....before going around blasting McCain. This should be downright embarrassing for Obama. He blasts McCain for supporting Cheney and Bush's "oil bill"....when he (Obama) voted for the bill himself!!!!! Hello???? Anybody home up there???? <G> He gave McCain a huge opening today....as McCain actually VOTED against the bill because he said it contained unnecessary tax breaks for the oil industry! BIG SCREW-UP BY OBAMA AND HIS CAMPAIGN; BIG SCREW-UP!!!

From Obama today:
"President Bush, he had an energy policy. He turned to Dick Cheney and he said, 'Cheney, go take care of this,'" Obama said. "Cheney met with renewable-energy folks once and oil and gas (executives) 40 times. McCain has taken a page out of the Cheney playbook."

In stumping Tuesday in this key battleground state, Obama sought to link the troubled economy with Republican policies and offer his own energy plan in contrast. He has tried to cast McCain as more concerned about oil company profits and drilling than an overall energy strategy.

However, Obama himself voted for a 2005 energy bill backed by Bush that included billions in subsidies for oil and natural gas production, a measure Cheney played a major role in developing. McCain opposed the bill on grounds it included billions in unnecessary tax breaks for the oil industry.

The Obama campaign has said the Illinois senator supported the legislation because it included huge investments in renewable energy.

McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds, said, "Barack Obama is opposed to offshore drilling and is also opposed to admitting that he voted for the same corporate giveaways for Big Oil that he's campaigning against today."

AND then the Obama campaign in continuing stupidity tried to correct things by stating that the reason Obama voted FOR it, was that it contained 'HUGE INVESTMENTS IN RENEWABLE ENERGY." Well----duh, Obama!! That's what the Bush administration told you all along: that THEIR ENERGY policy bill contained BOTH a focus on oil AND a focus on renewables. It's like Obama was working for McCain, Bush, and Cheney today when he put his foot in his mouth on all this. Can he really be this dumb????

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080805/ap_on_el_pr/obama

A very good day for Republicans!!!

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"What exactly is this foreign policy experience?" Obama said mockingly of the New York senator. "Was she negotiating treaties? Was she handling crises? The answer is no."

At least that shouldn't be a problem for McSame. I read he hasn't voted for pretty much all of 08 to have anything to check out.

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"I think the deregulation was probably helpful to the growth of our economy."
-Sen. John McCain 09/22/2008

If the man had any integrity, he wouldn't have to worry about his memory. Even more amazing when you consider the smart-assed way he said it.

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"Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves." ~Ronald Reagan

Vintage JP5 That's why I love this stuff

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"I think the deregulation was probably helpful to the growth of our economy."
-Sen. John McCain 09/22/2008

That sucks.. Still voting for him tho

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Vote Obama/Biden on November 4, 2008.

A good couple of weeks.


Zogby: McCain takes the lead, Obama loses ground in EVERY DEMOGRAPHIC

They're both senators. This is going to happen to both of them. The difference? Obama's record is shorter, so there will be fewer examples.

McCain will lose if it comes down to comparing who has "flip-flopped" more in their Senate record.

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Man up.

But, this is not about a flip-flop. This is about accusing your opponent of something you did and he did not do.

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"Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves." ~Ronald Reagan

I know. All I'm saying is that both of them are going to do stuff like that. Remember McCain saying he voted one way on an issue, when he really voted the opposite? Or slamming Obama for skipping some Afghanistan hearings when McCain skipped *every single one*?

It's an occupational hazard of being a Senator. And the longer your career, the more opportunities there are to misremember, vote opposite ways, etc.

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Man up.

You mean like the GI bill that he voted against because he wanted college to be transferable to the famillies? IOW, he agreed with the Pentagon (and me, btw) that it wasn't good enough.

Isn't Barack chairman of the oversight committee? And isn't Barack taking a position that we should concentrate on Afghanistan? I believe the complaint was that he never held a meeting at all.

So Barack has no excuse.

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"Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves." ~Ronald Reagan