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• 1. kaus  |  July 30th, 2008 at 6:57 pm

  wow…Obama takes on Oil companies in this video!

  Better read the latest:

  Exxon Mobile Net Profit Margin 9.72 percent.
  Walt Disney net profit margin 12.72 percent.

  Time for Obama to put the clamps on Walt Disney….making too much money. Time to nationalize Theme Parks Obama…..marxist…..

• 2. Craig Knauss  |  July 30th, 2008 at 9:46 pm

  Kaus,

  So, did Disney earn more money than Exxon? And nobody has to go to Disneyland or the movies. Most of us, including, I presume, you, have to go to work and probably have to drive there, consequently you have to buy gasoline. You also failed to mention that WalMart (Fortune’s #1) had more sales, but about half the profit that Exxon (#2) did. And, if I remember correctly, Exxon made more money than anyone else. Nice selective editing.

• 3. Craig Knauss  |  July 30th, 2008 at 9:47 pm

  Oh, and stick that “Marxism” crap someplace. It’s getting old.

• 4. Kaus  |  July 30th, 2008 at 10:52 pm

  Chavez, I mean Craig, just admit you want to Nationalize Oil and make the profit margin 0 percent to make gas prices lower.

  Exxon paid more in taxes than Walmart too….but of course you don’t want to talk about Government lowering taxes to make oil prices lower….because you like income redistribution don’t you?

• 5. Pat Cunningham  |  July 31st, 2008 at 8:36 am

  Kaus: Craig is right. Stick that Marxism crap. You’re inanely inclined to label anyone to the left of Ferdinand Marcos a Marxist. By your lights, dim as they are, Barry Goldwater was a Marxist.

• 6. Craig Knauss  |  July 31st, 2008 at 8:42 am

  Adolf, I mean Kaus,

  Don’t call me a Marxist. I’ve been working, paying taxes, and supporting our country longer than you have. Maybe you should get a life for a change. And by the way, just what has been YOUR contribution to society, other than your incessant whining?

• 7. Kaus  |  July 31st, 2008 at 9:14 am

  What I get out of Craig and Pat’s whining about my whining….is that Obama has no real plan for oil prices other than to nationalize it.

  Craig, you can gloat about how you are the Superman of contributing to society….but you don’t know how old I am or have you ever seen my tax returns. Apparently you want me to redistribute all my income so perhaps it doesn’t matter.

• 8. Craig Knauss  |  July 31st, 2008 at 2:43 pm

  “…don’t know how old I am or have you ever seen my tax returns.” You are correct on that. But all I have seen is your incessant whining about “Marxism” and your pitiful attempt to label anyone, with whom you don’t agree, a “Marxist”. And just when did Obama say he wanted to nationalize the oil industry? Do you have an accurate quote or is that just your wishful interpretation of what he says?

  And you still haven’t answered my question. What IS your contribution to society? Do you do anything to make life better for others or are you totally wrapped up in yourself?

• 9. Pat Cunningham  |  July 31st, 2008 at 2:48 pm

  Yeah, Kaus: Where do you get this nonsense about Obama wanting to nationalize the oil industry? Come on, put up or shut up. Where’d you get that notion?

• 10. Kaus  |  July 31st, 2008 at 3:10 pm

  THe Obama video from Obama’s Campaign states that he will ‘take on the oil industry’. Sounds pretty bold and open for MY interpretation.

  Craig thinks 9 percent profit should be much less…because everyone uses oil, so therefore he embraces government control of the profits…if that isn’t nationalizing the oil industry then what is it? By the way Craig, Walmart used to make +15 percent profit margin in the good old days….

  I’ve donated my time to homeless shelters, non profit groups, and I do pay taxes and I’m not a democrat…wow….is that possible Craig?

• 11. Pat Cunningham  |  July 31st, 2008 at 3:23 pm

  Kaus: To nationalize oil would be “take over” the industry. To “take on” something or someone means to do battle with them or it. Your interpretation is stupid. If Obama actually had said he wants to nationalize the oil industry, every Republican in America would be shouting from the rooftops, and the media would be covering it like flies on crap.

• 12. Kaus  |  July 31st, 2008 at 4:33 pm

  Pat…semantics….

  To TAKE ON another wife, or TAKE ON another job…..or to take on the oil industry.

  Obama will never come out and say what he really thinks…..I’ll do that for him.

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