About 100 Protest McCain in California

I cannot believe this guy. he is a joke to the Repulican party.

Oil drilling goes on all around us. Nuclear waste is all around us. We are killing the atmosphere with all our gas emissions and pollution. We need a comprehensive plan to become free of foreign oil, or we will suffer the dire consequences. Our entire lives are connected to the use of energy. We need a long-term plan. Right now, we need a short-term plan. People need help now. McCain understands the entire picture. Currently, we count on safety measures in producing nuclear enery and drilling for oil. We can drill carefully in the right places for more oil to become independent of foreign sources. At the same time, we need a wise national policy to address the issues of energy while protecting the environment. We must do this. John McCain fully understands what we need to do, and how to do it.

now that the vultures have had their say
Drilling -good
Liberals -bad.

John McCain will side with big corporations and big oil. The lobbiests own McCain. His only concern is helping the weathy just like Bush. Every day McCain is becoming more and more like Bush.

georgia: Obama’s plan is to stop the Enron Loopholes. McCain is against it. Now, the specialist are saying if these loopholes would be closed then we will see gas go down 30% to 50% OVERNIGHT. Now you want to tell me who is look at the short and long term of this gas issue.

The GOP spins the results in Iraq to boost appeal for their brand of politics when in reality Iraq is still a long ways away from a self sustained government and military. The GOA report contradicts the Pentagon report released yesterday praising the surge and the main media outlets (ABC, CBS, NBC and FIXED News) are playing dumb. Here is a piece of the GOA report. “The administration lacks an updated and comprehensive Iraq strategy to move beyond the “surge” of combat troops President Bush launched in January 2007 as an 18-month effort to curtail violence and build Iraqi democracy, government investigators said yesterday. While agreeing with the administration that violence has decreased sharply, a report released yesterday by the Government Accountability Office concluded that many other goals Bush outlined a year and a half ago in the “New Way Forward” strategy remain unmet.”

peoples prez
and check this out on iraq as they say its sobering news
The Government Accountability Office delivered on Monday what was, in many ways, a sobering report on the current situation in Iraq. Agreeing that levels of violence in the war have decreased sharply, the authors nevertheless concluded that many of the Bush administration’s “surge” priorities had so far been unmet.
According to the GAO, the percentage of Iraqi units “capable of performing operations without U.S. assistance” remains roughly 10 percent. Thus, while the number of forces has risen by more than 150,000, the actual assistance that American troops are receiving is far more negligible. Adding salt to the wound, the GAO notes: “Since 2003, the United States has provided more than $20 billion to develop Iraqi security forces.”
The number of trained Iraqi security forces may overstate the number of troops present for duty. According to DOD, the number of trained troops includes personnel who are deceased or absent without leave. For example, DOD reported that approximately 24,500 soldiers were dropped from the Iraqi Army rolls in 2007 because they deserted or were absent without leave. However, these troops are still counted in trained numbers. An April 2008 Special Inspector General for Iraqi Reconstruction report confirmed that a substantial number of Iraqi personnel still on the payroll were not present for duty for various reasons, such as being on leave, absent without leave, injured, or killed.
Although Iraqi security forces have grown in number and many are leading counterinsurgency operations, MNH-1 assessments of their readiness levels show limited improvements… While 65 percent of the Iraqi units were in the lead in counterinsurgency operations as of March 2008, the number of Iraqi army battalions rated at the highest readiness level accounts for less than 10 percent of the total number of Iraqi army battalions.

These are the true village idiots who have left their respective villages to gather to shout to world their ignorance. OK, you’ve made pathetic fools of yourselves now you can go back to your villages and resume your occupations. Their signs should read “No Jobs, No Cars, No Drill”

oh and thats after 20 billion dollars taht WE have spent… meanwhile oil per barrel is what? and the iraqis have contributed how much of their own money to this war?
oh wait exxon/mobil, shell, BP, and 2 other american oil companies are now getting unlimited contracts from iraq for oil…
LOL
and not only do they have 60 million acres of off shore drilling opened to them to start drilling RIGHT NOW (if its not a pander and a way to really offset these prices then start drilling in the alloted space)
they still hold off, hoping that they can gain access to every coastline… because once the measure is passed everyone…
even if your state says no way… that opens up the oil lobbyists to start working on your governors, and though some may say they are against it now… they wont be in power forever…
im sick of the republicans and the oil companies running stuff and controlling us americans
MCCAIN CRAWL BACK IN YOUR BOX THE SUN IS ABOUT TO RISE YOU VAMPIRIC SUCCUBUS

The news media didn’t report this:
Protesters against Obama:
Elian Gonzalez saga could haunt Obama
Eight years after the furor over the repatriation of Elian Gonzalez to Cuba possibly cost Al Gore the state of Florida in his 537-vote loss to George W. Bush, the international custody saga has returned to haunt another Democratic presidential nominee: Barack Obama.
Having two top advisers who played key roles in the episode — Greg Craig, who represented Gonzalez’s father in Cuba, and Eric Holder, then a Clinton administration deputy attorney general when federal agents stormed the Miami home of Gonzalez’s relatives to remove the then-6-year-old and return him to Cuba — Obama now finds himself on the wrong side of an emotional issue in a battleground state.
The wound reopened again last week after Gonzalez returned to the headlines in South Florida following a report in a Cuban communist youth newspaper that he has joined Cuba’s Young Communist Union.
Miami-based Republican political consultant Ana Navarro said the stature of Holder and Craig in the Obama campaign “shows a tone-deafness to the Cuban American community’s concerns.”
“Elian Gonzalez cost Al Gore Florida and the presidency,” she added.
Indeed, in a display of lingering resentment, Obama’s speech before the U.S. Conference of Mayors in Miami last weekend was picketed by several dozen activists protesting Craig, who serves as a foreign policy adviser to Obama, and Holder, who is a legal adviser and a member of the Illinois senator’s vice presidential search committee.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0608/11295.html

As Republicans see it, the return of the Elian Gonzalez debate to the Spanish-language media will only strengthen traditional GOP loyalties among Cuban Americans at a time when there may be a generational divide between older hard-liners and younger voters who are receptive to a different direction in American policy toward Cuba.
“Every four years, for at least the last 20 years, some media and some pollsters always predict that the Democrats are going to make inroads with Cuban Americans,” said Otto Reich, who is advising John McCain on Latin American affairs and who served in a senior capacity for the administrations of the last three Republican presidents. “Perhaps one day that might be true. But I don’t think this is the case now. Barack Obama is not the kind of candidate for a people who tend to be very traditional in their values and very hawkish in their foreign policy support.”
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0608/11295.html
Obama is on the wrong side of EVERYTHING!

The Democratic National Committee is filing a lawsuit in US District Court in DC to force the Federal Election Commission to investigate McCain’s decision to opt in the public matching funds system for the primaries, secure a loan based on those public funds, and then withdraw from the system after becoming the GOP front-runner. McCain, though, never actually received those public funds before opting out.
“The chairman of the FEC,” the lawsuit states, “has already advised Sen. McCain that he is not free to withdraw unilaterally from his agreement with the FEC and to ignore the legal requirements of the Matching Payments Act, without the FEC’s approval. Yet Sen. McCain cannot obtain such approval, because he already violated a key condition for dispensing with the Agreement by which he entered the matching funds program: he has pledged matching funds as collateral for a loan to his campaign.”

Only 100 people, that’s funny.

Just take the protesters Gasoline from these starbucks drinking latta librals. And they will be ready to put an OIL rig in their back yard.

The obamas have millions invested in TAX-FREE municipals with the swany Morgan Chase fund

Hmmm. They managed to scrape up a 100 souls eh? Flip flopping, is this the same as changing your mind when you find $4 gasoline is kicking the economy in the rear and allowing every hoodlum in the middle east to build kingdoms with our dollars?

I am sure the good ole USA will be fine when all the citizens who are from 18 – 42 are deployed to Iraq for McCain’s 100 year occupancy. Price of Oil won’t be a problem with less consumers.

Wouldn’t it be nice if we had a president who could look at things and be able to change his mind and try a new course if it’s clear the current one isn’t working. We don’t have that with Bush…. but it seems like so many here agree with him by not allowing anyone to change a course.

mccain and the whole republican party is so against what the american people want. i dont care what you republicans say you will lose this fall and obama will be the next president. and there will be alot more democrats elected to the congress. your evil parties grasp on the working class neck will be broke.

This crowd of 100 protesters wouldn’t be so noteworthy for John McCain if it weren’t for the fact that only about 170 people actually went to see him speak today. The guy excites most conservatives about as much as a big bowl of gruel followed by a tax audit.
Already, he’s trailing badly in Michigan and in Southern Florida, and Obama has been capable of going to places like Detroit and attracting crowds of 30,000 people in one night, visibly energizing his supporters in the region.
McCain doesn’t seem capable of energizing anyone, except maxing out the the obligatory Republican corporate donors… but who is he going to turn to once all of them are exhausted?!
What all this implies is that the longer the two candidates compete against each other, the more McCain’s candidacy will tend to fall short at the ground level. His campaign might be able to compete nationally when it comes to advertising, but without actual support on the ground, he’s likely to wind up the next Mitt Romney.
And the thing is, Obama hasn’t even peaked yet.. there’s a long way to go before the Democratic convention and its free airtime, and each step of the way the visible level of support and unity from his party will increase.
Normally, McCain would get a bounce out of the Republican Convention too, but he’s increasingly being seen as running in Bush’s shoes, and there is literally nothing exciting to be expected from their convention this time around.
Really, you have to conclude that although the long primary has hurt him financially, at least temporarily, it has also helped Obama dominate the news and get the public’s attention… and that might be worth a whole lot more in the long run, as it lets him compete and debate almost entirely on his terms.

The people in this country need to stand up against Corporate America and take this country back and give it to the people!
“For the people by the people”
Hillary is THE “Corporate Democrat” She is just a Republican with a Democratic smile!
Obama WILL be one of our greatest president, ever!

Has critical thinking disappeared in this country? Why do none of you ever question why you do things or why you’re thinking what you are? Why do you blindly follow what your candidate of choice says? Why do you deify those who agree with you, and demonize those who don’t? When did everything become black and white rather than shades of gray? When did people stop LISTENING to all sides of the story?
I’m a registered independent from Missouri, currently living in California. I’m not some “left-wing nutjob liberal” and I’m not some “war-mongering christian conservative right-winger”. I don’t watch FOX, I don’t watch ABC (why I’m even here and posting this is beyond me, as this is probably a waste of time), and I don’t read the NY Times. I take polls with a tenth of a grain of salt. I don’t care about Obama’s pastor or Hillary’s sniper fire, just as I don’t care about McCain’s comments about his wife. I don’t care what pundits have to say. I don’t vote for the candidate I’d most like to have a beer with, and I don’t vote for the candidate who I think is the best speaker. These things don’t make candidates. My opinions and tendencies don’t change based on the small things. I look at things objectively and rate how important they are based on what they truly mean in the grand scheme of things.
I have a candidate I’m voting for (which I’ll not name here, because it’s not important), but I have no allegiance to him. I’m not going to berate other people because they aren’t voting for him, because I’m not after ego-boosting. I’m after the pursuit of knowledge, and after understanding any flaws I may have in my current beliefs. The only way to do that is to talk to people on the other side. Why would I want to talk to people I agree with? Just as there are two sides to every coin, there are two sides to every story, every issue, every belief. Ignoring one side of the issue leads to an incomplete view of the subject, and leads to a self-righteous belief in your own pseudo-intelligence.
Are fully objective people with critical thinking capabilities a dying breed in this country? I see this type of meaningless bickering on every single news post, every single message board, EVERYWHERE. When are we going to grow up?

matt——– you just proved the point that republicans are just bullies and only care about the now and here instead of looking to the future. yes i cant afford gas prices but the problem is not supply it is greed of the gas titans like bush and cheney and most of the republican party. every quarter that passes by the oil companies set a new profit. that is the problem corparate greed

$300 million. A $100 million prize wasn’t big enough? Any company that can make a battery that meets the requiremetns is going to earn hundreds of million anyway.

Even elected officials and now killing our BRAVE MEN AND WOMEN IN IRAQ. How safe can it be??????

“I’m extremely annoyed by environmentalists. The issue here is that there are millions of families in this country that are struggling to provide for their families because of these astronomical gas prices….”
Yes, understandable. But the thing is, environmentalists have been telling us for years to raise the CAFE standards to make cars more fuel efficient, and to stop relying on so much oil.
The simple fact is, thinking you’re going to reduce your oil dependency by drilling more, is like thinking you’re doing to reduce your drug dependency by snorting more.
It doesn’t work, plain and simple… so why give the oil companies sweet deals for exploiting more public lands, when they already own the rights to drill in HUGE regions they have yet to exploit yet?!
Simple fact is, if you give the oil and coal companies unlimited power to make US energy power, they’ll sell oil and coal, while playing lip service to rolling out real, competitive alternatives. They own the rights to the oil and coal, so no matter what alternatives emurge, they intend to sell that oil and coal for as much as they can for as long as they can. It’s nothing personal against consumers… it’s just good business.
Meanwhile, over in Germany where the environmentalists have strong political representation, solar power is widespread, with businesses paying people to put solar cells on their buildings… and it’s being used to power clean, efficient public transportation. Sure, they paid more money upfront to be green and energy efficient, but they’re reaping the rewards today with proportionately lower energy costs and increased productivity.
Environmentalists aren’t the problem. They’re just annoying know-it-alls who aren’t as shortsighted as our oil companies. Anyone could’ve reasonably determined that the price of oil would go up, as it got scarcer and more expensive to exploit. Lots of investors and speculators made the same determination as the environmentalists on this one… and they’re getting rich off it, as ordinary people’s expense. Why not blame them too?

Amy Werre: Not everyone is California is nuts, FYI. Keep in mind they only had 100 protestors. Not very many when you consider the population of the area.

This is progress from the years of dubya. Usually the protesters were placed a mile from event that dubya was attending.

You want to rid yourselves of the risk of a terrorist attack and get out of Iraq etc., then NOW is the time to use our own oil and stop being so dependent on other countries.
I love how the liberals go on about stopping the war, down with republicans for being tough on foreign policy, dont touch 200miles off our coast, but yet will go about using thier SUV’s, aircons on all day. Get over yourselves, you’ve all helped create this problem.
Thank god John McCain is running for president. The only candidate who is sincere and has been for his long time in US politics

For the person assuming nuclear is toxic
for the environment, it actually is reportedly
one of the more green energy technology
given the amount of waste it gives to the
massive amounts of energy it produces. I
wish posters would research a bit before
going off emotionally without any facts.
Posted by: annoyingrabbit
So nice to hear from a well educated
nuclear physicist. Do you mind If we
dig a hole in your back yard, cause
we have a couple truck loads of nuclear
waste from one of our power plants
we want to rid of.

Obama will deliver….but what will it be? He speaks of change and hope. I think he’s hopeless. He has based his entire campaign on lies.
He will deliver higher taxes, socialist agenda, and make us a wimpy laughing stock. I am not a McCain devotee either; however, so far…as an independent…he has proven more to me.
Obama has not been truthful to the American people. I question his judgment. I have seen nothing from Obama yet except catchy phrases designed on emotion. There is nothing different than the same old rhetoric that I have heard since I could vote.
The only true statesman has been Ronald Reagan.
I WILL VOTE McCAIN IN 2008.

“Abstinence vows break more easily than condoms.” … That part I agree with. …. Protesting is fine, hypocrisy and elitism aren’t. Ted Kennedy is in favor of renewable energy as long as he doesn’t see the windmills from his place. Californians want to drive cars and have cheap fuel but they don’t want the oil wells or refineries near them. … I guess only the poor should have windmills, refineries and oil wells within 50 miles. That’s elitism. …. There is no way to reduce use of resources or lower pollution levels without reducing population. Simply can’t be done. Anyone who drives a car of any size, does business with a store that has anything delivered by truck or rail, or has more than one child is a hypocrite for protesting drilling for oil. Since generation of electricity is the most polluting form of energy we have, use of electricity is just as hypocritical. … Protesting is great, if you have a better solution to a problem. Criticizing an idea without one of you own is dumb. … Anyone who is not hypocritical, elitist or dumb has a right to protest. The rest don’t. … Walk, don’t use electricity or even candles, don’t have more than one kid, then I’ll listen to your complaint.

The Clintons are looney. Get them off the public stage. Get them to go home. We do not want the Clintons. I am against all Clintons at whatever they say or do. I will vote McCain in 08. He is the man, and I trust him. He is not old. He will not stay in Iraq for 100 years unless he has to. I like John McCain.

John McCain is a joke ! Like George w. Bush – he represent some very old archaic ideas. We have an obligation to the waters, forests, lands and air – like no other nation, because we consume it and depend on it like no other nation – as Americans, we have to “Change” our management of these resources, it cannot be “SAME’O, SAME’O”! We have the largest supply of “Fresh Waters” in the world (The Great Lakes, and what have we done to it? What have we done to protect it. to give it the true value it is to this nation? Protect our waters and our ways of life for our children and grand children. Sincerely, Lake Hart, a Native American Writer.

Badger1: You are way off the wall! What are you railing against? This topic is about whether or not to drill off shore. McCain supports that, which is why the protestors were giving him flack. McCain has a short term plan and a long term plan to make us independent of foreign oil while also taking care of the environment. You may not be concerned about protecting the environment or energy independence, but I am. You are correct, however, we are all leaving our footprints on this planet, including you and me. You are the naive one, however, by believing that we do not need to do anything to stop the “onslaught of modern industry”. The air we breathe, the food we eat, and the health of the land and oceans can be, and have been, protected by laws. Read a little more.
There is no way I will support Obama, for many more reasons than what you listed. He does not own the high road on energy or the environment. He is the “change” artist that you cannot count on. I prefer the experience, knowledge, and wisdom of McCain.
“Hypocrite”? for McCain 08