Random Rant: Why wait until October for a Surprise?

Oil prices, sliding. I've always contended that Adam Smith is the Tooth Fairy of capitalism: paraded around to when convenient. There're apparently mysterious patterns pre-election: upticks in the US economy every time a White House GOP incumbent is up for re-election and foreign policy "dangers" in contested years. We learned our lesson (some of us) and cut demand for oil. We're trying to go "green." Will we keep on this track? Hmmm--maybe not, and there's always room for more market manipulation and propaganda, per Foreign Policy magazine.
Then there's Ossetia. I blame Bush. A bait and switch war? Oh, we'll see what happens over the next month regarding the Iranians, or the terrorists who are supposedly on the run (by way of plain ol' flatfoot sleuthing and police work--not military adventures, spying on regular folks, shredding the Constitution, torture, or uber-high tech bullshit. I can say this: Bush has signed a pact with Satan...Vlad Putin...in this so-called War on Terror. Hand and hand with his, the GOP's and American businesses and bankers mortgaging our nation to Red China, we have given this vampire-looking scumbag a blank check. Now, of course this war makes the European Union look fairly limp-dicked, but come on, I think it was reasonable for Georgia, a more pro-American, pro-Western former Soviet republic than any in the region, to expect someon had their back. Russia or Urkraine (the primary sources of gangster identity fraud, organized crime and rancid porn in the world) are not our pals. Neither is China. Neither was Musharraf in Pakistan. But hey, expect the script to flipped...if we can't foment some mess with Iran, perhaps with the help of Rupert Murdoch we can re-cast this pals (maybe just Russia; as blogger jackandjillpolitics mused, you can't piss off your banker, so I suppose we'll forever be kissing China's ass) as dire threats and still increase the fear factor.
Time to speak, Barack. On oil, on this stuff. Turn the other cheek, all you get is slapped again...