Gas prices are hitting all-time highs. Our country is in the midst of a recession thanks in part to our crippling dependence on oil, so what's John McCain's plan? Will he hold the corporate leaders of the energy industry accountable when he addresses them today in Houston? Probably not, considering they are some of his biggest fund-raisers.
The Center for Responsive Politics finds that McCain has accepted over $1 million from the oil and gas industry. Many of McCain's top advisers have lobbied for big oil, which is why he now acts in their best interests, opposing environmental legislation and alternative energy plans. And that's exactly why we want everyone to know The REAL McCain.
McCain is desperate to distance himself from President Bush. But according to the Center for American Progress Action Fund, McCain has received millions in donations from the same oil, coal, nuclear, chemical, utility, and auto companies that helped the Bush administration create its energy plan—a plan that has raised gasoline to $4 a gallon.
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Read the full transcript of the debate shown in the video here.
Please Lord – have merci with the USA and let
This man not become the next “lying to the people president” – and riding into an economic disaster! An old mans ego is too much to bear for the American public – and does not benefit anybody else but him!
I’m telling EVERYONE I KNOW!!!!!!
The word is out, and it’s BULLSHIT that corperate media is suckin’ Mc cains dick. Im’ not with it anymore my poeple are tired of the same shit and we’re sick of feeling like we don’t matter. The time for change is coming and we as Americans have to stand up and get these rich ass SLIMEBALLS out of office. PEACE!
You think Obama or any other decent liberal or progressive endorses that kind of criminal thought? They don’t and I hope law enforcement contacts you. You think being writing anonymous on the internet makes your IP address dissapear if there is a subpoena? Stupid child.
Obama is no better when it comes to taking big oil money. McCain & Obama are both financed by Big Oil, Wall Street & the Military, Medical and Pharma Industrial complexes. Either one of them will be just more of the same for America. Less Liberty, More taxes, More war, poorer healthcare, more Bank bailouts with our tax dollars. What a disgrace.
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John McCain is scarily narrow minded. Obama is very open-minded and that is what the US has historically been and needs to continue to be for it defines of dramatically as a nation. Vote Obama for the American way to be preserved. No more coal or oil lets go green!
Simple, the good old boys ( Bob Dole – James Baker – GWB Sr. ) are running the GOP. Want more years of living in the past vote for McCain.
Who is lobbying on behalf of those of us in the northeast who use #2 oil to heat our homes….latest from my oil supplier FOUR DOLLARS AND FIFTY NINE CENTs if I prepurchas the number of gallons I estimate to keep my home warm andmy pipes from freezing???>>>Maybe 800 or so gallons.
Retired on a fixed income..$479.00 for health insurance, &7,000.00 in property taxes, …. The oil barons are getting rich on th middle class…..
Great video.I am glad McCain will not require busineesses to seek alternatives. Obama has no issues he will stand on. Obama has no plan for any thing.
Part 1:
In just one year. Remember the election in 2006?
Thought you might like to read the following:
A little over one year ago:
1) Consumer confidence stood at a 2 1/2 year high;
2) Regular gasoline sold for $2.19 a gallon;
3) The unemployment rate was 4.5%.
Since voting in a Democratic Congress in 2006 we have
seen:
1) Consumer confidence plummet;
2) The cost of regular gasoline soar to over $3.50 a
gallon;
3) Unemployment is up to 5% (a 10% increase);
4) American households have seen $2.3 trillion in equity
value evaporate (stock and mutual fund losses);
5) Americans have seen their home equity drop by $1.2
trillion dollars;
6) 1% of American homes are in foreclosure.
America voted for change in 2006, and we got it!
Remember it’s Congress that makes law not the President.
He has to work with what’s handed to him.
Quote of the Day……..’My friends, we live in the greatest nation in the history of the world.
I hope you’ll join with me as we try to change it.’ — Barack Obama
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Part 2:
Taxes…Whether Democrat or a Republican you will find these statistics
enlightening and amazing.
http://www.taxfoundation.org/publications/show/151.html
Taxes under Clinton 1999 Taxes under Bush 2008
Single making 30K – tax $8,400 Single making 30K – tax $4,500
Single making 50K – tax $14,000 Single making 50K – tax $12,500
Single making 75K – tax $23,250 Single making 75K – tax $18,750
Married making 60K – tax $16,800 Married making 60K- tax $9,000
Married making 75K – tax $21,000 Married making 75K – tax $18,750
Married making 125K – tax $38,750 Married making 125K – tax $31,250
Both democratic candidates will return to the higher tax rates
It is amazing how many people that fall into the categories above think
Bush is screwing them and Bill Clinton was the greatest President ever. If Obama or Hillary are elected, they both say they will repeal the Bush tax cuts and a good portion of the people that fall into the categories above can’t wait for it to happen. This is like the movie The Sting with Paul Newman; you scam somebody out of some money and they don’t even know what happened.
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PART 3:
You think the war in Iraq is costing us too much? Read
this:
Boy, am I confused. I have been hammered with the
propaganda that it is the Iraq war and the war on terror
that is bankrupting us. I now find that to be RIDICULOUS.
I hope the following 14 reasons are forwarded over and
over again until they are read so many times that the
reader gets sick of reading them. I have included the
URL’s for verification of all the following facts.
1. $11 Billion to $22 billion is spent on welfare to
illegal aliens each year by state governments.
Verify at: tinyurl.com
2. $2.2 Billion dollars a year is spent on food
assistance programs such as food stamps, WIC, and free
school lunches for illegal aliens.
Verify at:
http://www.cis. .org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html
3. $2.5 Billion dollars a year is spent on Medicaid
for illegal aliens.
Verify at:
http://www.cis. .org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html
4. $12 Billion dollars a year is spent on primary and
secondary school education for children here illegally
and they cannot speak a word of English!
Verify at:
transcripts.cnn.com
5. $17 Billion dollars a year is spent for
education for the American-born children of illegal
aliens, known as anchor babies.
Verify at
transcripts.cnn.com
6. $3 Million Dollars a DAY is spent to incarcerate
illegal aliens.
Verify at:
transcripts.cnn.com
7. 30% percent of all Federal Prison inmates are illegal
aliens.
Verify at:
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html
8. $90 Billion Dollars a year is spent on illegal
aliens for Welfare & social services by the American
taxpayers.
Verify at:
premium.cnn.com
9. $200 Billion Dollars a year in suppressed American
wages are caused by the illegal aliens.
Verify at:
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html
10. The illegal aliens in the United States have a crime
rate that’s two and a half times that of white
non-illegal aliens. In particular,
their children, are going to make a huge additional
crime problem in the US
Verify at:
transcripts.cnn.com
11. During the year of 2005 there were 4 to 10 MILLION
illegal aliens that crossed our Southern Border also, as
many as 19,500 illegal aliens from Terrorist Countries.
Millions of pounds of drugs, cocaine, meth, heroin and
marijuana, crossed into the U. S from the Southern
border.
Verify at: Homeland Security
Report: tinyurl.com
12. The National Policy Institute, ‘estimated that the
total cost of mass deportation would be between $206 and
$230 billion or an average
cost of between $41 and $46 billion annually over a five
year period.’
Verify at:
http://www.nationalpolicyinstitute.org
13. In 2006 illegal aliens sent home $45 BILLION in
remittances back to their countries of origin.
Verify at:
http://www.rense.com
14. ‘The Dark Side of Illegal Immigration: Nearly One
Million Sex Crimes Committed by Illegal Immigrants In The
United States .’
Verify at:
http://www.drdsk.com
The total cost is a whopping $ 338.3 BILLION DOLLARS A
YEAR.
Are we THAT stupid?
If this doesn’t bother you then just delete the message.
If, on the other hand, it does raise the hair on the back
of your neck, I hope you forward it to every legal resident in the country
including every representative in Washington , D.C. – five
times a week for as long as it takes to restore some
semblance of intelligence in our policies and enforcement
thereof.
Watching these short films and reading some comments being post amazes and amuzes me both. I will admit there is alot of material to go through.As far as the illegal alien comments go that is the simplist fix. The key word is “illegal”!!! No financial help paid by federal or state programs except deportation!! Really simple way to fix this is deport them and fine every employer $10,000 for every illegal worker for every day of employment!! That means no jobs for them and no reason to be here.Also to ensure that employers don’t take the gamble of using them mandatory jail time for all C.E.O. and C.F.O. of those companies using them a saecond time.Money saved will be in the Billions annually.And unemployment will go down,so that just seems right to me. By the way the billions are from our tax dollars right? As far as McCain for president……….Well we(the majority of voters) really didn’t elect Bush anyhow!! I always thought this great country should be governed by somebody looking out for the average guy not just looking out for the mega rich and filthy rich. Anyone who doesn’t know how many homes he ownes,thinks middle income is around 5 million a year,doesn’t see a problem with oil company 14 billoin dollar quarters and thinks they need tax breaks, and follows Bush’s insanity 95% of the time is not representing me by a long
shot. I Think anyone that follows a idiot that averaged a C in college and has embarressed this great country so many times while pushing it into a recession isn’t representing me!! I think anyone who sides with big oil while it rapes this country repeatedly stealing our hard earned money and now trying to destroy our coast lines while sit on thousands of unused oil leases isn’t representing me!!!!
“Birds of a feather flock together”
Obama Supporters and Friends:
Obama’s Good Friend and Fundraiser William Ayers – American terrorist who has no regrets for his murdering of innocent Americans. (Obama made his announcement to run from Williams Ayers house.)
Obama’s Long-Time Friend and Fundraiser Antonio Rezko – Syrian Muslim Slum Lord. ( http://www.wnd.com )
Obama’s Fundraiser Hatem El-Hady – accused terrorist linked to Hamas and Al Quaeda.
Obama’s Friend & Fundraiser Professor Khalidi – Muslim Terrorist Supporter.
Obama’s Friend Nadhmi Auchi – Muslim Billionaire, bulk of money came from doing under the table arms deals with Saddam Hussein.
Obama’s Mentor / Spiritual Leader (for 17 years) Rev. Wright – racist, “Nation of Islam” supporter, anti-American. (He is the man Obama credited for getting him into politics.)
Obama’s Other Rev. James Meeks – racist, black supremacist and homophobic senator of Illinois.
Paul Reyes leader of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia – communist terrorist group.
Daniel Ortega – led a Marxist revolution in Nicaragua in 1979.
Rev. Jesse Jackson – racist, adulterer, black supremacist.
Sohaib Abassi – Muslim Millionaire.
Ahmed Yousef – chief political adviser to the Prime Minister of Hamas-terrorist organization against Israel pro PLO.
The new Black Panther Party – U.S. Based black supremacist organization for Black Theology.
Louis Farrakhan – the longtime radical leader of the Nation of Islam. (Farrakhan Quote: They call them terrorists, I call them freedom fighters.)
La Raza – racist Marxist Latino separatists who want the U.S. Southwest as a separate Latino nation.
Democrat Senator Robert Byrd – x-wizard of KKK.
Sorros – billionaire, socialist, “one world government” supporter.
Al Gore – making money on carbon offsets with a dream of UN “global carbon/green tax” on all countries.
Jane Fonda – “Hanoi-Jane” Fonda posed for pix on a North Vietnamese anti-aircraft machine gun, which may very well have been the same one used to down John McCain’s plane, then she spat on US POWs and was used as a propaganda tool by the North.
Jimmy Carter – ex-president who about ran the economy into the the core of the Earth, long gas lines, 18% mortgages etc.
Michael Moore – left-wing nut who the majority of American’s think is a liar and opportunist.
George Galloway – America hater, Hizbollah supporter, etc.
Obama called rev. Wright his “spiritual mentor.” He is the man Obama credits for getting him into politics.
Obama called Wright his moral compass, as was noted last year by the Chicago Tribune: http://www.chicagotribune.com. ..
In his autobiography, “Dreams from My Father,” Obama discusses the influence a mentor identified in the book as Frank had on his intellectual development. Frank – Marshall Davis – member of Communist Party of the United States of America http://www.wnd.com
George Sorros: Open Society and Open Borders: archive.newsmax.com
“ George Soros uses a vast network of special interest groups and non-governmental organizations, in the United States and abroad, to support his global objective – a “one-world government.”
estimates that will add billions to this number.
wow. some of these people making comments have a more twisted view of reality than mccain.
first off, we have people like phil gramm to thank for the housing crisis, as well as the enron loophole. so before you go and point out how evil obama is, take a good look in the mirror at what the conservative christian right wing freaks have done to this country. they are the root of most of the problems in this country. they hide behind the bible, the flag, and their un-ending sea of lies.
yes, democrats were elected to congress and appointed in 2007. Some idiots seem to think they went in in 2006. The housing crisis was from the relaxation of mortgage rules that were set under the Republican Congress and President. The oil crisis was in effect prior to the Democratic Congress. Hmm….I was in the same tax bracket under Clinton as I am under Bush (sad all these years later), but I pay more now….I had more deductions back then woth my kids and the inyeresy on my home, so I guess we can use that as the excuse. It cracks me up that anybody can bend the tax numbers anyway you want them, but you want people to believe they are paying less today than they will be under Obama. Only if you make over 200K-single, 250k married, how hard is that to understand. It is a fact that our country is worse off today than it was 8 years ago, no one can refute that. It is amazing that during that time McCain did not stand up to the leadership, nor has he during his 22 years in the senate. He says he has, but his voting record says he supports Bush (over 95% of the time) but hey whatever, idiots will be idiots……..
Matt Judkin commented less than a minute ago:
Obama will win!!!
He is a liberals liberal!!
Obama has received “100″ ratings from Americans for Democratic Action, Planned Parenthood, the AFL-CIO, the American Federation of Government Workers, Citizens for Tax Justice (i.e., for raising taxes on the “rich”), Americans United for the Separation of Church and State, the National Education Association, and the National Organization for Women. He has received “F” grades from the National Taxpayers Union, the National Rifle Association, and U.S. English, a 13 rating from Citizens Against Government Waste, 7 ratings from the Club for Growth, the American Conservative Union, and the Eagle Forum, and zero ratings from the Family Research Council, the National Right to Life Committee, and Americans for Tax Reform.
When will the Democrats wake up and stop trying lie about being socialist liberals to their execution, like Obama!! not to mention Gore, Kerry, McGovern, Dukakis, etc, etc..
Keep being a liberal socialist that what America wants!!
Obama 2008!!
-Big oil -and the Red China big-biz
-”shhh! about that genocide” lobby.
Anyone give up their stupid cars yet
in protest?
Didn’t think so.
Interesting video, but it would’ve been more useful if it’d included how much Obama’s received from Big Oil and whether any of his advisors are former oil lobbyists.
this is about mccain’s two sided uneducated ideas.
hightower or whatever your name is u r so quick to pint out the democrates of the past but what about our dumb ass president now? start naming his flaws. u people r so adamant on complaining about a aprticular party, name individuals as a whole. george bush, whose name doesnt deserve to be capatized properly is an idiot and u voted for them so flock dumb bird!
Hey Matt, you better open your eyes and see the Nazi elephant (GOP) standing in the room. “socialism” is one of scare tactics these facists put out there to divert your attention away from their misdeeds and secrecy. They wrap it in an American flag and add a “cross” to make it look “good”…..just like Hilter, just like the Ku Klux Klan. Same old thing, same old tactics but unfortunately people may not wake up in time, this time, to put a stop to it.
I’ve noticed an interesting correlation between liberal commentary on these things and those on the hard right. The liberals tend to (most often) be literate, knowledgeable & able to use a spell checker. They bring up issues and details. The right tend to repeat the same old lame crap over & over as if the rest of us haven’t been paying attention when it has been pointed out as an outright distorted lie repeatedly and they attack individuals and resort to juvenile name-calling. I think they infiltrate these blogs with a talking points list they must download from somewhere: Stupid Lies to Fool the Masses. Illegals are NOT getting Social Security. It’s the stupid war that has helped wreck our economy and not allowed a recovery from 9-11 and the tech slowdown that resulted from the massive push in the 90s to deal with the Y2K issues and an idiot president that keeps vetoing every change the Democratic Congress, in their brief time in control, has tried to pass to change things for the better. So that’s a NO CHANGE – same old thing issue.
Obama is NOT taking funds from big oil or ANY of the Washington lobbies! He is not and never has been Muslim. He is not going to raise taxes on anyone making less than a quarter million dollars a year! If you are on the top of that line, most of us have no sympathy for you. And it would take a military coup to bring in a true socialist state in this country so I don’t care how many nightmares that might cause, it won’t happen! Capitalism is too firmly entrenched in the core fiber of what this country is. The nightmares that the rest of us have dealt with for so long under the Bush regime will end – but not soon enough. It is going to take Obama & Biden some time to fix some of what the Neo-cons, the Military Industrial Complex and the religious extremists have done to this country over the past 40 years. Bush has just been the last straw & it is time for “a little revolution” that Thomas Jefferson said would be necessary to get this Democratic Republic back on track.
I see the polls and I wonder how many people keep buying the BS. Then I see so many great sites trying to get the truth out about the distortions and I’m hopeful again. My final hope on this is that perhaps the progressives among us just aren’t answering the phones when the pollsters are calling. We’ll give them the real answer in Nov.
I don’t understand why the real outrage isn’t being discussed. It’s the fact that Big Oil gets $5.60 for every gallon sold at the pump.
In most cases, they also pocket the 62 cent subsidy that is attributed to ethanol, since a recent lobby effort got the subsidy paid to the one who blends it, which is usually Big Oil.
Read “Alcohol can be a Gas” by Blume
Without subsidies, NG and Ethanol would be King.
All of you are nuts! You vote on party affiliation. You keep electing the same old people time after time. The best thing you can do is VOTE EVERYONE OUT OF OFFICE and get new blood out there that sides with the people and not with big corporations.
There is nothing that can be done about the two presidential candidates because as usual, voters nominated the wrong ones.
It won’t matter who takes office. One way or the other, we all loose.
It’s not just that McCain has taken the oil industry’s money to push their agenda. We are already used to this from Bush 43 and Cheney.
Pandering to the polls regarding offshore drilling is not only foolish, it is very dangerous. Does he not remember hurricanes Katrina and Rita? (Katrina was the one that happened while celbrating his birthday with Bush 43.) According to the Houston Chronicle which “examined all oil spills reported to the National Response Center…in the week after Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita”, “the two storms caused at least 595 spills”. “Some have even compared the total amount of oil released–estimated at 9 million gallons–to the tragedy of the Exxon Valdez”. The Department of Homeland Security’s estimate of spilled oil pretty much matches the 9,000,000 gallons that the Chronicle noted.
From a report done 1/22/07 for the Department of the Interior’s Minerals Management Service, it is reported that 542 oil pipelines were damaged by Katrina and Rita.
And from another Minerals Management Services report in 2006, 113 oil platforms that were destroyed just by Katrina are listed.
I’m not listing damages to refineries, because while the politicians are all pro-drilling, nobody has mentioned being pro-building of refineries to process the oil into gasoline. Who wants a refinery in their district? Offshore drilling is somewhat invisible. Refineries are not. In the meantime, here in Charlotte we have long gas lines 2 weeks after Ike hit.
Senator McCain surely has access to this information. Instead of pandering to the public, why not take the high road and explain the facts to voters. People obviously like the idea of a quick fix to reduce our price for gasoline. But (a) this is not a quick fix as it will take some 7 years or more before any new offshore rigs are in production, (b) even with offshore rigs bringing oil up from underground, where is it going to be refined into gasoline–we have no refineries in NC and where would you propose building them, and (c) is it really worth the potential damage to our coastline and our environment, complete with the costs of cleaning up after the potential oil spills?
The damages from Gustaw and Ike are not yet quantified. But you could not help but notice the black lines of oil on the beaches of Galveston.
I am not an environmental activist. But I am concerned about energy and want to see the development of alternative sources–air, sun, water, algae–moved forward with all due haste. Coal gasification, if it can be done cleanly, would be great for a county with huge coal reserves. Nuclear is fine when its waste is stored at Yucca Mountain, as long as the transportation of the waste does not go through Arizona.
Our automotive industry just received huge federal loans. This should go toward to rapid development of the technologies needed for hydrogen powered vehicles and bio-diesel fueld vehicles. Electric is only a short term solution because it requires increased generation of electricity, mush of which comes from firing coal.
The oil companies need to take the initiative to save their businesses. Replacement batteries, battery charges, oil from algae sales. If the oil companies don’t do this, they will lose out to venture capitalists from Silicon Valley.
Senator mcCain should try to revive his campaign by taking this lead on the energy crisis. For that matter, why hasn’t Senator Obama taken this lead. It’s really not that difficult. We have the scientists and technologies that just have to be moved from small scale scale to full scale production.
Many politicians are no friends to the payday loans industry. In order to raise voter support they choose to ignore what is best for the citizens. Some states including, Georgia, North Carolina, and Oregon have completely driven out the payday loan companies. Politicians still choose to disregard the benefits of the industry even though statistics in these states show a spike in bankruptcy filings, bounced checks and foreclosures. Even though these negative statistics have come to light, several governors are still trying to follow suit. If the efforts to wipe the industry completely off the map prove successful, some possible repercussions might consist of increased unemployment rates, more debt, more foreclosures and an even more inapt economy.
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Yes, i am sure that much of what is said in the above is true in regards to Mcain. But lets not leave OBAMA out of this discussion. Where do you think his money is coming from? He has 20 times the contributions that Mcain has had. And you would have to be pretty naive to think that all those funds were donated by the average citizen like you and me. No,no, Obama has his big industry campaign contributors as well. And he will be expected to return the favor if voted to office in November.
Obama plays the same games as the rest of the politicians and shows a level of immaturity when it come to our economy.
Our economy should be the topic of choice on our election ballot as America needs jobs and financial stability, especially with fears of a Global reccession. Also the lead to close and or ban America’s small loan installment / payday loan company’s will further unemploy tens of thousands of Americans and prevent a much needed financial service to the rest of the public. This is amplified by the current conditions we face now.
Everyone is responsible for knowing the issues as well as the view each candidates has on them.
Good luck in November as we will all need it!
Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, who is currently a Vice Presidential Candidate, has been getting more negative responses from the mainstream media than she has in praises. For example, last weekend she made her late-night entertainment debut on NBC’s well-liked pop culture mainstay, Saturday Night Live. Instead of praising her for being the good sport she was, she was criticized by the press for her appearance. For several weeks now, jabs left and right have been taken at Palin, attempting to knock her out on everything. They question her performance as Governor of Alaska and her possible position as the Vice President of the United States. They had even extensively utilized the story of her seventeen-year old daughter who got pregnant out of wedlock to spread a horrendous tale to further condemn the VP candidate. Some in the media, including moderate experts, have stooped so low as to insinuate that our country will fall if something should happen to Republican Presidential Candidate John McCain, forcing Palin to take over the office of Presidency. These attacks are low-blows packed with half-truth or outright lies. Conversely, a large number of people admire Palin for her hard work and efforts that brought better things to her home state of Alaska. Many come to her defense, pointing to her unwavering support for the disabled, her work in the interest of children and people with special needs. People have put their faith in Sarah Palin, considering her support for personal responsibility and financial freedom. Much of this includes her fight against the destruction of cash advances, which is a legitimate and invaluable resource that many responsible, hard-working citizens have come to rely on in times of unexpected financial situations.
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this is about mccain's two sided uneducated ideas.
this is about mccain's two sided uneducated ideas.
hightower or whatever your name is u r so quick to pint out the democrates of the past but what about our dumb ass president now? start naming his flaws. u people r so adamant on complaining about a aprticular party, name individuals as a whole. george bush, whose name doesnt deserve to be capatized properly is an idiot and u voted for them so flock dumb bird!
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