“We can’t drive our SUVs ...” / HYPOCRITE
“The American people will reject this false and hurtful charge, because as you plainly see, I am not driving.”
;-)
Posted on 05/18/2008 10:30:13 AM PDT by NativeNewYorker
"We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times ... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK," Obama said.
From this story:
WASHINGTON (AFP) — Barack Obama set his sights on November's general election Saturday as he campaigned in Oregon, where he hopes to declare victory in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination.
Obama has said Tuesday's primaries in Oregon and Kentucky could mark the end of his drawn-out battle with rival Hillary Clinton, and his campaign pressed home that message by announcing a symbolic return to Iowa that day.
Iowa was the scene of the Illinois senator's first victory in the 2008 presidential nominating race, and his campaign noted Saturday it is "a critical general election state that Democrats must win in November."
Polls show Obama leading in Oregon, where 52 delegates are up for grabs, while Clinton is ahead in Kentucky, a state with 51 delegates that has a similar demographic to West Virginia, where she won a thumping victory Tuesday.
His campaign says he needs just 17 more pledged delegates won through state votes to reach a majority of 1,627, not counting the "superdelegates," party officials who can vote either way at August's Democratic national convention.
Using a baseball analogy, Obama said May 8 that if after Tuesday's primaries "we have a majority of pledged delegates, which is possible, then I think we can make a pretty strong claim that we have got the most runs and its the ninth inning and we have won."
The official finishing line is 2,025 delegates, including superdelegates.
During a rally in Roseburg, Oregon, Saturday, Obama presented himself as the front-runner almost without question, attacking presumptive Republican nominee John McCain on foreign policy, the environment and healthcare.
Reviving Friday's furious row sparked by President George W. Bush's suggestion that Democrats wanted to appease terrorists, Obama said that not talking to North Korea and Iran had only made those states stronger.
"I want everybody to be absolutely clear about this because George Bush and McCain have suggested that me being willing to sit down with our adversaries is a sign of weakness and sign of appeasement," he said.
He also attacked McCain's plan for a gas tax holiday to cope with rising pump prices, which Clinton supports, as well as his other environmental plans, saying the Republican had consistently opposed fuel efficiency standards.
"For him to come to Oregon as an environmental president, but his big strategy is to do more drilling and to have a gas tax holiday for three months, that's a phony solution," he said.
Pitching his message to Oregon's environmentally-conscious voters, Obama called on the United States to "lead by example" on global warming, and develop new technologies at home which could be exported to developing countries.
"We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times ... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK," Obama said.
"That's not leadership. That's not going to happen," he added.
The Illinois senator also argued that the differences between his healthcare plan and that of Clinton "pale in comparison to the differences we have with John McCain," whose proposals would only work "if you're healthy and wealthy."
The escalating rhetoric between Obama and McCain has evoked the kind of campaign battles more common in the immediate run-up to an election -- and emphasized further Obama's pole position in the Democratic race.
But Clinton has vowed to keep fighting until the end of the primary season on June 3, and campaigning in Kentucky Saturday, she defended the plan for the gas tax holiday and accused McCain of having no idea how to fund it.
"Senator McCain said let's give everybody a gas tax holiday but doesn't want to pay for it. I think I've got the best plan. Let the oil companies pay it out of their excess profits," she said.
The MSRP is always high
IMHO Bushmaster and Colt are over priced.
See if you can find a High Standard. you can find em for 700 750 800.
It hits what you point at every time and the receiver is stamped “Houston TX”
Well sometimes you just gotta cut the crap
I’ll hold him for you
Hands off my thermostat!
“We can’t drive our SUVs ...” / HYPOCRITE
“The American people will reject this false and hurtful charge, because as you plainly see, I am not driving.”
;-)
Hey BO. Go tell your ex adversary and current endorser - The Silky Pony edwards.
Obama is the new, improved Jimmy Carter! Now available in Halfrican!
Why is it that skinny black women seem more prone to bitchiness than the heavier ones? Come to think of it, even among white women this seems to be the case. Look at Auntie Em versus Almira Gulch.
I remember when Jimmah farter was in Office and my Dad listened to that ahole and turned down the thermostat.
I would get up in the AM and it was like 46 in the house, I could see my breath. Youd go to the dresser wearing the blanket you slept in and put yer clothes on under the blanket trying to keep the chill off.
I aint doing that again.
Reagan ripped out the solar panels and cranked the thermostat on day one, then he called Iran...
I drive my SUV as much as I want, I’m dieting so, no, I can’t eat as much as I want and in the wintertime my thermostat is at 75-76. F**k you, Obama, you Socialist pig. Leave us real Americans alone.
It’s “depleted”, not “depleated.” I notice that sometimes people on FR spell “speech” as “speach” also.
Just cling to your guns my...
And you'll be just fine...LOL
:)
Oh, remember how Carter had a “rebate” sent to poor people to help pay for the high cost of fuel oil for heating, though most of them in the cities lived in rental units and didn’t pay heating costs and their landlords were not able to raise the rent because of rent control?
Oooops, my air conditioner is at 69 degrees. Oh well, TOUGH.
Keep talking Obama, that fool mouth of yours is going to elect John McCain. Americans don’t want to be told what to do. Last time someone tried that it was King George III and that didn’t turn out so well for him.
Oh, I forgot, my Toyota LandCruiser is in the garage and I am eating a big New York Strip for dinner tonight.
What a clueless idiot. I hope he campaigns in Texas in August and we’ll see if the little metrosexual wussy asks to have the AC turned off. As long as I can pay the electric bill I’ll put my AC on whatever I like.
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