Posted on 11/03/2008 10:32:32 AM PST by Undertow
McCain campaign’s last minute distortion of Obama’s coal record an act of desperation
November 3, 2008
For immediate release:
United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) International President Cecil E. Roberts issued the following statement today:
“Sen. John McCain and his running mate, Gov. Sarah Palin, have once again demonstrated that they are willing to say anything and do anything to win this election. Their latest twisting of the truth is about coal and some comments Sen. Obama made last January about the future use of coal in America.
“Here what the McCain campaign left out of Sen. Obama’s actual words: ‘But this notion of no coal, I think, is an illusion. Because the fact of the matter is, is that right now we are getting a lot of our energy from coal. And China is building a coal-powered plant once a week. So what we have to do then is figure out how can we use coal without emitting greenhouse gases and carbon. And how can we sequester that carbon and capture it.’
“Sen. Obama has been consistent with that message not just in the coalfields, but everywhere else he goes as well. Despite what the McCain campaign and some far right-wing blogs would have Americans believe, Sen. Obama has been and remains a tremendous supporter of coal and the future of coal.
“I noted that Sen. McCain even went so far yesterday as to say he has always been a supporter of coal. I wonder, then, how he can justify his statement at a Senate hearing in 2000 that, ‘In a perfect world we would like to transition away from coal entirely,’ and his leading role in sponsoring legislation in 2003 that would have wiped out 78 percent of all coal production in America?
“Fortunately, UMWA members, their families and their friends and neighbors in the coalfields know all too well what is going on here. They’re not going to fall for it, and we urge others throughout America who care about coal to review what the candidates’ records on coal actually are. We are confident that once they do, and once they see the many other benefits to working families of voting for Sen. Obama, they will make the right choice for themselves and their families."
Obama is going to carbon cap you Kool-Aid drinkers into bankruptcy!
Unions towing the Democrat line.
The Coal Workers Union is nothing more than a political arm of the DNC.
They care nothing at all about the coal workers they represent, or the industry.
They just collect mandatory dues and act as a Howard Dean mouthpiece.
No this dope is however. It is clear from bidens statements as well as his O ness , coal is yesterdays news. Good luck suckers..
Idiots. They deserve what they have comong to them...
This is typical of union thug behavior. The unions do not put their members’ true interests first.
***Unions towing the Democrat line***
The union bosses will always have a job with 0.
They will make the transition to his “civilian protection force.”
They’re working off a deficiency in the Rush/Drudge driven reporting of the tape—which looks at invective about coal companies, instead of Obama’s comments about how everyone’s rates will go up.
Everyone. They are words served on a silver platter. Yet the media types narrow their focus to coal industry “everyone” is not connected to, and ephemeral apologies for plutocrats, capitalism—as if Cap and Trade isn’t “capitalism.”
The Miners’ union is also trying to work in a clean coal argument which is exactly NOT what Obama was talking about. He was talking about Cap and Trade.
Union Bosses, Community Organizers, Is there any difference?
I think the most important quote from that interview applies to everyone...not just coal miners:
“Under my plan, energy prices would necessarily skyrocket.”
Ah yes, union members are union members 1st and have an obligation to vote straight dem party ticket no matter what they have to swallow or give up.
I know this doesn’t exactly qualify as Breaking News but it’s so late in the game it needs to be brought out.
OH PLEASE!!! It is sad how these liberals will actually defend Obama on everything, even though it is obvious what he was saying!
Does this guy read or watch the news?????? Someone send him the tape fast he’s lost his mine!!!!
This guy is truly an idiot.
Of course, if you want to sequester the carbon, you leave the coal in the ground. But that was his intent anyway, never mind the electricity that will not be generated.
My dad was a coal miner for 40 years and he was totally disgusted with the union. The UMWA would cut of it’s nose to spite it’s face. The would go on strike for the dumbest things. Probably the worst thing he told me was that they went on strike because there was no soap in the showers.
He hated the union, but you had to tow the line if you wanted to work. This was back in the 50’s and 60’s. It appears that not much has changed.
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