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CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- The McCain campaign is trying to sway coal state voters by selectively quoting from a 10-month-old interview to allege that Obama plans to "bankrupt the coal industry" with his plan to limit greenhouse gas emissions. Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin kicked off the last-minute attack Sunday during an appearance in Marietta, Ohio. At about the same time, clips of select portions of Obama's January comments to the San Francisco Chronicle surfaced on conservative blogs and Web sites. But Obama campaign officials, and Chronicle editors, said the Illinois senator's remarks were taken greatly out of context. And,...

In the closing hours of the 2008 presidential campaign, John McCain attacked rival Barack Obama Monday over comments made in January about the coal industry. “We found out yesterday what Senator Obama really thinks about coal,” McCain said Monday during a campaign stop in Blountville Tennessee, which borders southern Virginia. “In a new video talking about his policies on coal, he told — guess who? — the San Francisco newspaper — and this is what he said, ‘If somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can. It's just that it will bankrupt them.’ Now, how out of touch is...

Sarah Palin kept up her attacks today against Barack Obama’s energy policies in Ohio during her fifth stop in the Buckeye State in two days. Palin again criticized the Illinois senator for comments he made to the San Francisco Chronicle earlier this year when he said that his proposal to cap greenhouse gases would make it much harder to produce coal-fired power plants without more advanced technology. ohio_palin_HV_20081103103107.jpg Sarah Palin speaks during a campaign event in Owensville, Ohio, on Sunday. (AP) “So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can,” Obama said then. “It’s just that it will...

It could have been a classic presidential debate moment, John McCain turning to Barack Obama and saying, "Isn't it true that you want Americans to pay higher energy prices?" Right in the middle of an economic downturn, that's the last thing most of us want to do. But that is exactly what Obama wants us to do. Here is what Obama told Iowa public television last year (courtesy of Little Green Footballs): "I think it is important to send some price signals to change behavior. It's not going to be painless. Power plants are going to have to adjust how...

A comment made by Sen. Barack Obama in January - revealing his true agenda on coal - is just now coming to light. It shows that Obama favors preventing construction of new coal-fired plants by using air pollution rules to make them prohibitively expensive. In January, Obama talked with members of the San Francisco Chronicle's editorial board. He discussed his "cap and trade" air pollution proposals. If implemented, they would have the effect of levying stiff fees against plants emitting "greenhouse gases." Clearly, Obama wants the scale set low on how much greenhouse gas a plant could emit before being...

The "Spin Cycle" stands by a report that was never written and never published. The San Francisco Chronicle is standing by their non-existent newspaper report on Barack Obama's coal-killing comments from an interview back in January. SFGate reported: It's not true. But the Drudge Report, the Republican National Committee and apparently even GOP VP candidate Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin fell for completely fabricated news from a shady website called Newsbusters today suggesting the San Francisco Chronicle has ''hidden'' audio with Sen. Barack Obama regarding his statements on coal. ''Barack Obama explained his plan to the San Francisco Chronicle this year,''...

Yesterday, a ten month old audio clip and video of Sen. Barack Obama in front of an editorial board in San Fransisco made it’s way onto the internet, thanks largely in part to the Illinois senator’s comments about coal. "What I've said is that we would put a cap and trade system in place that is as aggressive, if not more aggressive, than anybody else's out there," Obama said in a Jan. 17 interview with the San Francisco Chronicle. "I was the first to call for a 100 percent auction on the cap and trade system, which means that every...

Ed Driscoll writes: When the MSM moans about the gallons of red ink it's spilled since 2001, it needs to ask itself if it's prepared to actually report the news, in a fashion that interests readers, or if it exists as a non-profit ideological support system. I think the answer to that is pretty obvious, don't you? But, if it isn't, read The San Francisco Chronicle and Carla Marinucci's hilariously indignant objection to the charge that they buried the Obama quote on "bankrupting" the coal industry. Well, it's true that they ran a long, loooooooong front-page report on their interview...

-snip- In fact, the declaration of 1.7 million Utah acres as a national monument, thereby depriving an energy-starved U.S. up to 62 billion tons of environmentally safe low-sulfur coal worth $1.2 trillion and minable with minimal surface impact, was a political payoff to the family of James Riady. He's the son of Lippo Group owner Mochtar Riady. James was found guilty of — and paid a multimillion dollar fine for — funneling more than $1 million in illegal political contributions through Lippo Bank into various American political campaigns, including Bill Clinton's presidential run in 1992. Clinton took off the world...