Steve Helber/Associated Press
Democratic vice presidential candidate Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del. speaks during a rally at the Woodbridge Community Center in Woodbridge, Va., yesterday.
Posted on 11/03/2008 1:46:43 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Steve Helber/Associated Press
Democratic vice presidential candidate Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del. speaks during a rally at the Woodbridge Community Center in Woodbridge, Va., yesterday.
Republicans yesterday criticized Democratic vice-presidential candidate Joseph R. Biden Jr. over an overheard comment at odds with Illinois Sen. Barack Obama's campaign pledge to support the development of clean coal plants in the United States.
In the remarks, circulated on YouTube, the Delaware senator seems to reject the idea of building new coal-fired plants domestically, while suggesting that clean-coal technology, a goal that both campaigns have promised billions of dollars to develop, should be used to protect the environment from coal plants abroad.
In the video, recorded at the beginning of Mr. Biden's bus trip across Ohio last week, the Democrat is speaking to a woman as he works the crowd after a rally. Responding to her question pressing him on why the campaign is supporting clean coal, he says: "We're not supporting clean coal. Guess what? China is building two every week, two dirty coal plants. And it's polluting the United States, it's causing people to die."
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"My opponent is against the expansion of nuclear power," Mr. McCain said, repeating a charge contradicted by Mr. Obama's repeated remarks on the issue. "His running mate here in Ohio recently said that they weren't supporting clean coal either."
Biden is a forked-tongued fake.
A little History....pingaroo!
destroy the energy industry and the ag industry....send in his 'new' brown shirts..........those he can't freeze to death he'll starve to death.
Biden: 'No coal plants here in America'
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Politico ^ | September 23, 2008 | Ben Smith
Some great rope line video from Joe Biden's recent Ohio swing, where he was asked by an anti-pollution campaigner about clean coal -- a controversial approach in Democratic circles for which Obama has voiced support, particularly during the Kentucky primary.
Biden's apparent answer: He supports clean coal for China, but not for the United States.
"No coal plants here in America," he said. "Build them, if they're going to build them, over there. Make them clean."
"We’re not supporting clean coal," he said of himself and Obama who do, on paper, support clean coal.
In the video, recorded at the beginning of Mr. Biden's bus trip across Ohio last week, the Democrat is speaking to a woman as he works the crowd after a rally. Responding to her question pressing him on why the campaign is supporting clean coal, he says: "We're not supporting clean coal. Guess what? China is building two every week, two dirty coal plants. And it's polluting the United States, it's causing people to die."Biden's still smarting because his disappointment years ago when he found out George Costanza's Chinese baldness cure was made up. Thanks Ernest.
Biden is originally from Scranton, PA which is also a coal area. I wonder how this is going over in that area?
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