Why has our President allowed our economy to languish?
If Palin had been elected as VP we would have had ‘Drill baby Drill’ for the last six years.
This would have led to many more LNG export licenses and pipeline permits - and a massive increase in NG production from fracking.
Russia - like other extraction economies worldwide that all-too-easily become exporters of political or religious pathologies - would have faced US competition and would have had to confront its internal demons.
But elections have consequences. Specifically: the people who voted for Obama - or refused to vote for McCain - they did this. This is the world that they have made.