The Good Ol' USA following Transformation by the Messiah.
Posted on 08/04/2008 6:21:22 PM PDT by Coffee200am
Barack Obama has branded John McCain a stooge of profit-soaked US oil giants, as the White House rivals duelled on high gasoline prices and energy policy exactly three months from election day.
Celebrating his 47th birthday, the Democrat launched a stinging counter-attack after the Republican McCain had last week cast him as a vacuous celebrity unfit to lead at a time of gathering crisis.
Unveiling a new energy plan, Obama promised a 10-year, $US150 billion ($A161.43 billion) drive to cut US "addiction" to oil from global hotspots like the Middle East and Venezuela.
"Breaking our oil addiction is one of the greatest challenges our generation will ever face," Obama said in Michigan, the general election battle ground state which is home to the crippled US auto industry.
"It will take nothing less than a complete transformation of our economy."
The Illinois senator proposed a windfall tax on big oil firms to bankroll a $US1,000 ($A1,076) per family rebate to help defray soaring energy costs.
After McCain's media onslaught of last week, Obama also hit back with his own new advertisement claiming the Arizona senator was "in the pocket" of oil firms basking in record profits.
"After one president in the pocket of big oil ... we can't afford another," the ad said, in a reference to President George W Bush, a former oil executive.
Obama's plan calls for an expanded use of "clean coal", solar energy, windpower, the development of new biofuels, cuts in consumption, and the creation of five million new jobs in the "green energy" sector.
But McCain argued the ambitious blueprint would fail without an immediate expansion in offshore oil and gas prospecting, and a new generation of nuclear power plants.
"Anybody who says that we can achieve energy independence without using and increasing these existing energy resources either doesn't have the experience to understand the challenge we face or isn't giving the American people some straight talk," he told reporters in Pennsylvania.
McCain's campaign meanwhile denied the senator had taken "Big Oil" donations, and accused Obama of trawling for contributions himself from oil industry employees.
"Barack Obama's latest negative attack ad shows his celebrity is matched only by his hypocrisy," McCain's spokesman Tucker Bounds said in a statement.
Republicans also pounced on Obama's call on the US government to sell 70 million barrels of oil from the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve in a bid to lower prices, pointing out that he had opposed such a plan a month ago.
Obama's foes also accused him of backtracking for political gain on the question of expanding offshore drilling, which he opposes but now says he would accept if it would ease political deadlock over sweeping energy reforms.
Republicans also mocked Obama by delivering tyre gauges to reporters, highlighting the Democrat's comment that drivers could save gas by properly inflating tyres, which McCain claims is proof the Obama energy plan is shallow.
The Obama campaign noted however that the US Department of Energy and the NASCAR auto racing series tell drivers to keep tyres inflated to improve gas mileage.
Obama's assault on McCain coincided with a new Rasmussen daily tracking poll showing the two rivals locked in a tie -- 44 per cent each, ahead of the general election on November 4.
When undecided voters who were "leaning" to one candidate or the other were included, McCain led by 47 to 46 per cent, the first time he had posted an advantage since Obama secured the Democratic nomination in June.
The latest Gallup daily tracking poll Monday had Obama up by three points, 46 to 43, after his lead dipped to just one point late last week.
After he returned from a triumphant tour of Europe just over a week ago, Obama had led the Gallup poll by nine points.
There was encouraging data for Obama however in another survey, which showed him leading McCain by 10 points, 47 per cent to 37, among low-wage white workers, a constituency he has struggled to attract.
The survey by the Washington Post, the Henry Kaiser Family Foundation and Harvard University also showed him leading McCain by 40 points among another key demographic group, Hispanic voters.
And Obama is just a stooge.
Obama is a stooge for left wing cooks.
Drill here, drill now, pay less!!
Even my lib mother inlaw understands that.
As is Obana isn’t a STOOGE of the far, nut-case, radical left!!
I didn’t think it was possible for a candidate to make an attack ad that exploits his own weakness on an issue while completely bouncing off his opponent it was aimed at.
Obama is a stooge for the enviro-kooks!
You are right Obama is a stooge of the cryptofacist commie pinko environmentalists.
We hear this every four years from the left.
The Good Ol' USA following Transformation by the Messiah.
Obama is dangerous. He is a redistributionist socialist. He will take what you have earned by hard work and give it to those who will not get off their butts. He has no experience. He has hung with dangerous people. He flip flops more than John(I was in Vietnam) Kerry.
He is going to move for reparations regardless of what he is saying now.
He is a punk puke thug from Chicago.
Those women aren’t veiled!
Larry, Curly, and Moebama.
LOL
And Obammy is in the pocket of the Communist party via George Soros! FOR A FACT.
on a playground he'd get his ass kicked for talking trash like that.
Amazing. . .the ‘head-bobbers’ choice declaring McCain is a ‘stooge’. But it is what they do best. Look at ugly in the mirror; and then claim; they just saw ugly; and it was a Republican.
More fatuous, platitudinous drivel from the generously auriculated one.
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Hugo Chavez: “Good job my comrade... good job!”
Hating President Bush and now Senator McCain is a definite liberal characteristic. They hate them so they lose their perspective and assume that others hate them similarly. Not so.
The big problem for Obama and the Democrats is the law of paradoxical intent. When you tell people not to do something they often then do it. This is especially true for children.
In a peculiar way, the Democrat talking points of the economy being recession, the worst economy in 40 years and so forth are having the opposite effect of the what conventional wisdom dictates. That is, the more they frighten the voters, the more the voters seem to choose Senator McCain of Senator Obama. The reason is, I think, that the voters fears include the fear of an unknown—Senator Obama at the center of the economy.
This is not an original description. I note that others have made a similar observation including Dick Morris of Fox News.
If this is a possibility, then it is also possible that hate directed towards President Bush and Senator McCain might have the opposite effect as well—sympathy plus embarassment of seeing fine people besmirched might weaken the moral authority of the Obama campaign more than damaging the McCain campaign.
Oh yea! And NOT drilling our own oil is just how we can do that, huh, Obama?
You are an idiot, as always you racist puke.
After listening to B. Hussein’s rhetoric today, I’m convinced that he is the Mother of all Morons. I thought the “media” said he was “intelligent.” He’s braindead.
i actually know tv-morons that believe this!
Geesh, is that all you got, you little twirp?
He's under the thumb of Sir Toppemhat, I hear!
His tires are too low.
Sounds like little obama is upset
Saw on Fox ticker that McCain was handing out Obama pressure gages to the media
Keep hammering away McCain
And our heros in congress will be there all week
Nazi Pelosi Email AmericanVoices@mail.house.gov
Obama, Pelosi, and Reid, the new stooges.
What you wanna bet all of those terms were vetted w/ focus groups?
I meant his tires are under inflated, unlike his head, which is over inflated.
Here we go...so much for the “strong environmental stand’ of the libs...more lib oldsters are demanding drilling now that it is affecting their heating bills up north!
Oh, but they are "saving the world". Destroying the USA is but a small price to pay.
Digging for diamonds wont lower the price of diamonds so, despite the fact that you have diamonds on your property, you shouldnt dig them out. Instead, when diamonds are at an all time high, buy your diamonds from a
foreign source. Export as much money as humanly possible so foreign entities can buy up US landmarks like the Chrysler Building (and the mortgage on your house by bailing out the banks). While you are busy exporting trillions to buy diamonds, work hard to make diamonds obsolete thru new technology. That way, all the potential
trillions you have in diamonds of your own eventually becomes worthless as you let them rot in the ground.
So, it is ok for Iran to forge ahead for their 'nukes'. . .while we work our way back in time to 'Little House on the Prairie'?
“And what’s wrong with being a stooge?”
Of course they were. They don't fart without a focus group.
Obama is a voice for Cave Dwellers and 16th century economics. Stooge is too good of a description for Obama.
Ths guy is totally nuts and has no undertstanding of how an economy works.
Taking oil company profits will really bring the price of fuel down. Sorry o’man, big oil does have power and influence, you aren’t going to take their 8 to 10 percent profit. This guy is clown.
Sucks to be slipping off that high horse, huh BHO?
(It would be about like him, even if he didn't.)
Hee hee hee. I think so. I took a tire gauge with me to the gas station today and put some air in my tires (75 cents for 3 minutes worth). I still had to pay the same price for gas. His nonsense doesn’t seem to be working out. I hope this tire inflation gig isn’t one of those things that takes 10 years before you start seeing results and saving money.
The oil companies are soaked alright but not by profits, by taxes imposed by an ever greedy government.
Yet the dope did it. I hope the clueless one continues stepping in the piles.
MAYBE OBAMA’S A STOOGE FOR THE AIR COMPRESSOR COMPANIES!
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