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Offshore thing McCain compares Obama to Britney and Paris in new energy ad	Kate Sheppard	30 Jul 2008	Gristmill
In the ongoing energy ad battle, John McCain released another television ad today on the subject. Or at least it purports to be about energy. The ad juxtaposes video of Obama at his recent speech in Berlin with photos of Britney Spears and Paris Hilton, and alleges that while he might be celebrated the world over, he's not ready to lead on energy concerns. 'He's the biggest celebrity in the world. But is he ready to lead?' the ad asks. 'With gas prices soaring, Ba ...
Topics: Barack Obama, elections, John McCain, Muckraker, news, oil and gas drilling, politics, presidential race 08, video (all these topics)

Pump up the volume Obama responds to McCain's 'Pump' ad with call for higher mileage standards and renewables	Kate Sheppard	30 Jul 2008	Gristmill
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama released a new television ad on energy prices yesterday -- a direct response to John McCain's recent ad blaming Obama for high gas prices. 'Have you seen John McCain's TV ad?' the Obama ad asks. 'John McCain is blaming Barack Obama for gas prices. The same old politics.' 'Barack Obama thinks high gas prices deserve serious answers, and a serious plan: Crack down on oil speculators, raise mileage standards, and f ...
Topics: Barack Obama, elections, energy, John McCain, Muckraker, news, oil, politics, presidential race 08, video (all these topics)

Obama in Berlin Dem presidential candidate calls on world to unite to fight climate change	David Roberts	25 Jul 2008	Gristmill
Obama spoke at the Brandenburg Gate yesterday; 100,000 people were expected, 200,000 showed up. This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet. Let us resolve that we will not leave our children a world where the oceans rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our lands. Let us resolve that all nations -- including my own -- will act with the same seriousness of purpose as has your nation, and reduce the carbon we send into our atmosphe ...
Topics: Barack Obama, climate change mitigation, elections, Germany, politics, presidential race 08, video (all these topics)

Be a Dolly and Cancel My Trip, Will You? Hurricane Dolly cancels McCain's trip to offshore oil rig		24 Jul 2008	News
Posted at 6:57 AM on 24 Jul 2008 John McCain had planned to visit an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday to tout offshore drilling and the industry's environmental friendliness, but Hurricane Dolly canceled his plans. Dolly hit land in Texas Wednesday as a Category 2 storm, cutting oil and gas production by some 5 to 8 percent overall. McCain and other Republicans have been pushing to allow ...
Topics: elections, energy, John McCain, news, oil and gas drilling, politics, presidential race 08, severe weather (all these topics)

Voters' Voices: New Hampshire Talking with voters in Nashua about the environment and the election	Melinda Henneberger	17 Jul 2008	Gristmill
This is part of a series of dispatches from Melinda Henneberger, who's talking to voters around the U.S. about their views on the environment and the election. Photo: Kyle P. Johnson Nashua, N.H. -- Suziana Moriera does not see soaring gas prices as all bad: 'It's still not hurting enough. People complain, but it's got to hurt more' before Americans will start driving appreciably less. It's got to hurt more, she thinks, before her hometown of ...
Topics: Barack Obama, elections, John McCain, New Hampshire, politics, presidential race 08, Voters Voices (all these topics)

Barack in the Buckeye State Dem presidential candidate talks up energy plan in Ohio	Kate Sheppard	13 Jul 2008	Gristmill
Barack Obama gave a speech on energy policy in Dayton, Ohio on Friday, and used the opportunity to rip on rival John McCain. He knocked the candidate's calls for offshore drilling and a 'gas-tax holiday,' and accused him of being part of the problem in Washington. 'A few days ago, Senator McCain said our dangerous dependence on foreign oil has been 30 years in the making, and was caused by the failure of politicians in Washington to think long-term about the futur ...
Topics: Barack Obama, elections, energy, Muckraker, news, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Yes, Americans are a bunch of whiners ...	Jason D Scorse	12 Jul 2008	Gristmill
As a big Obama supporter I am delighted that McCain's national co-chair and economic adviser Phil Gramm was stupid enough to talk about America being in a 'mental recession' and the country being a 'bunch of whiners'; it's going to be the gift that keeps on giving (Obama had a great line about how the country doesn't need a new Dr. Phil). Gramm was 100 percent wrong about the 'mental recession' part -- we are teetering on a real recession if not already in one -- b ...
Topics: elections, energy, gas prices, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Third partying Greens to announce presidential candidate	Kate Sheppard	11 Jul 2008	Gristmill
The Green Party is hosting their presidential convention in Chicago this week, where the party is expected to officially select former Rep. Cynthia McKinney (Ga.) as its presidential candidate. Yesterday hip-hop activist Rosa Clemente accepted McKinney's invitation to run as the VP candidate. More to come on the Green ticket soon. Speaking of third-party runs for the presidency, Ralph Nader participated in a live, online chat at the Washington Post yesterday. Mini ...
Topics: elections, grassroots activism, Muckraker, news, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Cheney's third term McCain's economy plan fails to substantially address energy efficiency	Joseph Romm	07 Jul 2008	Gristmill
John McCain takes the 'conserve' out of 'conservative.' His entire energy efficiency strategy would fit on one side of a very small file card and can be summarized as follows: Ban Porsches, green federal buildings, and applaud homeowners who do stuff on their own! His repackaged new economic plan, 'Jobs for America' has precisely three paragraphs that deal with efficiency: CAFE Standards: John McCain has long supported CAFE standards -- the mileage requiremen ...
Topics: economy, elections, energy efficiency, John McCain, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Bucking Convention Democratic convention planners struggling to meet big green goals		07 Jul 2008	News
Posted at 10:13 AM on 07 Jul 2008 Planners of August's Democratic Convention in Denver are finding that it's just not that easy to pull off Green Director Andrea Robinson's goal of "the most sustainable political convention in modern American history." Only three states' delegations have agreed to purchase carbon offsets through the convention's "Green Delegate Challenge" program. Merchandise ...
Topics: elections, news, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Ad lib RNC drops $3 million to promote McCain's energy plan	Kate Sheppard	07 Jul 2008	Gristmill
Over the weekend, the Republican National Committee launched their 10-day, $3 million campaign to tout John McCain's energy policy with this ad: 'Record gas prices, a climate in crisis. John McCain says solve it now,' says the ad. 'With a balanced plan -- alternative energy, conservation, suspending the gas tax and more production here at home. He's pushing his own party to face climate change.' It goes on to hit Barack Obama for not supporting McCain's 'gas- ...
Topics: elections, energy, John McCain, Muckraker, news, politics, presidential race 08, video (all these topics)

The grill of victory Over half of Americans want to barbecue with Barack	Kate Sheppard	03 Jul 2008	Gristmill
The survey you've all been waiting for: 52 percent of Americans say they would prefer to have Barack Obama at their 4th of July shindig. Only 45 percent reported that they would prefer McCain, according to the latest Associated Press-Yahoo! News poll. Says the AP: 'People would rather barbecue burgers with Barack than munch meats with McCain.' That includes one in six people who said they plan to vote for McCain in November. Only one in 20 Obama voters said t ...
Topics: Barack Obama, elections, holiday, Muckraker, news, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

The drill of the chase RNC to drop $3 million on ads hitting Obama on energy	Kate Sheppard	03 Jul 2008	Gristmill
Roll Call reports ($ub. req'd): The Republican National Committee is launching $3 million in independent expenditure television ads in four states, focusing on the energy issue. The ad is slated to run on network and cable television in Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania and will highlight the differences between Sens. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) and John McCain (R-Ariz.) on energy security. 'Following Barack Obama's decision to become the only major party ...
Topics: Barack Obama, elections, energy, Muckraker, news, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

The media is (almost) onto McCain's cynical doubletalk 'Purpose,' McCain's new energy ad, features wind turbines he voted against	Joseph Romm	02 Jul 2008	Gristmill
McCain has a new ad titled 'Purpose': The AP critiqued it with a piece titled, 'McCain energy ad short on specifics.' Okay, mainstream media, half credit. The ad has a much bigger problem than lack of specifics -- McCain is trying to get a political boost by claiming he will champion popular clean energy technologies that he, like President Bush and most conservatives, has consistently opposed:SCRIPT: Announcer: American technology protected the world. We went to th ...
Topics: elections, energy, John McCain, mainstream media, politics, presidential race 08, video (all these topics)

Derailed McCain just not that into Amtrak	Kate Sheppard	02 Jul 2008	Gristmill
Over at the Boston Globe, columnist Derrick Z. Jackson does an excellent job of highlighting John McCain's beef with Amtrak: For years, McCain, in the comfort of cheap gasoline for autos and airplanes, made Amtrak a personal whipping boy. Despite the fact that governments in Western Europe and Asia zoomed far ahead of the United States by supporting high-speed trains to relieve congestion, promote tourism and now as we are coming to know, save the planet, McCain has ...
Topics: elections, John McCain, Muckraker, news, placemaking, politics, presidential race 08, public transportation (all these topics)

'Often contradictory stances' Mainstream media realizes that McCain's energy rhetoric and record don't match up	Kate Sheppard	01 Jul 2008	Gristmill
The mainstream media has started to pick up on the fact that John McCain's energy policy is totally inconsistent. Bloomberg: As a senator, John McCain has condemned policies that pick market winners and losers, aiming particular criticism at government ethanol subsidies as a taxpayer rip-off. As a presidential candidate, the Arizona Republican himself is backing specific industries in proposals for relief from high energy prices and foreign oil dependence. ...
Topics: elections, energy, John McCain, mainstream media, Muckraker, news, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Per Hirsh incentives Newsweek political journalist transcribes McCain campaign spin on energy	David Roberts	29 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Last October, Barack Obama laid out a detailed, ambitious, and comprehensive energy plan, and he's been talking about it ever since. A couple weeks ago, John McCain let loose a flurry of one-off energy gimmicks -- a gas tax holiday, offshore drilling, a prize for a car battery -- which he crammed together under the heading 'the Lexington Plan.' According to Washington Wise Man Michael Hirsh, in a mash note that would embarrass a crushing tween, that puts Obama on th ...
Topics: Barack Obama, elections, energy, John McCain, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Ethanol with your coal, anyone? Billionaires for Obama	JMG	29 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Via Sam Smith, Lynn Sweet notes a few of the folks meeting with Obama: WEDNESDAY OBAMA PRIVATE MEETING IN CHICAGO WITH BUSINESS LEADERS: 1. James Bell, CFO of Boeing, aerospace, IL 2. Jamie Dimon, CEO of JP Morgan Chase, financial services, NY 3. Ann Fudge, former CEO of Young & Rubicam, public relations, IL 4. Mark Gallogly, Centerbridge Partners, NY 5. Alan Mulally, CEO of Ford, auto manufacturer, MI 6. Jim Rogers, CEO of Duke Energy, energy/alternati ...
Topics: Barack Obama, elections, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

The battle of Lexington McCain touts energy plan in another new ad	Kate Sheppard	27 Jun 2008	Gristmill
John McCain has a new ad promoting his 'Lexington Project' to move the country toward energy independence: As with previous ads, this one shows footage of windmills and solar panels, but I don't see any nuclear reactors. Odd, considering his love of nuclear energy and his plan to build 45 new nuclear reactors by 2030.
Topics: elections, John McCain, Muckraker, news, politics, presidential race 08, renewable energy, video (all these topics)

Prez briefing A smattering of presidential campaign news	Kate Sheppard	26 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Recent news on the presidential campaign front: Barack Obama held an 'Economic Competitiveness' summit today with leaders from the business, labor, education, and philanthropy, in which he touted his plan to invest $150 billion in the green energy sector and create five million new jobs. 'This can be the moment when we make a truly national effort to end our addiction to oil,' Obama said. 'Just as Roosevelt invested in an Arsenal of Democracy and Kennedy took us ...
Topics: elections, Muckraker, news, politics, presidential race 08, renewable energy (all these topics)

Crist cross Was Florida guv's big Everglades deal an attempt to keep him in the running for VP?	Kate Sheppard	25 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Over on The Wall Street Journal's Environmental Capitol blog, Keith Johnson raises the question of whether Charlie Crist's $1.75 billion deal to buy 300 square miles of the Everglades from U.S. Sugar Corp. was timed to keep his chance at the VP spot alive, as some Floridians have suggested. Last week Grist noted that Crist's enviro cred may be at stake now that he's backed John McCain's call for off-shore drilling. Tuesday's announcement of the deal for the Evergl ...
Topics: elections, Florida, Muckraker, news, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

'It is now' Obama lays out an energy vision that's economics and security first	David Roberts	25 Jun 2008	Gristmill
I just read the energy speech Obama gave on Tuesday in Nevada. I'd call it a TKO if I didn't sound so unconvincing using boxing metaphors. Watch what he leads with: "A green, renewable energy economy isn't some pie-in-the-sky, far-off future, it is now."This is what the campaign, correctly in my judgment, has decided people need to hear first and foremost: It's happening. People just like you, who live around here, are getting jobs doing this stuff. The Ob ...
Topics: Barack Obama, elections, energy, John McCain, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Obama on nukes RNC claims Obama contradicts himself on nuclear power	Kate Sheppard	25 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Perhaps in response to Barack Obama's criticism of McCain on nuclear power yesterday, the Republican National Committee is circulating a research piece claiming the Democratic candidate has flip-flopped on the issue, citing quotes and videos of Obama. The quotes: From the CNN/YouTube Democratic debate in Charleston, S.C., in July 2007: 'I actually think that we should explore nuclear power as part of the energy mix. There are no silver bullets to this issue ...
Topics: Barack Obama, elections, Muckraker, news, nuclear power, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Voters' Voices: Oregon Talking with voters in Portland about the environment and the election	Melinda Henneberger	25 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Photo: David Grant This is part of a series of dispatches from Melinda Henneberger, who's talking to voters around the U.S. about their views on the environment and the election. Portland, Ore. -- Oh, the indignity of tooling around environmentally aware Portland in a big-dog SUV, in between conversations about the environment. Even the guy at the rental-car counter was apologetic: 'I know,' he said, when I gulped at the news that my economy car ...
Topics: Barack Obama, elections, John McCain, Oregon, politics, presidential race 08, Voters Voices (all these topics)

Nevada say never again Obama heads to Nevada, takes on McCain in energy policy address	Kate Sheppard	24 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Not to let John McCain have all the attention on energy policy this week, Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama gave a speech on energy today in Springs Preserve, a 180-acre area in Nevada dedicated to sustainability. 'What we are seeing here ... is that a green, renewable energy economy isn't some pie-in-the-sky, far-off future, it is now,' said Obama. 'It is creating jobs, now. It is providing cheap alternatives to $140-a-barrel oil, now. And it can c ...
Topics: Barack Obama, elections, energy, Muckraker, news, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

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