caught me off guard with that comment, but it sure brought a HUGE smile to my face! He took off on Gore pretty well too.

[Sapere aude]

4. Can you explain the record profits, limited refining capacity and

multi million dollar salaries to oil execs, while gasoline prices are the highest they've been? Knowing there is a constant demand, could big oil be controlling supply so that prices and profits go up? Could this all have been planned during Cheney's energy discussions that he doesn't want us to know anything about? Is that why Bush says there isn't anything he can do? Is that why the repubs wanted to offer $100 a piece to everyone instead of lowering gas prices? Those are all reasons people feel big oil is the bogeyman.

Silly people, why do you think that?

[Jayhawk Lib]

9. Why not oil and gas????

Gold is almost at a all time high as well as the Dow Jones. California and a host of other states are taking in record amounts of taxes. Most all metals are at near record highs. Housing and housing starts at all time or near all time highs. There are other indexes that are at or near all time highs.

Why would it not reason that oil and oil profits be at near all time highs?

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/05/09/MNGSVIO7NG1.DTL

[ClassWarrior]

2. No Big Oil is the boogyman in Washington...

...and in Texas... and in Iraq... and in New Orleans... and...

NGU.

[William769]

3. I don't always agree with Lou Dobss

But I agree alot with him! :)

[0007]

6. It seems he been right on lately.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

5. Hmm

Sounds like he's letting big oil off the hook.

[ToeBot]

7. Yeah, and blaming their puppets in Washington. eom

[WePurrsevere]

8. There can be more then one.There's more then enough blame to go around to

all the OIL owned Bogeymen whether "big oil" or in Washington... they've all sold the American people up river for the almighty dollar they all worship and have sold their soul for.

[GymGeekAus]

10. I don't trust Dobbs.

Yes, we have an out of control Chief Executive that is not doing its job in enforcing the law. Yes, the Congress (under REPUBLICAN LEADERSHIP, Mr. Dobbs!) has failed to do it's job of oversight.

But to hide behind the idea of "citizenship" and justify the behavior of armed vigilantes "patrolling" our border, and then take umbrage at the governments (ours and the Mexican) interfering to ensure that immigrants are protected and treated humanely (and not shot by vigilantes in the middle of the night)?

And to have a segment where he defends himself against a charge of bigotry, which was a false charge and quite obviously so, by making an accusation driven by bigotry in the process? Rewatch the show. Dobbs claimed that all of the advocates of the Amnesty policy were all the same, engaging in identical tactics. This is generalization and prejudice, the very essence of bigotry.

Dobbs, you are a bigot. But you're probably not aware of it just yet.

Who gets human dignity, Mr. Dobbs? Is crossing a border that you had nothing to do with in search of a better existence, risking your freedom and your life in the process, crossing stretches of desert on both sides, entering communities where your presence itself is considered criminal, accepting a job at a wage far below what is considered "the minimum" in a desperate hope of making some cash to send to your family at home, are any of these attacking our human dignity? No, it's the American response, our response, the consensus of our voices, which is doing all the dehumanization here. Nobody is being granted dignity.

You can't strip humanity from someone else without losing your own. This is the central teaching of a man named Jesus Christ. That whole "what you do to the least of these, you do to me."

Nope, I don't trust Dobbs. Either he's a liar, or he's an idiot. Both are a bit dangerous to be voicing opinion shows, in my opinion--especially one that is considered "news" just because it's on CNN.

[Berserker]

11. Nice name calling

He believes as I do that Illegal means ILLEGAL you can have your open border opinion but don't toss religion into it. Let them ALL in and work for a cheap wage thats what republicans want and that will destroy our economy why is that so fucking hard to understand? I agree with him 100% and that is my opinion and I am a Liberal. I work construction and I see this shit day after day. I see only people who are NOT threatened by this do all the name calling. Cry me a fucking river we have family's also and we need the work and we are LEGAL Americans. Opinions like that make me want to puke.

[martymar64]

13. Then turn in the employers that hire illegals!

Stop blaming the victims. If the employers knew they could face serious jail time and hefty fines for hiring illegals, the hiring of illegals would stop and the incentive to come here would be eliminated. Big Business is the enemy, not the worker. This is just another way for them to divide and conquer. I had a job outsourced to India, but I don't blame Indians. It was the company's fault, fully and completely.
You have three possible courses of action, what you choose is your own business:

1. Turn in the employer for hiring illegals, let the law handle them.

2. Physically intimidate the employers in construction. Let them know that their sites and equipment might possibly suddenly burn down if they continue to hire illegals, or they just might meet an unfortunate accident themselves.

3. Keep on whining and join the "minutemen".

[tsuki]

15. No, he's a moderate leaning conservative that does not

hero worship. Because Bush says he's a Khristian and a Konservative does not make him one in Lou Dobbs book.

I disagree with Lou Dobbs a lot, but I can respect him for being what he is, not the opportunistic RNC toady you usually see on the TeeVee.

[donsu]

12. be careful of loving Dobbs - he is not progressive/liberal

nor a feminist

[Brigid]

14. I don't always agree with Dobbs . . .

but I agree with him far more than I disagree, because he gives a damn about what is happening to ordinary Americans because of the disastrous policies coming out of Washington. He's right on this time.