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AMERICAblog: McCain's bread buttered with oil - third Bush term now official policy

  • Dave of the Jungle · 1 year ago
    Picture of the Week:

    http://img28.picoodle.com/img/img28/4/7/26/f_Mc...

    McCain cuts the cheese.
  • dad · 1 year ago
    The growing Obama clout derives not from national polls, where his lead is modest. Nor is it a gift from the press, which still gives free passes to its old bus mate John McCain. It was laughable to watch journalists stamp their feet last week to try to push Mr. Obama into saying he was “wrong” about the surge. More than five years and 4,100 American fatalities later, they’re still not demanding that Mr. McCain admit he was wrong when he assured us that our adventure in Iraq would be fast, produce little American “bloodletting” and “be paid for by the Iraqis.”

    [snip]

    But it’s not merely the foreign policy consensus that is shifting Obama-ward. The Texas oilman T. Boone Pickens has now joined another high-profile McCain supporter, Arnold Schwarzenegger, in knocking the McCain nostrum that America can drill its way out of its energy crisis. Mr. Pickens, who financed the Swift-boat campaign smearing John Kerry in 2004, was thought to be a sugar daddy for similar assaults against the Democrats this year. Instead, he is underwriting nonpartisan ads promoting wind power and speaks of how he would welcome Al Gore as energy czar if there’s an Obama administration.
  • dad · 1 year ago
    and the irony..

    United behind a renewed push for offshore oil drilling, Republican members of Congress and the party's presumptive presidential nominee, Sen. John McCain, think they have found their best political issue of the 2008 campaign.

    McCain strategists and GOP leaders on Capitol Hill say the issue, which polls suggest Americans favor by healthy margins, lets Republicans demonstrate their plans to address the anger over high gas prices as well as the broader economic distress that many voters feel.

    Because most Democrats, including Sen. Barack Obama, are opposed to increased drilling, McCain and the GOP have already begun casting their rivals as unconcerned about gas prices and unwilling to wean the country from foreign oil.

    same. old. mccain.
  • Dave of the Jungle · 1 year ago
    Same old Karl Rove.
  • OleHippieChick · 1 year ago
    $146bbl of *gas* should be *oil*.
  • lynchie · 1 year ago
    Just got back from the Bagel Shop in town. The consensus is that Obama has no interest in the troops, hates America because he won't let the oil companies drill for oil and that John McCain is the only one who cares about the average American. i thought about getting into the middle but you know, I don't think there is anything I could ever say they would listen to. These people have voted Republican their whole lives, they don't see the Republican Congress and this thing we call a President as working against their interests. It is the immigrants who took their jobs, which on its face means that a totally uneducated, non english speaking, homeless, shoeless Mexican is more qualified to do your job than you are. At any rate, I am eating a fresh onion bagel and trying to contemplate why these people don't even want to sniff reality. I guess they are just stupid and deserve 8, 12, or 16 more years of Republican rule.
  • tlsintx · 1 year ago
    gawd, that's depressing.
    sounds like my neck of the woods.

    i keep writing letters to the editor to counter all the ones they print about "if you like high gas prices, thank a Democrat because they're blocking more drilling"

    we can't let up.
  • Dave of the Jungle · 1 year ago
    If they could think for themselves, they wouldn't be Republicans.
  • lynchie · 1 year ago
    Great set of photos on Guardian UK of Obama's trip to Europe and the Middle East.

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/gallery/2008/ju...

    For you right wingies, photo #1 says it all. McCain had to follow a family around in the food store to get an audience. Obama had 200,000 who can't vote for or against him. By the way where was Cindy during John's foray into food world.
  • OlderAndWiser · 1 year ago
    Bet a lot of it came from here, too...

    http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109...

    Too bad; maybe the ones who don't like it should move, just as low wage workers who are told to "go where the work is even if it's 2,000 miles away" even if you can't afford to put gas in your car.

    The rich always want something for nothing. And cheeeeez, don't use those awful bags (why aren't they composting anyway, you know their cheap labor help could do it).
  • lynchie · 1 year ago
    O&W: if you read the article about the Hamptons it states that the cost of Healthcare for the 448 employees is $9.4 million a year, that is almost $20,000 per person. Holy shit!. When you get sick in the Hamptons they send a Mercedes Limo to pick you up and you get a private room in the Four Seasons where a team of doctors work day and night with at least 10 Registered Nurses on all shifts. You know the healthcare will be cut.
    We on the other hand not only have to take the bus to the hospital, we wait 24 hours to be seen, god help you if you fall down there, a nurse will kick you to see if you are alive.
  • Spadecaller · 1 year ago
  • jr · 1 year ago
    McCain doesn't care that New Orleans got washed away from our fossil fuel use. He is abandoning the atmosphere like he did to Carol McCain
  • tlsintx · 1 year ago
    John McCain is one lying son of a bitch.