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Sierra Club to Endorse Obama (With gas over $4 a gallon Obama may not want this endorsement)
Washington Post ^
| 6/19/2008
| Juliet Eilperin
Posted on 06/19/2008 7:55:38 PM PDT by tobyhill
The Sierra Club, one of the nation's largest and most politically-active environmental organizations, announced this evening it would endorse Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) for president.
The announcement was not a surprise: the group's executive director, Carl Pope, had hammered the presumptive GOP nominee, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), for months over his missed votes in the Senate and his support for nuclear power subsidies as a way to address global warming. This week Pope criticized McCain for announcing he supports lifting the federal moratorium on offshore oil drilling.
Tomorrow, Pope will speak at an event in Cleveland, Ohio with Leo Gerard, International President of the United Steelworkers, and formally endorse Obama. They will use a giant wind turbine as a backdrop to their announcement, in an effort to underscore the two groups' commitment to renewable energy.
"We believe Senator Obama is the change our nation needs -- he is the leader who will put America on the path to a clean energy economy that creates and keeps millions of jobs, spurs innovation and opportunity, and makes us a more secure nation," Pope said in a statement.
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TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008; 2008endorsements; barackobama; carlpope; democratparty; democrats; drilling; electionpresident; elections; endorsement; energy; environment; environmentalists; envirowackos; envirowhackos; green; greenparty; greens; nobama08; obama; oil; sierraclub
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posted on
06/19/2008 7:55:39 PM PDT
by
tobyhill
To: tobyhill
2
posted on
06/19/2008 7:57:21 PM PDT
by
Jeff Head
(Freedom is not free...never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
To: tobyhill
Has the Communist Party-USA (CP-USA) endorsed Obama yet, or is that already implied?
3
posted on
06/19/2008 7:58:29 PM PDT
by
2ndDivisionVet
(McCain could never convince me to vote for him. Only the Marxist Obama can!)
To: tobyhill
The Obama crowd will slobber over the endorsement.
4
posted on
06/19/2008 7:58:36 PM PDT
by
kempo
(c)
To: tobyhill
Al Gore, the Sierra Club and Muammar Al-Qadhafi:
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/30406_Video-_Worlds_Craziest_Dictator_on_Al_Jazeera
What a rogue's gallery of support!
5
posted on
06/19/2008 8:02:40 PM PDT
by
Brizick
(Repeal the 17th Amendment)
To: tobyhill
"We believe Senator Obama is the change our nation needs -- he is the leader who will put America on the path to a clean energy economy that creates and keeps millions of jobs, spurs innovation and opportunity, and makes us a more secure nation,"
There is no clean energy economy available at the moment. It would be a disaster to attempted it. Perhaps this is what needs to happen, to drive home the point. If so, it will be a very painful attempt. Pray that the electorate chooses wisely.
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posted on
06/19/2008 8:05:35 PM PDT
by
ZX12R
To: tobyhill
“Tomorrow, Pope will speak at an event in Cleveland, Ohio with Leo Gerard, International President of the United Steelworkers, and formally endorse Obama.”
I wonder how the Steelworkers rank-and-file members feel about all of the car and truck plants closing around North America? What will they do when the layoffs hit the steel mills? How will they react to seeing their union president sharing a soapbox with activists that are causing these shutdowns?
To: Jeff Head
Why not have a 2 faced Sierra club endorse Obama, Sierra burns gasoline in record amounts anyhow.
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posted on
06/19/2008 8:07:32 PM PDT
by
Son House
( BMT ==> Babies, Military, Taxes: Just Say No To Democrats!)
To: tobyhill
They will use a giant wind turbine as a backdrop to their announcement, in an effort to underscore the two groups' commitment to renewable energy.
9
posted on
06/19/2008 8:09:02 PM PDT
by
ari-freedom
(McCain must pick a conservative VP if he wants conservative support)
To: tobyhill
The announcement was not a surprise: the group's executive director, Carl Pope, had hammered the presumptive GOP nominee, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) whoever it may be .... There, fixed it
To: Brizick
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posted on
06/19/2008 8:12:54 PM PDT
by
Brad’s Gramma
(Typical Whitey Gramma just like Obamies!)
To: tobyhill
Those fools have been yammering about “alternative energy” for nearly forty years. Where the heck is it? If it’s so wonderful, why isn’t it powering my car right this minute?
12
posted on
06/19/2008 8:12:55 PM PDT
by
hsalaw
To: tobyhill
I want to know how much money Saudi Arabia funnels to the Sierra Club.
13
posted on
06/19/2008 8:17:38 PM PDT
by
Williams
To: tobyhill
Oamas America 2011
To: tobyhill
Sierra Club waffled on supporting zero population growth, but Obamasama provides a way around the politics of that issue ~ he favors scragging babies AFTER they are born.
The ghouls at SC and Obamasama definitely go together.
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posted on
06/19/2008 8:21:57 PM PDT
by
muawiyah
(We need a "Gastank For America" to win back Congress)
To: Coffee200am
Is that branch registered? There is branch control, ya know.
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posted on
06/19/2008 8:22:22 PM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
To: tobyhill
Greens Thwart Gasoline Production
"... The Sierra Club and the Natural Resources Defense Council, or NRDC, successfully pressured the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to block ConocoPhillips expansion of its Roxana, Ill., gasoline refinery, which processes heavy crude oil from Canada, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.
The project would have expanded the volume of Canadian crude processed from 60,000 barrels per day to more than 500,000 barrels a day by 2015. After the Illinois EPA had approved the expansion, the green groups petitioned the federal EPA to block it, alleging ConocoPhillips wasnt using the best available technology for reducing emissions of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides.
Apparently, the plants planned 95 percent reduction in sulfur dioxide emissions and 25 percent reduction in nitrogen oxides wasnt green enough..."
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posted on
06/19/2008 8:22:50 PM PDT
by
EdReform
(The right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed *NRA*JPFO*SAF*GOA*SAS*CCRKBA)
To: tobyhill
All kidding aside, we/I as a right wing conservative/libertarian should be very jealous.
It really would be great to have a candidate who was ideologically pure representing conservatives.
They have their extreme leftist, we have McWannabe.
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posted on
06/19/2008 8:24:37 PM PDT
by
Eric Blair 2084
(Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms shouldn't be a federal agency...it should be a convenience store.)
To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA
Maybe the windmill people can put a mini-windmill in the US autos for power.
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posted on
06/19/2008 8:26:49 PM PDT
by
tobyhill
(The media lies so much the truth is the exception)
To: Eric Blair 2084
We do have ideological representatives, the oil and gas companies who's job it is to drill and refine. Their job is not to invest in alternatives that will decrease their business.
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posted on
06/19/2008 8:32:22 PM PDT
by
tobyhill
(The media lies so much the truth is the exception)
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