Just in case you missed it: Closing Arguments:Senator Barack Obama delivers a speech about bringing jobs and a sound energy plan to Indianapolis and America. <object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/wf8N1Ucfb7E&hl=en"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/wf8N1Ucfb7E&hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object>
Can't see it not to derail but anybody noticed how the campaign rhetoric has died down since obama finally broke ties with wright. i don't know if that is the reason, but it seems to really have gotten quiet after the penn primary. didn't want to start a new thread
Obama is just a buffoon on the topic of energy. A total and complete fraud. Going around and shouting 'green jobs!' is not answering ANY short-term problem. The only way to solve the problem in the short and intermediate-term is to either reduce demand for fossil fuels or increase supply. Funding green jobs is fine, if you understand what is really meant by that -- years of R&D, trial periods, testing, rounds of investor funding, commercialization plans, and then a roll-out. That doesn't happen in months -- it happens in years. And no alternative energy solution addresses baseload power needs or transportation fuels economically. None. And none will for 10 years. Guaranteed. So if Obama wants to man up and start speaking the truth, he can. But he won't. He'll demagogue and make the EASY decision, which is to trumpet things his audience wants to hear and is naive enough to accept. The reality is very different however. The market agrees with me on this one -- oil and coal prices are at all time highs.
The Republicans are just a buffoons on the topic of energy. A total and complete fraud. Going around and shouting 'drill ANWAR' is not answering ANY long-term problem. The only way to solve the problem in the long term is to reduce demand for fossil fuels and initiate a renewable energy plan. Funding green jobs needs to start now, if you understand what is really meant by that -- years of R&D, trial periods, testing, rounds of investor funding, commercialization plans, and then a roll-out. That doesn't happen in months -- it happens in years. And thanks to 50 years of oil compnay lobbying, no alternative energy solution addresses baseload power needs or transportation fuels economically. None. And none will for 10 years. Guaranteed. So if McCain wants to man up and start speaking the truth, he can. But he won't. He'll demagogue and make the EASY decision, which is to trumpet things his audience wants to hear and is naive enough to accept. The reality is very different however. The market understands the barrel energy companies have put the American people over -- oil and coal prices are at all time highs. And they will continue to rake in obscene profits on their monopoly until viable alternatives are developed.
McCain isn't in favor of drilling in ANWR, nor are the Republicans offering that up as a comprehensive solution to the energy crisis. Alternative energy IS being invested in -- by both the government AND the private sector, where it truly belongs. Do your homework.
the irony! Republicans still think our economy is striving so it’ a waste of your time argue with them.
Captured for comedic value. Talk about irony... The libs are just sad that the economy grew last quarter and now they can't run around and trumpet that we are in a recession. And if that darn unemployment rate weren't so low! Sucks for them...
It must also suck for you, knowing that despite all your best efforts, you will be suffering for at least 4, possibly 8 long years of a Demoncrat in the Whitehouse. So which Demoncrat do you loathe the least? Maybe you can have some consolation in the lesser of two evils winning the election. I feel your pain TJ. Get used to it. Who is the Republican nominee anyway? Seems like we never hear about him. Sort of like the kindly old grandfather that everyone forgets about... Oh, wait...