Is there still a chance for McCain?

You have to train a workforce in those alternative energy jobs.  Those jobs right now are merely research jobs, which do not produce anything of value. 

Oil rigs need to be built.  Nuclear plants need to be built.  16 new COLs (construction and operating licenses) have been filed with the NRC.  If these licenses are approved without interference from the stupid Greens, then the plants will be built.  No sane company wants to build a plant if it going to blocked/stalled by environ-wackos who want to go back to 1699.

they'd have taught you "make work jobs" are a net economic drain from more productive uses of labor and capital.." Make -work jobs" by definition, do not add value to the economy in long term return on invested capital. I suppose making someone push a rake for a few hours beats just giving him a check, but not by much. 

See, had you attended a big eastern jock college, not some haughty snobarama, you would know this.

And you sound so refreshingly effervescent, which is meant as a compliment.   I don't think people are retarded, I just think they're not paying attention.  Case in point:  let's say you were payinig attention to the list of former Democratic senators who were implicated in the Keating 5 but never prosecuted, such as former Senator John Glenn or former Senator Don Riegle, both of whom have endorsed Obama.  If you were paying that particular level of attention, you might not want to continue shining light on the very repentant Senator John McCain in a very closed case.  Nice try, though - thank you, drive through! 

Here's where you are absolutely paying attention:  without legislative changes, there is no way we can build 30-40 nuclear power plants, regardless of how safe the technology might be, because the permitting process alone will hold up these projects for 10 years in bureaucratic red tape.  Great point.

"Manhattan Project" is merely a phrase, by the way, I'm not suggesting we sequester a group of rocket scientists at Los Alamos and have them develop atomic energy solutions, LoL.  What I am suggesting is that we throw a great deal of investment in time, resources, knowledge, experience, imagination, vision and management into seeing exactly how we can bridge the gap (through drilling, clean coal and natural gas) toward your electrical utopia.  And whatever happened to hydrogen, huh?  Let's throw our shoulders into it and do it.  That's what I'm sayin'.  I think we agree much more than we disagree there.

And now on to Ayers.   First I'm gonna get you started on Ayers' ideology. In his own words, he is a small "c" communist so let's begin there.  Communism is a failed ideology.  Since you may never have been taught this in women's and black studies class, perhaps you should Google it - oh wait that's right, Google is owned and operated by the New Left, which is a really sexy way of saying small 'c' communists.  Redistribution of wealth doesn't work to even things out and make the world "fair".  What it has done, with outstanding success, is make an overlord class of extremely wealthy (think: Microsoft, Google, Yahoo CEO's) and an underclass of very unwealthy (think:  you, me, and my six-to-a-house college student neighbors).  The middle class gets pretty much wiped out.  What I forgot to mention in here is the crack-head and bandit class, kind of like the types we see in the old Akiro Kurasawa samurai movies - you know, the people without jobs who deal in nefarious deeds on the poor unsuspecting underclass villagers for which we have to call in the Seven Samurai for protection.  We're talkin' feudal system, Baby.  There is no utopia in communism, there's just a bunch of wealthy people and a bunch of poor people and a bunch of repression of free speech, choice, options, and all the things that allow you to express yourself freely right here on The Next Right.  Capitalism ain't perfect, but it's not going to go medieval on your ass.  Talk to the people in the former Soviet Union who are selling themselves into marriage with Amerikkkan bachelors while their relatives who stay behind in Russia drill holes into the gas lines so that they can heat their homes which subsequently explode.  They'll tell you that the poorest people in this country are wealther than most of the people in their country.  Go ahead on.  Ask 'em.

And now we come to the part where I'm going to get you started on Ayers' violent behavior, and here's why.  It doesn't matter how old Barack Obama was when Ayers committed his crimes - that's like saying I was only 16 when Charlie Manson murdered my neighbors the Tates and La Bianca's in L.A., but God Love Him, he's my buddy now and we do great, great work together for the common good of The People's Republic of California.  Working with an unrepentant murderer to benefit society would be a perfect example what Soren Kirkegaard meant in the mid-1800's when he accused Georg W. Hegel of developing a philosophy in which the ends justify the means.  Hegel is usually credited as having spawned both Marxism and Fascism - which intersect nicely in today's modern 21st century "New Left".  Since the New Left doesn't seem to understand the concept of irony, let me help.  Malcolm Little, aka Malcolm X, aka Malik Shabazz, gave several very famous speeches in which he advocated black nationalism and overthrowing white oppression "by any means necessary" including violence, murder, and total badness.  Even though Malcolm/Malik realized after his pilgrimage to Mecca that such ideas were hellishly dangerous horse-crap, successors of his in the Black Panthers, Students for a Democratic Society and their splinter group The Weathermen run by Ayers, decided to cherry-pick his earlier philosophy and use it against what they called the dumb-ass Bourgeois enemy pigs.  This is a good example of how "words matter".  Malcolm would never have approved of his words being taken to this level of seriosity but he never got to really disapprove of it much since he was assassinated in 1965 by the thugs of Louis Farrakhan's, another dear friend and partner of Ayers. 

Thanks to the research of Dr. Stanley Kurtz, Senior Fellow at the Ethics and Policy Center, who patiently sorted through the CAC stacks at the Daley Library after weeks of roadblocks put in his way even though the information was supposed to be available to the public, we now know that the Chicago Annenberg Challenge ran through $160 million dollars –$50 million from the Annenberg Foundation, managed by Brown University — and a reported $110 million dollars in matching funds. CAC, run by ex-officio chief Ayers, disbursed money through Barack Obama to various far-left community organizers, such as the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN). 

The CAC’s agenda flowed from Mr. Ayers’s educational philosophy, which called for infusing students and their parents with a radical political commitment, and which downplayed achievement tests in favor of activism. In the mid-1960s, Mr. Ayers taught at a radical alternative school, and served as a community organizer in Cleveland’s ghetto. In works like “City Kids, City Teachers” and “Teaching the Personal and the Political,” Mr. Ayers wrote that teachers should be community organizers dedicated to provoking resistance to American racism and oppression. His preferred alternative? “I’m a radical, Leftist, small ‘c’ communist,” Mr. Ayers said in an interview in Ron Chepesiuk’s, “Sixties Radicals,” at about the same time Mr. Ayers was forming CAC.

So if you want to play idealism politics, you'd better decide which kind of idealism you're really buying into - the kind that actually does improve people's lives in a positive, productive way that builds people up and creates success for them when they work hard and take personal responsibility, or the kind that's steeped in dependence on the government, economic failure, violence, murder, and uses "any means necessary" to achieve its bloody and ultimately totalitarian ends.  This is the American Revolution vs. the French Revolution, Baby, and France was a helluva place to live after that little bit of business concluded.  Get schooled a little more, and then come back and we'll chat again.  I still love your S/N.  ;-)