McCain to counterprogram Obama in Germany with visit to Gulf Coast oil rig

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[Blue Turtle]

While Barack Obama is speaking about international affairs in Germany before thousands of fans tomorrow, John McCain will be talking about a pressing domestic issue with an equally striking if very different backdrop.

Weather permitting, McCain will helicopter from Louisiana to an oil rig in the Gulf Coast to make the case for expanded off-shore drilling, says a McCain aide.

[Blue Turtle]

PERFECT! Go John McCain!

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

Who owns the platform? Which field is it in?

Details! I need details!

[stockstrader]

How about a visit to ANWR too?

[indylindy]

Its a freakin start McCain. Now, counter the diss LaRaza dealt you, and change your position on illegal immigration and Global warming.

If you do, I will vote for you.

[what_not2007]

did you read the comments below the article?

No geniuses there, I’ll tell ya.

[A. Morgan]

It doesn’t matter.... DRILL DRILL DRILL and PUMP that CRUDE!

PUMP that CRUDE! BLACK GOLD.. TEXAS T... Wah HOOO!

[edzo4]

rush called it Monday...

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_072108/content/01125109.guest.html

Rush- It's just sickening. All the while, what remains the big issue? The big issue in people's minds is $4-and-rising a gallon gasoline. And now when people figure out that members of Congress are planning on tacking on an additional dime federal tax to a gallon of gasoline, Senator McCain should fly out to an oil rig ASAP; point out how environmentally safe they are. Go fly to ANWR. Go to a nuclear power plant; brag on the technology. Go to the newest clean-burning coal plant in the country, brag about that. I think that Senator McCain, with the backing of Republicans, ought to start talking down the price of oil. Draft legislation, give some speeches, make sure they have photo-ops every day that Obama is on this European vacation that demonstrates where our priorities should be.

[KansasGirl]

This is a good idea. With the pressure that has been on the media the last few days, they might actually cover it.

[wilco200]

Geez!! Is McCain taking campaign direction from Rush now?
Matter as well, his own staff is full of buffons. Not to mention, listening to Rush is free.

[SolidWood]

He improved a little bit on the LaRaza/Border security front. He stressed before LaRaza, to their dismay, that secure borders are a prerequisite to discussing a solution for the illegals here, and said that he wouldn’t vote for his own amnesty bill now, realizing that the people oppose it. It’s politicians words... I know, but it’s a little start and certainly better than Obama’s “well grant you citizenship and stop the ICE terror”.

[AngelesCrestHighway]

Get off the dime John!...times a wast’in. You need to counter the Obamapalooza tour!

[traviskicks]

How about a visit to ANWR too?

Yea he should go here http://lovelace.ucsd.edu/Ted/Arcticwild/Kristof/10KRIS.html(story link died):

"One of the Eskimos, Bert Akootchook, angrily told me that if environmentalists were so anxious about the Arctic, they should come here and clean up the petroleum that naturally seeps to the surface of the tundra."


McCain should go stand on these areas where oil is 'naturally' 'polluting' the area.

[traviskicks]

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A01E5DD153BF933A2575AC0A9659C8B63

[moose2004]

Smart move, it will enrage the far left, the greens and environazis, which plays to McCain’s advantage.

[RightWhale]

Who owns the platform?

Zapata (Bush) :)

[Miss Didi]

Rush on Monday:

RUSH: The idea that this trip, that anything on this trip is going to change his views, not just Iraq, but in the world, his worldview in favor of appeasement and truth be known, this guy is an isolationist, in the sense that he will only deploy diplomacy and nothing else, this is ridiculous. This is a sham, and we're being distracted by it. This whole thing is nothing more than an orchestrated circus when what's still on everybody's mind is gasoline, gasoline, gasoline, and four dollars. This is why, were I McCain, you know where I would be this week? I would be out on an oil rig. I would take the Drive-Bys with me, and I would point out how environmentally safe they are, and I would show how damned impressive they are, as well as the workers. Then if I were McCain I'd fly up to ANWR and I'd take a crew with me, and I would propose drilling with the caveat that once it's done, it will be restored to the desolate nothing that it is now. There are jobs to be had up there. If I were McCain, next I would go to a nuclear power plant, and I would brag on that technology and the non-CO2 output. Have a bill in hand to cut red tape. These are jobs we're talking about being created, building new nuclear power plants.

From there I'd go to the newest clean burning coal plant that he can find in the country and brag about that. Have bill in hand to cut red tape to build these plants new. These are jobs. Energy is what's on the American people's mind. Four-dollar gasoline is on people's minds. This Obama thing is a pure, unadulterated sideshow.

[Miss Didi]

Great minds. ;)

[streetpreacher]

Wow. Yes he did. Someone in McCain’s camp is paying attention.

[Rokurota]

Good move from McCain, but he needs to keep it up. The Obama tour ends this week and then we have over three months to election. The tour will be a faded memory by November with only Obama’s incoherent “policies” left.

[TADSLOS]

Zapata (Bush)

***snicker***

[Don Corleone]

Weather permitting, McCain will helicopter from Louisiana to an oil rig in the Gulf

Carry a sign that says," here's VICTORY over Dumbocrat Obstructionists"!

[indylindy]

Really, if McCain would get smart, dump the Democrat BS like ALgores man made global warming joke,( he could say he was duped), I don’t care. Burn LaRaza for burning him, he would get conservative votes.

He does not know what he is missing. He is missing conservative fire and energy for idiotic, lying, liberal policies that we all know are folly.

Sad really.

[normy]

I e-mailed the McCain camp and promised to donate if they started pushing for domestic drilling. I sent my first donation this morning. More to come if he continues pushing the right issues.

[Reagan Man]

If McCain were smart -— ??? -— he’d take the energy issue and shove it down Obama’s throat.

Instaed of sitting around waiting to react to Obama’s next move, McCain needs to set the agenda of the campaign, before its too late.

[Notasoccermom]

Are there any rigs that were in the path of Hurricane Dolly? That is even better-— providing they stood up to the winds of course.

[nikos1121]

Good. Now we’re talking. Let Obama set in the Middle EAst...

[lesser_satan]

And put on his angry McQueeg face and scream, “I...DRINK...YOUR...MILKSHAKE! I DRINK IT UP!”

[lonevoice]

Johnnycap, I think somebody was paying attention!

What McCain should do while Obama is away is dedicate each day to a different form of energy. Oil, then Solar, then Clean Nuclear, then Wind Power, then Hydro Electric...and then at the end of each day, he should say, while Obama is somewhere in the middle east conferring with his Palestinian friends, we are here making sure you have gas in your tank. America First!! (I love it...shame him into going overseas and then slam him for doing it!)

56 posted on Friday, July 18, 2008 10:09:49 AM by johnnycap

[indylindy]

He has already canceled the oil rig folks.

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

A PR coup for the owner.

Plus, My employer owns some of those so there might be some corporate pride to pass around.

[tobyhill]

Good move. Now we see who gets the most air time, someone that's pandering to the Europeans or someone who's trying to demonstrate he understands the problems that's effecting energy prices.

[Gaffer]

It will be a wasted trip...there will be very few reporters, probably none nationally that will be with him.

[indylindy]

McCain has already canceled the oil rig trip.

So much for that. This guy just will not grow wings.

[RetSignman]

Seems to me, we have identified the leader and the follower.

McCain says obamer should go the Middle East...obamer goes to the Middle east.

McCain plans trip to oil platform...obamer plans trip to oil platform.

[petitfour]

McCain needs to highlight how the DNC has been avoiding state and federal taxes in Colorado by filling up convention organizers vehicles at Denver city-owned pumps.

[normy]

Can you provide me a link? Was it because of Dolly?

[indylindy]

Looks like Obama will not need to plan a trip to an oil rig.

McCain cancels, Obama will probably stop by an oil rig on his way home.

[AU72]

Obama will probably stop by an oil rig on his way home.

Then he can get to say "Tear down this oil rig!"

[indylindy]

I am not sure why. Just heard it on Fox news. He also canceled his trip to NO. Are there no other rigs? I guess he could go to ANWAR.

Geesh, I guess I am not surprised.

[fella]

I hope he’s going out to that exploratory well that’s about 250 miles off-shore where they have discovered that huge new reserve.

[indylindy]

LOL

[plsvn]

Wings? 'nads!

[DungeonMaster]

PERFECT! Go John McCain!

Excellent!

[Oldexpat]

The MSM will turn this into a negative for McCain. “He is in the bag for big evil oil”. They will have pictures of the CA oil spill with oily seals. No actual pictures of McCain the rig. Just watch. It is good news to us...but the DB’s will kill it.
The weather isn’t very good for this timing. The storm may spread out and cause rain and no visibility.

[I still care]

This was Rush’s advice. But it’s great advice.

While the press is drooling over Obama in the desert, this is a great photo op for McCain.

Iraq is not on people’s mind. Oil is.

[indylindy]

ROTFL! Yep

[johnnycap]

Wouldn’t that be wonderful???

[lonevoice]

Really, already? Where did you hear it?

[Blue Turtle]

Per DRUDGE:
UPDATE: MCCAIN RIG VISIT CANCELED DUE TO WEATHER... DEVELOPING...

[indylindy]

Fox news, about 15 minutes ago.