New Obama Ad. McCain "In the Pocket of Big Oil"

The Republicans were mocking the following statement from Obama: "We could save all the oil that they're talking about off(shore) drilling if everybody was just inflating their tires and getting regular tune-ups. You could actually save just as much". The Republicans never said that inflating tires and regular tune-ups were bad practices, they were just mocking Obama's statement that the savings from those measures would equal production from off-shore drilling. Got it? I am lousy at posting links, but if you want to hear Obama's actual words I saw a link at NoQuarter at 21:46 under the post called "Campaign Disclosures".

Obama's economic policy is a recipe for disaster and more jobs to drift away overseas.
1. Windfall profit tax
2. Tax the rich
3. More government regulations
4. Tax more, Spend more and redistribute

Obama’s tax, spend and redistribute economic policy is a socialist idea. Big Oil is basically a scapegoat for Obama and the Do Nothing Democrats. Their idea of windfall profit tax certainly makes them look liked a champ to the voters but we are not the United Socialist of America.
Furthermore, why tax more when tax dollars are wasted on congressional earmarks.
In reality, windfall profit tax stands for more tax dollars, more earmarks.
A windfall profits tax on oil was an American disaster in 1980s. It has been criticized by many economists as being counterproductive.

I disagree in Obama's energy policy except for when he said, strategic oil reserve are for emergency only because I believe high cost of fuel is not considered an emergency but Obama has flipped and flopped on his view on the use of strategic oil reserves. I am also surprised in the number of his flip-flops within the span of one week. Is this how Obama going to lead this country? I also disagree in his latest ad "in the pocket of big oil" because both him and McCain are on the receiving end of big oil contributions. In addition, Obama, not McCain, was the one who voted for the Bush-Cheney energy bill. Furthermore, it seems Obama and the Democrats are not consistent with each other. I think the ad will eventually backfire on Obama.-------------------------------------------------------------------***Obama is becoming more confusing, the more he changes his energy policy.
Posted by:
Al4McAttack 12:07 AM

Political campaign cannot expect money from oil companies. The Obama campaign ad is deceptive and misleading. It's against the law for corporations to contribute directly to political campaigns. During the primary battle with Clinton, Obama also did this, and the independent FactCheck.org criticized Obama for at the time for implying that his rivals took money from oil companies.

Politics is about control. One example is the drilling question. We dont have to lease the land to WTO companies. As some posters mention, 75 million acres are leased already and the accountants run those companies, not Mother Teresa. The accountants are SUPPOSED to make the price be high and the cash flow constant. If we stop leasing our US land, and start creating a sovereign corporation or two, to research, drill and deliver OUR oil to OUR refineries, which do not yet exist, we dont have to wonder how high the Chinese or American speculators are willing to bid up the price. We can own the entire process and the products. Yes, socialism comes to America.
Its Ok. You'll like paying $1 for gas instead of $4.
Or you can keep on letting WTO run the USA.
As things are, there is now a legal fiction in the USA that corporations have "the rights of persons". Amazing?! Anyway, oil will be higher and higher if we keep doing the same things. Change can be good. Also, we can go to steam powered cars, tomorrow. Stanley Steamer cars could go 150 MPH.
However they required tinkering. Electronic engineering eliminates all that old-fashioned tinkering, just like it did the hand crank to start gas powered cars eventually. The only technology we need to make the Stanley Steamer completely acceptable is to consider forms of fuel that are not high in emissions. Coal is available, but needs to bve submitted to technology. Anything, even weeds, will make water boil.
Nothing to it but to do it. This drilling stuff is all lies. We have to make real changes in process and techniques. Steam and public ownership are the easy ones. Most of our oil should be reserved for the military now, since it is finite and we can change to steam if we just act like it mattered.
air planes are not going to be steam powered.

NEW REPORT RELEASED

On July 31, 2008, Campaign Money Watch released "It's A Gusher: As John McCain Fights For Big Oil, They Open Their Wallets," a new report that features an in-depth analysis of how John McCain's campaign received an influx of Big Oil dollars after his June 16 reversal on offshore oil drilling.

Over 20 oil industry lobbyists are on the McCain campaign payroll:

1 Rebecca Anderson / Women for McCain Steering Committee / Williams & Jensen / Sunoco

2 Wayne Berman / National Finance Co-Chairman / Ogilvy Government Relations / Amerada Hess

Chevron Texaco American Petroleum Institute

3 Charlie Black / Senior Political Adviser / BKSH Occidental Petroleum Corp. / Yukos Oil Chinese

National Off-Shore Oil Corp.

4 Carlos Bonilla / Economic Adviser / Washington Group / Chesapeake Energy

5 Eric Burgeson / Fundraiser / Barbour Griffith & Rogers / BP

6 Kerry Cammack / Fundraiser C/ ammack and Strong / Exxon Mobil

7 Frank Donatelli / McCain Pick as Deputy RNC Chair / McGuire Woods / Exxon Mobil Dominion

Resources

8 Melissa Edwards / Fundraiser / Washington Group / Chesapeake Energy

9 John Green / Congressional Liaison / Ogilvy Government Relations / Amerada-Hess Chevon

Texaco El Paso Energy American Petroleum Institute

10 Robert Harding / Fundraiser / Greenberg Traurig / Chevron Murphy Oil Phillips Petroleum

Company

11 Richard Hohlt / Fundraiser / Hohlt and Associates / Chevron

12 James "Jim" Hyland / Fundraiser / Pennsylvania Avenue Group / BP America Independent Fuel

Terminal Operators Assoc. Occidental Petroleum Corp. Independent Fuel Terminal Operators

Assoc.

13 Peter Madigan / Fundraiser / Johnson, Madigan, Peck, Boland & Stewart / Shell Oil

14 Susan Molinari / Women for McCain Steering Committee / Washington Group / Chesapeake

Energy

15 Jack Oliver / Fundraiser / Bryan Cave Strategies / Shell Oil

16 Nancy Pfotenhauer / Adviser / Koch Industries / Koch Industries

17 Steve Phillips / Fundraiser / DLA Piper / BP America Occidental Petroleum

18 Elise Pickering / Women for McCain Steering Committee / Mehlman Vogel Castagnetti / Koch

Industries

19 Sloan Rappoport / Fundraiser / Downey McGrath Group / Koch Industries

20 Matt Salmon / Fundraiser / Greenberg Traurig / El Paso Energy

21 Randy Scheunemann / Defense and Foreign Policy Coordinator / Scheunemann and Associates /

BP Amoco

22 Jeffrey Weiss / Fundraiser / BKSH / Yukos Oil Company

The oil companies don't want you to keep your tires inflated. More money for them!

YEP!!! BOTH SIDES OBAMA!!! In Chicago he supposedly hit the wrong button 4 times to vote!!! He not only doesn't know right from wrong but he doesn't know yes from no!!! YEP, this is just the man we need to have his finger on the nucleaar trigger!

chatty-
Do you have ANY idea how much that 8% amounts to? It's more than both of us would make in 10 lifetimes. 8% is a small number, but it represents BILLIONS of dollars.

What a hypocrite! Speaking out of both sides of his mouth again - voted for the Bush-Cheney energy bill, now he is criticizing them and Big Oil. Took Big Oil money himself, now he is deriding McCain for doing the same. Cried Boohoo when he was the butt of negative ads, now he is making negative ads. A real Washington Politician! Spare us, pulllease!

McCain/Bush and Cheney are all in bed big oil. McSame is not changing one policy to hurt the oil companies-He may need another pair of $500 shoes-and big oil will get him a pair for everyday of the year. McSame will continue to do the same things as Bush and he will continue to buy expensive shoes. The rich truly get richer.

"McLame is bought and paid for by Big Oil, just like Cheney who was the CEO of Halliburton Oil just before he became Bush's VP."

Posted by: hailmary | Aug 4, 2008 6:41:33 PM

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I don't know about McClain.... but I DO
know that list isn't complete without including OBAMA!

Does anyone have any idea how much money we can save if every car owner inflated their tires and gave their car a tune-up??? Obama thinks it is a great idea.....and he graduated from where???

Hey 08 after,

Those thousands of homeless now, were homeless 6 years ago. They were given a chance to own for the first times in their lives. They lived an up scale life for over 5 years. The smart ones did not re finance every years and have a five year party. So not all of the bush years were a disaster, only the ones you choose to look at.

- In March 08 he said, "I will not play election year politics with the housing crisis," adding, "I have always been committed to the principle that it is not the duty of government to bail out and reward those who act irresponsibly, whether they are big banks or small borrowers." - Guess it's not his problem if thousands of Americans become homeless thanks to deregulations in the mortgage industry (which were supported by McCain).

McLame is bought and paid for by Big Oil, just like Cheney who was the CEO of Halliburton Oil just before he became Bush's VP.

What Senator McCain neglected to mention was that during those thirty years, he was in Washington for twenty-six of them," said the Senator. "And in all that time, he did little to reduce our dependence on foreign oil. He voted against increased fuel efficiency standards and opposed legislation that included tax credits for more efficient cars. He voted against renewable sources of energy. Against clean biofuels. Against solar power. Against wind power. Against an energy bill that -- while far from perfect -- represented the largest investment in renewable sources of energy in the history of this country. So when Senator McCain talks about the failure of politicians in Washington to do anything about our energy crisis, it's important to remember that he's been a part of that failure."

Obama's biggest adviser is Tom Dashle who now lobbies for three giant agribusiness. Guess where Obama's bread is buttered.

Then, there's the fact that Obama voted for oil company tax exemptions in 2005. The same ones he now blathers about!

What does this jerk take us for?