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Graham: Obama Policy Is 'No' To Energy Challenge
June 23, 2008 4:41 PM
ABC News' Gregory Wallace and Bret Hovell Report: Speaking Monday on a McCain campaign conference call on energy policy, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-SC, alleged that the Democratic rival fails to respond to the "great challenge" of energy independence and "just says no to everything."
"There is always a reason [for Obama] to say no, and the reason is roots," Graham said. "He never tells the left anything they don't want to hear."
McCain campaign advisor Doug Holtz-Eakin was first to describe the Illinois senator's position as dismissing ingenuity, discussing McCain's $300 million dollar prize for the development of commercially available electric car batteries.
"The important thing to know about the prize is that Senator McCain is interested in results," Holtz-Eakin said. "In contrast, Senator Obama has no plan. Or maybe his plan is to say, 'No.'… Senator McCain believes that you can't say no to anything."
The McCain campaign has been critical of Obama's opposition to off-shore oil drilling and nuclear power. McCain now supports lifting the federal ban on off-shore drilling, allowing states to pump oil off their coasts if they choose.
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Obama is like FOOLS GOLD. Obama's the Guy at the Country Club Holding a Martini Making Snide Comments About Everyone Else
Posted by: Smart Democrat | Jun 23, 2008 4:53:34 PM
HA HA thats the funniest thing i heard all day. The truth in life is the funniest.
Obama is the making snide comments about everyone else but has done nothing. HA HA
Posted by: blue that turned red | Jun 23, 2008 4:55:37 PM
McCain has made his game plan very clear...Pander on domestic issues and use the fear card regarding the middle east. I guess he figures that there were enough stupid Americans to vote for Bush twice, that it may just work again.
Posted by: Jim | Jun 23, 2008 5:03:08 PM
perhaps another terrorist attack will drop gas prices?
what is sad is that obamas plan isnt based in fantasy land...
so were going to give 300 million to some german?
Mccains energy plan is simply BS gas tax holiday, drilling? a new battery?
how about, oil companies can drill where they already are cleared to do so, and then we can enjoy that oil in ten to fifteen years...
gas tax holiday would probably be helpful to truck drivers at the tune of a couple hundred dollars, and twenty bucks to us normal people
now the car battery is a good idea, but where are we getting the money for this?
obamas plan is this
we need to tax the oil companies and provide every american family with a thousand dollars for gas relief,
then he wants to send out another round of stimulas checks
then from there, he wants to invest in clean energy...
we need to STOP THINKING ABOUT OIL ALTOGETHER
imagine the impact if we as a country were rid of oil except in the very smallest amounts?
Clean up our emmissions, invest in car technology like obama has planned, bring back jobs for america here in america instead of making the oil companies rich
the republicans are WAY off base on this argument
Posted by: bhrandon | Jun 23, 2008 5:09:01 PM
Obama on closing the Enron Loopholes.
Government officials recently testified before congress and stated that unregulated energy trading is one of the main causes for the rise in gas prices over the past several years. They estimate that gas prices will drop 20%-50% overnight when this law is repealed.
Why is everyone so excited about McCain open drilling when this will make a difference overnight.
The Republicans are trying to keep the focus off this because they make money everyday on it.
Posted by: becky | Jun 23, 2008 5:11:43 PM
bhrandon: the $300 million dollars McCain has promised to pay is from us. Lets see I do believe he said if every american paid $1 then that company or person who invents this machine will receive $300 million. Now I know it is just a dollar, and a good thought, but where does he get off saying I will be paying this?
Posted by: becky | Jun 23, 2008 5:15:04 PM
becky
what do you think about the old fool in canada telling us how good nafta is for us --and how we are living in a time of great prosperity---where in the world does this guy live.we should send him to canada to live or perhaps china would be better.
Posted by: rodney | Jun 23, 2008 5:15:40 PM
Neanderthal after dumb neanderthal sent to pound their sticks on the table while simultaneously beating on their chests saying absolutely NOTHING.
Today's voter is better educated in understanding so-called "stances" that a politician has. There is not one expert economic analyst that has come out in support of this plan other than oil companies.
Hmmmmm, why's that?
CLOWNS
OBAMA 08
Posted by: Nat Turner | Jun 23, 2008 5:15:42 PM
300 million --where would it come from------us taxpayers---what an act--nothing but more bs.30 years and has done nothing----must have an idiot for advisor.----opps. now he is bashing bush what a hipocrite.
Posted by: rodney | Jun 23, 2008 5:22:53 PM
the republicans oil companies and traders are getting all they can as at the end of year-democrats will clean house --no more big oil government.
Posted by: rodney | Jun 23, 2008 5:29:14 PM
Is it just me, or is this 300M prize idea awfully bizarre? An idea like that appeals more to greed and fantasy than to resolving the fuel quandary.
Posted by: kat | Jun 23, 2008 5:30:24 PM
now we have to get ready for the bin laden tapes and back to the yellow and orange security alerts i bet were gonna be in orange all fall
Posted by: angie | Jun 23, 2008 5:30:45 PM
he gang i will give you a billion dollars if you build me a car to run on cosmic energy---any takers
Posted by: rodney | Jun 23, 2008 5:45:10 PM
I will tell you how I feel, I feel like my Government is holding me prisoner, that is how I feel.
The economy is not effecting McCain, Bush or anyone else associated with them, for them tell tell they care is like them spitting in my face.
Let me tell Canada something, I went to store this weekend, $5 gallon milk, $5 loaf of bread, by the time I got a few items it costs me $50. I am living on Bread and milk while McCain is telling everyone I am living the American Dream. I stopped dreaming now I am a pissed hard working white woman voting for a new dream.
McCain can stick it where the sun does not shine.
Posted by: becky | Jun 23, 2008 5:48:51 PM
becky--he treats all of us like we are idiots and do not know his game----this guy is an insult to my intelligence-------thinks he is talking to illegal imigrants.
Posted by: rodney | Jun 23, 2008 5:52:02 PM
rodney: maybe we are idiots, we have allowed ourselves to be treated like idiots for 8 years. Believing lie after lie from those people in Washington because of fear and war. I am sick of it. Never again.
Posted by: becky | Jun 23, 2008 5:57:35 PM
becky
if we spent a fraction on alternate power and fuel that was and still is being spent on iraq---the arab new diet would be sand--wich
Posted by: rodney | Jun 23, 2008 6:00:10 PM
Obama is becoming more and more of an embarrassment not only for Illinois, but also for America. He is playing the "race" card more and more. Even today, Spike Lee is doing the same without any admonishment from Obama:
Spike Lee Sees ‘Chocolate City’ Under an Obama Administration
“It’s going to be before Obama, ‘B.B.,’ and after Obama — ‘A.B.’ — and some folks need to get used to this,” Lee said Thursday. “And I’m going to be at the inauguration — getting my hotel reservation now.”
In vouching for Obama, Lee also told the audience, “We need a real chocolate city.” Lee has endorsed Obama’s candidacy.
The words echoed remarks New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin’s made in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Nagin called for a more “chocolate” New Orleans, advocating the return displaced blacks back to the city.
Posted by: Jack, Chicago IL | Jun 23, 2008 6:00:24 PM
McCain is slamming Obama for US production of ethanol, he would rather use ethanol produced in Brazil. What does this say about US energy indepenmdence?
Again I do not understand this man.
Posted by: Thinking | Jun 23, 2008 6:06:17 PM
Jack, anyone with a brain knows Obama did not play the race card. He has every right to warn whoever he wishes that the Republicans will use it. They even said they intend to on the news this weekend. The man is 1/2 black, 1/2 white with an middle eastern name. There is the truth, now get over it. Either vote for him or not, but get over it.
Posted by: becky | Jun 23, 2008 6:06:24 PM
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