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Obama's Bad Example
IBD ^ | May 19, 2008

Posted on 05/19/2008 7:07:20 PM PDT by Kaslin

Campaign '08: Barack Obama plans to lower our standard of living to fight climate change and make the world love us. The last time you may be able to drive your SUV may be to an Obama rally.


Campaigning in environmentally conscious Oregon over the weekend, Obama lit into Republican John McCain's environmental and energy policies.

"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," Obama said.

Well, increasing domestic drilling and lowering taxes, even temporarily, doesn't sound too bad to us. Obama may prefer having a home where the caribou roam. But McCain's plan is better than being the only industrialized nation putting expensive oil into the ground instead of taking it out while burning food in the form of corn-based ethanol in our gas tanks.

Obama's support of ethanol subsidies, which McCain opposes, and opposition to domestic oil production contribute to the rising price of both food and fuel both here and abroad. But Obama has even bigger ideas, such as repealing the Industrial Revolution.

"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."

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TOPICS: Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008; envirowhackos; greenvote; obama
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1 posted on 05/19/2008 7:07:20 PM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

at the risk of being redundant, “The Audacity of Malaise.”


2 posted on 05/19/2008 7:08:35 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand (The road to hell is paved with euphemisms.)
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To: Kaslin

Yeah, apparantly we gota check with China if we can keep our thermostats at 72 degrees year round......


3 posted on 05/19/2008 7:08:55 PM PDT by yldstrk (My heros have always been cowboys--Reagan and Bush)
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To: Kaslin
"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.'

Spoken like a true dictator.

4 posted on 05/19/2008 7:10:54 PM PDT by library user
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To: the invisib1e hand

The Audacity of all this Audacity


5 posted on 05/19/2008 7:11:37 PM PDT by woofie
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To: Kaslin
 

6 posted on 05/19/2008 7:13:24 PM PDT by Wolverine (A Concerned Citizen)
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To: woofie

Socialists never want this country to excell at anything.Makes their socialist systems in places like Europe look bad.So the plan is to at least drag this country down to that level.


7 posted on 05/19/2008 7:15:47 PM PDT by Farmer Dean (168 grains of instant conflict resolution)
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To: Wolverine

Good grief,what a picture.Makes me want to hold a Cross in front of myself.


8 posted on 05/19/2008 7:17:18 PM PDT by Farmer Dean (168 grains of instant conflict resolution)
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To: Kaslin

Get rid of your 1.6 million dollar home and ride in a tuk tuk and then maybe we’ll talk you arrogant gasbag.


9 posted on 05/19/2008 7:18:56 PM PDT by libs_kma (The land of the free, because of the brave)
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To: Kaslin

If Obama gets in Carter will look like Reagan .....


10 posted on 05/19/2008 7:19:24 PM PDT by SkyDancer ("I Believe In The Law Until It Interferes With Justice")
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To: Wolverine
Obama says; "You better be careful what you say about my wife."
11 posted on 05/19/2008 7:19:30 PM PDT by Spunky (You are free to make choices, but not free from the consequences)
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To: Kaslin
I'm not asking other countries to like us. Respect maybe.
I couldn't care less what anyone thinks about our lifestyle.

Most of the world is free because of us and we have bailed some countries out of trouble time and time again.

America is lavish because she deserves it. We are the shining city on the hill. Americans who fought and died for others, are interred in the soil of many nations.

If we diminish, so does the rest of the world.

12 posted on 05/19/2008 7:23:32 PM PDT by oyez (Justa' another high minded lowlife.)
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To: Wolverine

Both of the Obamas seem so, what is the word...ah! yes, “bitter”.


13 posted on 05/19/2008 7:25:06 PM PDT by absalom01 (The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.)
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To: Kaslin
All I know is I have to get a subscription to IBD.
Maybe I should get Obama a gift subscription as well.
14 posted on 05/19/2008 7:30:29 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Guns don't kill people, gun free zones kill people)
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To: Spunky

WHAT YOU TALKIN ABOUT WILLIS?


15 posted on 05/19/2008 7:31:23 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Guns don't kill people, gun free zones kill people)
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To: Spunky
Obama says; "You better be careful what you say about my wife."

Hey Obama! Your wife is a nasty, ungrateful, angry snot.

And a first class whiner.

16 posted on 05/19/2008 7:35:13 PM PDT by Octar
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To: Kaslin

“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,” Obama said.

This guy is a lot of talk.


17 posted on 05/19/2008 7:41:45 PM PDT by Norman Bates (Freepmail me to be part of the McCain List!)
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To: Wolverine

Barack, I'm gonna kick your ass.

18 posted on 05/19/2008 7:45:26 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand (The road to hell is paved with euphemisms.)
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To: Kaslin
Obama is talking about taking Reagan's shining city on the hill and turning it into a little house on the prairie.

Obama is talking about taking Reagan's shining city on the hill and turning it into a cardboard shack next to a stinking mudhole.

19 posted on 05/19/2008 7:48:39 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: Kaslin

We should follow Brazil’s example and make ethanol from sugarcane, not corn. Sugarcane grows like a weed and by increasing production, “sugarcane farmers” can make money and we can have all the ethanol we need.


20 posted on 05/19/2008 8:11:04 PM PDT by StraightDave (.)
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