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Calls slam Obama in coal country (Wake up America or we will all be bankrupt)
washington Times ^ | 11/3/2008 | Christina Bellantoni and Joseph Curl

Posted on 11/03/2008 3:38:09 AM PST by tobyhill

The two presidential candidates stomped into the other party's territory Sunday, with Sen. Barack Obama making a run for "red" Ohio, while Sen. John McCain battled to put "blue" Pennsylvania in his column with the aid of automated calls using Mr. Obama's own words to accuse him of planning to bankrupt the coal industry.

Getty Images 'WE'VE GOT WORK TO DO': Sen. Barack Obama warns a crowd outside the Ohio Statehouse in Columbus not to become complacent in the last few days before Election Day.

The Republican National Committee, meanwhile, targeted voters in Pennsylvania, Ohio and other coal-producing states with "robocalls" saying that "coal jobs, which are so important to our community, are in jeopardy. ... Listen to Barack Obama's plans to bankrupt the coal industry."

The call then plays an excerpt from a January interview that Mr. Obama gave the San Francisco Chronicle in which he defends his proposal for a cap-and-trade system to limit emissions of carbon dioxide by requiring power plants and others to buy the right to emit the harmful gas.

"So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can; it's just that it will bankrupt them because they're going to be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that's being emitted," he said.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: biden; bo; coal; cornsyrup; democrat; democrats; energy; littlejoe; obama
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To: tobyhill

Why didn’t anyone find these remarks sooner? They’re as toxic as Mondale’s remarks about raising taxes.


21 posted on 11/03/2008 5:10:51 AM PST by 668 - Neighbor of the Beast (Whither America? Who is teaching the children?)
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To: 668 - Neighbor of the Beast

The S.F. Chronicle has been sitting on the tape. How it got out now I don’t know. Did any of the Sunday morning news shows touch on this or did they all just wonder if there is any possible way for McCain to win in the face of the tremendous enthusiasm, love, adoration, worship, etc. for the amazingly worderful and transformative candidate Barak nmn Obama?


22 posted on 11/03/2008 5:19:13 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson (Barak Obama: Satan's sock-puppet)
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To: tobyhill

After he does the stealth way to bankrupt coal, which is America’s most bountiful energy resource, he will make us all even more hostage to his buddies in the Middle East.

Watch closely as he then does the stealth manuever and taxes ammunition away as well so you cannot afford to shoot a gun.

Anybody ready to pay $10 tax per shell?


23 posted on 11/03/2008 5:55:06 AM PST by bestintxas (It's great in Texas)
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To: tobyhill
Sarahcuda: You Betcha! Drill baby drill and mine baby mine!

27 states produce coal

Make sure your local talk radio host are well informed on the issue.

24 posted on 11/03/2008 7:16:37 AM PST by GailA ( Valor Quilts for our wounded Troops....I'm a quilt-aholic!!!)
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To: hoosiermama
U tube of biden & corn syrup more dangeros than terrorist
25 posted on 11/03/2008 7:21:59 AM PST by GailA ( Valor Quilts for our wounded Troops....I'm a quilt-aholic!!!)
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To: tobyhill

I'm gonna get me a shotgun and kill all the whiteys I see. If I kill all the whiteys I see, Then whitey won't be bothering meeeeeee I'm gonna get me a shotgun and kill all the whiteys I see.....

26 posted on 11/03/2008 7:23:05 AM PST by isthisnickcool (Sarah Palin - The cure for Electile Dysfunction!)
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