[richlevy]

I appreciate any individuals journey towards wisdom. I even appreciate the president finally being able to state the obvious. Unfortunately, it will be sort of useless to us to finally have a president who has attained the mimimal skills and experience to govern if he does so in his last months, weeks, or days in office.

I was not a big Kerry fan, but IMO he would have been a better choice because he would not have had to wait an extra year to admit GWB's failures. The same holds true for McCain, and anyone else running in the last election.

As the talking heads remarked on one of the panel shows last night "that's great, but will it affect policy?"

The Chinese are carrying our debt and OPEC and Russia hold most of the oil we need. Any idiot can see that our economic destiny is no longer in our hands and won't be until we take care of our national debt and energy use.

NOW we are talking about energy, 5+ years into the presidency. During the first term, when oil was running about $20-30 a barrel, Cheney convened a closed conference of oil and energy executives. None of them mentioned that oil would probably be at $70 a barrel in 2006? Noone considered the blow to our economy? Or did they know pretty much what was going to happen and just decided to sit back and let the profits roll in? The oil executives are out to make a buck, that's their job, but Cheney and Bush are supposed to be working for us.

Our two chief executives are both from the oil industry and it took them 5+ years to recognize and start to deal with energy dependence? As always, this begs the question "Are they stupid or crooked?"