The Note: Obama Gets Aggressive on Energy

From the above article: “Obama is adjusting mid-course — and he’s fortunate that this is a story about energy, not about flip-flopping.”
Strikes me as an odd characterization. Did Obama change positions? Yes. Did McCain change positions? Also yes.
ABC – Why just call out Obama?
And let’s not forget that McCain also changed positions on negative campaigning. He said we deserve better, and that he’d rather lose the election than not give us a positive campaign. Guess he wasn’t being honest with that one, huh?

Obama lies about everything. The hyprocrosies show through the man evetytime. His inexperience is very telling. Lying, hypocrisies and inexperience, combined, lead him to indecisiveness. That’s why we keep seeing him posturing for political positions all the time. Obama is mostly about showmanship

ABC is focusing on Obama’s change in position because that is all he knows how to do well.
Obama lost me with that speech he gave in Germany. We are a young country and still have much to learn. However, to bash or own country to foreigns is inexcusable. As well as spewing out our faults – Obama should have also touted our positives. I am so tired of this empty suit. The whole europe show was just marketing.
Obama said he wanted to use Public financing but he opted out of that. Obama has been negative on McCain all summer.

I like people who change their mind/positions. This shows that they are thinking. And its all about compare and contrast and not sticking on: Am right, am right, am right!

Well, let’s put it this way. For those of you against a person who is willing to admit they were wrong and thus “flip-flop” to what the majority of Americans want, good thing you had Bush for the last 8 years. He stood by what he said and wanted to do no matter how wrong he was. He sure was no flip-flopper. And good thing…he has ensured that America has remained strong, both politically and economically.

What is wrong with the canidates changing their minds with the changing of situations we have had a president for the last 7 years be a my way or the highway unwilling to compromise unwilling to change with changing events is that what you people want another president stubborn like bush LOOK AT WHERE THAT GOT US!! it would be wrong to not change your mind depending on the situation enough with the FLIP FLOP THATS OLD POLITICTS!!!!!!!!

To me, the most eggregious flip flop of the entire campaign cycle has been McCain previously saying:
The American people deserve a positive campaign for president, and I’d rather lose the election than give them anything less…
And running the kind of childish and even dishonorable campaign he has been since saying those words.

Maybe someone should run an ad that says:
Low-road John; he was against negative campaigning before he was for it. But the question remains what else is McCain for? We know he’s against losing. We know he’s against anyone than him being the next president. We know he’s against properly inflating your tires. But what’s he for? Oh, right, an oil spill off every beach.
Would it be a completely fair ad? No. Does the McCain campaign deserve fair ads? No.

Aggressive? It’s pathetic.
After this much hypes, all this empty headed phony could come up with is 1 million, less than 0.77% of current number of vehicles on the road, electric plug-in hybrids, 10% of corn energy, and making you to keep your house 15% colder in the winter of Maine, and 15% hotter in Florida.
Did he tell you the electricity he wants you to run the pathetic 0.77% plug-ins is generated by burning coals and natural gas?
Yuk, do you know what that gives you? Aside from 80% less efficient than directly using gasoline?
It’s a phony to the bone policy, directly aired out from a clueless empty suit.

New creation by Gov. Richardson, 0bama’s chief energy adviser:
Carbon clean coal energy!
Yup, coals that will not produce CO2!!!
That explains why 0bama is so hyped to use electricity generated by burning coals to pump your electric plug-ins for his long-term energy strategy.

JA – I disagree, obviously. Its a completely negative campaign to the point of making McCain seem obsessed with Obama. But I guess its all in the eyes of the beholder. I wonder how other independents will see it.

fact check: “Because the emptyhead sells you that he is a new kind of politics, and you believe in him…”
Obama supporters don’t believe he’s above politics. That’s just another attack line that originated with angry Clinton supporters, who couldn’t understand why she was losing to this guy.
We know he’s a politician. He just seems better than the ones he’s been up against the last year-plus. That’s all.

fact check: “It’s not that I determined I dislike his plan. It is simply because it is no plan, it’s pathetic…”
Again, I guess its in the eyes of the beholder. And again, Pickens seemed to like it. Some of Obama’s benchmarks struck me as aggressive.
For me, the important aspect is Obama’s interest in renewable energy. McCain’s interest seems to be in petroleum. There’s some overlap between them, but its a question of priorities, and for me the top priority is renewable energy.
We all know we’re going there some day. We all know oil is running out, some day. So why not use this current situation to start moving toward a long-term working solution rather than perpetuating the current petroleum-based energy infrastructure?

That’s ok Paul..Repub’s are used to Dem’s double-talk……………

“We all know we’re going there some day. We all know oil is running out, some day. So why not use this current situation to start moving toward a long-term working solution rather than perpetuating the current petroleum-based energy infrastructure? ”
Nah, we are going to wait down until the last drop of oil is left. That’s when we will panic and ask for change. Right now we are good with McDrill screwing us over.
Paul, I agree with you and I support Obama’s plan. He is pushing for renewable resources or less dependency on oil but not on other fossil fuels. What I also want him to do is push for nuclear power too.
McCain’s energy plan is nothing new. Why need a new guy in the office? Bush is doing the same too…he is also opening up more drilling sites. This is not a solution to energy problems. To be honest some people just hate change or some people are so old that they won’t change.

Paul,
I said it yesterday. For a long-term policy, a plan for the future of energy in the next 50 or 100 years, I can careless of the exact details. When you come down to the tiny bits of less than 0.77% of gasoline consumption, 10% of corn energy, not to mention you already have been rationed at WalMart, and reducing your 15% of energy usage (wait until you need to hook up your next home theatre, unless you want to stay in a living standard of the future third world), you, but particularly the empty suit who sells you this, missed the big picture.
I said to you that they are good, and I have no problems, and everyone, McCain, HRC will all do, and especially private sectors will do to earn money (hopefully not to be taken away by 0bama) and to develop new technology. However, all of these add together does not do a dent to the energy need 50 years from now.
You seem to be satisfied by this tiny bits and pieces, missing the big picture of how you can produce 70% of the energy need, without relying on oil or fossil fuel.
You need to understand that “renewable energy”, including solar, wind, aqua, corns, will not exceed 20% of the total energy need. Your political Jesus is only fooling you on this small piece of the pie.
You need to go where McCain went today to produce the energy that will make this country continue to be competitive in 50 years. That means you need to call for a big picture, by Developing Nuclear Energy Technology to Solve Oil(fossil fuel)-Dependence Once for All.

Obama is aggessive? Ways to work away from energy dependence on oil have been known for a long time, what he is doing is trying to remind people.
Jimmy Carter suggested we raise mileage on our vehicles. The Big Three whined, Carter was defeated, and now many of us buy high mileage cars made by other countries.
Obama suggested we consider trains – citizens have been trying to get more mass transportation infrastructure for some time. But well that’s not sexy enough I guess, American rail infrastructure decays while the government invests selectively in the roads and the airports. Culturally we have car ads crammed down our throats 24×7. You aren’t withit and successful unless you drive the latest low mileage muscle car.
Sad to say it seems that it took high prices for people to begin to consider mass transit and conservation. We can look to Europe and Asia for fine examples of high speed mass transit.
It’s decidedly foolish that George Bush after 9/11 didn’t initiate a national program (like the space race) to get the US off foreign oil. Instead big oil and defense contractors grow wealthy at the Iraq and Afghanistan tax payer financed debacles.