Part of the Problem
Obama Campaign Ad
By absentee Posted in 2008 | campaign ads | Obamafiles — Comments (26) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »
We've got to run a different kind of campaign. So we're not going to go around doing negative ads. We're going to keep it positive. We're going to talk about the issues." - Sen. Barack Obama
You know an attack ad when you see it. They have lots of red text and "ominous" stills. They have that voice. You've seen them. The DNC has been running them for months now against John McCain.
Senator Obama, though, is bringing a new kind of politics. Right?
If the New York Times knows it's a negative ad, then it's a negative ad. Negative, as in not "positive." As the McCain campaign said today, "Barack Obama's commitment to a new type of politics is officially over."
Read On ...
"Barack Obama today launched the first attack ad from either campaign in this election, which follows a string of calculating position changes proving that Barack Obama's commitment to a new type of politics is officially over. Even worse, Barack Obama actually voted for the Bush-Cheney energy bill and its big oil tax breaks that he is attacking, so let's end the pretense that Obama is anything other than a typical politician." –Tucker Bounds, spokesman John McCain 2008
Obama's new ad is a negative ad. It has the anatomy down pat. John McCain is "part of the problem." He's been in Washington 26 years (OLD!! INSIDER!!!) John McCain hugged George Bush. (BUSHITLERBURTON!!!!!!HOPECHANGE!!) And of course, as is the habit of Democrats this year, the ad is truth challenged, as Jim Geraghty notes at NRO.
Obama's commitment to not airing negative ads apparently had as much weight as his promise to use public financing. He's the candidate of change, alright. He does it all the time.
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Let's Get McCain to Texas Stadium for his acceptance speech.
Roger Staubach can get him there...
JL Mealer.
Check out McCain's 3R Economic Plan from the private sector:
www.betterconstructed.com/mccain.htm
THIS IS OUR TRUMP CARD!
Do you know how to transport Texas Stadium to Minneapolis? That's kinda where they're having the convention.
And don't say that McCain's 3R plan can do it.
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Oh how we waited for "The Politics of Hiding under the covers and pretending I don't know what is going on"
Keep the course Barry.
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McCain for POTUS so the left can't ruin SCOTUS.
You can't starve the Obamabus, you must feed it.
Another one rides (under) the bus.
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Maybe Obama no longer knows the Obama he thought he knew. Then again, there're just words....
When I see stuff like this from Obama, I'm reminded of Alger Hiss' response to Chambers showing of letters typed on Hiss' typewriter, proving that Hiss was a Communist spy.
Hiss' response was "Until the day I die, I shall wonder how Whittaker Chambers got into my house to use my typewriter"
Some people, specifically some in academia and the Democrat Party, actually believed him.
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1) No new oil for 7 years. What happened to ten years? Did it suddenly get cut down by 3 years because of the whole Alaska-5 years thing? Oh wait, what's this? The source they cite for that attack is from June of Zero-effing-Six! For two years they've known that it would take 7 years, yet they've been claiming "OMG! 10+ YEARS! NO WAI!!!!!11!" And, as stated in the NRO link, Obama wouldn't get us new oil EVER. EVER!!!! That's with all caps! That's longer than it took the Red Sox to win the World Series after the 1919 Christmas Present for NYY!
Anyway...
2) Give tax breaks to big oil. Is this because of McCain lowering the tax on businesses? Or is McCain actually lowering the tax on oil specifically, like Obama voted for? Maybe lowering it on all businesses is bad, but on only oil is good?
3) 95% of the time! Oh no! In 2007! In '05 it was 77% of the time. And Obama was at 49% of the time in '06. Most Ds were around 40% throughout the years. And Obama sided with the Ds 97% of the time in '05 and '07, and 96% in '06. The D Congress has lower approval ratings than Bush. *wink wink*
I posted a comment on the video on YouTube, but it hasn't shown up (and I doubt it will). I'm thinking I may have to make a vlog video to bash on theirs. And of course the Obama fans all come out to comment on the video "OMG! U SO HOTT! ME WANTZ VOTE 4 U!!!!!" They creep me out!
to McCain/RNC's negative ad.
The Fuzzy Puppy of the VRWC. I've been usurped!
I wasn't looking at the ad for any policy information. I'm looking at it from a strategic point. This ad is not about energy policy. This ad is about tying McCain to Bush.
So I get these flashes of grouchiness. My bad.
The Fuzzy Puppy of the VRWC. I've been usurped!
their messiah a "negative ad". The truth is what it is.
Tim Schieferecke
Obama says no new drilling 'cause it will take 7 years -- but new mileage standards will work ...now? New mileage standards could NOT be instituted in less than ...7 years, and THEN it only helps the people who BUY new cars at that time. Is he going to DEMAND that all Americans buy NEW better mileage cars -- or will that become a RIGHT with the government buying the new cars for us?
Higher taxes on the oil companies will bring in new supply HOW?
Alternative energy vehicles will make an impact ....in HOW long? This year> Next? 7? 10? 20?
This guy "sure does have a purdy mouth" but what comes OUT of that mouth is pure bulls***!
Price of oil will still go up. Drilling will not cure our demand for oil. And the supply will be so miniscule as to be laughable. 8 cents a gallon, in 7-10yrs. Do you still want to drill? At least Mileage standards will reduce demand. Even if it takes 7yrs to get the technology, it's something that will be with us forever. I have to say I favor McCain's policy. I only wish he hadn't caved in to the offshore drilling. I hope he doesn't cave in to ANWR. I favor Nuclear energy, mileage standards, alternative fuels,(hydrogen, electrice etc but not biofuels)and efficient public transport systems. The point is to try and reduce the demand.
I use the term mileage standards loosely. I don't advocate govt. intervention. Car manufacturers are doing this on their own because the market demands it. Go to any car dealer and they will tell you no one is buying SUVs or pickup trucks. They will not even accept they as trade-ins. That's the free market at work.
So many of your arguments have no merit, and the statements you made so contradictory, I have suddenly decided it would be too tedious to argue. Let's just recap a few:
- Price of oil will "still go up" BUT the price will be reduced "8 cents a gallon"
- It will take "7-10 years" - no.
- "The point is to try and reduce the demand" BUT "I don't advocate government intervention"
You seem to be earnest, but need to hone your solutions to the situation somewhat.
We've been trying that since the 1970's. We have more than 3 times the oil and gas that Saudi Arabia EVER had. We all know we need to get off of oil. But that's not going to happen for several decades.
A large part of the price of oil is the known fact that the US will not tap into our own fossil fuel reserves. If the president and the idiot congress announced a commitment to maximize our national energy reserves, oil would almost immediately drop back under $100 per barrel and would continue to go down as supplies came on line.
ALL of the major offshore on terra firma drilling companies say that once given the OK, wells could be producing in as little as 1 year and no more than 5 years.
Mileage standards only apply to new vehicles. Not a lot of help there. Plus mileage standards are negatively impacted by the driver. 55 MPH speed limit? We didn't follow it last time, why would this be different.
We need to drill while we work on the alternatives. To say otherwise is moronic.
Those who control energy, control society.
Seriously, this is not new territory. I'm not the expert, but even I've been able to learn from reading the posts here that oil is a global commodity, and that especially with the rise of futures trading, oil prices are very sensitive to marginal supply changes. Your 8-cents figure is terribly outdated.
There are really no reasonable alternatives to increasing oil supply. Nuclear can only replace electricity, and the other alternatives are decades away from a significant impact, even if you can solve the production and distribution bottlenecks. However, I'm all for increasing diversity of energy sources so long as they all compete on a level playing field.
Taxing oil companies and handing out money to consumers and subsidizing alternative fuels is 100% opposite of creating a level playing field, but that is what Obama and the Democrats in Congress are advocating. It's a plan guaranteed to lead incrementally to nationization of the energy industry.
Increasing the amount of a market-based source of oil (i.e. private companies) rather than a cartel or a government-controlled company is going to make for more rational pricing. And that's where ANWR and off-shore oil come in helpful. Especially since Cuba and China are already developing the offshore oil that we're forbidding companies access to.
BTW, the mandating of higher mileage standards has come at the cost of rapidly escalating repair costs, leading to escalating insurance rates - and possibly higher injury-fatalities (though the medical effects are obscured by improvements in other injury-reducing technologies). But I agree that letting the market work this out between manufacturers and purchasers is the way to determine the optimal mix.
you either believe in the free market or you believe in government. I believe in the market. I drove a minivan.. I LOVED my minivan. I exchanged it for a 40 mpg Honda last summer because I made the decision **not the government** that I needed the better mileage. MY decision -- not the government's. BUT, if I decided that I want to drive a HUMMER, that is MY decision to make -- not the government's.
I really don't have the energy tonight to try to beat back the forces of ignorance. Tell ya what pal, go to Energy Independence In Our Lifetime? Hell No! Energy Independence Now! and read the whole thing.
An excerpt:
Because the answer to meeting out ever increasing energy needs cannot be summed up in a 10-second sound bite on the evening news, or distilled into a 30-second campaign spot during American Idol, politicians continue to dodge the hard question of just what must be done to meet our energy future.
That energy future lies not with oil alone, nor with ethanol or with Biofuels. The answer is not solar energy, nor is it wind power. All of those are pieces, some large, and some small of a larger more complicated and comprehensive energy picture. Because it is complicated, our politicians refuse to tackle the problem, chosing instead to offer sound-bite fixes, and campaign ad bandaids.
Obama IS a soundbite. He offers NO plan. New mileage standards take DECADES to have any effect because; 1. it takes years to get them into production (not today) 2. People have to BUY the new cars -- believe it or not there will be a lot of SUVs on the roads for decades to come because all Americans can't afford new cars. 3. Higher mileage means people will drive more -- yes it happened before and it will happen again.
Drilling NOW (or in 7 years with the announcement NOW) will have an IMMEDIATE impact -- future prices are predicated on supply and if the market hears that supply will be going UP the market will react.
AND ...well read the piece. We need to do all those other things at the same time...
if they still make them when I get to 100K....oh yeah!
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Obama has officially left the "Messiah of the Masses" phase of his journey and is now entering his new life as the "Baghwan of Backtracking".