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OBAMA: Plan To Bankrupt Coal Industry
| Sun, 11-02-2008 - 1:57pm |
Hidden Audio: Obama Tells SF Chronicle He Will Bankrupt Coal Industry
By P.J. Gladnick (Bio | Archive)
November 2, 2008 - 07:26 ET (Please read update about the San Francisco Chronicle neglecting to mention Obama's willingness to bankrupt the coal industry at bottom of this blog.)
November 2, 2008 - 07:26 ET (Please read update about the San Francisco Chronicle neglecting to mention Obama's willingness to bankrupt the coal industry at bottom of this blog.)
Imagine if John McCain had whispered somewhere that he was willing to bankrupt a major industry? Would this declaration not immediately be front page news? Well, Barack Obama actually flat out told the San Francisco Chronicle (SF Gate) that he was willing to see the coal industry go bankrupt in a January 17, 2008 interview. The result? Nothing. This audio interview has been hidden from the public...until now. Here is the transcript of Obama's statement about bankrupting the coal industry (emphasis mine):

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I agree with Obama, that those who build new coal plants need to pay for the pollution they create. New wind and solar technology will prove to be superior. To all of you who are worried that we'll have no electricity, you can start conserving right now. Many of us who support Obama have been doing it for years.
Or you can (quick, time is short) send your millions to the RNC so they can run non-stop slimy ads full of lies about Obama, and hope that the undecideds suddenly become gullible enough to vote for McCain.
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http://www.pnhp.org/news/2009/october/meet_the_new_health_.php
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQTBYQlQ7yM
Something is not ringing true to this whole thread.
Guild Member since 2009
In the words of another poster on the board..."so what's it gonna be"....
So Repubs will say...Obama can't or won't do the things he promises to do...yet they believe him if he says what that article claims?
Greatly Missed, Never Ever Forgotten
And many of us who DON'T support Obama have been conserving as well. However, as O supporters like to say: "We can't drill our way out of this," I say "We can't conserve our way out of this." Conservation has it's part for sure - I'd encourage everyone but coal is the cheapest and most efficient thing we have right now for nearly half of our energy needs.
I'm all for wind, solar, you name it - dh would love to live off the grid and tinkers with "greenie" ideas all the time - there's great, promising stuff out there. But the reality is we need a transition to all of these options. And I've heard McCain many times rattle off everything he supports on his platform. Off shore drilling and shale oil in my mind are a msut. For more than transportation - so much industry requires petroleum based products - our small business for one.
I have reason to believe Obama would push through radical policies that would bankrupt entire energy industries - recall that he said he only wished the gas prices would have risen more slowly. What? I feel he's totally OK with $8+ a gallon gas if only to force conservation and limit pollution. Never mind what that policy would destroy along the way - how's that for the middle class?
And for what it's worth, I actually don't think "global warming" is near what Al Gore would like us to believe. Way more politically driven than scientific. And yes, I've studied up on this. According to meteorologist Roy W. Spencer - former climate researcher for NASA and currently a prof at U of Alabama, CO2 only makes up a very small amount of total atmosphere and human activities add only a tiny bit more gradually. Out of 100,000 molecules of air, only 38 are CO2 and people seem to be adding about one mol every 5 years. Very slight impact. This data from Spencer's book "Climate Confusion." I believe natural factors are playing the bigger role in any warming our earth sees.
That said, I believe pollution needs to be held in check for other obvious reasons - but in a sensible way that doesn't adversely affect people and their livelihoods.
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Um No,
Here is the SF Chronicle's response on this very loosely based charge.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/b/a/2008/11/02/nov05election-lies_half_truth_2.DTL
"It's not true.
But the Drudge Report, the Republican National Committee and apparently even GOP VP candidate Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin fell for completely fabricated news from a shady website called Newsbusters today suggesting the San Francisco Chronicle has ''hidden'' audio with Sen. Barack Obama regarding his statements on coal.
''Barack Obama explained his plan to the San Francisco Chronicle this year,'' she told a rally in Ohio Sunday. ''He said that sure, if the industry wants to build coal-fired power plants, then they can go ahead and try, he says, but they can do it only in a way that will bankrupt the coal industry.''
She added, ''And you've got to listen to the tape.''
''Why is the audiotape just now surfacing?'' Palin asked the crowd, according to a report from CBS News. Someone in the crowd shouted, ''Liberal media!'
Let's be very clear: the Chronicle did not, and has never, hidden any interview, audio or video, of Obama from its readers.
The truth: the paper's January editorial board session with Obama included comments about coal. The entire interview has been in the public domain, available on line to the public -- and to the McCain campaign -- since early January.
''How can anyone suggest that we hid an interview that we did, immediately put up on the web -- and advertised to our readers,'' said editorial page editor John Diaz Sunday, regarding his hosting of Obama at the session. ''We promoted it like like hell...and I'm sure the Clinton campaign and the McCain campaign scrubbed it. You can still find the whole 48 minutes and 33 seconds on line.''
Obama's campaign responded to Palin's comments today, noting correctly that the wide-ranging interview also included the Illinois Senator's comments that the idea of eliminating coal plants was ''an illusion.''
Apparently neither campaign, until now, ever felt there was much worth mentioning regarding Obama's coal comments. But it's now two days before the election and McCain is in a do-or-die battle in Pennsylvania and Ohio.
A final note: the shoddy Newsbusters blog has been caught in the past simply fabricating news regarding the Chronicle's coverage. Our paper has demanded corrections for their fiction, but to no avail.
We contacted Bill Riggs, regional press secretary of the Republican National Committee tonight on his emailing of this erroneous report suggesting a ''hidden'' Chronicle audiotape to political reporters. His response: he didn't confirm it, or write the headline. He just sent it out.
He got taken. And so did the rest."
Bumped and now debunked.
They just can't stop talking about Obama, lies and all.
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