GOP Tries Taking Air Out of Obama's Message

By: John Bentley
Topics: John McCain

(CBS)

From CBS News' John Bentley:

(PHILADELPHIA) – The humor offensive against Barack Obama continues by John McCain and the Republican Party today.

On the flight from Washington, D.C., to Philadelphia, McCain senior adviser Mark Salter handed out tire gauges to the press emblazoned with "Obama's Energy Plan."

(CBS)

It's a jab McCain has been making over the past few days as a rebuttal to Barack Obama's suggestion at a town hall in Springfield, Missouri, last week.

"There are things that you can do individually though to save energy; making sure your tires are properly inflated, simple thing, but we could save all the oil that they're talking about getting off drilling, if everybody was just inflating their tires and getting regular tune-ups,' Obama said. "You could actually save just as much."

McCain counters that offshore drilling is necessary to counter the effects of rising energy costs. "We need oil drilling and we need it now offshore,' McCain said last Friday. "The only thing I've heard him say is that we should inflate our tires. So he has no plan for addressing the energy challenges that we face."

While Salter passed out the gauges out on the campaign plane, the Republican National Committee will be handing them out at Obama's energy speech this morning in Lansing, Michigan.

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by biwat August 5, 2008 3:56 PM EDT: mattcat25:
"your man LIMBAUGH clearly supports racist and anti-American activity. He is an absolute fraud, drug addict, xenophobe, and doesn''''t get along with woman very well! I''''ve never seen one Republican renounce Hudson Rush Limbaughm mAnn Coulter, Sean Hannity, or Bill O''''reilly...All anti-american hate mongers. "

Even if I took your word for the sake of argument and agreed that both parties have skeletons in the closet, AGAIN - these people are not running for President, your man Obama is, and his past reeks with improper and unpatriotic behavior. He is a fraud.; Reply to this comment


by mattcat25 August 5, 2008 12:19 PM EDT: biwat,your man LIMBAUGH clearly supports racist and anti-American activity. He is an absolute fraud, drug addict, xenophobe, and doesn''t get along with woman very well!

I''ve never seen one Republican renounce Hudson Rush Limbaughm mAnn Coulter, Sean Hannity, or Bill O''reilly...All anti-american hate mongers.; Reply to this comment


by dnsallday August 5, 2008 12:58 AM EDT: Jake Tapper from ABC News Fact Checked inflated tires and determined that this would save 800,000 barrels of oil per day.

800,000 x 365 = 292,000,000 barrels of oil saved per year.

292,000,000 x 7 years = 2,044,000,000 barrels of oil saved before offshore drilling supplies one drop at the pump.

And much better for our planet too.

OBAMA speaks to the American people as though they were responsible, intelligent adults.
Clearly he has seriously misjudged on some of them.; Reply to this comment


by biwat August 4, 2008 8:48 PM EDT: Mattcat25:
"The Reverend Wright (had) a respected community church that Barrack Obama wanted to be a part of. And, the Reverend Wright isn%u2019t running for President either so why keep attempting to bridge his generational produced sermon with the Democratic Presidential Candidate?"

Obama bridged his view with Wright''s view when Wright gave Farrakhan a "Lifetime Achievement Award" and Obama still stayed with the church. He even said later during the campaign "I can no more disown him than I can disown the black community."
Your man Obama clearly supports racist and anti-American activity. He is an absolute fraud.; Reply to this comment


by mattcat25 August 4, 2008 8:09 PM EDT: Rush Limbaugh couldn%u2019t play High school Baseball he was cut off the team, and his father was disappointed in him because he expected little Hudson %u201CRush%u201D Limbaugh to be a professional ball player. Limbaugh was too out of shape to even tryout for the football team, thus he%u2019s spent his entire life over-compensating for his lack of athletic prowess.

Limbaugh, thanks to Republican Corruption Revenues has been reported as shopping the idea to NFL Owners to allow him to make an offer to purchase the St. Louis Rams Franchise. Remember Rush%u2019s racists comments made against Philadelphia Quarterback Donavan McNabb? Limbaugh was completely out of place in an NFL Television Setting and resorted to his same old rhetoric.

If Limbaugh is able to purchase the Rams maybe somehow he%u2019ll find some sort of reconciliation for his past failures. If not, then he can go on his radio show and just blame the Liberals, the Media, and of course the Clintons!; Reply to this comment


by mattcat25 August 4, 2008 8:01 PM EDT: The Reverend Wright (had) a respected community church that Barrack Obama wanted to be a part of. And, the Reverend Wright isn%u2019t running for President either so why keep attempting to bridge his generational produced sermon with the Democratic Presidential Candidate?; Reply to this comment


by biwat August 4, 2008 6:02 PM EDT: I wrote:
Obama attended Wright''s hate-filled church for 20 years. Reverend Wright, Obama''s mentor and "uncle" as he called him, is a staunch supporter of Farrahkan (gave him a lifetime achievement award).
Also...
Obama is a friend of Ayers, the unrepentant terrorist.

So why is Obama running for President?

"Obama addressed the Reverend Wright issue and stated that he didn%u2019t agree with him, and excused Wright%u2019s rant as from a person of a different generation."

Then Obama''s answer makes no sense, otherwise why did he stay at the church for 20 years, with his children even?

"What is Rush Limbaugh%u2019s excuse?"

Hey... Limbaugh ain''t running for President. Try to stay with me here.

"As for why Barack Obama is running for President of the United States the answers are on his web site."

Well... he can say whatever, but his ACTIONS noted above transcend his words.; Reply to this comment


by mattcat25 August 4, 2008 5:38 PM EDT: Obama attended Wright''''s hate-filled church for 20 years. Reverend Wright, Obama''''''''s mentor and "uncle" as he called him, is a staunch supporter of Farrahkan (gave him a lifetime achievement award).
Also...
Obama is a friend of Ayers, the unrepentant terrorist.

So why is Obama running for President?
Posted by biwat

Obama addressed the Reverend Wright issue and stated that he didn%u2019t agree with him, and excused Wright%u2019s rant as from a person of a different generation.

What is Rush Limbaugh%u2019s excuse? Was he consistently thrown into trash cans in high school by gangs of street Liberals???

As for why Barack Obama is running for President of the United States the answers are on his web site.; Reply to this comment


by biwat August 4, 2008 5:17 PM EDT: Mattcat25:
"Speaking of 20 years of spewing hate"

Obama attended Wright''s hate-filled church for 20 years. Reverend Wright, Obama''''s mentor and "uncle" as he called him, is a staunch supporter of Farrahkan (gave him a lifetime achievement award).
Also...
Obama is a friend of Ayers, the unrepentant terrorist.

So why is Obama running for President?; Reply to this comment


by mattcat25 August 4, 2008 5:08 PM EDT: It was not a lie to have our government stimulate alternative energy. Today, in California they produce solar electric cells that are grossly shipped to Germany instead of being used in the US.

Carter only wanted 20 percent of our energy consumption to be assisted by renewable sources by the year 2000. We took the wrong course by changing this program and now have to play catch up, or in the case of further Conservative Oil Policy, never have a viable alternative energy infrastructure.; Reply to this comment