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Wisdom and experience come with age so vote for McCain. We can't afford to have a whippersnapper at the helm during this time of uncertainty.

Obama supporters don't have any idea of what Obama will do because he, himself, is clueless. He changes with the wind to get to where he wants to be and I can tell you, by what little voting he has done, it's not a good place. Waaaaay too far to the left; will continue our downward slide into 3rd world nation status. Vote for McCain – experience, loyalty, proven courageous.

ok NEWS...who do you McCain supporters think McCain is running for? YOU? no really...do you think John BILLION HEIR McCain is thinking anything about you? well i guess you also still believe we are in Iraq for WMD....WAKE UP!!!
here is your John McCain:
top advisers; Wayne Berman-Chevron, Frank Donatelli-EXXON, Rebeccaa Anderson-SUNCO, Charlie Black-OCCIDENTAL PET.CORP, Nancy Pfotenhauer-KOCH IND., Randy Scheunemann-AMCO. Gramm- the ENRON LOOPHOLE...all big oil.
"He continues his aggressive support for the Iraq War, which costs the U.S. taxpayer $12 billion a month, even though only 34% of Americans support the war. 4,538 Americans have died in the war. 29,780 have been wounded. 300,000 soldiers are suffering from" -Charlotte Iserbyt former Senior Adviser for the Reagan Administration.
hello- he is not for America JOHN MCCAIN...who finished 894th out of 899 at the Naval Academy and lost five jets! is Keeping the power in the hands of the wealthy only...examples? DICK Chaney and Halliburton...HEY REPUBS AMERICANS WANT THEIR COUNTRY BACK!

Napping on the weekends: That's McSame's plan for energy conservation...

look at the hateful, un-informed posts on this thread. maybe we can just stay on the facts and keep the 'opinion' out of it for a while. yes, we know.. some of you hate Obama and will not vote for him. yes we know, 'Operation chaos" people are still here posing and trying to keep the division from the primary going....

i just want ONE person on here to have the guts to answer this question...

The republicans had control of the entire government for 6 of the last 7 years. WHY DIDN'T THEY PUSH DRILLING THEN....?

(answer: because they don't WANT to drill)... its expensive, there are no barges to carry the oil, there are no refineries.. (and why haven't the oil companies built any new refineries)...

i DARE someone to answer these questions.....

i'll wait............

Sure McCain has the answer to the economy, the mortgage crisis, the war in Iraq, and he even knows where Bin Laden is too! He is just waiting until he is president to tell us!
Vote for the smart guy,
Obama in 08!

McCain is a lightweight and an adulterer. He will never be my president–I never voted for Bill Clinton and I will never vote for McCain. He makes the Rupublicans' issue on family values look like a joke.

Obama does not have any of his own policies. He is a clean slate so he waits for John McCain to come up with his policies/ideas and no sooner he does that Obama punces on him to show as if he has better ideas. I do not know when these liberal will open their eyes and ears. Vote John McCain. There is no other choice.

Surprise, Surprise, Surprise. Looks like those old hippies were right on!

Obama does not have any of his own policies. He is a clean slate so he waits for John McCain to come up with his policies/ideas and no sooner he does that Obama punces on him to show as if he has better ideas. I do not know when these liberal will open their eyes and ears. Vote John McCain. There is no other choice.

Obama does not have any of his own policies. He is a clean slate so he waits for John McCain to come up with his policies/ideas and no sooner he does that Obama punces on him to show as if he has better ideas. I do not know when these liberal will open their eyes and ears. Vote John McCain. There is no other choice.

Energy policy from Republicans is laughable. Again, Hillary fanatics stop wasting bandwith with your stupid comments.

They closed the Obama family comment so I'll put it here. I'm a dedicated puma but you are a beautiful family and you are all winners. Win or loose in Nov.

OIL MAN PICKERING IS INVESTING IN WIND ENERGY.

THAT IS THE GREATEST APPROVAL FOR OBAMA

ENERGY PLAN. INVEST IN AMERICA, NOT IN THE

MIDDLE EAST. HOW DOES IT MAKE SENSE TO ANY ONE???.

TO SEND SUCH ENORMOUS AMOUNTS OF OUR MONEY TO

IRAQ. IT'S THE LOOTING OF AMERICA, BY IT'S OWN LEADERS.

If we were going to drill for oil off our shores, it should have been done years ago. Drilling will not lower prices, it will only prolong the inevitable! There's only so much oil in the earth people. Our major auto companies are making and selling cars that don't run on gas to other countriesfor years; however, our wonderful government has not allowed them to do the same here! Get a clue. Taxing the oil companies will not lower prices! We need to get over our dependency on oil that is in everything we use, even those plastic bags the grocery stores push us to put our groceries in. Renewable resources need to be developed for everything from transportation to women's make-up. If not, I hate to think of the kind of world my grandchildren are going to try to live in.

Attack him all you want mr. obama. We're voting for him to keep you OUT.

The US has already past the point of no return when it comes to dependence on imported fossil fuels. What is needed is drastic action to wean ourselves from fossil fuels. And I do not mean ethanol, because that just raises the cost of food.

America needs to move forward to energy independence and a greener enviroment. Sooner or later, all combustion sources will have to be outlawed. The sonner we start down that path the better.

McCain is answering to the US oil industry. It is ridiculous to think the answer to our gas addiction is to destroy the value of our coastlines with drills AND all the hideous shoreline support. Supply, demand, speculation within the global arena, and just possibly very bad international relations with oil producing countries will drive oil prices and the well being of our economy from now on. McCain will only continue the downward spiral.

Using military service as a qualification for president, just like Guiliani used 9/11.

What college did McCain graduated from?

McCain is nothing but sham

Ok CNN-why can you never print anything said about MCCain's HERO STAUS that my question his integrity? What about freedom of speech? McCain is using his Hero Status for political gain. Hero's are humble and are honored for their sacrifice. They don't not use their personal torment to make voters guilty or sorry for them. Did McCain vote for the Vet's benifits package? NO. What about all the suffering/tortured Americans without healthcare or safe have from abuse. What about cut back to Child Protective Sevices, causing suffering? Should we HOPE to have a government who cares about all of us not just the wealthy? McCain shoul be ASHAMED of the way he is exploiting his hero status. It earns him respect and thanks for his service to the country and a hero asks no more.

To all you PUMAs, HRC supporters, etc.
You continue with your diatribes on these forums even when they are irrelevant. When will you realize it's over? No one wants to hear your constant ranting and raving.
As for castigating the Obama supporters as haters, liers, cheats or whatever, I think you need to look in a mirror. HRC trotted out the negative campaigning first. It was Bill who played the race card first. It was the Clintons who drove me to Obama. Because it was HIS campaign that seemed a little cleaner, seemed to have more vision and seemed more positive. Quite frankly, I've never seen any of the things you allegate in the Obama campaign, but I have seen it in the Clinton campaign.
Now – back on subject – McCain's only answer is to drill, drill, drill. Even though it will not produce results for a number of years and, even then, will not produce enough oil to be significant. We need vision from our leaders.

Go to YouTube and search for "Who Killed the Electric Car?"

There are several parts–watch them all. It was shown at Sundance in 2006 and also on PBS. There was a good electric car made in the 90's that people really liked, but the car companies and oil companies squashed it–literally. The testers wanted to buy the cars but were not allowed to. Bush, Cheney, and other Republicans are mentioned for their roll in silencing it so they could continue to make big oil profits.

If that car was that good then, and had been refined and improved all this time, we wouldn't be in this situation.

What this ad fails to acknowledge is that about 40% of the price of oil nowadays is speculative. In other words, if investors expected the price to stay the same oil would be about $86 per barrel, not $140. It's this high right now simply because investors expect it to go over $200 in the next few years (which will probably happen if we don't start drilling).

Any credible analyst will tell you that the market will react immediately to the announcement that we are drilling, which makes Obama's contention that it will do nothing for 7 years entirely irrelevant. Then again nobody ever accused Democrats of understanding economics.

Guess what? Had we drilled seven years ago, we'd have that oil now.

It's time to do offshore drilling and go to ANWR. The offshore platforms would not be seen from land. As for ANWR, the size of the drilling and pumping station in the vast ANWR would be the equivalent of a postage stamp in the middle of a football field, and confined to ANWR's coastal plain, which is relatively bare. As in all places where we drill, responsibility and safety of the surrounding environment would have to be primary.

We need other energy options, but while these are being developed we also need a continuing supply of oil. I, for one, would like to see it come from our own sources and not from the Middle East. Those folks over there have us over a barrel (literally and figuratively speaking) and they sure know it....and milk it for all it's worth.

This term McBush is very tiring and confusing to me. If you really believe McCain is the same as Bush, you have no clue about politics.

That would be like me saying O'Jackson. Obama and Jesse Jackson are not the same, so why compare Bush and McCain? If you knew anything about McCain you would know that for years he has been the most liberal Republican out there. That means MIDDLE. DUH. Not far left wing like O'Jackson.

Has anyone seen the RNC attack ad? In it the narrator says "He forced his party to recognize global warming" Yeah, we need a party like that in charge 4 more years

Obama Junkie. Drilling is safer than transporting the spill in Alaska was transport not drilling and there have been NO spills in the gulf. Not to mention all of the greenest countries in the world drill off their own shores. Stop with stupid people one Democratic sound bite is not the truth it is the same BS argument they have used for 30 years and that is why we are where we are.

Investing on alternative sources of energy will send strong signal to OPEC and other oil producing countries to lower prices or risk major losses...This will be stronger signal than off shore drilling.
Investing in Natur wind is better and safer (CNN just reported that)...
Then Obama is right in investing 150 billions on this source of energy.

This is the real change we can believe in

Obama supporters don't have any idea of what Obama will do because he, himself, is clueless. He changes with the wind to get to where he wants to be and I can tell you, by what little voting he has done, it's not a good place. Waaaaay too far to the left; will continue our downward slide into 3rd world nation status. Vote for McCain – experience, loyalty, proven.

Will CNN post this one or is it too much truth?

Offshore drilling? Screw that. Drill in North Dakota. There's 4.1 billion barrels there, largely untapped, and probably more undiscovered. Drill where the oil companies are already allowed to drill. Plenty of currently untapped oil there.

Jim in phila:
You're an ignorant fool. Hydroelectric (hoover dam anyone), solar, geothermal, and tidal are left. I'm not opposed to nuclear power, but don't be a liar and act like oil, coal, and nuclear are our only options. If we use all the solar we can, all the hydro we can, all the tidal we can, and all the geothermal that we can, and limit nuclear to the areas that don't have access to any of the above, we can go a whole lot further with a whole lot less.

If we stick to coal, we run out of coal, while doing an amazing amount of damage to the environment we live in. It's your environment too, it's in your best interest to keep it nice. If we use nuclear energy excessively, you've got lovely targets for terrorists, and what do you do with all those spent nuclear rods? If you use oil, you are subject to the whims of tinpot dictators like Chavez and Ahmenajad, and you're got the environmental risks on top of that as well.

There's a reason that many Republicans are finally (and far too belatedly) getting on board with the whole "Green" thing. There's a reason that Newt Gingrich is doing PSA spots with Nancy Pelosi talking about the environment. That reason is simple: We've got one world to live on, it is by far in our best interests to keep it in good shape.

You might be able to live in a dirty messy house, but would you want to? If you never clean, vermin may thrive. The vermin may be vectors for various diseases. It's possible to survive in a dirty house, but it isn't pleasant and it's not in your best interests. Clean it up.

"Yes we can! Yes we can! Yes we can!"

Let's see...
Explore for new oil? No, we can't do that.
Open areas now off limits for drilling? No, we can't do that.
Drill for oil? Eh, no, not that either.
Build new refineries? No, not that EITHER.
How about outlawing "boutique" gasoline blends and limit fuel blends to two varieties... gas and diesel. No-can-do.
Build nuclear plants? Nada.
Explore the same coal-to-petrol process that Hitler used to fueled his war machine? Zip.
How about build cars that run on hope and good intentions? Ding ding ding! We have a winner!

For the candidate of "yes we can," all I seem to be hearing is a lot of "no we can't."

Obama supporters don't have any idea of what Obama will do because he, himself, is clueless. He changes with the wind to get to where he wants to be and I can tell you, by what little voting he has done, it's not a good place. Waaaaay too far to the left; will continue our downward slide into 3rd world nation status. Vote for McCain – experience, loyalty, proven.

And the ad does not define – when or what 'urgent priority' really means. Does it mean 'I will begin to pull out troops from Iraq in 60 days' to '18 months' or does it mean 'I could no more disown Reverend Wright' to 'under the bus you go'????

Obamas words are nothing more than a manipulation based on misleading comments. He is a looser!

Obama doesn't have a clue........and all the Left Wing, Liberal morons are like lemmings following him on the path to Third World status......sad but comical..............

Vote McCain or join the insane.......................

Jake,
What planet did you fly in from? If this country is such an honorable country, please tell me why everyone hate us and think we are bullies?
Any change from the Repub policies would be a start in the right direction. Don't know about you, but I need change from high energy,food,college cost. Apparently, you must be one of those Bush elitist. Yes, there have been opportunities, but I have had to fight ten times harder to achieve them. Please think before you speak!!

Texan for Obama

Great ad! Yes most Americans can see right through McCain's propaganda and see that he is really just an extension of Bush/Cheney's Big Oil corrpution. People wake-up and take the blinders off...do not believe the lies from McCain, Big Oil and OPEC.

The Truth July 8th, 2008 1:18 pm ET

To Tony:

I am sure the reason you say he is "inexperienced" is because you truly believe that, and not some underlying racist hatered for the color of his skin.

Which part of Obama do you hate, his White side or his Black side? Are you so full of hate that you hate the Black in him so much that you cannot see th White in him?

A vote against Obama isn't racism. Just about everyone doesn't care about the color of his skin. They don't like him because he is weak and shallow.

DOn't bring racism into this. That is absolutely disgusting gutter politics, and you should be ashamed of yourself. YOU are the bigot.

Maybe Obama can give us cars that run on rainbows and unicorns.

Sorry, bub, you can keep the "change."

THOSE AGAINST OBAMA'S ENERGY PLAN, ARE THE SAME

MORONS THAT SAID GLOBAL WARMING WAS OUR IMAGINATION.

OBAMA IS FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY.

WIND, OCEAN, SOLAR, CAN LEAD TO A HEALTHIER PLANET

AND A GREAT ECONOMY. WE WOULD KEEP ALL THE MONEY

WE PAY FOR ENERGY IN OUR ECONOMY. IF WE STARTED

WORKING ON IT 20 YEARS AGO, WE WOULD BE GETTING

30% OF OUR ENERGY FROM SUCH SOURCES. THE PRICE

OF OIL WOULD BE A HECK OF A LOT CHEAPER, LESS DEMAND.

WE ARE BEING LOOTED BY OUR OWN POLITICIANS.

As soon as a major oil spill is experience in the Gulf of Mexico or Alaska again, all of these off-shore drilling supporters will be silenced.

People are so ill informed. Drilling here in the US will NOT stop our dependency on foreign oil. It only reduces our use a very small percentage. It will keep us from trying to create new ways to conduct re-usable and bio fuels.

I think it is far fetched to put the survival of your economy on a gamble i.e the possibility of finding new oil spots. This idea is not a total cast away but highly risky.on a subjective level i support research into alternative source of energy therefore OBAMA is my guy!!!!!

Actually Vigla, if you knew anything, (which you obviously are ignorant, considering you're a liberal and all, that's a given) you would understand that oil is traded on a futures market.

In other words, if we had opened up drilling then, we would have a greater future supply now, therefore speculators wouldn't be watching the middle east in a state of panic.

Also, oil companies do have leases of land. However, to build a rig takes about one and a half billion. If they only get a billion dollars worth of oil out of it, then that's a loss. That's why they're not stupid enough to drill there either economically or profitably, because a billion bucks of oil won't get us very far. However, they know where there is a major supply and that's where they want to drill.

Liberal: def (n)- Someone who pretends to be informed, but really just drinks the Kool-Aid and waits for someone to bail them out of the sucky life they created for themselves.

I know this makes too much sense to make sense, but
PUMA people who aer upset that Senator Obama has taken on some of Senator Clinton's positions as he moves to the general election campaign,
why would you vote for Obama over McCain? Because Obama champions the same positions your favoriate candidate, Clinton, had.

Or, would it make better sense to vote against the person who champions your causes in favor of a person who has positions diametrically opposed to your favorite candidate?
And just one example would be te 2005 budget amendment when Senator Clinton pushed for this in order to help prevent teenage pregnancy through education and birth control. Guess who voted against it? Yep, the other guy, McCain.

So, help explain WHY you vote against the positions that you held just two months ago, we'll all be looking forward to hearing from you.

Sincerely, an Obama fan praying that the former Hillary Clinton (and Joe Biden, Chris Dodd, John Edwards, Gov. Gravel, Mike Kucinich and Gov Bill Richardson was my favorite) supporters get a grip on reality nad understand that there are two choice – McCain and Obama. And out of those two, one will become President. Likewise, only one of these two are even close to the same ideals you found and cherished in Clinton. That would be Senator Obama.

This is what Obama's campaign should be doing? Is good for republicans and there is nothing wrong letting Americans know the truth???

You McBush backers just remember who got us into this countries mess. It was the Republicans! Why should I believe things are going to change with another Republcan in the White House.

The Republicans blew it!!!!!!!!!!!!

McCain is just another YES BOY for big oil and so is Rush Limbaugh.Limbaugh helped get Bush and the Big Oil Boys get in office and now he doesnt have the guts to say he helped.

MCCAIN SHOULD HAVE KNOWN HOW TO PUT TOGETHER A SUCCESSFUL CAMPAIGN BEING THAT THIS HIS SECOND RUN FOR PRESIDENT AND HE TOUTS ABOUT HIS "EXPERIENCE" IS BEST. I WOULDN'T TRUST MCCAIN TO SUCCEED DOING ANYTHING, HE IS A PROVEN FAILURE GOING INTO THE RACE AND SHOULD NEVER USE THE WORD "EXPERIENCE" AGAIN. I"LL PUT MY BELIEF IN OBAMA ANYDAY.

Judgement over experience:

Hey, can you do simple math?

Let's take twenty percent of twenty thousand dollars. That would be four thousand dollars. Let's say that's what you pay in taxes because I can't imagine someone like you making any more than that.

Now let's take someone with a brain, he'll make two hundred thousand. We'll be fair and give him the same percentage. Twenty percent of that would be forty thousand dollars.

Huh. Guess who's paying more right now anyways?

Liberal- def. (n): Someone who blames other people for his failure to succeed in life, but is severely jealous of those who do.

The Americans are not gullible and this is why we are voting Obama!!! You repubs can spin all you want but Bush has destroyed our country, financially, socially, and emotionally. Mccain has adopted and voted for the same failed policies of Bush, so, NO MCCAIN!!! GO OBAMA 08, Yes we can and Yes we will win in NOVEMBER!!!

well here s the other side to this. whether we like it or not we are in a serious pinch with the oil cricis, but we cant all turn our heads at the "dogs" of the situation. i mean we have to blame the environmentalists for a lot. they are the ones that have ultimatly driven all steel over seas and now we are in the same boat with our oil. even if we drill for oil today we couldnt refine it due to the overly strict regualations of the EPA!!!! its cheaper for us to send it over seas and then back to refine it just because of this "wanderful" radicalist organization called the EPA. so dont throw politics into the race for oil unless you want to move our environmentalists out of the way so that we can do our jobs as americans. know the trueth no your facts!!!!!!

"Bob Stephens July 8th, 2008 11:42 am ET

I heard McCain try to explain his economic plan on the news yesterday. The man is an idiot, plain and simple. If Americans are dumb enough to elect him, there is no hope for our country."

While I belive many Amerian are smart and have common sense Bob Stephens you will be surprise of the dumb ignorance out there in America.

Lets hope they all come to their senses this years after going through 8 years of fear.

Tori second energy bill came in 2006 he did vote for it quit cherry picking your info.

Some people sure must be IGNORANT to beleive that add.

Obama and his people are lieing through their teeth.

Also, McCain's record shows him voting with Bush more like 65% of the time instead of the 95% that Obama is claiming. LIE LIE LIE

If you oppose drilling, coal and nuke what is left.

Nothing – which is the Dem plan.

Hate drove you away you say? Satans helpers are among us and they are plenty. Stay strong for "OBAMA'. VOTE,VOTE,VOTE. for OBAMA.

Another negative attack ad by that new style politician, Barack Obama. Why do they sound the same as the negative attack ads by that old style politician Hillary Clinton? Maybe he should add more of her people to his staff and morph himself into Barcak Oclinton or Hillary Obama. And where is his plan and when will it increase the oil supply. It's always best to say the other guy's idea is no good when you don't have a better one to tout.

So let me get this straight. For all of you.. "he has no plan" people, you can go READ (I know, short words are better) about ALL of his proposals online. Now, also, all of these plans are going to be changed (even if McCain is in office) because you can't say we're going to do it exactly like this, it depends on Congress. So, they are outlines of what they would like to PROPOSE (I know its a long word, bare with me). Also, the problem with this "something's wrong, government fix it"; its not going to work with oil. All I wish someone would really say is you're screwed; there isn't a SHORT term solution, hate to break it to you but gas isn't going to go down. Drilling will not help and McCain used to know that until he started to run for President. I'm not saying you have to like one candidate over the other but I would educate myself about these plans BEFORE I started "blah blah blah"-ing about no substance. I swear its like the same five people come on here everyday angry about this and that.
Oh and for the jerk who keeps coming on here taking out selections from "Dreams from my Father" you need to stop going to these weird sites and finding quotes from some anonymous loser not reading the WHOLE BOOK. If you can actually read more than 3 sentences at a time, then you would see the context as to which all of those comments came from. The entire book is about his struggle when he was younger to find a place for himself. We're talking about stuff he did and said as a teenager and how as he's gotten older seen things differently. But I guess everyone still thinks and sees things exactly the same way at 46 as they did at 17... right? Just checking.

I’m glad the bitter Hillary supporters are going to vote for McCain. They must think, as do I, that women should NOT have the right to make decisions regarding their own bodies. Roe vs. Wade will be overturned! Can’t wait!

A cancer cure is 10 years off so should we just forget it and move on since we can't solve the problem now?

If republicans would stop casting a blind eye to the last 8 years, and open it for once, they would see that they are the ones drinking the "kool-aid" and they are the ones that are the lost sheep. Or haven't you noticed that the current administration has NO plans to help drive the current fuel prices back down, or help turn the economy back around, or stop the rapid bleeding of our trade deficit. McCain and his deluded supporters are the ones with no clue and no plan. So maybe you all need to look in the mirror and think about what your beloved W has done for you in the last 8 years.

We either take the bull by the horns and secure our energy future, or we do nothing and continue to let the situation worsen. Think about where we would be if we had begun the drilling process 7 to 9 years ago.To ensure our energy future we must stop talking and act now.

Obama, would have you believe that his election will somehow cause new beneficial energy sources to spring up overnight. Nothing can be further from the truth. Without the immediate development of our domestic fields, for future use, in conjunction with the continued development of new energy technologies, the Sword of Damacles will continue to hang over our heads.

What does big NOBAMA propose so there is more oil? Use olive oil from olives???

I agree with Tony - we wouldn't be in this mess if Bill Clinton had signed the bill for more drilling in 1996.

Congressional apporval is the lowest in history. Democrats have had control for 2 years now - and promised action in the first 100 days - well glad we didn't hold our breath for them to act.

McCain, will do or say anything to get elected to office.
He is Bush the third and he will hurt this country as much
as Bush has. I don't his military background will make
him a good president. Army and marines have more
military experience than someone in the air. Officer on
the ground more battle than in those in the air. This is
not just about war,the economy and Jobs are more
important. Hell with the war we need to bring ours troops
home.

To Tony:

I am sure the reason you say he is "inexperienced" is because you truly believe that, and not some underlying racist hatered for the color of his skin.

Which part of Obama do you hate, his White side or his Black side? Are you so full of hate that you hate the Black in him so much that you cannot see th White in him?

OMG…..ANWAR? Drilling offshore?

First of all, these oil companies already have lots of areas that they own and can explore. DRILL THERE PLEASE!!! Start with that and call us next election PLEASE!!! What’s the problem with getting the oil from areas you already own?

Secondly, remember Exxon (Valdez) fiasco? America does not want another 2 or 3 of those offshore nor in ANWAR. Did you see what happened last week with Valdez? They owed over $5 billion due to there fiasco but that amount was reduced to just a percentage of that. Great example hey? With all the money that Exxon is making they should have doubled the amount not reduced it!

No way McCain. NOT THIS TIME!!!

Good for Obama.

In every one of his speeches, Obama must remind the American People that McCane has voted with Bush 95% of the time. This is one fact that McCane and his spin doctors cannot refute.

I just don't get you McCain supporters!! Where were you back in 01? LOL!!! I mean you all need to wise up and vote for OBAMA since for the most part you guys put the current idiot in office. So, now y'all see the light!!! GIVE ME A BREAK!!!

I've been a Democrat all my life, but this Obama guy scares me. So far all he has accomplished is to come up with the campaign slogan, "Change". His actual record shows no talent for effecting change, and no experience. So far, all I am hearing is "wind". So there we have it, "The Windy candidate from the Windy City".

Never had a mandate

Never will have a mandate.

The "new" democratic party is well...just NOT into democracy.

When did the left become so bigoted, sexist and hateful?

When did lying and cheating and stealing become the path to securing the nomination of the democratic party.

When did we put our least worthy and least accomplished candidate out there as our nominee?

Since the haters for Obama decided hate, insults, threats, force and coercion is the best way to install your nominee.

Will YOU reward that in NOV?

Let me explain the advantage to opening off-shore drilling, and drilling in ANWAR:

Demand is the largest force driving up the prices of oil. The U.S. gets 60% of it's oil domestically. That leaves 40% from foreign countries (our largest supplier being Canada[20%]). This leaves 20% coming from the Middle East, South America and Mexico.

Solution: Decrease reliance on foreign oil, and decrease our domestic demand.
A tax cut of $1000 to every family doesn't solve either of these problems. In fact it makes it worse. It makes buying gas EASIER, and thus NOT forcing citizens to CONSERVE. High gas prices are GOOD because they force us all to CONSERVE, and make alternatives more viable.

Drilling in the long term reduces the amount of oil we need to import, reduces the trade deficit, and ensures energy security.
In the short term, it forces the oil speculators to believe that at some point the price could go down with the influx of more domestic oil. This makes them less likely to buy OVER PRICED futures, keeping the price of oil at reasonable levels.

Obama is the best public speaker in modern history, but I vote on substance...I won't vote for him until I get some.

Enough with the kool aid comments. Just because someone doesn't agree with you, they are not delusional, in fact I would argue, more informed. Had we started drilling 10 years ago we would still be in a mess. China and India are becoming huge industrialized nations, just as we did back in the day. Their demand for resources is going to be insatiable. Remember the 70's oil embargo? If we had done something about our consumption then we would not be in this mess. So what makes you think giving an addict 10 more years of cheap heroin is going to make it easier for them to quit?

It's time to face the facts that there is only a limited supply of oil left and when it's gone we're going to be in a heap of trouble if we don't sometime soon start changing our ways.

The RNC & McShame's campaign can go ahead with more negative ad.Obama has the resources to match them.Obama is not Kerry nor
Gore.He is very prepared for anything the GOP can throw @ him.No
escape root for the GOP this fall.It's over.Besides,NO negative you throw will stick.

You hated the Hillary supporters throughout the primary.

Now we are PUMAs

How do you like us now?

Blah, Blah, Blah.......

Quote: Barack Obama will make energy independence an urgent priority.

Question: And do what?

Maybe he'll share that with us before seven years comes and goes. Maybe not.

McCain/08

The democratic primary sure was dirty...

Just saying that Jesse Jackson won the SC primary made Bill Clinton a racist.

So tomorrow just my saying that Hillary was the first woman to run for president will make me a ....sexist? Huh? When is a true statement no longer a true statement?

Then Hillary was a racist too... and all her supporters. But now we are all one big happy democratic family.... NOT!

Hill was debased and ridiculed by Obama, his pundits and the media.

Bro before Ho?... how lovely.
Fat Cow chewing her cud... how mature and open minded.
Stick a fork in her she is done... how democratic
Ignorant, uneducated, inbred, poor, redneck dirty white trailor trash... how unifying.

Yeah... all for unity?

No more arrogant, obfuscating Obama.

This guy wants Americans to feed his egomania by paying for a 75,000 person capacity stadium to supposedly accept the Democratic nomination.

Vote for the American hero, John McCain not the two-faced, floundering American idol, Barack Obama.

Wow, reading most of these comments has made me realize how lucky I am to not be an idiot. Half of these comments are just cheap and unfounded shots at one side or the other, and the other half, other than a select few, are stupid claims about why gas prices are so high.

The high gas prices aren't going to go away with tax breaks or increased drilling or any other oil policies these candidates come up with. The real solution can only come from alternative energy, a decrease in dependence on oil.

I think the Repulicans just thought Obama was going to let them say anything false they wanted to. They will hit them hard for every lie. The new as run by the Democratic Party is great! When you show Bush and McBush saying the exact same thing, it can't be denied. THEY ARE THE SAME!

Maybe we wouldn't even need oil if it were not for the Republicans aggressively pushing their big oil agendas and fattening their accounts with stock options. There's only so much oil left and what happens when it's gone? Do all you drilling advocates want to wait till then to scratch your heads?

Marcus B makes total sense to borrow more money from china to artificially stipulate the economy and then send all the borroowed money from china to the middle east great. Drilling will in seven to ten years allow us to stop sending as much money to terrorist contries if you can't see the logic in that there is no hope for you. Nothing Obama proposes will reduce our consumption or lower prices and his proposals will take 20 years. Dig the hole deeper by sending more money and depbt overseas? Not the Democratic party I want to support anymore!

And wonderboy's plan is......? If we had been drilling 10 years ago, we'd have the oil now. McCain has a plan that addresses both short and long term. Obama's plan is to diss McCain's.

Dear god!
Its time to be real.

America I know Obama is not gods gift to Presidents, but you know what? When it comes to Obama's policies or McCains policies that have ALREADY took Americans off to war and took Americans money, jobs and homes. I HOPE TO GOD you can see McCain for what he is. You really want 16 years of the SAME? 16 years of war, poverty, lost homes, declining dollar CEO's running congress instead of TRUE American politicians.

My word people. Is America really this lost that someone like McCain is even on the ballot? Please tell me we are not that lost as a people.

Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me. America dont let McCain fool you. Not unless you liked the last 8 years.. you felt safe right? How much have you lost by the hand of bad Bush/McCain/CEO policies? Sure looks like more then any terrorist has taken form America. You sure you want 16 years of the SAME?

QUESTION TIME !!!

WHO IS DUMBER, THE MORON OR THE MORON HE FOOLED ?

WE GOT BUSHWHACKED BY BUSH SR., BUSH JR., AND NOW

BCBUSH IS WORKING AT IT.

IT SAY'S A LOT FOR US & NONE OF IT IS GOOD.

Give it up Obama!

You are getting closer to the McCain positions every day! You are a follower not a leader who will say or do anything to win! And, then what?

I feel good.... when I had a chance to do so, I voted in the best interest of the World, my country, my party and true to my conscience.

I stuck with the issues and I had the courage to uphold my democratic ideals and my values of freedom, equality, justice and fair campaigns.

I did not fall prey to the slick internet marketed package called Obama.

I voted for the VERY real, VERY true, Very qualified proven leader- HILLARY CLINTON.

My part is done.

More accurately, Obama counters the RNC attacks. Many Americans agree with Obama's intuitive position on energy, and we will not allow the Republican smears to go unchecked any longer. It will not work this time.

McCain's plan seems to follow the Bush doctrine of rewarding oil compaines with more breaks when they have failed to use the allotted resources provided to them already (68 million acres of land available to drill but left untouched). Also, many economists have already said McCain's gas tax holiday will not lower prices much at all, if any.

Obama is the candidate offering long term solutions, and that deserves our vote & support in this election IMHO.

miyaki yet again you listen to the lies of McCain! Look on factcheck.org that explains that the bill actually increased taxes for the oil companies and increased research for alternative energy resources!

It's funny how being pictured with GBush is an "attack ad". Tells you something right there about the quality of Republicans.

God knows that I voted for the very BEST candidate out there.

No race games, no gender bias, no hate, no filthy insults, no denigration of fellow democrats.

Whatever happens NOW- I can proudly say I had the courage of my convictions and I voted against popular opinion and propaganda and I cast my vote for HILLARY.

Any consequences now are on the heads of the hateful, forceful Obama supporters that used hateful, vile divisive tactics to gut HRC. You may succeed in getting your nominee installed... but GOD knows what you did to achieve your end.

Ah, the logical fallacy that Obama is Jim Carter and Carter's policies are Obama's again. The McCain campaign will never tire of feeding this nonsense to the American people.

Does McCain really think that Americans are so gullible?

Well, attacking his opponent by saying half-truths and untruths over and over again did work for him during the contest for the Republican Party's nomination, more or less.

Maybe he's on to something…

BUSH & CHANEY ENERGY PLAN, ==MCBUSH ENERGY PLAN.

Where is the Love for this Country. In the beginning Obama stood stern in NOT putting his hand over his heart for the National Anthym, and no matter what he says, he went to a church for 20 years that was hateful and out to cause real dividing. In the other countries where there is so much hate for America, it is taught to their young, this hate and Obama let his children sit in a church that DID show hate, real hate. He continues to flip flop, tell the SHEEP what they want to hear, tell them how bad Bush is and all what he has done. PEOPLE, the democrates have had control of the House for the last two years, what have they done? The President has minimal power, it is the House, the Senate and YOUR Congressman that make things happen. WHAT HAVE THEY DONE GOOD in the last two years. It is very dangerous to have a man with little experience to be Commander-in-Chief of the greatest country in the world. Why are our ENEMIES wanting Obama to win? McCain may not be perfect, BUT he LOVES this country, he fought for this country and his sons are fighting for this country. Who in Obama's family is fighting for this country. WAKE UP AMERICA!!

Contrary to Obama spin- big oil is in his pocket.

Don't expect any solutions from the tell everyone what they want to hear puppet nominee.

Propaganda is swell, but JUST being half Black is NOT a qualification for the office of the presidency.

I voted for the BEST- Hillary Clinton- and I am proud of that and I can feel good about my own judgement, objectivity and convictions no matter what happens now to the Country.

Tedious 898 if he knows sooo much about the economy why is he planning on taxing the hell out of the businesses we need to get out of the whole. Tax wealthy individuals fine but if you tax the small business owner to death there is no incentive in the investment!

McCain is going to learn the hard way. when you take a swing at Obama, he punches back hard and runs the ad 3 times as many times as McCain will.

I'm glad he's showing the McBush energy policy for what it is-more pandering to the oil companies.

I'm all for nuclear, except where are the plants going to be built? In poorer neighborhoods? In which, poor people will end up living directly in the path of air born Toxins that have been said to cause cancer.

Google Cadiz, Kentucky Cancer. It's a small town that lies directly in the path of the wind blowing from the Nuclear power plant in Paducah, KY.

For it's size, it's one of the highest pct of Cancer residents in the nation.

If the US goes Nuclear, that's fine, but put the plants in the rich areas of the towns.

Wow! This ad is terrible. It provides no substance for Obama's plan whatsoever.

Really, does Obama believe a $1000 tax cut reduce our dependence on foreign oil?? I think not. That is a worse political gimmick than the gas tax holiday!!! At least the truck carrier industry can squeeze by with the help of a gas tax holiday. What does the $1000 cut do? NOTHING!!!

This is just more evidence that Obama has NO understanding of energy policy whatsoever!! At least McCain has a plan that at least makes some sense...

Obama has more corporate backing than any other candidate.

When this demagogue destroys the democratic party, I will have a clear conscience.

I did all I could- I voted for a democrat and the VERY best candidate out there- Hillary Clinton.

Obama used race as a shield to deflect criticism and as a sword to gut and carve and eviscerate all the more qualified, more experienced and BETTER democratic candidates.

Hillary was the last to fall and she ONLY did so under the never ending barrage of undeserved criticism, sexually laced debasement, insults, hate, bias, race-baiting and lies from the great Obama, his campaign, pro-Obama pundits and the media.

The DNC capitulated and installed the media and celebrity selected puppet nominee.

WATCH WHAT HAPPENS TO THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY NOW.

am i the only one a little suspicious of the fact that all of a sudden we have an oil crisis, and that gas prices jumped more than DOUBLE in one year (which is unprecedented)!!!! and we have an OIL MAN in the WH!!!

follow the money, people, ask yourself who is making the most $$$ on this so-called crisis?!?!!? uhh, that would be the oil companies who had RECORD BILLIONS IN PROFIT this year. wake up, america!!!

dont play into their hands anymore, the oil companies are laughing at you all the way to the bank!!!!

oil is the PAST!!!! we need to stop being so reliant on other countries for our energy. there's a big, huge yellow thing in the sky that can make a big contribution, only problem is...no one OWNS the sun, and so cannot profit from it the way they do old-fashioned things like oil.

@Cathy in MD

Like I said, Obama has not come up with anything new or innovative. McCain proposes all kinds of ideas. I read Obama's proposals and McCain seems to have a better grasp on energy and the economy so far. McCain proposes short and long term solutions whereas Obama proposes nothing but a bunch of long term solutions. Obama's solutions would take longer than 7 years to decrease the price of oil. Have you ever thought about that Cathy? Obama has no real solutions and McCain has a large number of real solutions that could be implemented even now. Whenever Hillary Clinton did a commercial, she would attack her candidate and then she would give her solution. Obama did not do that in his commercial because he has no real solutions and you buy into his crap!

Once again!!! Substance over Hype!! McCain 2008!!

Obama is a nut case...he doesn't even have as many brains as Bush....and that is pretty darn bad!!!!

My party is more interested in electing the first African American President than they are in doing what is best for the nation.
Obama has nothing to offer but criticism. I cant stand this guy.

he is one of the ones that are in senate for many years but never vote for anything. Well, it might be much easier to critizise afterwards.

Rob from NC

McCain 2009

OBAMA08

Drill our own. So, it takes 7 years. So what. If we don't it will still be 7 years without it. I heard that same arguement many years ago. Had we done it we would have had it on line by now.
Dems like to keep the people poor so they have something to promise them in elections.
Kids for Obama don't have enough real life experience behind them.

But if Barack keeps shifting to the right to ourGOP McCain, he will really start losing his base.

Obama followers....this is nothing more than Obama calling you a fool right to your face. This argument is naive it is scary. And you are all going for the ride. Do you have no mind of your own? It may take seven years but then it may last for a hundred or more years. I now view Obama to be a fool! I will vote for john McCain.

Headline: Iraq insists on withdrawal timetable

What do Bush and McCain have to say about that? They are speechless. It will be interesting to see what spin they create.

dumb and dumbest-ever!!!

Obama is running to the middle- where Hillary always was.

That is why I voted for HRC- because she was the most accomplished and knowledgable and qualified to lead.

That is why I will vote AGAINST Obama- because he pummeled her on NAFTA, IRAQ, FOREIGN AFFAIRS, AND THE ECONOMY.

Only to NOW steal her platform.

What a hypocrit.

Come what may in NOV- MY conscience is clear- I voted for the VERY best- no bias, no racial games, no gender games, no hate, no insults.

JUST COMMON SENSE to choose the VERY best, most qualified, experienced candidate with the most reasonable platform.

Now it is NEVER Obama after his dirty trickery.

To vote for John McCain would simply be making the statement that you condone, approve and want more of Bush-Cheney. It is my firm belief that Bush, Cheney, Rove, Rice, Frist, Delay and others should be aggressively prosecuted for lying to the American people, to the world and criminally to the congress and for belligerently using their offices and America’s resources for their own private purposes. The Bush-Cheney administration constitutes the worst presidency this country has ever known and John McCain has not only approved of their action but also advocates continuing with more of the same. There is no way, in good conscience, that I could ever vote for John McCain.

McCain and the knee-jerks think drilling will solve all our problems.

There are 30 million acres where the oil companies already have the right to search for oil. One of the reasons there is no exploration there is simply because there aren't enough drills available.

McCain wants to drill in ANWAR, too. But that oil would be extremely costly to extract. The oil companies aren't going to sell that oil cheaply in the U.S. after paying so much to get it, so it will probably all be sent to Asia.

But more drilling sounds like a good idea if you're not paying attention.

GO ON OFFENSE … Don’t Play Defense ... take it to the hole!

a) Keep McCain’s team off balance. He will revert to what he knows and what he knows will come across as dated. With the ROVE-related &* Guiliani -related addtions to his team ... they can only come across as mean. Americans don't want to see that anymore.

b) Promote your bi-partisan work, your ORIGINAL SUPPORT of the NEW GI- BILL , your belief in Christianity. Take McCain where he doesn’t want to go …

c) Be more of a MAN than McCain by contrast, not confrontation. You are slim, tall, with a slight build and those big ears… GOP will try to paint you as a physical wimp. Don’t take any B___$____t from them.

To all the stupid short-sighted McSame supporters who are urging a short term fix of drilling like your old, hggard and shortsighted McSame – saying start now, start now!, WAKE UP! Listen to we the sound judgement people including Obama even if you dont have some.

Like Mark 12:25pm ET said: So, it will take seven years. It will take longer than seven years for the alternative energy sources to be able to replace fossil fuels. Let's think short-term AND long-term...

Let's see... Obama throttled and knocked HRC out of the race by criticizing her positions and platforms.

Now he runs on over to HER exact positions on: Iraq, foreign affairs, NAFTA, and the economy.

What a lying, cheating, hypocrit. Which platform is he for? His previous one or HRC's ?

By the way.... Obama is way off on FISA and expanding faith based initiatives and on his NOT universal "universal health care plan".

Dump this pandering dirty gameplaying lying politician.

energy is a problem all over the world and the world is scrambling for answers however the solutions are years in the making what we know is we have oil and we know how to get it we have coal all we need to do is make it clean. we have the technology for nuclear reactors. what we don't know is how the alternatives will work out and i think that using the tried and true while developing alternatives makes more sense than waiting till we are at the mercy of other countries it will take generations to move away from fossil fuels and to deny that for whatever reason if irresponsible

Obama's positon on the energy crisis is the best one in my opinion. When you are on a drug that is in short supply, you do not get another pusher, you try to get OFF the drug, if you can.

The media and those in favor of drilling now should ask the McCain campaign and the radio right wingers some important questions:

1. Will the price of oil come down if we drill or will world demand force the price even higher? China and India's comsumption are about to explode if they follow our model of development.

2. Why aren't the oil companies drilling on the land the DO have now. Either because there is no oil or it is not profitable enough to extract at current prices.

3. What will happen if after 50 years our oil production begins to dry up. If you think our economy is being held hostage now wait til then. Our enemies will simply wait us out, if that isn't what they are doing already.

4. What is so wrong about thinking ahead to a new era of development.? Trying to get this economy off the backs of fossil fuels? McCain is acting like the horsesmith's in the dawn of the era of the motor car, resisting the need to change for the betterment of our nation and the world.

It is time for our leaders to start thinking intelligently about our problems and not jus in terms of what is "good" for business because as we have discovered, the two are not always the same.

Could there be any more kool-aid drinking morons than what is on this comments section?

A picture of the two imbeciles!!!

Didn't four western oil companies just get no-bid contracts to drill in Iraq once again? Since western oil companies will be drilling there, will any of that oil translate into more oil for Americans? I mean, that's about as off shore as you can get.

Obama himself said that his plan will reduce our dependency on foreign oil to 35% by the year 2030–
What are we supposed to do in the meantime Mr. Obama–
If DEMOCRATIC President Bill Clinton had signed the 1996 Bill for drilling we would not be in this mess-
But now that we are " Let's do nothing-
What do you Dems think the price of gas will be in 2012-
Stop drinking the kool aid-
This guy is way too inexperienced and unwilling to try to help–

"Does Obama really think that Americans are so gullible?" Well, President Bush was in fact elected twice.

need a young person in office not the same old shhhh NWo agenda

As long as Obama's campaign sticks to the facts as they are doing and expose McSame for the Bush clone he is Obama will win. It's gonna be a back breaker when he wins Georgia. I'm gonna love to see the sad looks on the racist rightwingers' faces here in Atlanta on Nov 2.

Sorry republicans, but It's self defense when you counter your opponents attack ads. Camp Obama will not sit around and let the next president get swiftboated, hood-winked and lied on by the GOP and their 527 groups like Kerry's campaign did in 2004.

P.S. Your money isn't long enough this year GOP. Oprah will offset anything you give McSame

Obama is clearly running to the middle since winning/stealing the nomination.

Lets call that for what it is: Lying. He either lied during the primary or is lying now. Which do YOU prefer?

Hillary Clinton was always in the middle- where most of America is- and that is why I voted for her.

After hammering and criticizing HRC for her platform, Obama has now adopted HRC's stance on foreign affairs, NAFTA, IRAQ and the economy. I really can not stand those political games.

Hillary is the only one with a True UNIVERSAL Health care plan. Obama's is just more of the same- pay for it or opt out of it- with government involvement. I will vote AGAINST any so-called "universal" health care plan, that is NOT universal, until we can get one that actually IS universal.

Today's gasoline and oil price problems and any winter time shortages of natural gas are due to the energy policies of the current administration.

To continue any aspect of that lack of strategic, future thinking about managing the country's energy consumption and it various SOURCES means that our momentum won't change.

It's good money chasing bad money on the craps table at the casino.

The next president will inherit an energy mess. We need someone who will use market forces to lead us away from an OIL, hydrocarbon dominated fuel policy to a re-newable "carrier fuel" energy policy.

Americans are just PLAIN STUPID! you want to DRILL MORE and give g. bush & his cronies more oil business & tax breaks.....gimme a break!!!!!!

there is no short term solutions to our energy crisis....and McShame is just reading off gdubya family-energy playbook and toeing the lines of his oil lobbyist friends!!!!

The problem with bandaids McCain wants (drilling) is it's just prolonging the problem AND will prevent R&D into alternatives – imagine where we'd be if we had invested 20+ yrs ago into alternatives?? This is besides the fact that more oil rigs off Fl/Ca beaches won't even affect gas prices much... and not even for 7+ yrs.

As someone else already said, the oil companies have lots of areas they can drill now... they just won't because the market is just to good for them now.

Obama had better pick a man like Joe Biden as V.P.

Should anything happen to Obama, a strong V.P. will step into the role of president and Joe Biden has the track record, the experience to lead this country's armed forces, etc.

His policy regarding Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan is the right one and people had better start listening before it is too late.

You Obama sheep are pathetic. The chosen one can say (very little of real substance) anything and you all fall in line. We ALL understand the NEED to find other alternatives for ALL of our futures, but just whining and saying that it will take to long to drill so LET'S DO NOTHING is not going to cut it anymore.

Real simple, threaten to START drilling and watch how quickly OPEC starts to change their tune, in the meantime we can start planning on opening up some of our less cumbersome sites and in THE MEANTIME, YES, YES, YES, start seeking alternatives for the FUTURE like corn, seaweed, cucumbers, WHATEVER, but more lies and obstruction by the Democrats for over 30 years on this subject has gotten us what exactly, right where we deserve to be.

Since he has no original thoughts himself, I am not running to Odumma.com to get his ideas, I want to hear them from him.

Obama is doing a response to the attacks by the republicans good for him if it was me i would not have been so nice

Just read this in a news article about Italian PM "Berlusconi burst onto the political scene with no experience and used his "vast network of media holdings" to finance his campaign on a promise to "purge the notoriously lackadaisical Italian government of corruption."" ... reminds me of a certain obama. such a shame to have the worst democratic and republicn choices in a general election at the time when the country really needs better.

Obama's decision to forgo public finance will be tested early on by 527s and RNC.

Obama – Clinton 08

America had an indicator in the seventies of oil dependency and its effects....and what did we do........we build more gas guzzling automobiles and other devices that consumed more oil. With gas at $5 dollar a gallon and our dependency on oil has now evolved to an addiction......what are we doing.....thinking about drilling, terminate production of gas guzzling vehicles........things we should have initiated in the seventies......but this is an election year......so let's bring it up again.

Republicans ruled the House since 1994 and then the Senate as of January 2001. And President Bush, of course, hase been President since 2001.

So my question to Senator McCain, much the same as I'd throw to his regarding his contention of overspending over the last few years is
"Where have you been since YOUR PARTY, the REPUBLICAN PARTY, was in total control

Just a couple of points here regarding the message of the ad:

1) You can in fact get oil from the offshore onto the market within a year if you use a MODU or drill ship. You can get it within 5 years if a rig needs to be constructed and floated out to the location while you do exploratory drilling. Seven years in a worst-case scenario.

2) The ad completely ignores the largest ever investment by any administration into hydrogen and bio fuel technology which occurred under Bush.

3) Obama refuses to be proactive with endorsing nuclear power expansion in the US, which offers the country the best form of mid-term power solution, especially since we already have the resources available domestically.

Conclusion: This ad might be effective on people who are not well-versed on the topic (which is probably what they are aiming for) and those who already support Obama. For those that do understand the topic, the ad could quite possibly push potential voters away and into the McCain camp.

Get him Obama about time you start hitting those republicans were it Hurt that takes guts i am sending 50 dollars right now to keep that ad running Obama 08

What Exactly does obama stand for – what are his policies????
Seem to CHANGE daily to suit his political needs.
Rev Wright was Right "Obama will say whatever he has to – he is a typical politician". The DNC picked the WRONG guy – they sure made a "Bonehead Mistake" – BUT Americans will fix this in November -
our VOTES will Count.

Miyak,

Um the Oil energy Bill from Cheney came in the first bush term. Obama was not elected to the Senate until the 2nd Bush term. GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT!

to therealist:we have to elect him,first.obama cant make policy until he's elected.come back on jan. 21st.and i'll tell you all about the change that's coming.

It just amazes me how many people will say things here based upon what some pondit or politicial has spun. Think about this: More drilling more fossil fuel; more fossil fuel more out of control consumption; more consumption, more greenhouse gases; more greenhouse gases more global warming more global warning more destructive weather more destructive weather more bad weather more demand for winter fuel not to mention damage to energy infrastructure. which means less energy. Oil is not the answer and certainly drilling has never been the solution. Oil companies have enough available deposits, they just want to control more leases. If they won't drill and pump the oil theyalready got here in US, what makes you think they will spend billions to pump it from Antartica duh! We willl never beable to drill our way out of this mess. I will give up my V-8 when the country gets serious about energy. We need alternatives. Byt the way Obama does have a plan. Rather than criticize and spin this mess go to his site and check out his plan. Does McBush offer anythign more than giing the oil companies more oil leases?

I sure would like to hear that ad and also hear a REAL plan from someone. Everything I have heard is 12 to 30 yrs down the road and this old lady won't live that long. We need someone with a plan to get us back on our feet NOW. This oil mess is most of the problem with the weak dollar and our lousy economy. They will never get straightened out until we become a self sufficient country again and quit letting other countries control our finances while they slowly poison our imported food supply.

And Bambi has what experience in this area?

Just what would his accomplishments on this issue be??????????

McCain, McCain, McCain! You've had hundreds of years in Congress to do the right things on spending, energy, jobs, etc. And what have you done? Well, you spend more on Iraq and want to keep troops there for 100 years. You know what? They don't want us there for even another 2 years! We keep learning the same lesson since the Crusades. They don't want the west in their part of the world – and if you, McCain, had done more to get us out of the oil business, we wouldn't be there

So, it will take seven years. It will take longer than seven years for the alternative energy sources to be able to replace fossil fuels.

Let's think short-term and long-term. If we gave the go ahead to start drilling today, the short-term you will see OPEC lower the price of oil very quickly to prevent us from being self sufficient and the long-term we will have enough oil to buy us the time to get the alternatives working.

There must be a mandate to the oil companies drilling if they drill the majority of oil must be for domestic use and perhaps some of the return on there investment must go to research and development in alternative energy sources.

Have never seen or heard a Republican who was honest with the people. They will do and say ANYTHING to get elected.

Haven't the last 8 years taught us anything???

So how much oil will we get if we don't drill?

If we could harness all of Obama's hot air, we wouldn’t have an energy problem!!

Obama is not telling the whole story (very typical political attack ploy). The off-shore drilling is just one of many plans of McCain Energy plan. It is a long-term plan to get our country ready for the shortage of oil in the future. McCain short term plans also includes Flex fuel vehicles, Plug-in hybrids and battery development, ethanol from non-corn crops, solar and wind.

The Obama attack ad just to show that Obama is old-politics, attack your opponent position without getting into the whole story. People, let's wake up from this Obama pipe dream. Just look at him with an open mind and judge him for what he really is.

McCain and Bush...buddies to the end.

Americans don't need more political pandering when it comes to energy. Americans need "INTERVENTION" for our addiction to oil. When you support 95% of the same "crap" that Bush supported, then you can't successfully separate yourself from GW Bush! This is and will be John McCain's problem throughout this campaign. No one outside of the political junkies will care how McCain voted or bucked the party line 12 to 24 years ago. Most Americans are going to be concerned on how McCain voted over the last 8 years under the Bush years!

no matter how you cut it, wether its just around the corner or a long ways away, the only real solution is to get off oil and we should be sprinting to get there as soon as possible.

one of the things that has made us such a great country through out our history has been staying ahead of the curve, coming up with solutions the quickest and being the leaders of progress. We have been increasingly falling off in that realm recently and instead of looking for real solutions, we try and protect the status quo and the companies that finance or politicians campaigns.

We are sinking............but we don't have to.

Well I do not know about Obama or his supporters, but I plan to be here in seven years, sooner we get started the better. If Clinton had allowed drilling in 1995 we would not have this mess that we are dealing with right now. In '70 we imported 24% of our oil needs, today its up to 80%.
As I said I plan to be in this country in seven years, sooner they start the better.

Now we know that McCain takes sides with Bush, but I guess I missed the part in the article that talks about what Obama's plan is.

For all those who say we should not drill for oil, are we going to stop using oil in 7 years? Yes, i know, we should be decreasing our usage of oil, but that doesn't mean we're going to actually stop using oil in the years to come. We'll still need those supplies or prices will just remain stuck at these high prices.

Second, yes, we should do more to develop renewable and altnernative energy sources and increase effciency. But should the government do that? That same government that cannot pin point the recent salmonela outbreak? The same government that only 12% of people think is doing a good job? The same government that doles out money to special interests and campaign contributors? Do you think that money will be spent wisely?

One example. The German government spent billions of dollars buying solar energy units. So many units that there is a shortage of parts that are used for solar energy panels and have driven the cost of such technology higher.

Turns out, solar energy isn't that great for Germany. Studies show that wind turbines would have been much more efficient for this often cloudy and blustery region. But the government didn't care! They were 'doing something'. They were being 'green'.

Would have been a lot more green had they spent some time figuring out that solar was not best. One would pray that the evil "free market" would have figured this out before they blew billions of dollars. And if they got it wrong?? Well, taxpayers are stuck with the bill.

That's what is great about the free market. Individuals are willing to risk their own money. The government, however, is filled with individuals that risks everyone's money.

Snowbama has no plan, but, he sure likes to poke holes in everybody elses.

Where's the Beef?

John McShame says he is against dependency on oil, but overnight he FLIP-FLOPPED and want americans to DRILL MORE!

McBush, you can't be for and against more oil dependence; providing band-aid solutuions like summer gas tax rebates is not the solution; more oil drilling at the expense of the environment is not the solution ; giving more tax breaks to oil companies to drill more is not the solution!

John McSame = 4 MORE YEARS OF GDUBYA FAILED ECONOMIC POLICIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Drilling for more oil isn't the answer. If you people want to discover the truth investigate Canadian Oil Companies that have one of the largest reserves in the world yet our gas prices are a lot higher than your gas prices. Also Canada ships a large portion of it's oil and gas to your country.

It's not the supply of oil that's the problem. A little research by everyone would do the public more good than drilling off shore or in Alaska.

Love the pic. McSame is Bush part III

Good for Obama for challenging McCain and the GOP on this.

No matter how much we drill, or where, we will never see $3 gas again in our lifetime. It's a simple supply and demand issue, and we can never drill for as much oil as growing economies like China and India are demanding.

Somebody said that if we had started drilling a decade ago, we'd have the oil by now. Well, if we had started actively promoting solar and wind 15 years ago when I began working for Greenpeace, we'd have those online now. That argument goes both ways.

We need to invest in the energy technologies of the future, instead of trying to prop up a dirty, outdated 19th century technology.

I wish they would write the entire transcript to show what obama is proposing and making it seems as though he is going after McCain and not making any solutions. The ad goes as such

On gas prices, John McCain’s part of the problem.

McCain and Bush support a drilling plan that won’t produce a drop of oil for seven years.

McCain will give more tax breaks to big oil.

He’s voted with Bush 95% of the time.

Barack Obama will make energy independence an urgent priority.

Raise mileage standards.

Fast track technology for alternative fuels.

A $1000 tax cut to help families as we break the grip of foreign oil.

A real plan and new energy.

OBAMA: I’m Barack Obama and I approve this message.

So Sen. McCain tells you he doesn't walk in bootstep with President Bush, but then joins in his call to violate the beautiful coast of Oregon, Washington and ok, California. You just have to love a candidate that stands up for himself and doesn't flip flop.

Obama 2008

Well if it is going to take 7 years then we better start soon! If we wait for Obama to use some common sense it will be 13 years!

where is Change?The same BS.Wake up America. NO obama .NO obama.

And meanwhile back at the ranch, Bush and all his oil buddies are laughing while they sit on the current offshore sites and see the rest of us suffer.

To be honest with you, its not so much whether you believe me or not, as much as you hear me. ~ Larry Sinclair

Larrysinclair0926.wordpress.com
Larrysinclair.org

Obama '08: YES, WE SCAM!

katie c,

What is wrong with our country and how is it almost destroyed? You need to open your eyes and stop watching the all negative news channels. We live in a great country that provides opportunities to EVERYONE!

America needs liberals to balance the political arena, but man, they just don't make sense. Because Obama uses the word Change, everyone thinks there will actually be Change. Are you kidding me? He is a politician. Look at his history in Illinois.

If he said jump over the cliff, you wacky liberals would probably do it. Follow sheep follow........

You people are so brain washed by the media that you dont see the big alaround picture. The agenda First Gobal warming then fuel shortage, or peak oil what ever they want to call there skeem bio fuel causing food to go up. The big wigs have our chain and there pulling it and we take the b.s.hook line and sinker read the history of oil and see how these guy's conduct buisiness starting with standard oil and see who actually runs this country and the two puppets in the picture. The Electric car was bought out and tossed to the side a long time ago so that they can continue to rake in the dogh and since a good thing cat last they know it is comeing to a end so ther for high gas prices .We need to be a united as a people not devided like they want. There is no sides in life on this planet eather get it together or fall for the same song and dance while the manopalizers continue ther game.

What it fails to mention is that the Dems put down a drilling plan in 1998 by saying it would be 7-10 years before we saw any oil. interesting. oh, and then the Saudi's increased prodution so the bottom fell out on the price and the Americans (with their heads in the sand) were fat and happy again.

What I really enjoy is seeing the word fallacy bandied about, and blaming the congress. Correct me if I am wrong, but for the first six years of the Bush Diktat, the Congress was firmly Republican, and laid down for whatever Bush wanted. W did not veto a SINGLE bill until the last year of Republican Dominance.

So the lack of a coherent energy policy, no drilling off the coast of Florida (guess that was owed to Jeb, right?), and more importantly, no new refineries started during 5 years of complete Republican control of the government is somehow the fault of the Democratic Congress of the last year?

THAT is a fallacy!

Good, keep attacking McCain because I don't want our gas to go up to $10. if he's elected.

Obama 08

Alternative fuels are not the answer!!

They will be the answer in another 50 years or longer! Right now we have the infrastructure to produce oil and do it rather quickly.

I totally reject that we don't do anything about oil and instead try to go with alternative fuels which have no real way to delivering to markets!
Plus they are not the answer and never could support our energy needs!

The answer is OIL.....whether you like it or not!

This idea from Obama and the Dems is so bad! They don't care about whether the price of gas is killing!

If I were McCain I would be slapping Obama's stupid face and buck teeth with this!

I love that picture of Bush and McBush actiing really friendly

We must stop the obsession with oil and other fossil fuels. The price will never go down because the demand exceeds the supply. In the near future, there will be no oil -none – zero – zip. If we drill offshore, if we drill in ANWR, if we drill in every living room in America, we will still never have enough oil to fuel the addiction for more than about 20 years.

We must invest now in alternative and renewable energy sources or we will be fighting wars for oil for the next 3 decades until every last drop is gone. Then what? Then, we'll look back and say to our grandchildren that we should have planned better and generated renewable sources of energy sooner. If we think that drilling will suddenly provide enough oil, we'll just feed the addition that much more.

Stop thinking of your immediate needs and think of the future for you children, grandchildren, and beyond. Bush, Cheney, and their Saudi business partners are laughing their way to bank at what fools we've been. They don't care about anything but their immediate needs, do you?

Tipical democrat. Critisise the other guy's plan to distract from the stupitity of your own

Why hasn't Big Oil begin drilling on the thousands of acres they already have access to? Waiting for the price of oil to go up! Why hasn't the government collected the $12 billion in fines that have already been levied on Big Oil? Two oilmen in the White House looking out for their cronies! Why hasn't mainstream Media reported more about companies like Hunt Oil cutting deals in Iraq to take their oil, showing why we invaded? IT WAS ALWAYS ABOUT THE OIL!!! Meanwhile, the REAL WAR ON TERROR in Afghanistan and Pakistan is spinning out of control! Feel safer yet?

Nobama forgot the footnote that reminds people that he received over $200k from oil companies and their family members.

Oh well, I guess this is how a Washington outsider works. Oh wait, he's in the Senate, he should have been doing his job in Washington for the past three years. What did he do? NOTHING! What is he going to do for the United States? NOTHING!

McCain's energy policy is such an attempt to fool the American people, play on their ignorance, and pandering its unreal. Fact is Drilling for new oil wont produce anything for SEVEN years ... NOTHING, and once it is producing it will produce so little as to not make any real difference in global supply or pricing. To use this as a solution is simply a bad, bad, bad idea. And why not tax the oil companies more ? use those profits to invest in American infrastructure, institutions (ie: Health Care) and maybe, just maybe, sponsor initiatives to change your energy supply off oil. Oil can not be the future, this is new drilling is proposed to secure your energy future, all it is doing is securing your energy past.

Obama, real change, real possibilities, real.

NEWS FLASH:

This is not an attack...It is the TRUTH.

Let's see, liberals complain and fight off shore drilling and then complain that Bush didn't do anything to flood the market with new oil.

What is wrong with that argument?

Liberals, are you really that naive to think the oil companies are not investing in alternative energy? Whatever company invents or produces an alternative source will instantly become a monopoly. They are all racing to THIS finish line.

I agree that Senator Obama has to fight back and put the truth out there if they are giving misinformation.

Obama is making a big mistake by leaving Texas to McCain...This huge state can be challenged this time. It needs to be included and it will mess up all McSame calculations

The problem with McCain's energy plan is that it's a plan to win the election and not a plan to help American people.

Drilling will add about 4 million barrels to the world market. That's a drop n the bucket to the 85 million or so barrels the world needs a day. Also by the time the new oil wells comes online, the demand would have exceeded 100 million barrels a day.
Drilling will NOT HELP lover the cost.

Gas Tax – We all know it's a phony solution. You'll end up with the same Gas prices at the end of the summer, and about 300,000 would have lost their jobs, and roads and bridges would not get repaired.

300 Million Gift- What a sham this is. You need a lot of resources to create a solution the energy crises. Individual organizations do no have such resources. This is another one of those scams to get elected.

McCain is delusional if he thinks he can fool the American public with this kind of stupid gimmics.

mitchell hussein martin July 8th, 2008 11:29 am ET

not an attack.just hard ,cold facts!get it right,cnn!every ad is not an attack!you perpetuate the notion of negative campaigning when using these adjectives!an attack should be something personal,not an ad on the issues.media needs to report facts,without mincing words.
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You know, it's perfectly possible–laudable, in fact–to attack an opposing viewpoint with facts. There's nothing wrong with the word "attack" per se, and CNN hasn't suggested that Obama's ad was an unfair "attack or "negative" in any way–at least not in this story. We should be careful readers if we're asking news organizations to be careful reporters.

I am so tired of Obama that it is making me sick! Obama proposes nothing with any substance.

Those of you who say all Obama is doing is attacking, you obviously have not been paying attention. Obama most of the time is presenting his policies, and introducing himself to the American people. But when he is attacked, his campaign always responded quickly. The mistake made by previous democratic campaigns was that they never responded quickly enough to attacks (a la swiftboating). Pay attention, do your research (like read his policies on his website) then make thoughtful comments.....

Regarding the oil issue, why don't we explore the over 40 million acres the oil companies already have BEFORE leasing even more land for them to cherry pick. IF they done that seven years ago we may not be in the crisis either.

He has proposed a second round of stimulus. Something that will actually make a difference in the short term.

1.) Who the heck considers 7 years short term? By that time, we will be priced out of buying gas anyway.

2.) Gas prices are NOT GOING DOWN!!!! Stop being dumb and listening to these stupid offshore drilling ideas.

3.) There are already millions of acres of land on lease for drilling. If the GOP wants to drill so d@mn badly, why don't they exhaust those resources before skipping that and going straight to offshore drilling?

I'm for Obama's STIMULUS PACKAGE!!!

Put money in my pocket so I can buy the expensive gas...don't drill for oil so it can be $3.85 instead of $4.20. I can't afford either one!!!!!!!

OBAMA/SEBELIUS 2008-2016

No more drilling!!

And besides, I love high gas prices. It helps keeps those stupid poor people of the road and on the bus.

@mitchell hussein martin

Enough with your dumb attacks troll. Like I said, Obama attacks people and then proposes nothing. I read it already and its full of crap. He attacks people in his speeches and then proposes nothing. How about this troll, he proposes nothing new or innovative. At least McCain has ideas. Are you a CNN moderator or are you a paid blogger by the Obama campaign because your post seem to get on here a lot.

Price of gas was $1.43 when Clinton, (a democrat) left the office. Its about $4.40 now, thanks to Bush, ( a republican).

Any questions?

They Should Start The Drilling On Top Of Mccains Head! Once They Penetrate The Egg Like Surface They Should Find A Couple Of Barrels!

I like how Obama whines and complains about using photos that make suggestive comments about him, yet he has no problem parading photos of McCain with Bush.

Let's ignore that Obama has no realistic plans, and that big oil indirectly gave him lots of money.

Talk about stooping.

Looks like good old boy John was a little heavier in this picture? This one's for you John. McCain/Lieberman/Keating 08!

I think Obama is a dim witt,. If we would have started drilling 7 years
ago we would have oil now. Obama dosen't have a clue, at least McCain is doing something that will benefit us in the future. We have to start somewhere and now is the time.

I like how Obama whines and complains about using photos that make suggestive comments about him, yet he has no problem parading photos of McCain with Bush. Talk about stooping.

McPain is like a 8088 PC with 5.25 inch floppy and no hard drive... Obama is a Mainframe with Terabytes of data in him.
OBAMA (2008 -16)

So..., where's the CHANGE in politics that Obama keeps promising!?....

A picture is worth a thousand words and this one says to me: McCain, McSame

Oil Drilling is not a solution. Oil will not last forever we must develop renewable energy sources starting yesterday.

To Jeff Long and all of those who claim that Obama has “no plan” and “proposes nothing,” you need to educate yourselves. Go to Obama’s website and click on “Issues.” Your criticisms of Obama have no basis in fact.

Ever notice that the politicians invested in oil are the ones who favor drilling for more oil rather than proactively supporting fuel alternatives?

The issue on drilling didn't start this election cycle, but goes back decades, or have people forgotten the 70's, for example, when oil prices sky-rocketed then? There was talk of additional drilling and oil independence then... more than 30 years ago. However, nothing gets done. And why should it, oil investors are making fortunes without having to do a thing.

I think it's high-time that that oil companies be weaned off of government subsidies and spend some of the indecently earned wealth to pay for R&D on their own and only be subsidized for R&D of alternative sources...

Obama offers nothing new, but criticizes much. I have been a democrat for 30 years but am unable to support Obama. He is nothing more than ego in a suit. My party is more interested in electing the first African American President than they are in doing what is best for the nation. I don’t care what color the president is as long as he or she has some record of accomplishments. Obama has accomplished nothing and is running on arrogance and rhetoric. They have moved the venue for his acceptance speech at the Democratic convention to make room for his huge ego!

Actually neither candiate offers a plan to bring new oil exploration or production to the market. Each of these candidates are in the environmentalist leftist pocket. Our politcal leaders must stop giving in to special interest groups and finally decide what is best for the American public and the human race. Simple solution open exploration stop supsidising oil exploration as welll and do not raise tax windfall profits. Keep government out of our free market economy and let competition prevail.

For all the genious's of this great country we are sadly going to be represented by one of these two men. It is a sad political year and will be a sad 4 years till we get a leader we can all follow.

Praying for Greenspan to return and a strong dollar...

Our dependence on oil most certainly not going to be resolved
over night. But to use band aides as a solution is hipocrasy.
We need to find quickly alternative ways to supply our country
and pandering to and supporting big oil is not the soltuion.
Nothing has been done for years to address this problem.
All politicians are to blame to a degree, but more heavily
on Bush/Cheny who have supported, negotiated with big oil,
for their own purposes and sacrificing America.
McCain will follow in their footsteps as he has supported
every policy they have presented.
We cannot survive having the republican party and McCain
in control. They have already nearly destroyed our country.

Obama's plan is to wean America off oil. Alternative energy, higher fuel efficient cars, exploring hydrogen and electric cars. If your ready for OIL REHAB, which I am, McCain is not your man. He's the CRACK DEALER for OIL CARTELS. There's no short term fix at all. Obama is not promising anything that can not be delivered. McCain is making promises he and the republicans can't or won't deliver.

Before you shoot your mouth off about "What's Obama's plan? duh" Get online and research his stance on all the issues compared to McCain and make a intelligent and wise decision when you vote.

AGAIN, the GOP is screaming Obama's gonna raise our taxes. They don't do the research at all. They just spin everything to fit their need. Who got us out of the First Bush debt? Bill Clinton did, how? Raised taxes on the rich. How are we getting out of this debt? The same way. Economics 101.

You Cant Just Drill Our Way Out Of This Situation Mccain! You Have To Bring Energy Online From Multiple Sources Not Just More Oil!

Typical Liberal policy. Yes, the Dems want high gas prices. That way they can begin to nationalize our petro industry. High prices will be their justification in doing so.

See, all you Obama lovers, he aint gonna help you. This is not CHANGE.......it's MADNESS.....DRILL YOU FOOLS!

Another reason why Obama is so scary, this man must be stopped. We can't afford all his tired, old, failed ideas that he has somehow spun into "change".

Lets face it America John McBush and this administration is doing every thing they can for oil companies before the next president takes office and may not be as stupid. John McBush and this administration have put us in the mess, now McBush says he can get us out in his first term, of course he knows he does not have to keep that promise as he will be 76 years old . No first term for McBush! Barack"Hussein"OBama 08

Connie"Hussein"Sturgeon from Indiana

You can have ALL the education in the world. If you don't have one bit of common sense, all that you have learned is worthless on so many levels. This could be why Bush failed so tremendously and this could be why a lot of people don't see the whole picture behind Bush and McCain's failed tactics.

Obama's campaign is just keeping reality into check.

Congratulations CNN, the McCain camp has successfully manipulated your irresponsible reporting. You bashed Obama for days for flip-flopping on Iraq and yet his message has been clearly consistent for at least the past 8 months or so. You need to apologize for your irresponsible reporting.

It will take decades to come up with viable alternatives that will replace our dependance on oil for our energy needs. McCain has outlined a long term plan which includes Govt funded research for alternatives as well as allowing new drilling, additional refining capacity and building more Nuk power plants (France gets about 80% of its power from Nukes), all of which will keep our economy strong while we responsibly make the transition.

So far Sen. Obama has not given any detailed plans for long term energy independance. He relies on focus group tested lines for speeches and bashing Mcain's ideas. The Govt can't solve this problem either overnight or ALONE, and Sen. Obama knows this.

This is not CHANGE this is typical Political posturing by a typical Liberal Politician.

Hey George – I guess you would prefer a continuation of the tax cuts for the rich huh? Like John Mcrich? I mean come on. Obama's plan will tax the ones who can afford it and cut the average americans taxes significantly. I think it's called fair. Oh BTW if some of you morons could read and go to Obama's website he has an extremely detailed plan outlining his specific plan but you don't want to hear that do you?

Use common sense we have had 8 years of REP.
Where has that got us .......................................
America needs a new direction and someone with intelligence in the office, oh it would help if they actually knew about the economy.

No more McBush McSame whoever he is this year???

When your own family has money spending outrages limits how can you connect to the situation America is in? YOU MAY TRULY THINK ECONOMY IS JUST SLOWING DOWN! The fact is you don't feel our pain. When a kid runs a credit debt of more than the average American household monthy income. THERE IS SERIOUS DENIAL!

For those of you who keep trying to claim Obama has no plans there is a very popular website that lays out his plans very clearly. It is BarackObama.com if you are really that concerned. Just because McCain has no verbal skills to go along with many of his other Bush like traits don't take it out on Obama. Tell us what is so good about McCain, that is if you have anything good to say.

Give it a rest Ernie! Obama is attacking the policy not the candidate. Its a bad idea ....ask Pickens (an oil man). He specifically says we can't drill ourselves out of this problem.

Wake up please! It makes for a better voting decision if you're at least midly coherent.

This time America...Let's vote for the smart guy! (you know, the guy that actual understandards economics, not the guy that said he's knows very little about the economy, ....you know the guy that actually knows how to use a computer ...the guy that believes its time to leave Iraq)

Oh, and Independent, the price of oil was low 8 years ago and most oil companies wouldn't have bothered to even try drilling. We'd still be in the same boat.

How ridiculous Obama.......this is like saying that planting seeds won't have any effect for 3 months......after that......guess what.....you get food.....if you start drilling now....in the future (I thought Obama was all about change for the future?).....you will get oil and at some point, cost relief. If Obama can't figure this one out then you are in for a world of hurt!!!!

Mccain And Bush Look Like Best Friends In That Photo! He Wont Be Able To Seperate Himself From Bush! Mccain Only Wants To Drill For More Oil And Thats His Only Idea!

McCain could care less about energy, economics or the average american, he is an elitist. He supports continued tax cuts for the rich, nuclear power with no plans on disposing of its wastes and drilling off our pristine coasts. Thank you Obama for stating the truth. I will be donating more money to you today.

We don't need to open up more ocean for drilling. The oil companies already own leases covering 3/4 of the known off-shore reserves and they aren't using them.

What we need is to USE LESS OIL! Just about the only area of economic activity in which we still have a decided edge on the rest of the world is research and development. If we develop the new low energy technologies before other people do, our economy will prosper.

But if we let the advocates for old industry continue to dominate our politics, we will continue to invest in the outdated and economically marginal and America will continue to ship more jobs oversees than manufactured goods.

It is not about getting more oil it is about getting off the addiction to oil, we need to reorganize our economy away from oil....Stop sending our money to countries that don't like us... keep it here in our country.

Look, I work for an oil company. You must think there's oil out there, but to be honest, there's no guarantee. Even if we find oil, with the same resources, oil companies must invest in the very expensive equipment to build the platforms. Then there's the lack of extra refining capacity.

Stop being naive people, we can't drill our way out of this mess. Oil companies have plenty of areas they can drill and have yet to do so. Offshore drilling is a dumb idea to solve a short term crisis.

McShame is like warmed over burned gravy nothing new the taste/looks is the same just a different day.
Between McShame and Lieberman they are not only old school politics we are tired looking at them they look like they have been here since at least the 1800's .
Throw them both under the bus.

Obama so easy to attack, yet offers no solutions of his own.

What beats 5-10 years for offshore drilling? NOTHING. Come on Dems, let's hear your braniac plans that beat 5-10 years. Nothing will be that.

I heard McCain try to explain his economic plan on the news yesterday. The man is an idiot, plain and simple. If Americans are dumb enough to elect him, there is no hope for our country.

McShame is proposing nothing NEW to solve the energy crisis...he is just reading off George Bush's energy plan. drill for more oil. give oil companies more business & more tax breaks; which in turn ends up in Dick Cheney's Halliburton hands & their lobbyist friends and then even more tax breaks to outsource american jobs overseas.

McBush = 4 MORE YEARS OF GDUBYA FAILED ECONOMIC POLICIES!!!!!!

Jeff Long July 8th, 2008 11:29 am ET

There's not a lot to propose short term to cut gas prices. Any economist will tell you this. Anyone telling you there is something is just pandering which if that floats your boat then so be it. That's the problem . We have to decrease our dependence on oil not increase it. If drilling is the answer then why are the oil companies sitting on 68 million acres that they can drill on right now?

They are both a day late and a dollar short in doing something to help us.

Perhaps I'm alone here–but isn't Senator Obama also a member of the most do nothing bunch of elected officials we've had in our congress in decades?

Talk about the pot calling the kettle black.

For all of you whining about his counter ads and change I suggest you use your sense and see that he has to be on the offensive and defensive side. There's nothing horrible about these ads – they're a standard way to get the message out – what do you propose he do – rent the goodyear blimp? C'mon, be realistic here.

Go to his web site and read his plan...if you are educated enough to read...DUH!!!

jeff.go to barack obama .com if you want obama's proposals.if you dont research for yourself,you'll never know the truth,and that leaves your argument with no standing.obama has proposed many things,you just talk smack ,instead of learning for yourself.

95% of the time? check factcheck.org

it's just over 75%
Obama is just over 60%

And if we had done it seven years ago, we wouldn't be in this crisis now...

McCain and Bush are connected at the hip!
What's so sad is millions of Americans can't see
or don't want to believe it.

I agree with Angie. The picture tells you everything you need to know.

If you loved the last 7 years, vote for McCain.

I would rather vote for someone who is more likely to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.

Edwards would have been my first choice, Hillary my second. But Obama will do just fine.

Go Obama! Crank out the ads that actually tell the TRUTH!

Why don't Republicans and Big Oil want to drill in the thousands and thousands of offshore acres (which they currently aren't touching) that are already available to them?

An oil exec recently was on the Situation Room (Chevron's CEO, I think), and he commented that there was no "Mapquest" to drill for oil. Well why would you start drilling more holes, then, if you are already clueless as to where more might be.

Anybody but McCain '08

Wow! Thank you my honorable President-to-be Obama! i just posted this concern somewhere yesterday or so, that Obama should reply to attack add on policy by McShame with an ad not a simple statement by his spokesman. And they were right on it!!! The real McShame and all the trash and 99% of Bush he stands for needs to be spelt out for all non-racists americans to beware!

So, McCain runs an ad touting his energy policy and Obama runs an attack ad in response. So much for the Politics of Change...

george.we need to use less oil.prices are high,because we cant get enough of it.obama's plan is to wean people off the need for oil,that is destroying our economy and the world climate.if you want details on obama's 'plan',that you say he doesn't have,please go to www,barackobama.com and look under header that says 'ISSUES'.you will find all of obama's plans to solve our problems,there.so dont come on here saying he has no plan ,when you haven't bothered to look or listen for yourself.you just spew bs.

Yes, and they have been giving this objection to new drilling for a decade now. Had we begun then, we'd have it now. Seven years is right around the corner, if we intend to have a thriving economy, drill! And for Pete sake, do it cleanly!

See George what you fail to realize that the quest isn't for more oil. It's for finding new sources of energy to get us off the need for oil. Taxing the oil companies record profits will force them to put those would be profits into R & D or give them up in taxes. The R & D would go a long way towards creating new sources of energy or at least making the current alternatives more safe and efficient.

Seems like a very pragmatic plan to me.

Obama voted for the Dick Cheney's energy bill loaded with goodies for the Oil industry.

His vote was influenced by lobbyists for Exelon, an energy company. This company has contributed a lot of money to his campaign.

I love how the media uses words like Attack... Blasted... and Lashes... Come on... on both sides.... if there is any response to the other side... why can't it just be their opinion...

If MCcain says anything about Obama... maybe we should know if they were asked about it or was it something that he came out to say on his own... i.e. "Mr MCcain, how do you feel about Obama's consideration of the iraq situation?" vs..... MCcain coming on tv to just say anything about what Obama said & what he meant... It's a very different thing

-V

Ah, the logical fallacy that McCain is Bush and Bush's policies are McCain's again. The Obama campaign will never tire of feeding this nonsense to the American people.

Does Obama really think that Americans are so gullible?

Well, attacking his opponent by saying half-truths and untruths over and over again did work for him during the contest for the Democratic Party's nomination, more or less.

Maybe he's on to something...

Take a good look at McCain, what do you see...old school politics and ideas. Nothing new, nothing to draw people together, just the same old school politics.

What's so funny about this is that once again Obama proposes nothing.

Substance over hype!! McCain 2008!!

not an attack.just hard ,cold facts!get it right,cnn!every ad is not an attack!you perpetuate the notion of negative campaigning when using these adjectives!an attack should be something personal,not an ad on the issues.media needs to report facts,without mincing words.

love the picture and aint that the TRUTH!!!!

OK O'Bama lets tax the oil companies that will get us more oil real quick.

No plan – only a novelty of the left to push the agenda.