Posted on 11/03/2008 12:23:57 PM PST by PBRCat
“If somebody wants to build a coal power plant they can, it’s just that it will bankrupt them because they are going to be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that’s being emitted.”
While such remarks met with approval with the white wine sipping crowd in House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s City by the Bay, the disclosure of Obama’s remarks may prove costly elsewhere. Although Obama was seen as trailing in Kentucky and West Virginia, there are two other critical battleground states which also have extensive coal mining industries, Ohio and Pennsylvania. Both Ohio and Pennsylvania have been seen as possible upset states for John McCain. Obama’s verbal gaffe may put the bituminous Ohio and anthracite Pennsylvania into the Republican column on Tuesday night.
Pennsylvania’s Democratic governor, Edward G. Rendell, has been warning Obama that the Keystone State was in play based upon polling results before Obama’s anti-coal statements became public. Hillary Clinton defeated Obama in Kentucky, Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia during the primaries after Obama told a fundraising audience that some of the residents of these states were “bitter” folks who resisted “change” by clinging to their guns, their cultural identity and their religious beliefs while rejecting his visionary candidacy.
One wonders if some of these Appalachian coal miners will reject Obama in order to cling to their jobs on election day?
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They should cost plenty!
Obama had no chance here in WV, so I doubt it will do much.
OH maybe.
Put a fork in him. Barry is done in OH and PA.
why isn’t this released until a day before the election? You’d think it’d be worth to analyze every word the guy said in the past 20 years!
You guys think there’s time for this info to travel around PA and OH?
Re: they are going to be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that’s being emitted.”
I guess this applies to ranchers too then.
Steel worker?
Noe days steel workers union members empty bed pans with wet dreams of Walmart.
I stopped reading right there. This author is clueless if s/he thinks OH would be an upset win for a Republican.
“white wine sipping crowd in House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s City by the Bay”
LOL.
hey freepers have you seen how fast this coal statement is blazing through both the blogosphere AND the msm? i sense something happening here...this could be the means to snatch OH and PA from the Obama, which changes everything. if we can get most of the independents over to mccain because of this latest confirmation of Obama’s socialism and radical environmentalist views, we have a shot.
i see the Ohio Coal Industry is already out with a statement slamming Obama....who else can we call? we only got 1 day to make things happpen...Ohio and PA freepers, let’s get going!
I really hope some real media catch this one.
Between Obummers gun clinging statement, his coal statement and Jack Murtha’s racists and redneck statements, it should really hurt him here in Southwestern Pa and all across Pa. I say it should, but we’ll see on election day. I saw a lot of Russell signs travelling through Murtha’s district this weekend.
Give them time. Probably a cholesterol tax, too.
The more scary thing is how aptly Obama knows that “the power to tax is the power to destroy.”
His marxist training gives him the viewpoint not that taxes are a necessary evil used to pay for governmental services -— RATHER, to marxists like Obama, taxes are a means to shape society in the desired image.
If McCain/Palin defeat the ACORN/Democrat vote fraud, with OH SectSt Brunner aiding and abetting the fraud, it will be an unpset don’tchaknow.
‘You guys think there’s time for this info to travel around PA and OH?’
Oh yeah ;).
The coal issue that broke today is resonating. It will have a big effect in Ohio and PA. If O loses PA, he is in big trouble.
Obama was doing (or reportedly doing) quite well in a few counties in southwest Virginia. I grew up and that area, and there are at least a couple of counties that do vote dem pretty regularly. I think this could hurt him in those counties, and if things are as close as they’re saying in VA, this could help move VA into the red column once again. Let’s hope so!
This afternoon’s polls show McCain leading in Ohio.
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