Where does McCain get his science advice? I think it must be from watching Al Gore's movie over and over and by watching reruns of Mr. Wizard!
1. Glolbal warming theory is about to be discredited almost completely.
2. The US does not have a clue how much the Potential Reserve of the offshore and AWAR regions are.
3. The Energy Crisis in the US is immediate and severe.
4. The US needs all of the proposed solutions and needs them now: a) increased fuel mileage standards. b) land use policy for wind and solar infrastructure. c) nuclear d) drilling as a reserve delineation strategy for strategic reserve. e) geothermal and legislation to provide it and its infrastructure affordably. f) national infrastructure plan for rail transport and "hub and spoke" transportation systems.

Get real folks, the US is in deep trouble and BOTH McCain and the Dems are re-arranging the deck chairs of the Titanic…over and over! It's been Groundhog Day since the end of the Carter term. The US "cheap energy" strategy has worked well enough till now, but unless the US wants to be at war throughout the world ad nausea, to ensure supply, it's gotta change now! Remember the ad? "pay me now or pay me later", well its "later" and its time to pay!!

Regardless of the ad, they have more in common than sets them apart.

PUMA people just do it and shut up. You are like the lost soul on the bridge faking like he is going to jump when all he wants is attention. So, go ahead and take the leap and vote McSame if it will make you happy. Clinton is still begging each of her 18million folks for $I.00 to get her out of the hole but they won't do it. She lost, so get out of here and go cry to her or help her because you are not doing anyone any good on here.
Obama will win this race without you and it will be better that way so that Hillary won't get the credit for her PUMA people crossing over.
Obama08 with or without YOU.

Vote for the gutsy candidate McCain not the extreme left-wing party clone Obama anointed by the Declining Democrats and the media.

Americans are smarter than you think Obama!

ooops you forgot one.

If you criticize the Republicans for lying on Senator Obama you are UN-AMERICAN.

DEMOCRATS UNITE!!!!

This is as good as November, folks! This man voted 95% of the time with Bush. Check out the facts!

We have the internet now so we can find out the truth .So Mccainstop the BULL!

McCain has no firm tance or view on anything anymore - he has proved he'll say anything to try and hold onto the wacko right wingers — because thats all hes got! BA-HAHAHAHAHA!! Barack Obama '08!!! Woo Hoo!! Goooooo Barack!!

I really can't believe all you knee-jerk, liberal Obama-backers. I guess most of you don't realize that as we sit here and read this blog that China, under the auspices of Cuba is drilling oil not 60 miles of the Florida coast.
It's happening around the Gulf of Mexico and the Carribean, it's just other countries that are making the money. They're drilling the oil and selling it to us. That makes a helluva lot of sense, huh? The oil is still being harvested, and we could probably be more environmentally responsible in the process than most other countries will even try to be.
Obama is nowhere nearly politically astute enough to be the Commander-in-Chief of this great country. And for those idiots out there who continually equate McCain to Bush, inform yourselves, there is no comparison.
If Obama is elected, America will become a second-rate power, with higher taxes and no respect in the rest of the world.

Do you think that the American people will wake up before they elect Obama the Antichrist?

McCain talks about global warming on one hand.
With the other, he is petting the heads of the oil executives!

It's too late for the "I AM DIFFERENT" strategy, McCain. You voted for the BUSH ADMINISTRATIONS policies a little too often to fool me.

DEMOCRATS UNITE!!!!

The only difference between Bush and McCain is their age and that's a negative for McCain. McCain joined himself to Bush's hip and now must live with it. He'll sink in the Bush/McCain quicksand.

Feeding the oil mens pockets again. It wont help any time soon,so who is he kidding. Does he think we are dumb?

Yes, great environmental stance McSame. How about you flip-flop on this issue like you have on every other to pander to your base. Increase unprofitable US drilling? Ruin our own back yard to allow major oil company's to continue our destructive addiction? Real problems call for real solutions.

Obama 08

I am a Democrat that favors offshore drilling. Not enough to support McCain, of course. I just understand that while it makes sense to curtail our consumption, we also need to increase our supply. This will give the best chance to keep prices down long enough for alternative sources to be found.

We've basically consumed millions of years of oil production in 200 years.

I can't do it anymore! I can't keep selling my soul.
I admit it! I have been accepting money from the McCain campaign to repeatedly post derogatory and divisive messages about the Democractic party on this ticker. If you don't believe me, just look at my post history. Do you think anyone has the time to make hundreds of posts day-in, day-out if they weren't getting paid for it?
But I can't do it anymore. I respect my country and myself too much. I hope my fellow democrats will forgive and embrace me.
But beware…I have repented, but the GOP never will. They will continue to pay others to post as Brian Knoxville TN posing as PUMA democrat seperatists, trying their best to divide our party. Such underhanded tactics are all that they know, and they will continue to use them to full effect.
DEMS '08!

SLEAZO HAS ANOTHER PLAN, THAT GUARANTEED,

DIPS INTO OUR POCKETS FOR THE BENEFIT OF

HIS MULTITUDE OF LOBBYISTS. THIS IS THE BUSH

VERSION, LIKE THE BUSH PLAN OF "NO CHILD LEFT

BEHIND", WHEN IN FACT IT'S A MECHANISM TO DENY

SCHOOLS FUNDING. DID YOU FOLKS KNOW?

MCWORTHLES JUST A YEAR AGO SAID THERE WAS

NO SUCH THING AS GLOBAL WARMING.

Mark my words…..
Before the end of the week Obama will give a speech about his energy policy. He will come up with some small complaints about certain aspects of McCain's plan. However, Obama's will mirror the majority of what McCain said. Just watch. Obama is becoming predictable, if you're not blindly following his empty suit.

Shame on you, McCain for biting the hand that fed you millions of dollars in donations a couple of weeks ago. You don't have the guts to stay with the man you voted for 93% of the time. Political expediency will not get you elected. Have some guts , man.

It's interesting to note the 60-30 split in the current CNN poll on McCain's proposal. The higher percentage backs him. The states decide, and if the majority want to deny energy exploration on their coast, they will. I know Alaska's Governor Sarah Palin wants it, and she's a very popular governor there, so the people will likely support it. I'm for it in the right places. Just like wind farms. I'm for them in the right places. As for SUV, motor home and monster pickup drivers, if any of those people are against this proposal, they need to ask themselves why they need to take their guzzlers to suck up the gas at foreign owned watering holes. We need to provide for our own and we need to give up the Suburbans, Hummers, and Dodge Ram pickups.

"The 30-second spot also says that McCain’s plan “will help grow our economy and protect our environment.”

Translation: big oil companies are let off leash because McCain thinks they can be trusted to not harm the environment.

Wishful thinking does not make for good policy.

I'd like to know why they are called "Conservatives"? They don't like to conserve: the environment, peace, the national budget etc. etc.

And I'd like to beg Chuck to not throw another vote away on Nader or Gonzalez (who the heck is he?)

Old goat McCain is so afraid of Gore's endorsement of Obama that he has to get some media coverage of how he is also intersted in Global warming.

Isn't this the same guy who is fighting to lift the ban on offshore drilling within the US?

HYPOCRITE!!!!

Jan:

Have you seen the ads that say we have enough oil in this country to run our homes for another 60 years. That sounds great, but what then? We have known for years that the oil was running out. Why have we not done anything about it? One reason that the cost of gas has gone up is the demand for oil in places like China have dramaticly increased. The global demand has increased dramaticly. I do not want to ruin my inviroment any more than it is all ready ruined. We are not thought of very highly by other countries. why do you think that is. And, almost any other country you go to has higher taxes than us already. We really need to start being the inovators.

We have the technology to change the climate for the better. Why are we not using it? All this talk about how we cannot change the climate dynamic because then our marketplace will crash is retarded. Our economy is dying already, our nation is nearly 10 trillion dollars in debt, no nation that can afford them wants to buy our products, we are hated by every regime on the surface of the planet, countries are only our friends if they NEED us, not because they like us. Switching to near 100% alternative energy is completely obtainable, the only real reason we have not done it is because alternative energy is a decentralized solution, meaning that if R&D were committed and more solar panels were being produced, the price for a domestic household to supply all the electricity from solar and wind would less than the sum of your current annual electricity bill.

Chuck June 17th, 2008 11:45 am ET

the fact that he is holding his energy policy meeting in Houston should tell you everything you need to know about his real feelings. It's only home to every major oil company in America.

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Actually, ExxonMobil is headquarted up my way in Irving, TX. 4 hours from Houston.

** Nader/Gonzalez 2008 **

Have you heard that electing Sen. Obama means a third Bush term?
Hey, it makes about as much sense as when it is pinned on Sen. McCain. Oh yeah, and Obama is also a warmonger. And senile. Allegedly.

So he wants to fight global warming be drilling off-shore and polute the oceans now. What's the matter does Halliburton need another sweetheart contract? He sounded the alarm 5 years ago yet has done nothing about it from the Senate. Where is any legislation he may have sponsered ago to curb green house gases. I guess he forgot to do it. McCain here is a way to start lowering gases,
SHUT THAT HOLE BETWEEN YOUR NOSE AND CHIN.

Sister Girl: Did Barack say anything that was not true? Bill Cosby has been saying this to the black community for years. Do you think if Barack doesn't say it others (white people) don't think it. You think they believe we are all the Huxtables? Get over it. As a community we need to take responsibility for our actions. Don't shoot the messenger if you don't like the message.

Arkay, MI June 17th, 2008 11:19 am ET

To BILL who is harping on Obama's being the 2nd Carter term.

Carter negotiated the release of Iranian Hostages and brought them home unharmed unlike Bush who was responsible for thousands of American deaths with his illegal Iraq war. Reagan was undeservedly credited for the hostage release because they returned on the day of his inagural.

Carter also negotiated peace between Israel and Egypt again no bloodshed.

As someone else remarked in this forum, I would take Carter's 2nd term to Bush's 3rd term any day.

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Carter was trying for how long to get the hostages released and it did not happen until after the election and Reagan won. Carter did send troop in to get the hostages and it failed. The was bloodshed. In fact there were a few troop left behind while Carter was in office. Do you remember that.

There was no blood spilled b/t Israel and Egypt? What timeframe are you using to say this b/c there was. I could then say the same that Reagan ended the cold war without any blood shed.

I started pointing to the 2nd Carter term when I saw the 3rd Bush term. Are they wrong or is it just when people have a different view that it is.

What about Obama meeting with enemies directly and "without precondition?"

If Americans want real change then a departure with minds of the past is a must. As a foreigner I say that America needs change in its outdated foreign affairs and seemingly at home. I grew up respecting and admiring America and today I see a weak America with problems in every front.

McCain is only doing what Republicans do best, MISLEAD. This strategy works well on the weak-minded, those who incapable of independant thought. .

DEMOCRATS UNITE!!!

I'd like to see McCain use these ads in the South and Mid-Western States and see the reaction of people there.

The real problem with McCain is that he is a chameleon, and the national corporate media lets him get away with twisting his message to suit the crowd.

JOHN McCAIN is NOT A LEADER.

He IS a SERIAL PANDERER.

Anyone who looks at McCain and his positions knows that he has no core values, that he twists his message to fit whatever group he calls "my friends".

He's _WORSE_ than George W Bush; at least Bush doesn't _PANDER_.

McCain is a fake conservative, and a fake moderate, too.

Just watching recent news reports and statements made show that McCain is ignorant of what needs to be done to restore fiscal responsibility and rule of law. This supposed bulwark of national defense credentials cannot even tell Sunni from Shia without help.

At least in those ways, he's just like George W Bush.

Voting for Bob Barr, writing in Ron Paul or even voting for Barack Obama seem like real honest choices, compared to the weak leadership McCain offers for real conservatives.

The polls reflect that most people in this country see an empty suit when they look at John McCain.

It's no wonder the Republicans are in panic mode.

McBush is trying to distance himself from the repubs just like Gore tried to distance himself from Bill Clinton.

It did not work for Gore, it won't work for McSame.

Jan:

Actually there was damage to the oil rigges off the cost of Louisiana. That is why there was an oil shortage after wards. The Drilling was damaged and the refinery plants were also damaged. Gas prices went up after katrina.

I think McCain is making a huge mistake on this global warming crap. It makes him look about as stupid as "FAT AL GORE' and soime of the other save the world liberals . Mother nature is always making adjustments and always will. I do believe in keeping the water and the air clean but I don't mean that stupid greenhouse effects.

Nicole in NE June 17th, 2008 10:40 am ET

I like Barack Obama's plan to create Green collar jobs that cannot be outsourced, who would've thought?

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Don't wish for government to control the movement towards "green". They've already screwed up with ethanol subsidies causing grain prices to soar. Not to mention it uses almost as much energy to make ethanol from corn as it ends up producing.

How will Sen. Obama create jobs? If he encourages business to create alternative (and hopefully renewable) energy sources, great! But if he plans on operating the new industry, no thanks.

And why are these jobs not outsourcable, because he said so? That's the dangerous thinking his supporters always fall into. Our workforce isn't educated enough to keep current jobs here. What makes a new industry any different?

Solar power is the answer. The technology is already here, it's renewable. We just need to encourage business to make it practical.

** Nader/Gonzalez 2008 **

WAH, WAH, WAH

I'm sorry but does this make anybody think about Charlie Brown???

OBAMA '08!!!

If he is really going to tout his "greenness," then he wouldn't be making this proposal that we open up some locations for drilling for oil. There would be proposal that we all put solar panels on our houses as well as several billion dollars each into different cellosic ethanol, increaces in fuel efficiency standards for all vehicles, fusion power, better use and refinement of spent nuclear fuel into usable fuel among other things. To say that he is the "greener" candidate is suspect from the get go.

Obama/Sinclair '08

More drilling. More Oil companies windfall profits. More tax breaks to oil companies.

McCain = 4 MORE YEARS OF McBush!!!

Will in Richmond, VA June 17th, 2008 10:38 am ET

Centrist, Conservative, Centrist….

This guy doesn't know what he is. He's talking out of both sides of his mouth.

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Why do you think people have to be limited to liberal / moderate / conservative molds? Do you have any idea how dangerous it is to want a President who's policies are strictly defined by either the left, middle or right? You should, we've had one for 2 terms. It's good to have views all over the place. It shows you educate yourself and are willing to work with others. Liberal views aren't always right and conservative views aren't always right.

My guess is you don't understand this since you are most likely an ultra-liberal, young, new to politics and/or charmed by liberal messiah.

** Nader/Gonzalez 2008 **

What's the point of arguing about this if you are all essentially on the same side? Either way you're voting for one of them to run your life for you.

How can you in one ad say you support stopping global warming THEN advocate offshore drilling in the US.

5 years ago?

McCain disagreed also on taxes, religious endorsements, ……BUT now McCain agrees with Bush on these things. Plus he continues to agree on all the other important policies that concerns America. Namely, on the Iraq war and the economy.

What do you have to say about all that McCain? Let’s continue this for another 100 years?

NO WAY!!!

McCain is letting Sean Hannity and Rush Limbauch shape his talking points …HOW SAD. So lets see how Sean and Rush will harp on this over the next 2 weeks to gain traction with their audiences and try to vault McCain into a "Flip Flop Talking Point". I cannot be the only one who sees this and CNN PRODUCERS Need to play talk radio's satnce on this, literlly calling for it last week and now McCain Adopting it and giving a major speech about. He's counterfeit and CAMPBELL BROWN needs to call him OUT for his MAjor Flip Flop, if she does not then she is laying down on the job again

I don't mean to sound discriminative against McCain age, but we just don't want our president napping every couple hours.
his buddies might start offshore drilling while he naps!

Yeah, right! NEXT!

How do jhon Mc makes the difference between supporting the war and the oil compagnies which actually produce emission of gaz which distroy our planete and the global warming? war is again global warming if MC is real and objectif he have to fight the climat change by taking strong path to the opposition of the war, bring back the troup home.

CNN removes all blogs that prove increased oil drilling off shore is just a ruse and will not reduce gas prices. Let the people know the truth.

Let me get this straight - we'll tackle global warming by resuming unlimited offshore oil drilling (yesterday's absurdity du jour) and keep belching the exhaust of millions of low-milage SUV's into the atmosphere? (Remember, he voted against mandated mpg increases.)

It's to laugh. Anybody who takes a word this clown says seriously is a fool - and that means especially you, you PUMA PAC babies.

It's time to push back…

The sure fire thing that will reduce our dependence on foreign oil is alternatives to oil. There sure is an unlimited supply of wind and sun for our use. People are stuck in a paragidm - those that think we will need oil forever are the same type of people who once thought the earth was flat and that TV wouldn't catch on, the roman empire would last forever, that allowing women to vote and allowing blacks to go to our school would end our great country. Wake up and think out side the "oil" box, think of our children's future.

McBush can run but he cannot hide from his Bush predecessors and his close links to them….

Charlotte, once again you put your foot in your mouth and out comes rediculous. Hillary will not win with a write in campaign.

This article is one of the reasons I have switched parties. The outright lies, twisted facts and innuendo about John McCain is worthy of the old school GOP tactics. The democrats have picked up a whole bunch of bad habits from the old school Republicans, such as, not counting votes that people have cast (shades of 2000), throwing their own people under the bus and then praising them after they get their way. Here's a few more reasons why I'm a Democrats of the Old School who's leaving the party:

The logic goes something like this. I'm a democrat from the old school and proud of it. The old school means that we stood for morality, workers rights, family values, equality for all, labor unions rights, fair trade, and a host of other valuable ideology. I have been struggling for years on issues of abortion (choice vs. fetus rights), gay marriage (I don't agree with), and other liberal issues. Up to this year's election, I was ready to continue to agree to disagree on some of these issues but no more!

Let it be completely understood that I, for one, and with many other voices are not leaving the Democratic Party because of some misplaced loyalty to any one candidate, (Hillary Clinton) but because they have been responsible for flushing American values down the toilet in the last 30 years. I can no longer stomach the liberal traitors who have hijacked the Democratic Party.

The liberal Democrats have been responsible for the elimination of several generations of unborn children (genocide), the breakdown of morality in our society by promoting homosexual values and of course the ruin of our children's rights to have a school atmosphere that is fair, functional and non-violent.

You have heard me. Democrat of 30 + years has left the party. I no longer hear you.

The senator from Illinois had a lot of nerve putting the African American community on blast this past Father’s Day. When Obama met with the Jewish Community that did not support him in the primary election, did he criticize them?. When Obama met with the Latino Community when they did not support him in the primary election, did he criticize them?. And when Obama met with the Evangelical Community when they too did not support him in the primary election, did he criticize them as a group?. Obama saved his criticism for the group that supported him by over 92% even though he was not the most qualified candidate. Thanks Barack Obama, whom will you sell out next?

No matter what eople Party people stay with Party people thats the only reason Gore spoke for OB yesterday. they can still have diffrences. BUSHS ans McCaines veiws whre extremely diffrent during there primary battle. OBS and Clintons where not so much but the kiddies hated her and will get what they diserve in nOV.

"I want to be like Dem"

Senator McCain: I cared about Global Warming since the beginning!

Senator McCain: My record speaks for itself!

Senator McCain: The President and I share very distinct differences!

Senator McCain: This is for our future!

Senator McCain: I will not sit here and play dumb!

mcshame just give it up,you think you really going to win this election?

"So far, polls show 29%of Americans favor Nationalization of the Big Oil boys"

That about right, 29% of this country are made up of tree hunging liberals and college educated sheep. The sierra club (and others) have brought down the economy more than you can image. It started as a small entity with good intentions. Now, it's just a bloated giant, exclusively pushing liberal agendas.

Do you honestly think that the governement can produce oil cheaper than exxon? Answer: Exxon could triple it's profits and still produce a cheaper product than our government. The same rule will apply with healthcare. National govt sponsored programs are bad for the economy. US govt is one of the few entities guaranteed to run at a loss. The sheep keep handing them business.

john mcwar is a republican. Enough said!

McSame as Bush is the same as Bush. One is just OLD.

BUSH = MCCAIN; MCCAIN = BUSH

this guy is funny when he comes to money donations, he ask bush for help and then when it comes to campaign he throw him under the bus. i am not a republican and will never be. but if i where repubs the should take not of this and do something about it come november.

obama 08!

We can all see how long that difference lasted. As soon as he needed money from Big Oil he changed his tune on environmental issues and now wants to do more offshore drilling. The man is a cynical, manipulative lier.

Doesn't McCain know that even if we taped that oil offshore, it's 5 miles down, deeper than we've ever gone before and it may yield a million barrels. That amount of oil is not going to help us at all, like a drop of water in an olympic sized pool. The cost to get it outweighs the necessity. Change the fuel effiency to 60 miles per gallon. We need to be broke of our oil habit totally. Invest in that.

Wow a candidate with an idea!!!! no wonder all the obamabots are confused!

WHO is bomb bomb McSame kidding not kidding anyone
this is the same idiot that said the solution to the housing crisis is for people facing foreclosure is to skip their vacation and get a second job and now he is trying to say he is different from bush

what a loser

Wow…the misinformation on this page is amazing?

Oil drilling adds to global warming? I guess that's a fact, right? You global warming alarmist are living on junk science. In 15 years, they'll be back to crying about the incoming ice age while Al Gore and a few select 'carbon companies' give big oil a run for most amazing profits.

Cap and trade is nothing but a veiled tax increase. As usual, the consumer (rich and poor) will ultimately bear the cost.

Jacob Mammen …………..Please put a nice picture of Mccain. The least you can do………………. WE CHECKED ARCHIVE ,sorry THAT"S IT !!!!!!!

Concerned INDEPENDENT CT voter June 17th, 2008 10:44 am ET
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People: please give me some REAL hypotheticals to what bad may happen to you and or this country if OBAMA is elected….

what FEARS do you have?

Which one of the people running for this job have run a Country before?

And John will help reduce global warming by calling for an end to bans on off - shore drilling to continue supporting the oil companies in the coming decades…

Sure, right. Good luck with that! McSame/McBush IS the same person, just older! NOT ANY WISER.

John says:
Lets drill off shore in a Hurricane prone area, NOT!!!!! I cannot see Floridians putting up with that. Hurricanes do enough damage already without the addition of crude oil spills floating onto the beaches of the sunshine state.

No one seems to care that we already drill offshore in Louisiana and in Texas. I don't recall Hurricane damages to those offshore rigs from Katrina or Rita…do you?

If you don't want to use the natural resources that we have in our country and pay less for them…then don't complain when you have to pay $5.00 and up for gas/oil. Keep buying it from the middle east and keep watching the prices go up. Its your choice!!!!

Mike, Syracuse………………..I haven't heard anything about Obama speaking out 5 years ago. Oh, that's right, he was too busy voting 'present' in the IL………… Senate MCSAME FLIP FLOP so much it is hard to tell exactly what he stands for (BUSHED)

The Bush Twins : George and John June 17th, 2008 10:29 am ET

He "sounded alarm on global warming five years ago". Well, what EXACTLY did he do ?. What has he done concerning global warming since then ?, or is this one of those election things ?. His ad says McCains plan "will help grow our economy and protect our enviorment"
well, if he has such a great plan what is he waiting for ?. We needed to get something done about the economy and enviorment along time ago. What has he been doing all this time in the senate ?
Exactly, empty promises.

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What's Obama done during that time? Don't be blinded by partisan politics. Ask questions of all candidates. You'll find one who has a long history of helping the environment - getting key legislature into Congress like the Safe Water Drinking Act, Clean Air Act and helping with the creation of the EPA. His name is Ralph Nader.

** Nader/Gonzalez 2008 **

yardstylze June 17th, 2008 10:33 am ET

McCain the Flip Flopper back at it again.

"At a fundraising event in Dallas, McCain told a questioner in his audience that he remains opposed to drilling in the wildlife refuge, a pristine wilderness area that has been the subject of pitched battles in Congress in recent years."

Nice spin! Did that ad say offshore drilling or drilling in the wildlife refuge? Did he say individual states can decide whether to allow drilling off their coasts?

You are getting desperate now.

Btw offshore oil rigs are a help to the marine environment . Go to the gulf of Mexico and go fishing and you will know that what i say is true.

LOL!!!! This guy must think we're as senile as he is if he thinks we don't remember how the repugs have lied to us time and time again.

These gas corporations have raped us and cry foul whenever talk about taxing their enormous profits comes up. Yet at the same time, they've been buying back their own stock at a record pace. And this old man still thinks the poor babies aren't being given a fair chance? Dementia is a sad disease!

Yea, just go drill off of some cost and find more oil? That's the change we realllllllllllllly need…

Oh boy is it election time yet?

Does this "realistic plan" include offshore drilling to increase the profits of the oil companies and keep our country dependent on oil? There are cheaper and more efficient alternatives out there, but they won't be taken seriously while a defender of oil companies is in office. Instead, we need someone who will turn a deaf ear to oil lobbyists and pave the way for new ideas.

Whatever happened to the Maverick? John McCain continues to reveal himself as a fraud with every proposal he rolls out and every dollar he accepts from people who believe rape should be enjoyed. Is old age finally catching up with him?

the fact that he is holding his energy policy meeting in Houston should tell you everything you need to know about his real feelings. It's only home to every major oil company in America.

Interesting…John McCain is concerned about the environment but supports off-shore drilling along our Pacific coast line. Isn't that a conflict of statements to say your the tour de force behind our global warming problems but supporting one of the biggest causes of global warming.

Instead of supporting the continued drilling for more oil, wouldn't it be a much safer approach for our future to create incentives for research companies to find alternatives to fossil fuels?

mcbush does not want a windfall profit tax on oil companies, boy what a shock–try to talk about the environment, that should do it. and our economy is in such good shape, and an illegal war that you want to last for 100 years, and well CAN YOU FIND ONE GOOD THING ON MCBUSH THESE LAST 8 YEARS—ONE.

TO Matt: you are idiotic. unless you make more that $250,000, then you don't have to worry about Sen Obama taxing you. if you do make that much, you should be able to afford it. Try reading, it helps you to form intelligent thoughts…

Why does Cindy Mccain keep stealing recipes? she stole drugs now it's recipes. she stole mcbush from his first wife, too….what kind of person is she?

Highlighting his differences from Bush must have taken all of 5 seconds? As in name and age. Can't wait for November.

@ Ryan who posted at 10:49

Ignorance is bliss? Really?

So putting more oil into the market won't help bring down prices? Hmmm… i think you might want to sit in on economics 101, bud.

And you would rather be at the mercy of dictators to supply us with oil- which, by the way, is a huge part of our economy. you act as if we have a choice to not use oil. You are a fool. We need to drill here, and drill now. We need to develop nuclear, wind, solar, and open up our oil reserves in America.

Take your Bolshevism to the curb, pal.

The more John McSame tries to differentiate himself from the Bush legacy the more he sounds the same. The tactic is to say what you think will get you elected and then do what you want if you get into office.

Bush learned that lesson and it served him well. Will McSame be able to grasp the subtleties of GOP politics? I hope we don't get the chance to find out.

Bush/Mccain '08!

If you are going to argue that off-shore drilling is going to help the environment, common sense has truly left this planet. It is NOT a quick fix. I hate to inform people, there is NO quick fix. Our dependence on oil has created this mess. McCain does not have any solutions on how to improve the environment or our economy. NONE. The only thing I have seen out of McCain is his ability to flip flop on issues. He dislikes the tax cuts, he likes them. He dislikes off-shore drilling, he liles them. Which is it?

> I haven't heard anything about Obama speaking out 5 years ago.

Maybe if you didn't have your head so far up your you know what, you would've heard the speeches he'd made opposing the Iraq invasion. Oh yeah, I forgot, you really don't care about facts do you?

Drilling off Alaska and allowing any state to drill offshore…you are a great ecologist, John!

Alternative clean energy, not more drilling, old man.

McWar

Wants to solve global warming by drilling for oil that leads to more gas use, more global warming gas, oh how does this help???

Did McWar use the 300,000 the Pro-Rap cowboy helped him get to pay for the add?

McSame is Bush's Older Brother no matter how much he tries to distance himself from him. The are both warmongers and the American people don't want this Republican warmonger in office

Cost of war in Iraq…trillion dollars…

Cost to economy and american people…untold destruction and unknown billions of dollars…

No republican in the White House in Jan. 2009…PRICELESS!

He's against Global warming except when he isn't. To quote an article by Joseph Romm "A McCain-stacked court led by Chief Justice Roberts will rule *against* any ambiguous or incomplete laws regulating GHG emissions in the commercial, industrial, utility, residential, transportation or agricultural sectors" (emphasis mine).

PUMA = Operation Chaos

They are nothing but desperate republicans pretending to be Hillary supporters. It is a feeble attempt to divide the Democratic party. Do not fall for it. We must take back OUR country.

When asked recently what difference the Koyoto protocal would make if all nations had agreed at the time, and actually held to their committment unlike 13 of the 15 current signers, the UN's top global scientist answered .07 degrees by 2050.

i. e…, an un-noticeable difference..

Bill,

I am sorry for you but happy for America because Barack Hussein
Obama will be the nex president and he will be a great one!

The difference between Bush and McCain on Global Warming:

McCain can pronounce "Global".
Other than that, it's pretty much the McSame folks.

I HATE TO POINT OUT THE OBVIOUS BUT YOU CLINTON SUPPORTERS NEED US IF YOU WANT YOUR CANDIDATE ON THE BALLET SO I SUGGEST THAT YOU START BEING A LITTLE NICE TO US.

Wow, McCain has a big mouth.

Obama '08!

….then why did McCain miss the critical Senate vote on renewable energy?

"McCain will propose lifting the federal moratorium on offshore drilling for oil. McCain’s proposal would then allow individual states to decide whether to allow drilling off their coasts." ….very environmentally friendly indeed….

Same on the economy, same on the war, same on at least another 6 or 8 high profile issues. But because he's different on global warming, we're supposed to go vote for him? I don't think so.

If you vote for McCain, YOU'RE NOT A DEMOCRAT!

Positions like this are why conservatives opposed McCain in the primaries. An impressionable Al Gore may have fallen for a load of nonsense about CO2 induced global warming from a third-rate professor in school, but that's no reason for McCain to fall lock-step into that march to world collectivism. Rising CO2 levels FOLLOW global warming; they do NOT cause it. Solar activity causes global warming through the influence of cosmic rays on cloud formation - or so say 31,000 scientists (not movie stars or politicians) who recently signed a document warning against radical actions in response to the unsound theories of Gore and his "global-socialism-through-environmental-fraud" friends.

Before we destroy the economy spending trillions of taxpayers dollars reducing CO2 emissions with absolutely no evidence it will do anything significant (except make us all poorer), we should review the earth's history of almost cyclical periods of routine warming. I'm relatively sure we didn't have automobiles or factory smokestacks during the most recent warming periods (200 BC - 600AD, and 950-1300 AD), and mankind survived those times. (In fact, as a result of that warming, crop production was higher and spread further north. Even England had vinyards.)

McCain is a fool for believing the global warming hype. Obama is even more of a fool, but I'd almost rather see him in office - at least Republicans will fight Obama's more ludicrous proposals, while they may go along with McCain's just because he's in their party.

I would rather have our oil companies drilling halfway between Key West and Havana than the Chinese. They don't even protect their school children with quality buildings.

Conservatives blame Dems for not drilling off Florida, but no Florida politician would support it. They'd rather get their fuel from Alaska or some terrorist supporters.

Save Alaska's oil as a long-term reserve.

The more things change, the more they stay McSame…….

Another example of McCain's wacky, far left belief system. Of course we have global warming and of course the government can fix it.. with taxes and laws and other meddling. Who are we to think that our voices should matter to the companies that produce cars and sell us our energy supplies? We can just sit back and count on the federal government to solve all the problems under the Sun, literally!

McCain = Obama: on war, enviro-theology, big government and civil liberties.

I bet I could sell some of these McBushies another ticket on the Titanic.They would rather go down with the same ship twice.

Al Gore was pushing the environment when he ran for president in 1988. McCain is 15 years too late. If Lincoln had waited so long to end slavery, he would have missed the chance. This is some accomplishment on his part? What a joke.

To BILL who is harping on Obama's being the 2nd Carter term.

Carter negotiated the release of Iranian Hostages and brought them home unharmed unlike Bush who was responsible for thousands of American deaths with his illegal Iraq war. Reagan was undeservedly credited for the hostage release because they returned on the day of his inagural.

Carter also negotiated peace between Israel and Egypt again no bloodshed.

As someone else remarked in this forum, I would take Carter's 2nd term to Bush's 3rd term any day.

McCain and Obama are the same on the environment. They want cap and trade legislation, to pander to environmental mobsters and also to bring in huge money for the government.

We need to drill for oil on the Continental shelves (both coasts), we need to open Alaska to drilling, we need to dig for coal and get coal to oil going (the technology has only been around for about 75 years), we need WIND POWER, SOLAR POWER, NUCLEAR, we need to drill for shale in the mountain states. We need to drill through the fricken polar bears' heads if there is oil under there.

You liberal lunatics act as if we have a choice about using oil and fossil fuels. We need to get all the oil we can, while we can. We also need to spur growth in the alternative energy fields, but that will only happen when GOVERNMENT GETS OUT OF THE WAY and stops pandering to these environmental mobsters, placing regulations on the energy industry that make it too risky for companies to go and develop new sources of energy. Companies don't want to invest billions in a new technology only to find out the Green Mob has pushed Congress into shutting down another avenue to American energy independence.

FINALLY PEOPLE REALIZE THAT THERE ARE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN HIM AND BUSH! THERES MANY OF THEM, BUT OBAMA IS SO ARGENT, THAT ALL HE CAN SAY IS IT WILL BE A 3RD BUSH TERM, HES SOO WRONG!! IT DOESNT MATTER WHAT REPUBLICAN WAS THE NOMINEE HE WILL SAY WE ARE ALL A 3RD BUSH TERM! DONT LISTEN TO HIM!! MAKE UP YOUR OWN MIND, DONT LET HIM MAKE IT FOR YOU!

Just to be clear, there is little to no environmental impact from drilling off shore. There is merely a risk of an environmental impact in the case of an accident. I am an environmentalist, not to sound like a crazy or a hippie, but I worship the very ground I walk on so to speak. But I believe that as a temporary patch to buy time, offshore drilling is perfectly reasonable. I think McCain has no conflicting viewpoint here and you people need to educate yourself.

Kate June 17th, 2008 10:54 am ET

McCain will "help grow our economy.."? Sounds like something a kindergartener would say. Perhaps his global warming plan is to grow a seedling in a styrofoam cup.

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Be careful what you call it look who else said it that way. It is just a way to express a thought. Both Obama and McCain use that term.

DURBIN, OBAMA ASK CONGRESS TO FUND CHICAGO RAIL MODERNIZATION

Thursday, June 1, 2006

[WASHINGTON, DC] – U.S. Senators Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Barack Obama (D-IL) today sent a letter to the leaders of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Chairman Kit Bond (R-MO) and Ranking Democrat Patty Murray (D-WA) urging them to fund the Chicago Region Environmental and Transportation Efficiency Program (CREATE). CREATE is designed to modernize the Chicago……..“Congress needs to do its part to ensure that rail traffic remains a safe and efficient means of moving cargo across the country,” said Obama. “This modernization of our rail systems in the Chicago area will help grow our economy and is ………..

The funny thing is that this is they ONLY halfway major issue that he disagrees with Bush on and he always uses it when someone says that he is Bush's 3rd term. Although this is a very important issue, it's waaaaay down the list on issues that are on the very top of most voters minds. He's going to have to find something with a little more meat on it to distance himself from Bush.

McCain can stop trying to play president. It is not going to work. Republicans messed our White House up for 8 years and my vote will say NO MORE REPUBLICANS!!

Democrat 08

Please ignore the rightwingers posing as Hillary supporters. They didn't bring their so called values or republican bible that they always throw out there.

Guess they were afraid of getting left by Tales from the McCrip's so called Straight Talk express, which by the way is driven remotely by Carl Rove and Oil Lobbyist .

George Dubya Bush and Tales from the McCrip are without a doubt joined at the hip

Obama 08

McCain - you can't have it both ways when it comes to the environment. You supported additional offshore drilling yesterday. You will say and promise anything to get elected.

I can see McCain rallying the Republican base with his Global Warming ad which Sean Vannity and Drug Limbaugh so much oppose as a Gore invention. Way to go McBush.

Clinton Democrats for Obama 08

He should first ask the expert : Al Gore (Nobel price winner) can guide him on that !!!!

He is war crazy and all he care about is iraq and iran.

Global warming isn't real. World temperatures have not risen in close to 10 years.

I guess since you live in liberal looney Al Gore land, you wouldn't have paid any attention to that. Not that the media will talk about it.

I find it funny, yet disturbing, that all you liberals whine and complain about energy prices, yet you have no real solution to combat the problem.

Face the facts, we are dependent upon oil and other fossil fuels. That is a fact. We need to drill for all our resources here in America. We need to open alaska, the continental shelves on both coasts, we need to drill for shale, we need wind, solar, nuclear, and any other type of alternative energy we can get.

I cant believe people are willing to sacrifice our economic well being to save the fricken polar bears.

The rest of the world is quickly snatching up all the oil drilling leases they can get. Russia gives huge tax breaks to their oil companies. China is drilling with Cuba, right off the coast of FLORIDA!

Come on, people. We are the only idiots in the world who are not doing whatever it takes to produce our own energy. We are digging our own graves.

How many times have McCain flip-flopped this entire political season.

1. For Global warming but advocates off-shore drilling

2. It took him 3 times to get the Foreclosure plan right before finally agreeing with Obama that the victims of predatory sub-prime lending needed a freeze on interest rates. In fact, he is still not 100% sure on that idea either.

3. Against th Supreme court ruling last week, but earlier in the year he was oppose to torture of terrorist suspects.

4. Rejected a good G.I Bill for the veterans, but claims he supports the troops.

During election season he advocates for the environment. But check out his voting record.

McBush. McSame. McSenile. McTemperTantrum. Whatever.

If it walks like a duck, if it quacks likes a duck - no amount of flip-flopping on issues and lying to the press make it anything but a duck.

More senseless Death under Senator John McCain… He is having post prison camp disorder…. He only see war as a means to understanding….

He is desperate and will say anything to get elected. He is trying to nullify this issue by saying a few positive words, but he changes his point of view so often and in so many areas it is difficult to know who really is McCain and how to judge what his an administration would really be like under his leadership.

However, in view of the fact that he has the same base and caters to the same constituents as the current president, then most likely his administration would be just a continuation of last seven years.

Same old Republican Crap… McCain has no proposed solution to the Energy Crisis just the same old crap drill for more oil as if that is the answer!

This is why McCain will lose the election. Bush is still very popular among Republicans, and McCain needs those supporters to win. To attract independents, he has to run away from his base. With each moderate he attracts, he convinces two Republicans to stay home. He cannot win.

Instead of politicians coming up with ideas for about the environment and energy issues we should look soley to the scientists and experts who know better than anyone else. Ya know, someone who can provide a solution to our energy and environmental needs that is not politiacally motivated or detered

I live in AZ and will never vote for McBush!!! Polls show in Az that Obama is up 9 points over McBush!!!! I'm also a republican that will probably never vote republican again after this administration. McBush has done NOTHING for AZ and will do NOTHING for the USA!!! He's all out for himself–look at his personal life!

If you are against off-shore drilling, look closer. Do you realize China has proposed drilling off our shores where we have banned ourselves from drilling? What sense does that make to have China drill our oil? Since it is international waters, we cannot stop them. It is yet another example of liberal ideas that do not take into account the realities of the world. Drilling our own oil would at least give us some say in the safety aspect of it. Do you really think the Chinese would do a better/safer job of drilling?

Let's really watch this McCain ad. I am betting he will add a very insincere smile, and then let's watch his other appearances when he gets cranky and misquotes/ misrepresents Obama's plans. How can any senator brag about his experience of ruining our country. On this specific issue, McCain didn't fight for reducing global warming, he simply popped up his head, voiced "let's be careful" and then he smiled and was friendly with his Republican co-hearts who favor the oil companies. Maverick? yeah a reverse Maverick; a sheep in a wolf's clothing. But still a sheep to his Republican Fatherland.

I understand that he's trying to highlight his 5% differential in his voting record from bush but COME ON. People are A LOT smarter than this. This is the YouTube age, does he really think he's gonna get elected because of the 5% differential?

If McCain believes this stuff, then he's an LBJ liberal… not a socialist liberal the democrats are today.

For you people (i call you clueless) that think drilling and using a drop of oil is like murdering the planet, remember that when we buy oil from other countries, they are 170x more likely to cause a disaster than drilling it at home.

But why let facts get in the way of progress. We'll sink into a depression over energy when we could have avoided it alltogether.

Way to go, Obama has McCain running against Bush.

I haven't heard anything about Obama speaking out 5 years ago. Oh, that's right, he was too busy voting 'present' in the IL Senate.

Clinton Democrats for Mc Cain '08~!!

Wow. Like the independants like me are going to fall for this stuff. I'm not going take chances on McClain because I don't believe these ideas are his. Their his people telling him to to be like this when in fact he doesn't give a hoot about the enviroment.

More McCain bait and switch. He's flip flopped so many times on so many of the issues it's darned near impossible to tell what his postions are. I have a hard time considering him a man of his word - he doesn't appear to have any principles or convictions. He's traded in the maverick status for the gop nomination - now he's just "the gelding". Pandering without any intention of following through.

It is nice that mccain is fighting agaisnt climate change but he seems to flip flop on this by opening up the artic National wildlife refuge for drilling. Another mccain flip flop.

GIVE ME A BREAK! McCain thinks he can convince any of us that he is concerned about climate change when HIS PARTY continues to believe its a falsehood?

PLEASE PEOPLE, THINK! HIS RECORD AND THE REPUBLICAN RECORD ON CLIMATE CHANGE IS CLEAR.

Interesting how CNN censors posts written on Obama, but allowed posts for months that denigrated Clinton in none political terms and now continues to allow posts that attack McCain on a personal basis.

country before party….vote McCain.

McCain will "help grow our economy.."? Sounds like something a kindergartener would say. Perhaps his global warming plan is to grow a seedling in a styrofoam cup.

Lets drill off shore in a Hurricane prone area, NOT!!!!! I cannot see Floridians putting up with that. Hurricanes do enough damage already without the addition of crude oil spills floating onto the beaches of the sunshine state.

Already we see the predicted effects of global warming, Increased storm activity and tornados, record rainfall alongside record spring temperatures when will the naysayers get it, if this is so natural why has nothing been done to prevent the above disasters destroying homes and farms etc. since this phenomena has been known about for many years.

Does it really matter if it is man made or natural climate deaths and disaters will increase unless we have a common purpose to combat the effects of these changes.

We don't want to waist our money in improving Iraq's infrastructures when America's infrastructures are falling apart. Bring our troops home. We're losing profesional and patriot everyday over a war that wasn't supposed to be fought in the first place. What more can I say?

The only good thing this angry old man has going for him is all the angry old Clinton supporters who will flock to him. The down side, is it won't offset the flood of Repubs jumping ship and voting for change and hope on the Obama ticket.

It is time to end this illegal war and bring our brave men and women home.

Give me a break, McBush. We all know what you're up to. We don't want to waist our money in improving Iraq's infrastructures when America's infrastructures are falling apart. Bring our troops home. We're losing profesional and patriot everyday over a war that wasn't supposed to be fought in the first place. What more can I say?

McCain has been vocal about Global Warning, but to expand fossil fuel expansion by promoting off shore drilling does not solve the pollution problem or the energy problem. The problem has always been that in past the solution was always to drill for more oil and not worry about the consequences or what happens when it runs out. The other problem is the proposed solutions always has a negative affect on someone, but they on not considered. A key example is the proposal to be pollution credits from companies the exceed federal standards. The problme is no one everr says what the affect of the polluting company has on the people who live around it. For all those that support drilling for oil, or selling pollution credits, drill in your own back yard and let the company nearest you be the polluting one and we will see how long it is before you complain.

"The earth may be warming, it is caused by the SUN, not CO2. It will cool again too, it is a natural cycle… off-shore drilling is NOT going to hurt the environment and the supply will lead to less foreign dependency and lower prices."

Ignorance is bliss.

wow.
so there is a difference?
i never knew
wow.
im so amazed

still not convinced.ha ha

Let's not forget why off-shore drilling was banned. Aside from the obvious enviromental arguments, strict federal regulations need to be put in place which the GOP has traditionally opposed.

Regulations that protect the enviroment. The cost of regulation is always orders of magnitude cheaper than clean up or fixing an industry after the fact. Case in point, the recent $35 billion bailout on Wall Street. How many years of federal oversight could that have paid for?

Obama voted for the Cheney energy bill. Age use to mean wisdom. This year it means you are too old. This has been the worst year for catagorizing every person into some group or the other. White, black, latino, religion, educated, uneducated, rich, poor, old, young, male, female and then subgroups of those groups. I am so sick of this whole process. When you have news 24/7, I guess it must be filled with something, anything? Everything is hyberbolize by the candidates and the media. This Congress has a lower rating then the President and as McCain said, " that means it is down to employees and relatives." We, the people, don't matter except at election time. Pandering is part of the game. I will write Hillary Clinton on my ballot in November, and for those that say it will be wasted, tell that to the people who wrote in FDR for a third term. He did not seek re-election and won anyway. That is why we now have a two term limit on the Presidency. If we all write her name on our ballots, she can win!

Is this the best McCain has? This is how he shows us it won't be a third Bush term?

Good Ad, Keep showing us how you are not Bush!

MaCain 08

First stealing drugs and now stealing recipes. McSame is their anything else we need to know about your wife?

until he does his famous flip-flop that the gop attacked john kerry for. is that someone wearing flip-flops nope it's mcbush.

To truly stop emission of noxious gases, put an end to the drivel that spews from Barack Obama's mouth every day. The man who thinks he can "heal the earth" and "stop the oceans from rising" is full of crap and pollutes our world with his self-aggrandizing rhetoric. Let's stop this buffoon in his tracks.

Did you know that man made CO2 makes up less than 1% of all greenhouse gases in the atmosphere! Don't take some politicians word for it, do a little research on your own and see what the scientists are saying. You will be surprised!

McBush = you can say anything you want to in an ad but that doesn't make it true. Maybe in your own mind it does, but advertisements are just a bunch of BS, covered in cream to make it look appetizing!

oh my god June 17th, 2008 10:27 am ET

The differences are few… the similarities many…

offshore drilling is definitely not the solution.

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offshore drilling is part of the solution.

Please put a nice picture of Mccain. The least you can do.

Why, if he cares about the environment, does he advocate offshore drilling? He must we’re too stupid to realize that his ‘economic plan’ contradicts his ‘green plan’ lol NOT THIS TIME!!!