..."eeek, a ultra liberal lowering himself to name calling, oh the horror"
Posted on 08/05/2008 3:06:29 PM PDT by Red Steel
Barack Obama branded John McCain a stooge of profit-soaked oil giants as the White House rivals duelled on high petrol prices and energy policy exactly three months from US Presidential election day.
Celebrating his 47th birthday, Senator Obama launched a stinging counterattack after the Republican Senator McCain had cast him as a vacuous celebrity unfit to lead at a time of gathering crisis.
Unveiling a new energy plan, Senator Obama promised a 10-year, $US150 billion ($A161.43 billion) drive to cut US ''addiction'' to oil from global hot spots like the Middle East and Venezuela.
''Breaking our oil addiction is one of the greatest challenges our generation will ever face,'' Senator Obama said in Michigan, the general election battleground 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 $A1076 per family rebate to help defray soaring energy costs.
After Senator McCain's media onslaught of last week, Senator 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.
Senator 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 Senator 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 said in Pennsylvania.
Senator McCain's campaign denied the senator had taken ''big oil'' donations, and accused Senator Obama of trawling for contributions himself from oil industry employees.
Senator McCain's spokesman, Tucker Bounds, said, ''Barack Obama's latest negative attack ad shows his celebrity is matched only by his hypocrisy.''
Republicans also pounced on Senator Obama's call yesterday 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.
Senator 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 Senator Obama by delivering tyre gauges to reporters, highlighting the Democrat's comment that drivers could save gas by properly inflating tyres, which Senator McCain claims is proof the Obama energy plan is shallow. The Obama campaign noted, however, that federal energy and auto racing authorities told drivers to keep tyres inflated to improve mileage.
Senator Obama's assault on Senator McCain coincided with a Rasmussen daily tracking poll showing the two rivals locked in a tie at 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, Senator McCain led by 47 to 46 per cent, the first time he had posted an advantage since Senator Obama secured the Democratic nomination in June.
The latest Gallup daily tracking poll on Monday had Senator 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 a little more than a week ago, Senator Obama had led the Gallup poll by nine points.
There was encouraging data for Senator Obama, however, in another survey, which showed him leading Senator McCain by 10 points, 47 per cent to 37, among low-wage white workers. AFP
obama’s the mcgovern candidate.
I also am an Oil Stooge.
..."eeek, a ultra liberal lowering himself to name calling, oh the horror"
Have I mentioned that Obama is a f***ing idiot?
Fair is fair. I call obama a d!psh!t.
Oil Trash and DAMN PROUD OF IT.
The obamanation can suck on his magic tire guage.
Satire?
‘’Breaking our oil addiction is one of the greatest challenges our generation will ever face,)
Our oil addiction?
Our Nation runs, operates and exists on oil.
Does this moron not understand that?
Our society and economy is oil based.
There is NOHING on the horizon that is capable of replacing what oil does and is to America.
Obama is dangerous. He will begin the destruction of our nation from withon while the terrorist continue to try to destroy us from without....
‘’It will take nothing less than a complete transformation of our economy.’’
This alone should scare every American.
Interesting how Hillery! wanted to nationalize our health care, and Obama wants to “transform” our economy. Why?
Into what?
Don’t buy it folks.
I’m glad he is! He and the Rats will sink themselves with the voters on this issue. They are not just on the wrong side, they will go down with the ship on this issue.
Just did a google search. Seems the Auzies are the only ones reporting this. If true this is Obama playing the ad hominem card big time.
Right on!
So does this mean that the Dems will outlaw all of the gas or diesel engines? I know about 500,000 bikers in S.D. that will be very upset to hear that!
Oh my godness, “The One” is acting like a mud throwing politician. All the college kids and Obamanites all were saying he was above acting like a politician. Hope for Change, etc.......
Larry Sinclair calls Obama "Papi"...
I don’t see a direct quote where Obama used the word “stooge”. Very different story if he didn’t.
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