It is easy for you to say that the government-imposed foreign debt has no bearing on you because your generation has effectively passed the buck onto me and my children's generation. The idea that McCain's energy policy will save us of foreign indebtedness is fine. If you were an intellectually honest student of the issues, however, you'd have to accept that the other candidate's energy policy would do the same.
You say that McCain's energy plan will fix everything. Tell me specifically how McCain's energy plan differs from Obama's? Tell me without relying on brain-washing campaign rhetoric. Look at their proposals on each of the candidate's websites and point out specifically how they differ.
Both now advocate nuclear energy plants although they were both previously opposed to it. Both now advocate off-shore drilling although both previously opposed it. Both now advocate drilling in Alaska although both previously opposed it. Both advocate instituting a federal government effort to phase out reliance on foreign oil. Both support a government initiative of some form to develop new energy technologies. Both advocate government spending to realize their "plan."
You will find that the two candidates are not different on this issue. In debates, they are forced to act like they differ for the sake of debate and to appease their respective bases. In substance, however, their plans are fundamentally identical.
And yes. I'd like to be taxed for the wars we wage. This is the way it has always been. If we have spending requirements that exceed our defense budget, then the federal government needs to tax us or go home.
RBB
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
A Call To Produce Proof of Differences On the Energy Issue
Posted by cobrakaidojo at 6:04 PM
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You have to learn how to differentiate between campaign rhetoric and the likelihood or not that a politician will do what they say once elected. Simply stated, I do not believe Obama and to me McCain is more believable. McCain's passion is much more pronounced and credible when he says we must do everything we possibly can to eliminate our dependence on foreign oil. He expresses it in terms of national security and I trust McCain far more than Obama on the issue of security. I simply do not believe Obama will do what he promises as a politician. He has moved to the middle on many issues, including nuclear power production, which I believe he has no intention of following through on if he is elected. I do not trust Obama. His background, history, voting record, and associations reflect someone who is unelectable in America; however he has superficially reinvented himself just to get elected. I don't trust him on taxes, on his vision of America, on energy policy, on cultural issues, on the judiciary, etc, etc, etc. Simply stated Obama is clearly to me not trustworthy. McCain is imperfect, but far more trustworthy and harmonious in his overall outlook to me. It comes down to the issue of trust. As a politician, as an American leader, as a person I do not trust Obama, and I especially do not trust Obama + Pelosi + Reid. And, no, Bush is nothing like Obama in almost every way in spite of the herd of spinmeisters to whom you subscribe and quote who would call the light darkness and the darkness light in the form of twisted, serially misleading logic which leads to demonstrably false conclusions about Bush and Obama being similar on many issues. That conclusion is clearly laughable. Both Obama and Bush would be insulted at such a comparison
Dad
Because your post is about "trust," I'll assume that your post was also a concession to me that I won this argument; namely that McCain and Obama's plans are seemingly identical and either plan that is implemented would absolve foreign debt and increase national security.
McCain has a long legislative record opposing drilling in Alaska, opposing Nuclear power production, opposing off-shore drilling. Contrary to their original positions on the issue, both candidates have only recently advocated the all-encompasing approach to engergy independence.
As to the article, Bush and Obama are vastly different on many issues. However, there are some things upon which all politicians agree because it is in their best interest to do so. Bush and Obama are not excluded from this and that is what the article shows.
RBB
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