This will kill Obama in Southern Ohio. He wasn’t doing very well here in SE Ohio but this and the gun issue will be it, stick a fork in it!
This should be a HUGE news story in my part of the country — rural southwestern Virginia — where coal is king. To beat it all, JOE BIDEN was here on SATURDAY proclaiming to be one of us and a “friend of coal.” What a joke!
From Sunday’s Kingsport Times News (9/20/08):
[Virginia’s Democrat Congressman] “Boucher told the crowd he wanted to set the record straight, describing Obama as a “friend of coal” and a “friend of Southwest Virginia.” Offering proof, Boucher pointed to Obama’s 2005 support of the Energy Policy Act, which is designed to “provide funds necessary for electric utilities to install clean coal technologies” to ensure the longevity of the coal industry. And Boucher pointed out that the first place Obama came after his nomination was to Bristol, Va.
If Virginia votes for Obama, Boucher said, Obama will invest money in coal gasification technology that would enable us to further develop clean coal gasification technologies, create a liquid coal to fuel our vehicles, and thus reduce the nation’s dependence on foreign oil.”
Biden is a doofus.