CNN

Hurricane just hit the Gulf Coast of Texas very hard over the weekend, and in the process took 25% of the country's oil refineries off line for weeks. Increasing off shore drilling does no good if you haven't increased refinery capacity. Some companies such as Valero are trying to expand the current capacity, but they won't be finished for at least 3 years, and there won't be any new oil rigs popping up for at least 5 years. In 2002 Sen. McCain voted in favor of a bill that Pres. Bush signed into law allowing the oil companies to sell the oil that they extract from American soil on the Worl Oil Market, so who exactly does "Drill here, Drill now" benefit? Research for yourself how long it takes to from oil discovery to gas delivery. Sen. McCain hasn't told you how long it takes to build a single nuclear reactor, nor where or how he plans to store the nuclear waste. We already have a natural gas infrastructure that can be expanded, and cars have been running on compressed natural gas since the mid to late 90's.

Chris Matthews said it best today. When have we seen a party try to take off it's uniform in the middle of the game. The buck stops with the Republiican trickle down economics. It does not work. McCain has no where to go.

Best line of the day-
The good ole boys club? That's a staff meeting for John McCain!
Go Obama!

just heard Sara at town hall meeting. When asked that exact question..."can we keep all the oil drilled in the USA in the USA and not sell it to foreign markets" her delightful response..."john and I are going to reform washington,clean out the swamp and see that US oil stays in the US because it's our oil and it belongs to the American people".......omg.....what planet did this trophey vice come from?

talk is cheap and thats all OBAMA can do is talk....... he can't even think about the cost of gas and could care less.......If he would sit down and look at the situation the answer stares him in the face

take hurricane IKE it did not do that much damage to the oil platforms of refineries. but the gas company claims it was extensively damaged by the wind... they keep the price of gas up this way

he wants off shore drilling....which is what the oil companies want because of the hurricane season...... if Obama wants more oil then drill for it on land and out of the hurricanes way.

Also use the oil that is in the wells that the government has capped and paying a demerger on to the owner of these wells.

America has more oil than the foreign nations do yet no one in congress or the senate wants to do anything about this,,,,,,Its time to stop being captive to a foreign nation.

FIRE THEM ALL AND START OVEN NEW [ ELECTED PEOPLE IN BOTH HOUSES] FIRE THEM

Mccain wants to change Washington, but he forget he is part of Washington.
Who is he fooling? He has all the lobbyiest beside him and he wants to shake them...ehhhh.

Tell me after the election, who will run his government the lobbyiest and specail interest groups.

To Greg FL – obumbler hasn't told the truth since day one of his campfuzzle! Why would anyone in FL or MI vote for this thing when he vote Hillary tooth and nail to keep these two states from having their votes count?

I don't think Obama's plan is saying that we must drive Hybrids or that we need to isolate ourselves from the world. But we do need to reduce our reliance on foreign oil. Our money is helping to finance terrorism and countries that hate us. George Bush made that statement not too long ago. Unfortunately, he didn't do much about it.

If drilling here in our own country (obumbler says) won't produce anything for 10 yrs., just how does he think all this modern technology will be in place and take us of foreign oil independence in 10 yrs. Not only does he not know how many states are in the USA but he can't do math either.

NOW THATS A PLAN.................................

OBAMA/BIDEN 08

CNN, where is your analysis of McCain's energy plan? Or does he even have one?

Come on, now, dig it up, do your jobs...

You forgot to factor in the inherent inefficiency of an Obama Dictatorship.

Shut up caribu barbie. Fellow Obama supporters, please listen up. This is long, but it's important. You need to take some action right now to make sure your vote counts. CALL YOUR POLLING PLACE AND COUNTY COURT HOUSE AND MAKE SURE YOU ARE STILL REGISTERED TO VOTE!

I am urging all who come out to vote... please do not advertise your vote. Leave your Obama pins and shirts at home on this day. Cast your votes proudly, but with secrecy Do not give the corrupt republicans any chance at distorting or eliminating your vote. EVERYONE... call your polling place shortly before Nov. 4 and make sure you are still registered to vote. And PLEASE! pay close attention to your ballets! Make absolutely sure that you are voting for Obama and not McCain. Make sure Obama's name is actually next to the box you check or the circle you fill in or the hole that you punch or however your polling place records votes. Take your time and make sure you are voting for the correct candidate. If you don't know, ask! Get there early if you can to avoid broken machines and long lines. If you need a ride, contact the Obama campaign. barackobama.com. Make sure your vote counts on Nov. 4. It's just too important.

Republican politicians are the most corrupt individuals in this country. They have proven with their outright outrageous pandering and lying that they want this election BAD. They will stop at nothing, including severe corruption in the polls.They did it to Al Gore and they will try to do it to Obama. I am strongly urging and downright begging all of you to donate just one day of your time to try and stop this horrible injustice. Take a vacation day on November 4 and volunteer at your local polling place to be a polling place watcher. Polling place watchers are trained by the Obama campaign as well as by your polling place to look out for signs of foul play at the polls. I think they are called polling place watchers. Maybe they use a different term now. Not sure. Anyway, Just one day, to try to offset the corruption that will be taking place by the republicans. Contact the Obama campaign via barackobama.com and volunteer for this terribly important day.

Copy and paste this post into every blog you can find. Help me spread the word and help me stop the republican corruption machine!

Two points:
1. For those said Hillary 2012 and support McWhine/Palin, you are all fake. Why? If you like McWhine/Palin, wouldn't you want them in office for two terms? Shouldn't you said Hillary 2016?

2. McWhine/Palin don't love America. In fact, they hate America. Evidence: Where are their flag pins? They don't wear them, do they? McWhine even said he DIDN"T REALLY LOVE America until he was deprived of her.

Go ahead. Support a traitor!!

77% of Obama's ads are negative

What a dirt ball. And a wind bag

This is outrageous.

Obama is risky and a clear and present danger to our society.

There is no way any plan of this nature will be a quick fix. In the mean time we need oil. NOT OBAMA OR IS IDIOT IDEALS. FACE IT AMERICA THIS MAN IS NOT CHANGE. HE DOESN'T KNOWN ENOUGH TO CHANGE THE DRAWERS ON ONE OF HIS BABIES. PLEASE GET THE SENSE GOD GAVE A GOOSE AND PUT THIS MAN DOWN.

AT LEAS TOBAMA HAS A PLAN AND CAN LAY IT OUT. WITH NO LIES. WOW WHAT A CONCEPT.
GO OBAMA

Finally, some fact checking on Obama's ridiculous statements of his pie in the sky visions.

Drill baby drill...drill now. Drill into Democrat's heads that RAISING TAXES IS LETHAL TO OUR ECONOMY WHETHER IT IS STRONG OR WEAK...DUH!!!!!

What IS MCCAIN'S PLAN other than to drill, baby, drill.

and his running mate is hiding from everything and everyone.

No McCain

Let's take our country back and give an INTELLIGENT PERSON – NOT another idiot like Bush.

Obama/Biden '08

which plan collects the most money. that's the one that raises taxes

Now the communist comment! Same old Republican refrain. Brainwashing spans generations. That's the best that you can do? This type of reasoning was weak years ago and is still weak!

CNN story last week on proposed budgets
Obama $360 billion
McCain $415 – $460 billion

CNN story on proposed budgets of the canidates

Obama $360 Billion
McCain $415-$460 Billion

McCain will also lower your Federal taxes, But you local and state taxes will go up because of revenue lost from the Feds.
Just smoke and mirrors

journalism, supposed to be unbiased
fact check owned by same people who sat obama as a chairmember
I can't afford a new car so this plan won't work in my world and plus
I could never vote for a traitor.

logan act look it up

you guys at cnn are so baised how come we never here anything positive about mccain are you trying to imply that Obama is an Angel!

Barbra Striesand is a community organizer – just on a different level.

Eleven million bucks in one night???

Striesand 2012

At least Obama has a plan.....

Palin 2012 - You are not fooling anyone. The same post on every topic -- Go hate somewhere else.

That's great! I honestly thought the plan was a little too good to be true. I'm happy to say I was wrong.

It seems Barack Obama has substance, doesn't he?

Obama/Biden '08

McCain Fact Checks! Where are they CNN? I truly wish some news organization would "fact check" him as frequently as Obama is fact checked! Why does McCain and Palin scare the media?

By the way, smart guys & gals, producing more oil here in the states won't take us off of foreign oil either. It is still traded in a global market.
Seriously, McCain is the saddest thing I have seen in recent history. He is completely cashing/checking out on his once fantastic reputation to stand up for what is right. I guarantee McCain ten years ago would have supported Obama over the shell of a man he has become.

Obama's plan. TAX, TAX, TAX, TAX blame it on republicans, TAX, TAX, TAX.

Pat Riot
I don't think u read the plan he says give incentives to those who buy hybrids. It is still up to u wether to buy it or not

Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae- Obamas most favorite contributor..outside of George Soros.

McWhine and Palin hate America!! Evidence: both of them didn't wear flag pins in their recent campaign events. McWhine didn't even wear that in his acceptance speech. They must not love America enough. Fox news Hannity and OReily, please investigate this!!

It's been proven factually over and anew, drilling won't help us. We won't see any effects for decades, and then only minimal. Simple fact, fossil fuels are finite, people. They will run out. If we don't develop our other options, and quickly, we will grind to a halt. Anyone who shrieks "drill, drill" is short-sighted. Being myopic won't save us; that will take vision and determination. McCain does not have the vision. I'll take Obama.

You worry about middle east oil and yet the largest supplier of oil to the U S A is right behind us. Ya Canada. Did you guys know they are pumping oil south if the 49th and its not ever refered too. We better watch out, they may cut us off and then we will know what crap hitting the fan is like.
Yes he can

Nobama's plan for energy independence would do nothing but make gas prices even higher. People whine and cry about gas prices now. If Obama wins and he implements his plan I don't want to hear a SINGLE socialist lib crying about gas prices because it will be because of your (not my) Obamessiah.

This is my first time to ever comment in any way by computer on any
subject matter' but I must say that from the things that I read most of
you folks need something to do. You have too much time to hate and
generally abuse other people. It's pretty evident why we have so much
violence in our society by just reading comments on the WEB. I don't
know any of the people running for any of the offices but to try and read
to learn about them is impossible. Someone honestly hates every
one who is running.
I was taught that if you couldn't say something good about someone,
don't say anything. That being said–most of you folks would be
awfully quiet.

At least he has a plan. I wish more people would go on both web sites and make an intelligent decision on who is best for the country.

The Republican operatives/bloggers on the Ticker are so blatantly obvious. Kind of pathetic actually.

Give Palin/McCain some notes on this subject. They are stupid than stupid.

NOBAMA's PLAN – You start walking while he rides in a Limo. Or maybe he figures all the B___S___ he's spouting will produce enough ethanol to power the nation's vehicles. No wait a minute, he'll change his mind again before the week's out and won't be able to remember the first one.

Obama can tell the truth. Why can't McCain?

Obama has a long range plan with well focused specific goals that will be realized, by all americans, with the application of excellent leadership and science and hard work to remove our DEPENDENCE on MID EAST OIL. This plan doesn't need lipstick.

OBAMA!~

Obama wants more economic turmoil, so he can take advantage of the situation.

Obama wants no-drill, he is so negative. He does not trust American work Force. He must change his mind about workforce before he thinks about changing Washington.

He has not changed anything in his life, still playing same old politics.

Obama could not even change Rev Wright's mentality after spending 20 years with him.

Americans love Obama, but does he reciprocate ?

I must commend CNN for undertaking a honest fact check of the candidates various claims and plans, however...

You should do a side-by-side for the reader to compare, even if one side has no detailed plan.

Also when one of the candidates says a flat-out lie, you need to call it what it is (not naming any names here).

Every good plan starts somewhere...And it must be in writing, not just floating around in some old guys head. BUT, every great plan changes as you learn from working the plan. At least Barack got the first step completed. Where's McCain's 1st draft?

Both Obama and McCain have, at one time or another, talked about the need for a significant investment in alternative energy. So to some extent it depends on who you believe. I believe Obama because his party has consistently and strongly supported that position. I don't believe McCain because his party has not supported alternative energy in the past. I believe Obama because when I hear Obama explain the sitatution it makes sense to this technically competent individual. I don't believe McCain because, although he has of late said some things about foreign energy dependence that are technically accurate... he is johnny-come-lately and still demonstrates nothing like the depth of understanding and commitment that Obama does. In short... it's possible that John McCain would do an adequate job of addressing the foreign oil dependence problem, but definitely not clear that he would. Obama has made it a central issue and his policy is much more credible. Why vote for the "me too" guy when you can have the real thing?

McCain is starting to creep me out. There is something scrary about this whole thing. The GOP is up to something sinister. Palin is a nut bag, everyone knows this. McCain is a puppet of the GOP, He will say and do what he is told to do. John McCain sold his soul. This is a sad thing

So Obama is going to make us drive hybrids? Sure sounds like communism to me. I think it is interesting they got the opinion of one of Obama's CFR buddies too. This globalist traitor organization should be shut down.

The problem I have with off-shore drilling is that there is no guarantee that the oil will be limited to American use. Once that oil is drilled it goes on the open market. What provisions are in place to ensure that this oil stays here in the US and not sold to China or whoever the highest bidder happens to be?

We buy cheap, lead-filled toys from China at a 1000% mark-up, then they use that profit to buy up our newly drilled oil. Where does that leave us?

I have yet to hear Republicans address this issue.

PALIN—–YOU——GO——–GIRL——OBAMA——-WAS——–A——-COMM——-ORGANIZER——–HOW——-PATHETIC———HE——-ONLY—–SERVED——–THE——–POOR——-BUT——HAS——–NO——-EXEC——-EXPERIENCE——-AND———–ONCE—–HE——–SHOWED——–UP——AT——-THE——-SAME——CHARITY——EVENT———AS——BILL———AYERS——-**WARNING**——**FATAL MALFUNCTION**

Cool!

The Obama campaign can make promises on a big issue that are NOT outright lies.

McCain can't even keep track of wheter the economy is good or bad or functional or what...

Obama/Biden

Obama is tha only won wurth votin fer! McCain's Old! Obama looks nise and ken tak reel gud tu! Im votin fer Obama and yu shud tu!

Obama/Bydin 08!

John (Retired Navy Chief Petty Officer) September 17th, 2008 6:21 pm ET

What exactly is Obama's plan? *******************

Did you not read the article? Or are you just running off at the mouth because no matter what you are shown, you NEED to hold on to your weak argument that you've gotten no details and facts from Obama?

You know...its okay to just say you don't wanna vote for a Black guy.

Shocker.

Any reduction of Middle East Oil is a good thing. Our dependency has only grown in the past 20 years. A plan to go downhill from that is a good plan. What's McCain's plan? I'd like to compare and contrast.

It's very simple, Republicans are the party that wrecked America!

Folks its not his plan its THE AMERICAN PLAN we cannot acheive this if we don't have the vision to do this. It start with each one of us making that concious decision not to buy gas guzzler cars and trucks.

When Mccain Chose Palin He Was Thinking He Was Going To Drill Baby Drill!

How About A Fact Check Of The Mccain Plan? . . . Oh Wait, . . . He Doesnt Have One!

why didn't cnn ask this guy if obama's position to limit increasing domestic oil supply helps achieve energy indenpendence...or say no to nuclear power and clean coal? talking about throwing a softball forward in order to get a soft ball answer backward.....lame report!

It will be so refreshing to have a President who asks us to aim for higher goals. Obama inspires me!

Of course the dependence on fossil fuels from the Middle East won't be eliminated overnight. It probably can't be done in four years.

Barack Obama has so much elephant dung to shovel out of the White House and Washington, D.C., he won't be able to rush ANY radical, new plans through, right away.

Bill Clinton had the same problem. So did Jimmy Carter, and it (among other things) cost him the re-election.

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That said, Obama's plan is the plan that WORKS, not only for the USA, but also for the future of the globe!

If you are not frightened by 'Drill Here, Drill Now!', and 'Drill, Baby Drill', you are not paying attention.

Palin 2012...

could you BE more fake???

the primary wars are OVER... who the heck is still fighting over Hillary and Obama... !

REPUBLICANS... that's who.!

To Palin 2012.....Sarah Palin, please get off this website. If you can't contribute an actual intellectual thought than go away. Drill baby drill is not the answer. Obama is the only one that has shown real patriotism by trying to bring everyone together for the cause rather than attack them. Stop being upset by the fact that Obama really doesn't have an skeletons in the closet and actually tells the truth.

John. retired navy officer...

WHAT DO YOU MEAN, WHER IS HIS PLAN... ??

I MEAN... DID YOU EVEN "READ" THE ARTICLE????

OR DID YOU JUST START TYPING YOUR INCOHERENT RESPONSE..?

now... I could tell you where his plan is.... but you HAVE NO interest in actually reading it... so I won't waste my key strokes... Just wondering..... what is exxon John's plan? (i mean besides "doing whatever Exxon wants" ?)

Not all plans are fool proof, bu tthe point is that Sen. Obama has plan. Is there a McCain plan to disect other than his calling Palin an energy expert? The work ahead of Americans will not be easy but we have to at least try. We can't sit around here forming commissions on what went wrong.
BTW I have yet to hear or see any of John McCains plans. He just keep telling us about Obama and not about himself in specifics.

John (Retired Navy Chief Petty Officer) Geez, do some reading, go to his web site and read his book, what more detail do you need! Get a clue. If you go to McCains web site it changes daily and there are few details.

If CNN would actually fact check McCain and Palin's lies and distortions, we would be here for days and days.........

At least he has a plan that doesn't depend on oil. You drill people are crazy. In the first place, we have plenty of sites to drill that are available, the leases are out there, the area is ready, and the oil companies aren't using them because we don't have the refinery capacity for any more oil. So all that stupid "Drill, Baby, Drill" chanting was just that, stupid. It makes a nice sound bite, otherwise useless.
I think people have a problem with two things: Obama is mixed race...scary!
Change is hard and expensive. We have to start now before it's too late. This problem is not affecting our economic system which trickles down into every other facet of our lives. If we don't get something going (and not a COMMISSION, for God's sake) we will be a sorry nation very soon. And Dave, be prepared, because we ARE going to be paying more for things, the difference will be that Obama's plan will create jobs in these new industries, so people will get back on their feet, a novel concept for the rich Republicans.

I'm with Sammy, "better to try than do nothing at all"
I'm willing to vote Obama tha than Mcdrill.

let's just contemplate our belly buttons, instead.

People say Obama is all talk, but at least he's talking about what his specific plans are to get us out of this Republican mess. How come we don't see any fact check on McCain's ideas? Oh yeah, he doesn't have any. When Obama's campaign criticized McCain on the economy, the best he could come up with was..."Oh, but he's at a celebrity fundraiser." Big deal! At least it's not a Oil Lobbyist fundraiser! Obama plans to tax more from the very people he just got donations from! What does THAT tell you??? He's not elitist.

YES WE CAN!!

Go Obama/Biden! We're on board!

you know at least it is a plan, fact checked, and could work. I want someone for changes in amerirca, that at least has a plan and presents it. It may not be perfect, it may take some time, but it is a real plan and just not lip service. now i know that there will be those that will have a problem with this plan, but if you are anybody has a better solution, please come forward!

sign
just paid $63.00 to fill up a old 1995 chevy lumina

THE OIL COMPANYS ALLREADY HOLD DRILLING RIGHTS ON 85 MILLION ACRES, AND HAS HAD THEM FOR YEARS, BUT HAVE NOT DRILLED ON THEM, NOW THEY WANT THE REST OF THE PIE. IF THEY GET THEM JUST WATCH, THEY WILL HOLD THEM AND NOT DRILL. WAKE UP PEOPLE FOSSIL FUELS ARE DESTROYING OUR PLANET. ALL JOHN MCCAIN HAS SAID HAS BEEN ONE LIE AFTER ANOTHER. THEY HAVE EVEN ADDMITED TO LYING. I LIVE IN AN AREA OF TEXAS WHERE THEY HAVE DRILLED SEVERAL HUNDRED WELLS IN THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS. AND THEY ARE NOT DRILLING FOR OIL, THEY ARE AFTER GAS. THERE IS PLENTY OF OIL HERE BUT THEY DO NOT WANT IT NOW. THEY ARE SAVING IT FOR WHEN THEY CAN GET THEIR OWN PRICE FOR IT. WE CANNOT DRILL OUR WAY OUT OF THIS MESS. IF WE NEED OIL SO BAD WHY IS IT BEING SOLD TO FORIEGN COUNTRYS.

Once again, O's policies make no sense. Probably because his advisors were the heads of Fannie, Freddie and Lehman. Why did O receive the second most money from these companies, but he had no idea how corrupt they were? Ya, I want him in charge! NOT!!!!

At least Obama has an ambitious plan. With ambitious plans sometimes you make short term sacrifices for long term benefits. McCain just tells everyone what they want to hear and alot of America eats it up like candy and when he can't deliver he will blame the Democrats and Obama like usual.

Can either candidate tell me how they plan to refine the oil they want to drill for? We don't have the capability right now to refine the amount of oil they are talking about to get us off foreign dependency.

Ok now I know that I am not dumb, but does anyone remember "bomb bomb bomb bomb bomb Iran?"

Ten years is hard to imagine, that's true. But shooting for ten years, with all you have, and perhaps falling short by a few years beats the silly "drill baby drill" by a ratio of 1000:1.

Griff again you prove that only really DIM people support McCain...tragic you probably think the economy is fundamentally strong...idiot

I do not believe Obama's plan anywhere called for eliminating the "influence" of world markets. That is clearly preposterous, and is just used as a lame red herring in this factcheck article. Eliminating "dependence" has just as clearly come to mean elimnation the physical imports of foreign oil. That the only 'negative' they can come up with in Obama's plan is a vacuous red herring, speaks loudly for the soundness of the plan and the politician and his team.

Scott W. –Third party is just wimping out, there's too much hoopla for 3rd party to win, and what's the point if you can't win. There will be too much turnout for both republicans and democrats. YOu're just inviting in whomever you don't want. If you're a republican that can't stand the idea of McCain/Palin and their unreligious version of truth, then you owe it to yourself to vote in a manner that will help keep them out. 3rd party votes will not help keep them out, and might just weaken the other side enough so that the repoublicans will win. Think about it. Obama/Biden '08–they've said a lot of good, well-thought out things and their website is excellent with details. Check it out. We don't need another Presidential nominee that thinks their above the law.

John-GEt informed. If you'd actually look at his website, you could read it for yourself.

Who is John Galt?

Where is the balance? I want to see McCain's policies scrutinized by experts too. At least if you question his policies you won't be accused of being sexist.

Once again Obama's plans are doable and realistic and he doesn't lie to us unlike mccain's who ALan Greenspan said his economic plan would ruin the economy. I am a WASP = Woman against Sara Palin!

Obama is disaster to USA. No HRC - No obama.

Decent plan on the surface. But all plans change. And often to get them through congress many things are gutted. Yes its very ambitious. But better to try to succeed than do nothing at all.

This guy is just brilliant and shows he lives in an energy revolution era.

He is not stuck in the 19th century.

now everbody is fair they al get a boucne from their convection

This man and his team of advisors are brilliant. Don't you love how they have put everything out there to be critically examined by anyone who wants to? When will we see some plans from the Republicans? It would be useful for those of us who want to discuss issues to have plans and proposals to review.

Why does CNN not fact check McCain/Palin on a hourly basis since lying has become the breathing implement of their campaign? Just wonderin' ... Instead CNN makes it a 3-day headline and calls them mavericks for "punching back" with outright falsehoods.

More truth on the issues, Mr. Obama ?

You are running for president in the USA ! You have to lie, cheat, cut-throat, distort, deny, play victim and first of all you are not supposed to know what you are talking about!

THAT is how you get elected!

Just the fact that Obama HAS a plan makes him dominate this issue. I have never heard McCain give any specific information about his energy plan, if he even has one.

So, we won't be oil independent unless we choose to isolate ourselves from the global oil market and pay more per gallon than the rest of the world. I'm guessing will also be paying more for electricity and natural gas and plastic products and ..............

Sounds like a great plan to me.

CNN, I'm getting sick of having posts with facts about McCain's so called plans censored. MSNBC does such a better job of calling out Republican BS than you.

obama never said it would be easy. but, if americans come together anything could be possible. it's a patriotism/unity thing, that some dont understand.

John (Retired Navy Chief Petty Officer) says: "What exactly is Obama's plan?"
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Obama's energy plan is detailed very clearly on his web site, and it addresses all the things you mention. You might want to read it.

THE ONLY ENERGY CHANGES HE WILL BRING IS WITH HIS MOUTH. HE COULD SAVE ALOT BY SHUTTING IT INSTEAD OF SHOWING HIS HATE AND RUNNING IT CONSTANTLY. HE IS THE ONLY POLITICIAN I HAVE EVER SEEN WITH ALL TALK NO WALK. EVERYTIME HE SPEAKS WITH HATE ,THE ENERGY OF AMERICANS GO TOWARD A REAL CANIDATE ,MCCAIN/PALIN.

I find it very interesting the last couple of days, Factcheck.org has spent so much time looking into Sen. Obama's plans, but little if any on Sen. McCain's plan. To be honest, I am not at all upset about it.
First because Sen. Obama has released much more comprehensive plans than Sen. McCain, hence more for FactCheck to look into. But in almost every case, this independant organization has said repeatedly, the Sen. Obama's plans are better for America!!!!

Oh, here is a "Little" Carot for our much loved "Seniors" and those that are close to retirement age.

Today, the stock market took another major tumble, with the Dow Jones dropping 450 points (more than a 4 percent drop).

But much more importantly is the fact that the broader market (S&P 500) fell 57 points to 1,156 (almost a 5 percent drop). I say "more importantly" because one of the most popular 401(k) investments are index funds that track the S&P 500.

On the day that President Bush took office in 2001, the S&P 500 stood at 1,342.54, meaning that it has dropped 14 percent during his tenure.

Now realize that if Social Security privatization was in effect when Bush was sworn-in, those retirees who invested in the broader market would have seen their Social Security nest egg down 14 percent over those seven-plus years. Instead, they've seen an overall 12 percent increase on their Social Security benefits during that same time frame, thanks to annual COLA (Cost of Living Ajustment) increases.

John McCain (R) is for Social Security privatization. Barack Obama (D) is against it.

"Obama's oil-savings goals could be reached,
but expert warns influence of Middle Eastern oil producers won't
be eliminated. "
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Right, but the influence of Middle Eastern oil producers would be dramatically reduced. That's the point.

Possible, but not probable until congressional republicans change their priorities and look to the future!

Oops typo...that's ENERGY plan. He also has a good economic plan though. Once again something that McCain wouldn't know where to begin.

So Obama's plan can work. Interesting. Now CNN fact check mccain and palin.

What exactly is Obama's plan? He keeps talking about if we drill now we wont see anything for 7 years, so what does he propose? one million plug-in cars? Ok that is a small percentage of our general population and by the way the current plug-in cars only go so far and use gas. Oh by the way what about the 18wheel trucks that deliver food and products across the US are they going hybird as well?

McCain has a real plan, drill and drill now, wind, solar, nuclear and hybird as well. We need all of these untill we can come up with some more ideas.

Obama is just talk with no actions.

Thank you Senator Obama and Fact check!!!! an honest candidate and not one who flaunts the law like Palin! From a white 57 year old educated female! More than Palin!

I'd rather vote for someone who has ambitious goals such as these, than someone who will sit idly while letting the "status quo" continue.

obama/biden '08!!!!

Sounds good to me...

At least Obama HAS an economic plan.

Oh and before anyone says that we need to drill...know that some drilling IS involved in Obama's plan, just not RECKLESS drilling.

Pumas,

Go home seriously. We don't need you to win this election. God I can't stand Hillary or her supporters. Hillary is a pig witch in lipstick. Palin is the true american woman.

Palin 2012.

Wisdom, intelligence, judgement and quantifiable plans.

But McCain will tell us 'drill, drill drill..problem solved...our energy situation is very strong...where am I cindy? cindy? where are you? Sarah, when is your parole hearing? Oh, let's sue them, that was sexist"

No McCain's analysis?

aka – little/no incentives for wind/water (just oil/nuclear)

fiction idea that we'll actually be able to "drill" our way out of this and provide our own oil

Funny how everyone is clearly able to disect Obama's policy initiatives but no one seems to know HOW McCain is going to do anything he is talking about.

McCain likes to call Obama all talk and taxes. Taxes yes, on McCain's friends and all those who very generously supported Obama in Hollywood. Talk no, McCain is the only one who is just talking. He needs to drop this meme. Obama is a great orator...but he has substance too... McCain is the only one who just says stuff.

Cry McCain/Palin supporters!!! Your tears sustain me!!!!

Obama's plan for Energy! Ruin your Teeth Woman, and Chew on this Hide.That's the respet they have of Women...

THE LESSER OF TWO EVILS IS STILL EVIL.

VOTE THIRD PARTY '08.