McCain Opening to ANWR Drilling?

It is essential that we start drilling, even if we have to do it ourselves in our back yard.......If you take a look at the georgia/russia issue it is mostly about oil......we cannot rely on imports to sustain our livelyhood.....at one time I was not to crazy about drilling anywhere, but times have changed drastically, and we need to take charge of our own destiny....if not, we will become a 3rd world nation

Wow, Dave - when McCain changes his political positions due to popular opinion, he is praised and admired. When Obama does it, he is a flip flopping panderer. Nope, no political bias on your part. No siree.

Is John McCain in the pocket of oil companies?
Is John McCain in the pocket of insurance companies? Is john McCain in the pocket of pharmaceutical companies?
What countries does McCain owe allegiance to?
Here is a list of lobbyists and employees of major companies working in major positions in the McCain campaign. It will answer any questions you might have about the people who are advising and influencing him.
http://mccainsource.com/corruption?id=0006

HALF OF HOUSE DEMS MAY VOTE FOR HILLARY . . . . .
By AMIE PARNES & BEN SMITH 08/15/08

On Friday, the Obama campaign confirmed that the floor vote in Denver, intended to assuage Clinton supporters still stewing over her narrow loss, will be conducted as a state-by-state roll call. (Um, NO - we are not stewing over “her narrow loss,” we are stewing at loss of democratic process; voter theft, fraud, and intimidation; and caucus irregularities, to name just a few.)

Rep. Loretta Sanchez says she’s happy for the chance to vote for Hillary Rodham Clinton at the Democratic National Convention — and she predicts that as many as half of the Democrats in the House could join her. (WOOHOO!!!! About damn time y’all got yourselves some backbone!!! Not you, Rep. Sanchez - you have always been a stand-up woman!)

Just how many former Clinton supporters will vote for the former first lady during the symbolic first ballot is anybody’s guess, but each of them will be called upon to do so — whether they want to or not.

On Friday, the Obama campaign confirmed that the floor vote in Denver, intended to assuage Clinton supporters still stewing over her narrow loss, will be conducted as a state-by-state roll call. Under proposed convention bylaws, delegates would be forced to register their votes on a tally sheet with the convention secretary — the rules could be altered or suspended before the start of the convention.

“By putting her name in nomination, you’re putting people on the spot,” said former delegate counter Matt Seyfang, adding a second potential drawback: “Having a roll call … just chews into your broadcast time.” (Oh, dear, goddess - yes, that bothersome little democratic process is so TIME consuming! Don’t the little people know it is all about OBAMA?!?!?! We cannot be bothered with things like actual VOTES and a smidgen of transparency!! C’mon, already - sheesh!!)

Lower-key options were available. For example, Clinton’s name could have been entered into nomination, followed by laudatory speeches, ending with her release of delegates to Obama and proposal that he be nomination by acclamation, Seyfang said.

Obama spokesman Bill Burton said the “mechanics” of the roll call vote are still being worked out, but he conceded that Clinton probably will garner many votes on the first ballot. (”Mechanics”?? You mean, like how much they can strong-arm Clinton to just throw over her delegates to The One as quickly as possible without letting it LOOK like that is what they are doing?)

For Obama’s camp, the roll call is a ritual that will defuse any potential tension with Clinton or her supporters without affecting the outcome or the theater of Obama’s dramatic nomination. (Oh, I see - the whole roll call thing isn’t really a necessary part of the Democratic, or even Republican, Party electing its nominee, it is simply a “ritual”! Well, I have to tell you, I have learned something new today! All along, I thought the “ritual” of the roll call was to allow the respective delegates to vote for their candidate, thus representing the actual will of the people. Silly me!!! What a goof…)

Said Sanchez: “I believe there are a lot of supporters for Hillary among the superdelegates, especially now that they’ve agreed to place her name in nomination. I think half the House Democrats would probably be Hillary supporters, especially women. … I felt she was the most experienced and the best candidate and I still feel that way.” (Hell to the YES!!!)

Clinton herself has said she plans to vote for Obama. (Honestly, what else is she going to say? Poor thing - she is so between a rock and a hard place…)

A longtime Clinton adviser said it was “crazy” to guess at numbers but estimated that the former first lady would garner between 600 and 1,200 delegates — considerably short of the approximately 1,800 she had collected at the time of her departure from the race in early June.

“It’s a bizarre strategy,” said one Democratic strategist of the roll call. “It could backfire and show that her influence is waning. Chances are, she’s not going to have as many delegates vote for her on the floor as she had in the primary.”

Indeed, many Hillary diehards, including at least one member of the New York delegation, are reluctant to vote for Clinton after switching over to Obama.

“I think that most superdelegates, including myself, are going for Obama,” said New York Rep. Anthony Weiner, who campaigned with Clinton around the country. “I made my decision for Obama, and I’m not switching again.”

Other onetime Clinton backers are reluctant to reverse course for fear of angering their black constituents.

“My boss is totally conflicted about it — and pissed Hillary is putting us in this position,” said a congressional staffer for another New York House member. “We still haven’t made up our mind and I don’t know when we are going to.” (I’m sorry, s/he’s PISSED that HILLARY is putting him/her in this position?!?!? Golly gee willkers, pal - that democratic process thing just SUCKS for you, doesn’t it?? You are mad at HER for what, getting the majority of popular votes so that you might have to actually take a stand and piss some people off? Wowie zowie - you poor little things. But see, this was never supposed to be a SELECTION anyway, so for people to act like Obama should get it just so the AA community doesn’t get pissed off is just plain cowardice. And it’s insulting. To the AA community and the rest of us. This is NOT American Idol - really. It is about the highest job in all the land, and voting for the least competent candidate ever is a sacred duty. It is not one to be used to placate people who might get MAD at you if you vote the way the majority of people voted. Again, it’s called a SPINE - look into it, Congressional Staffer. Oh, and stop the blaming of HILLARY for being the candidate the PEOPLE want! That is assholic on oh-so-many-levels. Talk about blaming the victim - good grief.)

Another New York delegate, speaking on condition of anonymity, predicted that as much as 30 percent to 40 percent of the New York delegation would pick Clinton over Obama during the symbolic vote.

Obama’s decision to accept a roll call vote, which came after weeks of talks with the Clinton camp, doesn’t mean he’ll let the process get out of hand, observers say. (I’m sorry, does this say Obama is going to ACCEPT a roll call vote?!?!?! Oh, what a great guy! He is actually going to allow a DEMOCRATIC process that has existed for over a hundred years to take place?? How benevolent of him. Cough. Choke. Gimme a break already - this is the way Conventions are SUPPOSED to work. If a candidate with 1 delegate can be on a ballot, the only question is why they thought Clinton SHOULD NOT HAVE been in the first place!!!! THAT is the question, not how magnanimous Obama is being by following PROTOCOL!! What is WRONG with these people?!?!?!?)

“The convention is about nominating Barack, so his people want to speed through the vote as fast as possible so it won’t take too much TV time,” said a Democratic delegate who plans to vote for Clinton. “They also want to avoid a scenario where she’s leading at any point.” (Again, silly me. I thought the Convention was about nominating the candidate who is best for the country, the one for whom the majority of people voted. I did not realize before this year that the DNC has become synonymous with Barack Obama. I still cannot wrap my head around how this fledgling senator, with virtually no record, dangerous associates, and astonishing secrecy who will not even provide his REAL birth certificate, is the one the DNC hand-picked. It just boggles my mind. But this convention, this “show,” is all about OBAMA, not the Democratic National Party, or so it appears. What a tragedy that the DNC is morphing into the RNC. (I never thought I’d see the day, and I sure wish I never had…)

MAYBE THE DELEGATES FOUND THEIR BACKBONE TO VOTE FOR THE BEST QUALIFIED CANDIDATE HILLARY!! THEY SHOULDN'T LET THE DNC AND OBAMA INTIMIDATE THEM ON WHO THEY SHOULD VOTE FOR !! "GO HILLARY"
IF OBAMA IS "SELECTED" AS NOMINEE AT THE CONVENTION,
I WILL "NOT" VOTE FOR OBAMA !!

srlsk 08:44:18 PM Jun 08 2008
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John McCain is a flat out Flip flopping liar. McCain voted against an increase in veterans benefits, he called the tax cuts for the wealthy "unconscionable" in a time of war but now flip flopped and supports them. He was admonished for unethical behavior in office for his part in the Keating 5 mess. He surrounds himself with lobbyist advisers after saying he would never have one in his administration. He says he never voted against any bill to repair and improve the levees of New Orleans when the voting record shows that he did, twice! Is he lying or is it dementia? John McCain rose in support of Bush policy over 95% of the time and he calls it change? That isn’t change! If you want more of the same, more War, more debt, high gas prices, more jobs sent abroad, and a ruined economy, then McCain is your man. Vote Obama.

srlsk 08:44:18 PM Jun 08 2008
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John McCain is a flat out Flip flopping liar. McCain voted against an increase in veterans benefits, he called the tax cuts for the wealthy "unconscionable" in a time of war but now flip flopped and supports them. He was admonished for unethical behavior in office for his part in the Keating 5 mess. He surrounds himself with lobbyist advisers after saying he would never have one in his administration. He says he never voted against any bill to repair and improve the levees of New Orleans when the voting record shows that he did, twice! Is he lying or is it dementia? John McCain rose in support of Bush policy over 95% of the time and he calls it change? That isn’t change! If you want more of the same, more War, more debt, high gas prices, more jobs sent abroad, and a ruined economy, then McCain is your man. Vote Obama.

qaqs90001:00AMJul 5th 2008
I used to be Republican then I got a conscience and stopped lying. Now I see a true Republican has to do more than lie. They must lie, cheat , steal and ram it up your a$$.

Sorry but I can no longer stomach the lies told by people like McCain and his Tax evading wife. Notice she won’t tell us how much she makes when everyone else does?
What is she hiding? Obviously a Republican liar married another Repukelican liar.

The old fart probably thinks drilling in ANWAR is going to get him some nookie like he saw at Sturgis.
Time to take the Viagra away from him. Then he'll be just another mean old man like Cheney....

mzymr 09:48:30 PM Aug 15 2008
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MC.CAIN HAS NO MORALS NOR SCRUPLES AFTER WHAT HE DID TO HIS 1ST WIFE. SHE GOT INTO AN AUTO ACCIDENT AND WAS CRIPPLED. HE RAN AROUND ON HER WITH SEVERAL WOMEN AND MARRIED HIS CURRENT WIFE AFTER DIVORCING HIS 1ST WIFE AND LEAVING HER WITH CHILDREN.ASA LIFELONG FAMILY MAN AND CHRISTIAN,HE WILL NEVER EVER GET MY VOTE. HE IS THE LOWEST OF THE LOW TO RUN AROUND ON HIS CRIPPLED WIFE THEN DUMP HER AND THE CHILDREN. WHAT MC.CAIN DID WAS FAR WORSE THAN EDWARDS DID.SHAME ON HIM.

WHAT A CROCK!!!

Let's look at the facts and voting records of the Republicans since 2000.

First, the facts:
1. The big oil companies and people in the Bush administration have already stated that "drilling for more oil" wil NOT lower gas prices.

2. We drilled for more oil in the '70's. It obviously hasn't solved our energy problems or lowered gas prices.

3. Today, we have more countries using more oil than ever before, and oil is going to run out sooner. The governments of Saudi Arabia and Russia - the two biggest oil producers in the world - are already planning on how they're going to keep their countries and economies going after their oil runs out - WHY AREN"T WE???

4. Science has clearly shown that use of oil is making the world's climate worse - and causing more droughts and other climate-related diseasters.

NOW FOR THE VOTING RECORD:

1. The Republicans have consistently backed big oil companines - but consistently voted NOT TO BACK development of renewable energy.

2. The Republicans have ALSO consistently voted to block all attempts to reduce our effects that make global warming worse.

I can only conclude that the Republican party does not care about America's welfare or our people. And I have no doubt the preceding facts contribute to America's RECORD POOR rating of the Bush Administration and the Republicans who have supported Bush.

MCWARMONGERS MORAL MARRIAGE FAILURE

By Richard A. Serrano and Ralph Vartabedian, Los Angeles Times Staff Writers
July 11, 2008
Outside her Bel-Air home, Nancy Reagan stood arm in arm with John McCain and offered a significant -- but less than exuberant -- endorsement.

"Ronnie and I always waited until everything was decided, and then we endorsed," the Republican matriarch said in March. "Well, obviously this is the nominee of the party." They were the only words she would speak during the five-minute photo op.

In a written statement, she described McCain as "a good friend for over 30 years." But that friendship was strained in the late 1970s by McCain's decision to divorce his first wife, Carol, who was particularly close to the Reagans, and within weeks marry Cindy Hensley, the young heiress to a lucrative Arizona beer distributorship.

The Reagans rushed to help Carol, finding her a new home in Southern California with the family of Reagan aide Edwin Meese III and a series of political and White House jobs to ease her through that difficult time.

McCain, who is about to become the GOP nominee, has made several statements about how he divorced Carol and married Hensley that conflict with the public record.


In his 2002 memoir, "Worth the Fighting For," McCain wrote that he had separated from Carol before he began dating Hensley.

"I spent as much time with Cindy in Washington and Arizona as our jobs would allow," McCain wrote. "I was separated from Carol, but our divorce would not become final until February of 1980."

An examination of court documents tells a different story. McCain did not sue his wife for divorce until Feb. 19, 1980, and he wrote in his court petition that he and his wife had "cohabited" until Jan. 7 of that year -- or for the first nine months of his relationship with Hensley.

Although McCain suggested in his autobiography that months passed between his divorce and remarriage, the divorce was granted April 2, 1980, and he wed Hensley in a private ceremony five weeks later. McCain obtained an Arizona marriage license on March 6, 1980, while still legally married to his first wife.

Until McCain filed for divorce, the Reagans and their inner circle assumed he was happily married, and they were stunned to learn otherwise, according to several close aides.

"Everybody was upset with him," recalled Nancy Reynolds, a top aide to the former president who introduced him to McCain.

By contrast, some of McCain's friends, including the Senate aide who was at the reception where McCain first met Hensley, believed he was separated at that time.

Albert "Pete" Lakeland, the aide who was with McCain at the reception in Hawaii in April 1979, said of the introduction to Hensley: "It was like he was struck by Cupid's arrow. He was just enormously smitten."

As the pair began dating, Lakeland allowed them to spend a weekend together at his summer home in Maryland, he said.

The senator has acknowledged that he behaved badly, and that his swift divorce and remarriage brought a cold shoulder from the Reagans that lasted years.

In a recent interview, McCain said he did not want to revisit the breakup of his marriage. "I have a very good relationship with my first wife," he said. In his autobiography, he wrote: "My marriage's collapse was attributable to my own selfishness and immaturity. The blame was entirely mine."

I hope McCain does stand for ANWR drilling and his vice president running mate whom ever he choses. Along with expanding offshore drilling!!!
joedenver 60 comment hit the nail on the head with I think most of Americans. Gas is just way to high and the problems overseas in these other countries is just to risky. We should already be doing it!!! And all Americans should encourage the people that are in office now that they voted in to respond and take action on it now! That is what I have done, contacted my elected officials. It is our right, we voted them in. We can keep them out if on next election if need be to get the job done!
I am a Louisiana Resident.

John McCain
AKA John Sidney McCain III

Born: 29-Aug-1936
Birthplace: Coco Solo, Panama Canal Zone, Panama


Gender: Male
Religion: Anglican/Episcopalian
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Politician, Military
Party Affiliation: Republican

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: US Senator from Arizona

Military service: US Navy (1958-81, Capt.)

John McCain III attended a private boarding school, where he was nicknamed "McNasty" for his willingness to fight. Later, at the US Naval Academy, he gained a reputation as a ladies' man, complained that he was picked on by his commanding officer, and graduated 894th out of 899 in his class.

MCSENILE, NOT A VERY NICE GUY.....
Before his tour of duty in Vietnam, McCain had married a model from Philadelphia, Carol Shepp. While he was imprisoned, she was in an auto wreck, thrown through her car's windshield and left seriously injured. After his return to America, McCain had an extramarital affair with Cindy Lou Hensley, whose father owned Hensley & Co., a Phoenix-based liquor company that is the nation's second largest Anheuser-Busch distributor. McCain and Shepp were divorced in 1980, and he married his millionaire mistress the following month. In 1981 McCain left the Navy, signing his discharge papers the same day he buried his father at Arlington National cemetery, and the newlywed McCains settled in her home state of Arizona, where he went to work for his father-in-law at Hensley & Co.

David S.

Neither candidate has flip flopped. They both simply "reposition" themselves on issues on which they have take a previous position which doesn't happen to be the position they are now taking since they "repositioned" themselves. The second language all Americans need to learn is political speak.

According to Bush's own Energy Information Administration, production from ANWR will peak at 780k bbls/day - and even that not until 2027. Obama's proposed Carbon Cap and Trade system would make Enhanced Oil Recovery from existing wells commericially viable and would yield more than 3 million bbls/day starting in 2012.

Anwr.--- nobody lives there and that's where the oil is.

Opening ANWR will not bring down the price of oil by a penny. All it will do is enrich the oil companies that are already raking in tens of billions every quarter. And that oil won't arrive at your local gas station for at least 10 years. Make a decent investment in alternative fuels and vehicle design and 10 years from now we won't need ANWR oil And while Russia will continue to be one of the most polluted and unhealthy countries on earth, we'll still have a relatively clean ANWR.

as soon as nancy turned the lights out on republicans, the prices at the gas pump started falling... without drilling......coincidence or what?

Before the debate last night I was voting for John McCain because I didn'y like Obama. Now I'm voting for McCain because I know he will be a great president. When asked about evil, all Obama could think of was Africa and the streets of the USA. McCain knows that radical Islam is the worst evil this country is facing. Yes, McCain has changed his mind on drilling for oil. Obama does it too, right after McCain speaks out! Obama is a self-serving, arrogant, shallow, panderer. And when it comes to the important issues, he used to copy Hillary, now he copies McCain!