The energy-ad arms race

Presidential candidates keep the energy ads a-comin’ 8

John McCain put out this new ad yesterday, "Broken," in which he's portrayed as the "original maverick" and pledges to "battle Big Oil." (Someone might want to pass the message along to his donors.)

Barack Obama responded with this new ad yesterday, challenging the premise that McCain has been a "maverick" on energy and other issues:

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And today McCain issued another ad repeating the celebrity allegation (this time minus Britney and Paris) and alleging that Obama isn't "ready to help your family." The ad touts McCain's plans for renewable energy and energy independence:

Kate Sheppard is Grist’s political reporter.

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  1. Delay And Deny's avatar

    Delay And Deny Posted 9:58 am
    06 Aug 2008

    Kick Oil With Hydrogen

    The one politician who has actually made a significant contribution to halting CO2 production and getting us off the oil merry-go-round...is George W. Bush.
    Bush has championed hydrogen and nanotechnology  investments from his first year in office.
    8 years later...the payoff is here, in simplified electrolysis, day and night solar cells, autos that can run on H2 alone, and the Hydrogen Highway...built by a Republican.
    The man who takes over the job, must be a 3rd term of Bush.   He must continue this vital work.   McCain can claim to be a maverick just by following in Bush's footsteps, because Bush has been the leader all along on the environment and warming and has left as one of his legacies the ability to create cheap clean energy, in a safer, more stable world.

  2. BlackBear Posted 10:35 am
    06 Aug 2008

    Funny.Jabailo! Dude, It's "puff, puff, PASS!" Come on, man, give us all a hit of what you're smoking! Sounds like good stuff!
    As much fun as your rhetoric is, this administration will definitely NOT be hailed as anything short of an environmental nightmare.
  3. MClemens Posted 12:35 pm
    06 Aug 2008

    Wow!jabailo, that's great! That's like going to an NRA blog and saying that the Clinton administration was the best thing to happen to the Second Amendment and the Brady Bill was the best legislation ever for gun enthusiasts. "Gloom and doom with a sense of humor"
  4. Pathos Posted 1:02 pm
    06 Aug 2008

    We really, REALLY need to cut to the debates.As full of sh*t as they all are, McCain's commercials are kicking the asses of Obama's.
    We need to get to a venue where Obama can make McCain look bad.
  5. Delay And Deny's avatar

    Delay And Deny Posted 3:00 pm
    06 Aug 2008

    Spaceship Gore has Landed...That's like going to an NRA blog and saying that the Clinton administration was the best thing to happen to the Second Amendment and the Brady Bill was the best legislation ever for gun enthusiasts
    I think of myself more like a "deprogrammer" trying to get you Moonies out of the Global Warming Cult and back into America.
  6. amazingdrx Posted 3:29 pm
    06 Aug 2008

    Well the answering ads are good PathosAnd then there is the flip flop from mcbush on almost everty ad.  More ads where mcbush debates himself are needed.  Jon Stewart starting doing this as a comedy bit.
    Real debates?  Will the mcbush faction agree to that?  Now that would be great fun.

    http://amazngdrx.blogharbor.com/blog John Schneider, Northern Wisconsin
  7. Pathos Posted 3:33 pm
    07 Aug 2008

    re: Dr. XI'm pretty sure every Presidential election does televised debates these days... McCain could, of course, refuse, but he'd brand himself a coward if he did.
    While that would be pretty cool, I'd much rather watch Obama publically make McCain his oratorial bitch the way Clinton did to Dole in '96.
  8. amazingdrx Posted 3:59 pm
    07 Aug 2008

    BrandedYep of course Pathos, he'll have to debate.  Will obama need to take it easy on him like he had to with Hillary?
    Otherwise he could look like a bully.  Pushing around an old timer.  He looks more presidential that way, but it's not an act.  He really is that way.
    He doesn't want to win unfairly.  The embodiment of change in the political realm.
    That's when Hillary lost me, when she showed she would say anything to win.  McCain is taking that kitchen sink approach too.  Throwing everything including the kitchen sink, and even throwing Cindy to the bikers, yikes.

    http://amazngdrx.blogharbor.com/blog John Schneider, Northern Wisconsin

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