Obama slams Republicans as new energy "naysayers"
US President Barack Obama Thursday mocked Republican foes who snub his alternative energy plans, comparing them to those who questioned the revolutionary rise of television and automobiles.
Obama, facing rising political heat over spiking gas prices as he fires up his bid for a second term ahead of November's election, hit back at those who accuse him of wasting taxpayer money on failed new generation energy projects.
In his most sarcastic and cutting campaign mode, Obama slammed his rivals as "naysayers" who were stuck in the past, doubling down on his energy policy despite claims from Republican candidates that it is a miserable failure.
"Lately, we've heard a lot of professional politicians, a lot of the folks who are running for a certain office, who shall go unnamed... they have been talking down new sources of energy," Obama said.
Obama strongly defended his plans to make America a leader in new energy sources like biofuels, and wind power and solar power, and rebuked Republicans for opposing his plans to cut subsidies to profit cranking oil producers.
"If some of these folks were around when Columbus set sail ... they would not have believed that the world was round," he said, at a Community College in the Maryland suburbs outside Washington DC.
"They probably would have agreed with one of the pioneers of the radio who said, "Television won't last. It's a flash in the pan," he said.
http://news.yahoo.com/obama-slams-re...164715493.html
Yeap. Divide and conquer.
Obama's Redistribution 'Bombshell'
By Michael Dobbs
10/27/2008
The Washington Post
"In a previously uncovered interview from September 6, 2001, Barack Obama expressed his regret that the Supreme Court hadn't been more 'radical' and described as a 'tragedy' the Court's refusal to take up 'the issues of redistribution of wealth.' No wonder he wants to appoint judges that legislate from the bench."
--McCain economics adviser Douglas Holtz-Eakin
With just over a week to go until the election, the McCain campaign is stepping up its efforts to portray Barack Obama as a closet "socialist" bent on implementing a major redistribution of wealth in American society. The Illinois Democrat's remarks to "Joe the Plumber" on "spreading the wealth around" are Exhibit A in the Son of Karl Marx argument. Exhibit B is a newly-discovered interview that Obama gave to a Chicago public radio station back in 2001 in which he mentioned the R-word several times in a generally positive context.
Did Obama really say what the McCain camp says he said?
The Facts
"Obama Bombshell Audio Uncovered. He wants to Radically Reinterpret the Constitution to Redistribute Wealth!!" runs the YouTube headline from the conservative video blog Naked Emperor News. "This video exposes the radical beneath the rhetoric."
On closer inspection, the "bombshell audio" turns out to be a rather wonkish, somewhat impenetrable, discussion of the Supreme Court under Earl Warren. Obama, then a University of Chicago law professor and Illinois state senator, argued that the courts have traditionally been reluctant to get involved in income distribution questions. He suggested that the civil rights movement had made a mistake in expecting too much from the courts -- and that such issues were better decided by the legislative branch of government.
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/fac..._bombshel.html
What is the most powerful entity in the US? The US Government. Kudos to the liberals for understanding that the power of government is basically unabated. They use this ultimate power to mandate and dictate their agenda to free people (many of which don't want it). The Founders feared this abuse. They knew the power of government. They tried to build the USA to manage this. It was a huge issue in getting the Constitution ratified. In liberal ideology, we are United America (phuck the States, they don't have an Army, their own currency....)