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July 21, 2008 10:55 AM

New McCain Ad Blames Obama For Gas Prices

Posted by Brian Montopoli
John McCain's campaign has released a new television ad, "Pump," that directly blames Barack Obama for rising gas prices.

The campaign says the spot will air on cable and in Colorado, Indiana, Michigan, Missouri, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Ohio, Pennsylvania, (northern) Virginia, and Wisconsin.

"Gas prices - $4, $5, no end in sight, because some in Washington are still saying no to drilling in America," an announcer says as the spot opens on a solitary gas pump.

"No to independence from foreign oil," the announcer continues. "Who can you thank for rising prices at the pump?"

At this point, a photo of Obama appears onscreen, and chants of "Obama, Obama" can be heard in the background.

"One man knows we must now drill more in America and rescue our family budgets," the announcer adds, as video of McCain appears onscreen.

The spot closes with another, more subtle shot at the presumptive Democratic nominee: "Don't hope for more energy, vote for it. McCain."

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by rudy2281 July 22, 2008 2:11 PM EDT
Candidates in a panic run panic ads.
Rush will like it though.
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by alicerea1 July 22, 2008 1:35 PM EDT
What is wrong with the Media? Why can''t they investigate all of Obama''s stories and keep making an issue about them. He''s applying for the most challenging job in the "world".

Thank God McCain has the courage to stand up for Americans with his ads.

Just one of many issues surrounding Obama is enough for me and my community.

Obama has minimal government experience, an anti American Pastor as a mentor, many co workers that are radical leaders, a non practicing Muslim father and an Atheist as a mother. Obama is a fast talker, flip flopper and a racist man running for President: The media and the authorities should be investigating this man.

Just knowing that Louis Farrakhan, anti Semitic, radical, Nation of Islam leader supports Obama should be enough to make our hair stand up on end.
Watch Louis Farrakhan and his followers:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7QUftErt_M

Farrakhan held a rally with 20,000 Islam members in Chicago just a few months ago.

Many questions need answering. Obama''s father was a non practicing Muslim. How do the Muslim nations view Obama? Aren%u2019t we at war?

Why shouldn''t that be a proper question to ask Obama?

Obama is risky and scary. The media should be talking about Obama''s relationships with radical leaders and anti American supporters as much as they should be reporting about a nominee that was being supported by the KKK. What are they afraid of?
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by tawpdawg11 July 22, 2008 1:28 PM EDT
The whole premise is silly. The whole country understands about Bush/Cheney big oil ties. And they are in charge.

Do I need to post a link of them sukkin some Saudi''s winkie?
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by mattcat25 July 22, 2008 1:17 PM EDT
This ad is ridiculous, the right wing always goes back to their same old play book of smearing the oppositions with constructed rhetoric. It doesn%u2019t matter if everyone knows they make things up, the only thing that matters are that they say what their base wants to hear%u2026

Rush Limbaugh spouts the same thing every day, %u201Cit%u2019s the Liberals, the Media, and the Clintons my friendthzzzz%u201D as if someone else has been running the country besides the Republicans.
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by newsjunky5 July 22, 2008 10:41 AM EDT
If we could just get the oil companies'' earnings report supressed - made confidential, then Bush/McCain would have it a lot easier.
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by newsjunky5 July 22, 2008 10:39 AM EDT
The oil companies report record profits, most of that money goes to investors, not tapping even the existing allowed oil fields. Supply is not the problem.
Opening up fields in sensitive areas will lower the oil companies'' overhead, and help profits, not you at the pump.
They are holding you hostage by overcharging. I think the American people know this.
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by July 22, 2008 9:47 AM EDT
Shoulda stuck with Rove - this little piece of fluff is sophomoric
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by atheismwins July 22, 2008 6:56 AM EDT
It is wonderful to see how you feed each other''''s misconceptions!
Posted by endofempire at 01:05 AM : Jul 22, 2008
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How many votes will this cost the Dems? And what will their damage control be?

Their "arguments" are crumbling.

Like Communists, they believe in government control. "Windfall profits tax?"

Communism delivers the control but not the goods. What will fuel our vehicles? And what will be the cost?

Alternative fuels are fine...if they can compete. They cannot.

Dems are making Americans sick. A sick economy. And a sick energy policy.

This is a good, vote-winning ad.
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by endofempire July 22, 2008 4:05 AM EDT
It is wonderful to see how you feed each other''s misconceptions! It is true this is a nation of illiterate clones who lack the basic intuition to make up their own minds about what is happening in your own ecosphere... You need CNN to spell it out for you!

No, friends, America has spoken and we have spoken very clearly. While we do very much love and care for the spotted owl, we care more for those who will wake up tomorrow morning asking for their morning meal... Our kids. Solar is a dream and so is wind. Nuclear is the only self-regenerating form of energy we know of today and France is using it today to supply over 70% of their power needs, but Obama is against it. So what do we have between now and whenever solar and wind catch up? Nothing... So when gas goes up to $20/gallon, my kids will eat whatever we can cultivate in our garden... All this while billions of barrels of oil are being tapped just off the Florida coast by China in Cuban waters... Very wisely done, my fellow Americans!!! On the plus side, we will be much better suited to coexist in the 21st century once we turn into a third world country... Nobody will hate us then!
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by oceanjiber July 22, 2008 12:33 AM EDT
The truth is self-evident, the war in Iraq and world demand caused the increase in fossil fuel prices.

If we want to become just like the dinasaurs, then lets just keep drilling for fossil fuel.
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by nothappyatall July 22, 2008 12:16 AM EDT
Its not UP to Obama or the Govt whether to allow drilling or not, the PEOPLE have repeatedly long term said they do NOT want drilling/refineries or clearcut logging, strip mining etc in ANWAR, Yellowstone, national parks, scenic areas, historic areas, wilflife refuges, national forests etc or in their "backyard"

The envoronmentalists and other groups always file many LAWSUITS to stop such projects onshore or offshore. EVen if the Givt gave a green light to the drilling, it is virtually certain Greenpeace, Earth First! Wildlife Federation and all the rest WILL file lawsuits to stop it- that''s a fact, so either change the laws to forbid such suits or accept the fact that these projects will NOT happen, period end.


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by oceanjiber July 22, 2008 12:15 AM EDT
Drilling for oil is another way a fossil fuel addict will satisfy their opium high, just as stealing it from other countries. So to drill in America is just another form of acting out for oil addicts.. Odd thing is it won''t be that effective, will take many years, and has very little impact, may shave off just a few cents off a gallon.

Other nations are much more fuel efficient than America, all those SUV''s and cheap fuel are really the dino-vehicles of today.

Instead of drilling more unproductive holes in the ground, consider to start riding your bike, and brewing some alcohol in your yard to run your new Model-T, and don''t forget to thank Bush for making Model-T''s and Diesel engines popular again!! Yeah!
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by oceanjiber July 22, 2008 12:10 AM EDT
Yes ofcourse there is vast energy resources on U.S. soverign territory, but is it really smart to continue to depend on something that will not last, like depending on your auxiliary tank without thinking about how to fill it up again?

Oil is called fossil fuel. Why is it called fossil fuel? Becuase it takes a real long time, very long time, to generate, like back when the dinasaurs were walking around. So if you want to continue to depend on dinasaur left-overs then, yes, drilling here is useful, but like all things, they are of limited supply.

Being more efficient at usage of energy and having the ability to identify other sources such as impulses from lightning strikes, hurricane force winds, ocean currents, solar panels on every roof, hydro-electric power, drilling hole into the earth to capture fusion power, these are all much more longer term renewable.
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by atheismwins July 22, 2008 12:07 AM EDT
Explain how democrats are anti-energy? Posted by OceanJiber at 09:00 PM : Jul 21, 2008
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I just did, but it sounds like you didn''t like my answer : )

Carry on. Nice chatting with you : )
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by oceanjiber July 22, 2008 12:00 AM EDT
Explain how democrats are anti-energy? Let''s just ignore the Manhatten Project, and ignore that Jimmy Carter was a nuclear engineer.

Democrats are for energy evolution and invention, not energy stagnation by stay-the-course people, depend on the same old oil (fossil fuels, and invade other countries if you have to get it).

Nuclear energy was not discovered by capitalism, it was discovored by projects like the Manhatten Project. Republican''s have been against such big government projects as a foundation of their own values, small goverment, let capitalism run everything.

Consider looking into a mirror at your own policy of small goverment against Manhatten projects. It seems Republican''s like to announce great projects but never do anything about it like Bush announces a mission to Mars and I haven''t seen anything substantial on it in the last 7 years. Probably because all the money was spent on Iraq fullfilling the American oil addiction, but look, the war hasn''t ended, and we are still just as addicted to oil.

The war in Iraq war was clearly a bad tack in response to 911. This over-extended unnecessary war in Iraq is ultimately the reason why gas prices are where they are now, there is no other substantial reason for it than the war.
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by atheismwins July 21, 2008 11:56 PM EDT
Athiesmwins, I''''m glad to meet an athiest, who appears like a stay the course guy, a bit of a contradiction, will be interesting to learn your logic.
Posted by OceanJiber at 08:41 PM : Jul 21, 2008
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Well, it''s nice to meet you, too!

I''m afraid logic won''t help your cause on this one.

America has vast energy resources. Dems make them illegal. Dems lose votes.

Thanks for chatting :)
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by oceanjiber July 21, 2008 11:51 PM EDT
Athiesmwins, I''m glad to meet an athiest, who appears like a stay the course guy, a bit of a contradiction, will be interesting to learn your logic.

Independent of the date dems voted into congress, Bush has veto power over them, please explain explicitly what policy Bush''s veto overided dems, or which policy Bush did not propose that was not approved by dems? If you can not explain it, I will have difficulty understanding the basis of your argument.

How can one explain that instability in the oil markets is not so directly related to a war in a region where most of the worlds oil is? If you have a playground of kids around a toy (representing oil) with all the kids around it fighting, how do you expect supply and access for the toy not to be effected?

The areas where oil companies can not drill only have psycological impact, using Bush''s own words. If you believe it to effect the markets, then you will also need to explain why Bush says it is pschological. Maybe Bush just wanted to supply it to help support this ad for the stay the course people.
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by atheismwins July 21, 2008 11:48 PM EDT
99% of all species become extint, and the one''''s that stay the course, and don''''t adapt are the ones to become extinct.
Posted by OceanJiber at 08:41 PM : Jul 21, 2008
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Would you be referring to the Democratic party? It is rigidly anti-energy. How many votes do you think this will cost them?
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by oceanjiber July 21, 2008 11:41 PM EDT
Screw the foriegn controlled and dependent oil companies, and Budwieser, everyone needs to brew their own beer and alcohol in their yard and garage, and convert their engines to run on Acohol like the Ford Model-T did, and start brewing the alcohol in their yards see - http://journeytoforever.org/bio-fuel_library/ethanol_drane.html

Thank you Bush for bringing us back to the good old days of the Model-T and Dr. Diesel to run our Diesel''s off of peanut oil. Where are the peanut farmers????

I''m all 4 nuclear power to the max, but just like fossil fuels, nuclear power also has it''s limits, it is dug from the ground just like oil, there is a limited supply. Better to depend on something that re-generates instead of focusing on the petri-dish earth mentality of limited resources whether it be fossil fuel, nuclear or otherwise, it will run out from consumption by billions of humans on earth daily, and we will be suddenly without it like fish being shot in a barrel.

99% of all species become extint, and the one''s that stay the course, and don''t adapt are the ones to become extinct. To depend on fossil fuels and non-renewable sources of energy is a certain path to extinction, or back to cave man days, at the very least.

Evolve now, or die.
With the money we spent in Iraq we could have had a Walmart on Mars now, and turned the moon into a vacation resort, and probably discovered multiple new forms of energy. But we all know the priority was Iraq instead of Bin Laden.
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by atheismwins July 21, 2008 11:30 PM EDT
LOL, this is so far fetched, mine as well blame Jesus for high gas prices! Posted by OceanJiber at 08:23 PM : Jul 21, 2008
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Dems voted in gas around $2.30, oil around $60/barrel.

Removing Dems from office is the ONLY option.



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