Gas is good right now and it shouldn't rise again any time soon considering that Obama and Biden have no interest in the oil industry Obama was a good choice for president only because McCain was the next worse thing to George WTF Bush. In case you didn't notice, there were no other choices The American Dream? Care to explain to me what is exactly? Is working your ass off so that you can get a preditorial and excessive mortgage on a house that you can't afford only to have it forclosed by the mortgage company that robbed you in the first place so that you can immediately bailed them out of bankruptcy the American dream? Or is working for years in a row at next to minimum wage so that you can't neither survive nor collect welfare the American dream? Is getting sick and having no health insurance or being dropped by the insurance company when you sick the Ameircan dream? Or maybe having your kid(s) join the army so that they can get a mediocre education and have him or her get killed in Iraq while fighting for oil so that we can pay $5/gallon here the American dream? Or is it giving 700 billion bucks we didn't have to the crooks who stole, mismanaged & embezzled our 401K, our life savings, our kids education funds while giving themselves millions in bonuses for their performances the American dream? I'm confused here so many dreams that I don't know which is the American dream and which one is the nightmare

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gas prices are good for all the wrong reasons. Obama was a better choice than than the alternative. As much as Mccain wanted to distance himself from Bush, he really did not offer anything except denial to show key differences. Obama has not spoke of doing anything radical to the American Dream. He is simply shifting the tax burden to what it was pre-Bush. Bushes tax cuts for the wealthy simply did not benefit us.

It'll start rising again within a few weeks, when the Saudis announce that they'll be cutting production. After a rise to around $3 a gallon, gas prices will plateau for a while. And the American dream btw was a fallacy to begin with, to hide the fact that less than %5 of the population control most of the wealth, while those who actually created that wealth often have to work two or three jobs just to get by, don't have proper rights, as they do in the civilized world, and have no access to universal health care, or decent education. The only people enjoying the American dream did so on the backs of the vast majority of Americans who are now waking up to the nightmare that was the reality all along. The choice of Obama isn't necessarily because he's going to do all the things that the US needs to be done, but because he does at least, unlike his predecessor, care about people and it seems that the majority in the US are tired of outdated and long discredited ideas that encouraged greed, hatred and disregard for basic human rights and dignity, both domestically and overseas.

Gas prices will likely slowly rise through winter, and I really can't say how high they will go. If I could, well, I wouldn't say anyways. Obama was good for the American people because he understands economics and the benefits of deficit spending; he knows the mistakes that FDR made by - at first- listening to the deficit-spending hawks and the dangers that the Japanese made in the early 90s. Cutting government spending, something the McCain camp adhered to, exacerbates the problem. It's not an opinion, we can look at the effects through recent history and they are all consistent. Also, you bought into the conservative talk-radio, Obama-hating, hype around "spreading the wealth around." We're not going to magically transform into a society where the government takes 70% of your income and redistributes it to the poor. In fact, unless you make more than $250k a year your taxes will likely stay the same, if not go down. And if you do make more, your taxes aren't exactly skyrocketing. What is it, like a 3% increase? Obama IS the American dream. He came from nothing, fought all the obstacles in front of him, worked hard, and now look at him - he is a month away from sitting in arguably the most powerful chair in the free world. I can't think of anybody else in recent history that exemplifies the American dream any better.