Like you said McCain has been around a lot longer than Obama so we have already heard all the dirt on him, its Obama who is the blank sheet of paper.

"The Europeans do it. I mean it's safe. It's being done. So,... ....Europeans-- 80 percent of the French electricity is generated by nuclear power. They are doing fine,"

Its interesting that here he can note European policy, where as for health care, where again, the Europeans "do it and seem fine", we are inundated with fear based images of 3rd world health care...

Joe,

You wanna complain about who's getting the most negative news? Are you that much of a lemming not knowing how main stream media works Grasshoppa?

Man, TWP! Fooled by their own media sources.

I have a poll for you Joe.

85% of America is ready for change.
65% of those same Americans will vote for change in Barack Obama.
McCain will be lucky to get 40% after Barr and Paul virtually vote rape him in the GE.

Conclusion?

POTUS OBAMA. Spin it how you wish

Joe,

You wanna complain about who's getting the most negative news? Are you that much of a lemming not knowing how main stream media works Grasshoppa?

Man, TWP! Fooled by their own media sources.

I have a poll for you Joe.

85% of America is ready for change.
65% of those same Americans will vote for change in Barack Obama.
McCain will be lucky to get 40% after Barr and Paul virtually vote rape him in the GE.

Conclusion?

POTUS OBAMA. Spin it how you wish

geevil, if you think that oil is waiting for you on beaches in Miami then you have to study geology and if you think that McSame is right then you have to study archeology, there you will be able to find where the origin of the McSame's ideas which are prehistorical. God save America from McSame. God bless America and God bless Obama. OBAMA08.

nonono, You are wrong on that. He's been around longer yes but not everone knows about him. You have to think he's 70. Some of the new voters were babies when this KEATING FIVE thing happened. I myself know very little of Mccain and I'm 30. I don't believe he is getting "vetted" the same as Obama. But it might change as they election goes on.

Sorry I'm for Obama. I'm just saying they pay way more attention to Obama than Mccain. I also saw that poll thanks.

good for mccain at least he is taking on the hard issues (at great political risk to himself) and opening up much needed discussion on these critical topics. even if we do not agree with him on all policies this discussion very much needs to be front and center.

I would also like to point to a difference between teh two campaigns that is little talked about...

and that is that mccain hates amtrack and wishes to be rid of this pest for whatever reason...

meanwhile you have obama who here in portland said the country needs to look at portland and other cities that have amazingly good public transportation

now think about that... obama is pushing for a mroe responsible environmental and energy policy and end our dependency on OIL... period

meanwhile mccain

isnt interested in public transportation, or commuting via train bus between cities because ultimately that hurts the oil companies. If less people drive, then less money is generated.

Mccain doesnt want to end our consumption of oil because his big backers and all the purse string holders of hte republican party have their ties to big oil. If that goes away then whats the point...

Mccain runs on this energy policy that dopes nothing more then move us from taking oil from these people and moves it over to these people...

meanwhile where does our oil go 100% to us? or do we sell to china?

and then when it runs out where do we end up?

Mccain is way far off base with this, and i believe hte american people see through his bs pander bear lies

Geevil,

You're a great spokesman for McCain all duded up in your size 33 pokey dot thigh high boots with a pink full bodied pant suit, purple shirt and wig to match.

HECKUVA JOB Geevil!

Unfortunately, nothing you've said has happened. Until then, you have to remain in your clown suit. As you know, clowns tell jokes, not facts.

OBAMA 08

also I want to know how we dispose of this nuclear waste

where are we going to keep this stuff and then once it breaks through the barrels what are we going to do with it...

sure it may take a hundred years and we wont be around to see it, but eventually it will happen,

it seems completely irresponsible to seek a change on energy and instead of doing in a logical way, we just go from one black hole to another

and where do these submarines drop their nuclear waste...

dare i imagine its just jettisoned down into a trench deep in the ocean

were going to be seeing some really interesting fish soon enough

Isn't it interesting how, after largely ignoring the issue for the last 30 years, during which the GOP consistently outfundraised and outspent Democrats in election after election, the media are suddenly all atwitter about whether the campaign finance system is "basically fair"? How dare Obama inspire 1.5 million donors, giving an average of $197 apiece, to help him raise more money than McCain?

"This is a big deal," said McCain of Obama's decision. "It's a big deal. He has completely reversed himself and gone back not on his word to me, but the commitment that he made to the American people. That's disturbing."

What's actually disturbing is the Swift Boat Media's complete indifference to McCain's bald-faced hypocrisy on the same issue. Amidst all the attacks on Obama's "flip-flop," how much have you read in the MSM about the fact that McCain has "completely reversed himself" on public financing -- and is currently breaking the law on a daily basis, making a mockery out of a campaign finance system he helped create?

In the fall of 2007, McCain opted into the public financing system for the GOP primaries, which meant he'd later receive just over $5 million in public funds in exchange for agreeing to a fundraising limit of around $54 million for the entire primary process, which ends when he accepts the nomination at the Republican National Convention in September.

By late November, his campaign was practically broke, so McCain took out a pair of $1 million loans, using the public funds he would receive as collateral.

Cut to Super Tuesday, when McCain had the Republican nomination all but wrapped up. Suddenly, he didn't want to be bound by that $54 million limit, so his campaign did a 180 and opted back out of the public financing system.

But as David Mason, the Republican-appointed chair of the FEC, has pointed out, you can't just unilaterally opt out -- especially after securing a loan based on having opted in. The response of the McCain campaign is quite simply to ignore Mason. And because the FEC currently lacks a quorum (thanks to stalling tactics by that human roadblock to reform, Mitch McConnell) that's where things stand, pending a ruling on a lawsuit filed by the DNC.

Yet few in the Swift Boat Media saw fit to point out this glaring contradiction in McCain's cries about broken commitments made to the American people. Indeed, as Media Matters points out, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the CBS Evening News, NBC's Nightly News, Fox News' Special Report, and CNN all dutifully reported McCain's "Big deal" claim without mentioning McCain's campaign finance chicanery.

One notable exception was CNN's John Roberts. When McCain surrogate Nancy Pfotenhauer tried to contrast Obama opting out of public financing and McCain's steadfast resolve in the face of torture at the Hanoi Hilton, Roberts, as noted by our Jason Linkins, firmly raised the question of whether McCain cheated the campaign financing system.

But that kind of pushback was rare, even as McCain adviser Sen. Lindsey Graham painted Obama's decision as a dark day for America: "This is just really sad for the country. For somebody with this much ability, this much talent, to fall this far, this soon... This guy wants to win, he'll do anything to win."

written by arianna huffington

bhrandon, I'm no expert but I've heard that the nuclear waste is sitting at the nuclear power plants. Although it was mandated that it should be shipped away and stored, no one would take it. Safe and easy, my Chernobyl foot! (Love the post about European health care! Amen!)

Okay I looked it up with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission:
DOE is developing plans for a permanent disposal facility for spent fuel from nuclear power plants (as well as for the high-level waste that has been produced by the nation’s nuclear weapons production activities).

Congress has directed DOE to focus on a proposed site at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, for the disposal facility.

Well, we all know that Yucca Mountain has gone nowhere, slowly. So I'm assuming the waste has gone nowhere as well.

For decades, John McCain has been a part of this failure in Washington. Yes, he has gone further than some in his party in speaking out on climate change. And that is commendable. But time and time again, he has opposed investing in the alternative sources of energy that have helped fuel some of the very same projects and businesses he's highlighting in this campaign. He's voted against biofuels. Against solar power. Against wind power...

After all those years in Washington, John McCain still doesn't get it. I commend him for his desire to accelerate the search for a battery that can power the cars of the future. I've been talking about this myself for the last few years. But I don't think a $300 million prize is enough. When John F. Kennedy decided that we were going to put a man on the moon, he didn't put a bounty out for some rocket scientist to win -- he put the full resources of the United States government behind the project and called on the ingenuity and innovation of the American people. That's the kind of effort we need to achieve energy independence in this country, and nothing less will do. But in this campaign, John McCain offering the same old gimmicks...

I mean this is the thinking of mccain... one black hole to another black hole...

theres no ingenuity no american spirit.. he doesnt seem to be able to think around corners very well

Where do we put the nuclear waste and then as it starts to seep out as it already is, then what do we do with it?

I love that mccain is going about his energy policy like this because it shows his old style of thinking, his old ways

it showcases how badly we need reform and fresh ideas... all of which obama has continued to propose and will continue to champion

i dont want more oil i want energy independance

oh and ps

Now this is something. A new SurveyUSA poll shows that Barack Obama is tied with John McCain in Indiana, a state that hasn't gone Democratic since the Lyndon Johnson landslide of 1964.

The numbers: Obama 48%, McCain 47%, within the ±4% margin of error. For some perspective, George W. Bush won this state by a whopping 60%-39% margin in 2004.

The Obama campaign made news a few days ago by sending a top staffer to this red state, and Indiana has also been included in their first big ad campaign of the general election.

Meanwhile, a separate SurveyUSA poll also puts Obama narrowly ahead in New Mexico by 49%-46%, within the ±4.3% margin of error in a traditional swing state that went for Gore in 2000 and then Bush in 2004.

John McCain's innovative new ideas like nuclear plants, coal mining, and oil drilling will propel our country into a cleaner, safer future!

http://www.womenforjohnmccain.com/

bhrandon you make a good point about disposal and storage. i live in new mexico and we live with that nightmare scenario everyday as will our children and grandchildren.

as a hillary supporter i can now be an objective observer (who has not yet made a decision about the remaining candidates). but regardless this discussion regardless of party affiliation needs to be front and center. what we decide will have impact future generations-no time for partisan mud slinging not on this issue.

That's because the title of the blog is pro-Obama biased as usual. McCain wasn't lambasted. he let an uniformored enivormental wacko spout off. McCain made more sense. He doesn't have to hide behind a phony seal like obama.