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Obama Argued Against Tapping Strategic Reserves Less Than One Month Ago!
Campaign Spot / Barack Obama ^ | 8-4-08 | Jim Geraghty

Posted on 08/04/2008 12:03:51 PM PDT by TitansAFC

Barack Obama on 7/7/08 (much more recent than the 2005 comments):

"I do not believe that we should use the strategic oil reserves at this point. I have said and, in fact, supported a congressional resolution that said that we should suspend putting more oil into the strategic oil reserve, but the strategic oil reserve, I think, has to be reserved for a genuine emergency. You have a situation, let's say, where there was a major oil facility in Saudi Arabia that was destroyed as a consequence of terrorist acts, and you suddenly had huge amounts of oil taken out of the world market, we wouldn't just be seeing $4-a-gallon oil. We could see a situation where entire sectors of the country had no oil to function at all. And that's what the strategic oil reserve has to be for." (Sen. Barack Obama, Remarks At Media Availability, St. Louis, MO, 7/7/08)


TOPICS: Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008; energy; flipflop; flipflops; mccain; nobama08; obama; obamatruthfile; spr; strategicreserve
A far more recent flip-flop than originally portrayed.
1 posted on 08/04/2008 12:03:52 PM PDT by TitansAFC
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To: Norman Bates

Ping!


2 posted on 08/04/2008 12:05:22 PM PDT by TitansAFC (In 2008, please vote GOP and show us that you love your country more than you hate John McCain)
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To: TitansAFC

He was right the first time...leave it alone.


3 posted on 08/04/2008 12:05:51 PM PDT by Slapshot68
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To: TitansAFC

He was against it; before he was for it.


4 posted on 08/04/2008 12:06:38 PM PDT by WayneS (And now I shall return to my hovel and cling to my guns ... until it is time to go to Church)
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To: TitansAFC
It doesn't matter, Obama will save us all.




OBAMA!...OBAMA!...OBAMA!...OBAMA!...OBAMA!

5 posted on 08/04/2008 12:08:04 PM PDT by Jeff Head (Freedom is not free...never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
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To: WayneS

There are a few reasons why to suspect Obama has Attention Deificit, may this be another? The criteria for ADHD symptoms from;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attention-deficit_hyperactivity_disorder

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1. Often forgetful in daily activities.

Example: Obama says he doesn’t pay much attention to McCains campaign adds, yet he knows what isn’t in them,

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2. Often has trouble keeping attention on tasks or play activities.

Example: Joe Bidens observations;

Biden wasn’t always defending Obama...

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/07/17/1204594.aspx

On Aug. 1, 2007, when Obama unveiled his counterterrorism agenda, the Biden camp fired off a snarky email congratulating him for his “Johnny-come-lately position” on Afghanistan, noting that during two Foreign Relations Committee hearings on Afghanistan and other subjects, Obama didn’t ask questions about the Taliban, Al Qaeda, or Afghanistan.

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3. Often forgetful in daily activities.

Example: Obama says “ahhhhh” all the time when he isn’t scripted

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4. Often avoids, dislikes, or doesn’t want to do things that take a lot of mental effort for a long period of time (such as schoolwork or homework).

Example: Obama stayed less than 1 day in Iraq to study what was happening on the ground


6 posted on 08/04/2008 12:11:36 PM PDT by Son House ( [ ]Obama=>LoseBothWars/Raise Taxes [X]McCain=>WinBothWars/CutPorkBarrelSpending)
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To: TitansAFC

Apparently, his political stances are a part of his legendary workouts. I’m younger than Obama and I can barely keep up with him.


7 posted on 08/04/2008 12:12:35 PM PDT by edpc (@#&!*$)
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To: TitansAFC

Funny no press mentions this, but if the Strategic Reserves are released for gasoline, what will be released in the winter when oil prices for home heating fuel are so high?


8 posted on 08/04/2008 12:12:36 PM PDT by theDentist (Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll.)
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To: theDentist

Even funnier that increasing supply by releasing the SPR will reduce prices

but increasing supply through production will not.


9 posted on 08/04/2008 12:14:04 PM PDT by MrB (You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
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To: TitansAFC
YouTube video clip of Obama On Strategic Oil Reserve, July 7, 2008
10 posted on 08/04/2008 12:14:11 PM PDT by Joiseydude
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To: TitansAFC

All McCain has to do is show Ads with Obama against Obama.


11 posted on 08/04/2008 12:29:31 PM PDT by MES401067
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To: TitansAFC

He was against it before he was for it!

Another band-aid, short term fix to a long term problem.


12 posted on 08/04/2008 12:41:31 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (G-d is not a Republican. But Satan is definitely a Democrat.)
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To: TitansAFC

This moron is fun to watch as he self-destructs in slow-motion.


13 posted on 08/04/2008 12:47:27 PM PDT by nesnah (Expression with an attitude - www.polistic.com)
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To: TitansAFC
I quote from Obama's speech today

"I understand the politics. In a country desperate for action, ideas like a gas tax holiday or expanded oil drilling in the waters off our coasts are popular. And I'll say this - if there were real evidence that these steps would actually provide real, immediate relief at the pump and advance the long-term goal of energy independence, of course I'd be for them. But so far there isn't."

Now 3 paragraphs later he says,

"I believe that before we gie the oil companies any more land, it is time we tell them to start drilling on the land they alrready have or turn it over to someone who will, because we need that oil."

Can someone tell me this is a reasonable person to say these 2 diametrically opposing perceptions of reality. He says

Drilling new oil wells will not help.

Then he says, Drill New Oil wells.

Is the media listening to this jerk.

14 posted on 08/04/2008 12:58:05 PM PDT by Texas Songwriter
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To: TitansAFC

So, when oil was above $140 per barrel, he was opposed to releasing oil from the SPR.

But now that oil is below $120 per barrel, he is in favor of releasing oil from the SPR.

Sen Barack Obama - the Forest Gump of economics.


15 posted on 08/04/2008 1:09:45 PM PDT by Erik Latranyi (Too many conservatives urge retreat when the war of politics doesn't go their way.)
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To: TitansAFC

16 posted on 08/04/2008 1:13:20 PM PDT by andy58-in-nh (A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves.)
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To: TitansAFC

Holy x-files, Batman, is Obama channeling Kerry?


17 posted on 08/04/2008 2:25:32 PM PDT by NonValueAdded (College kid: "Do you have a minute for Obama?" NVA: "Not now or ever.")
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To: TitansAFC

I encourage all FRs to buy the book or better yet audio CDs of COrsi’s book on Obama, OBAMANATION.

I don’t think the American Public has a clue about this guy.

I’m in to CD three and I have to stop because it is so offensive.

Let me give you two names.

Saul Alinsky...You can understand everything you need to know about Obama, the Con man, from knowing Alinsky.

Tony Rezko...Italian? NO!!!!!! Syrian!!!!!!!!

The ties of Obama with Arab terroist anti Israel factions is clear cut...

My fellow FRs...We are in a war with this man and the democrats...

Stop wasting time busting McCain. Mac is our best chance this year to win...Sorry, but that’s the truth of the matter..


18 posted on 08/04/2008 5:12:40 PM PDT by nikos1121 (The first black president of the US should be at least a "Jackie Robinson.")
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To: Blood of Tyrants

I have to believe that the more people rush to get their car’s tires pressure correct the more the cost of air will rise. My conclusion is that Barack Obama must have friends in “Big Air”.


19 posted on 08/05/2008 3:46:59 AM PDT by equaviator ("There's a (datum) plane on the horizon coming in...see it?")
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