The price of everything, not just driving, is going up in the era of $130-a-barrel oil, but our presidential candidates have a hopelessly thumbless grasp of pocketbook politics. Their mutual slogan could be "Let them eat abstractions." Barack Obama famously couldn't connect with working-class voters in the primaries, offering them an airy diet of hope and change. John McCain rose on his personal honor, which is why on energy he's fumbling away the GOP's best domestic political opening in years.
McCain touts drilling agenda ABOARD THE CHEVRON GENESIS (AP) -- Republican presidential candidate John McCain visited this oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico on Tuesday to call for increased offshore drilling that he claims would lower the cost of food and heating homes. McCain traveled 130 miles by helicopter to tour the massive facility, which produces 10,000 gallons of oil each day. He criticized his Democratic rival, Barack Obama, for not supporting such a plan. Obama's campaign, meanwhile, called the four-hour excursion nothing more than a stunt. Obama supporter and former Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack compared McCain's position to the "Beverly Hillbillies" television program where the main character -- Jed Clampett -- stumbles onto an oil gusher. McCain, he said, has "a Jed Clampett ener...
... what I won't do: I won't hand over my energy policy to my vice president and not know necessari...
This election year, as in the past, there is much talk about change and reform. But is it possible that the majority of blame for what ails our nation can be pinned on one group? That seems to be what both presidential campaigns are doing. Sen. Barack Obama has proclaimed that he wants to "tell the lobbyists that their days of setting the agenda in Washington are over," while Sen. John McCain says his national energy policy won't be a "full employment act for lobbyists." They are casting lobbyists as the scapegoats for everything the public thinks is wrong.
JOHN McCain and Barack Obama unveiled impressive plans this week on energy and competitiveness policy, but they need to act now to save federal energy research from collapsing. Specifically, McCain should call the White House and Obama should call Democratic congressional leaders to make sure that federal scientific research budgets aren't flatlined for another year.
The Sun Journal editorial Oct. 26 endorsed the 2000 John McCain for president - but not the McCain who's running this year. Essentially, it asked people to hope the McCain of 2000 will take office and ignore the current negative and erratic McCain who has 90 percent of the time sided with President Bush. Sorry, we just can't take that chance. On issue after issue - energy, tax policy, economics - the current McCain is totally at odds with the 2000 version and, despite the Sun Journal's editorial assertion to the contrary, completely aligned with President Bush.
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