16. Bobby: You hit the nail right on the head! The liberal PC crowd have long been waging a war of "Hearts and Minds" for the youth of our country.

Look how well they have succeeded. Any negative mention of Obama is instantly labeled as "racist" or "code" as demonstrated by Farmer Jim on another Blog. Speech codes are enforced at kindergarten as well as high school and university where if you do not follow the PC line, your academic career can be jepoardized by administration or by teachers if you challenge their orthodox curriculum.

This can be seen by the problems posed by Ward Churchill of Colorado State University and his "little Eichmanns" quote. He lied about his credentials, his ancestry (no native american in his DNA) and more. Despite this,CSU administration were reluctant to fire him, making excuse afetr excuse until they were forced to remove him by sheer weight of public protest. Had he been at Berkley, he would have gone unnoticed.

Why do we put our young boys on Ritalin just so they will be compliant in the classroom when study after study shows that there is a decided genetic difference in male and female thought patterns, yet we will dose up our children without a thought, yet God forbid he touches a cigarette or pinches another eight year old girls butt...off with his head (or testicles) and women wonder where are all the real men at? You poisoned them and they have no drive to succeed anymore. Why put up with a feminist when all his life he's been trained to be passive?

Leftwing liberals are the first to label, name call or insult a person. You can look at the posts on these blogs and see who are the biggest name callers/labelers/racists, although since they are the "Chosen Ones", they can use racist terms with impugnity since they are attacking a conservative or another who dares disagree with their world view. Those who debate on issues alone are hard to find but at least they don't try bullying as a regular tactic to get their point across.

As an example, look at all the outrage when you call Obama Hussein Obama. Oh, the feigned outrage, but they will turn and say Mcsame is a Manchurian Candidate when even Ted Kennedy called him Usama Obama, Obama Usama, then gave up. Is Ted senile or a closet racist? The left loves to point out that McCain "lost" five planes, three due to mecanical failure, one from a rocket that went hot, crossed the deck of the USS Forrestal and blew up his aircraft, and of course, the one that a SAM blew up over Hanoi. The NVC didn't give him medical care until they found out who he was and recognizing his propaganda value, administered to his injuries so that he could later be used as a pawn. Adm. Stockdale had nothing bad to say about McCain. Every POW knew that everyone had a breaking point, and all but a few broke under torture, yet no one condemned thiose that did because they knew what torture was.

Look around and see those who no longer follow in Kennedy or Luther's footsteps. They have co-opted and corrupted their visions and lessened their deaths by becoming the very thing that those men stood for. They berate our way of life, yet few leave to go seek a living elsewhare. The denigrate our country's military, yet it was our Military that gave us our freedoms by fighting and dying for those freedoms and yet we are supposed to curry favor with old enemies and new because we will not be liked? Too bad. If you don't like us, then we won't buy your crap nor defend you any further if a condition is that we behave as you would like us to instead of what is best for us.

What has the ultra left given us? Anti-nuclear power, anti-drilling, land off limits because of the gnat catcher which is found in Mexico by the millions but our Marines have to use two acres to practice landings on because of the habitat? Bans on smoking, transfats, plastic bags, CO2 emissions. global warming, ecology as a religion, "Mother Earth" is a living entity.
Were it not for the positions these people have obtained in our government, our educational system and the law, it might be laughable but its not. They are serious and have a plan to bring us into full-fledged socialism, of which Obama is just the beginning. You dout me, look at Daily Kos or MoveOn, a wholly owned subsidiary of Soros Inc. which is a good corporation because Soros came here with nothing and made a fortune, now he wants a socialist society that would have denied him that opportunity?

Oh yes, Obama promises hope and change but the change he is hoping for is not in our best interests, but that of the UN, China and every other foe of America but not America or Americans. Obanma just repeats the ideas of Reid, Pelosi, Dean, Daschle, Gore, Kerry and Clinton. The election of '06 was supposed to bring change and hope just like Obama and it has failed miserably with just 8% of Americans approving of Congress. I'd wager that even Cheney is rated higher than that.

There are so many other things that liberals have brought us that are no good for this country and I know Thank-a-liberal will be along to tell us what we owe them, which is nothing. They did not do it all alone. if they did, I'd like the proof. All we can do is think that Americans are smarter than what the politicians think they are or this country is in serious trouble. Take care Bobby.

Dedmanrisn at 12:14AM on Aug 6th 2008

17. Obama's Race Card Played by Obama

Cenk-you are more worried if McCain is using a Code for getting message out to Southern Voters.

How about injecting RACE into the campaign mix by Obama himself, in person, out of his mouth. Obama campaign campaign used a Sexist Attack against Hillary, now is bringing race into play.
Here from the news papers
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Washington Post Staff Writers
Friday, August 1, 2008; Page A04Sen. John McCain's campaign accused Sen. Barack Obama of playing the "race card" on Thursday, a day after the Democrat said his opponent and other Republicans would try to scare voters by pointing to Obama's "funny name" and the fact that "he doesn't look like all those other presidents on those dollar bills."
Obama began his day Wednesday in Springfield, Mo., charging: "Nobody really thinks that Bush or McCain have a real answer for the challenges we face, so what they're going to try to do is make you scared of me. You know, he's not patriotic enough. He's got a funny name. You know, he doesn't look like all those other presidents on those dollar bills, you know. He's risky."

In Rolla and then in Union, Obama issued similar lines. "They're going to try to say, 'Well, you know, he's got a funny name, and he doesn't look like all the presidents on the dollar bills and the five-dollar bills,' and they're going to send out nasty e-mails," he told an audience in Union.

But Obama's chief strategist, David Axelrod, acknowledged on "Good Morning America" Friday that the candidate was referring, at least in part, to his ethnic background.

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ABC New August 1

When pressed to explain the comment, Axelrod told "GMA" it meant, "He's not from central casting when it comes to candidates for president of the United States. He's new to Washington. Yes, he's African-American."

Then the big boy in Obama's camp, the anti Semite Axelrod, admitted is was a racial remark. WOW

Cenk is concerned about "UPPITY", what a joke

Robert OKane at 2:01AM on Aug 6th 2008

18. Botts
OK you said
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never said that the Taliban didn't offer UBL through a third party. As a matter of fact, they did offer UBL through a third party. Let me ask you. They wanted the bombings to stop. They wanted to stop being attacked. If we showed evidence, they would have released him over to another Country. This never happened, so all that you and I have, is "what if". Maybe the third Country would have handed him over to us. Maybe not.
botts 8/4 1:45
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OK Botts-here a numerous statements by the news in the articles I had showed you
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ambassador to Pakistan, Abdul Salam Zaeef, said Friday that the Taliban would never surrender Osama bin Laden to the United States. Rejecting a U.S. demand made by President Bush, the Ambassador said that turning over the suspected mastermind of the September terrorist attacks would be “an insult to Islam.” Afghanistan’s Taliban leaders rejected a U.N. ultimatum to surrender suspected terrorist Osama bin Laden and castigated the world body Saturday for threatening sanctions.

“We will never give up Osama at any price,” Mullah Mohammed Hassan Akhund, the Taliban’s foreign minister, said in a statement addressed to U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan.Akhund said a Taliban inquiry into U.S. allegations exonerated Bin Laden.
The Taliban's ambassador to Pakistan, Abdul Salam Zaeef, made the offer at a news conference in Islamabad. Zaeef said the Taliban would detain bin Laden and try him under Islamic law if the United States makes a formal request and presents them with evidence.

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So you would have stopped the bombing based on what the Taliban had stated.
Where or how do you get the slightest idea that the US would get UBL from the Taliban.
Deal with the Taliban-WHY
There were outstanding USA warrants out on UBL for numerous attacks and killings innocents. So why should we deal with them?
Agree to terms of Taliban for UBL getting an Islamic trial in a country that could not be influenced by the USA? Then if found not guilty by a Muslim country that has no jurisdiction over the case etc etc
Botts, you jumped into a discussion that was about whether the Taliban offered UBL directly to the USA or not. Botts, you put your foot in your mouth over this "give the terrorists what ever they want" bull and have not shown one shred of evidence that the Taliban would have acted as you say they would.
Taliban ever stated they would hold UBL and they, the Taliban, would try UBL under Islamic Law. Sure, right, and after they had exonerated UBL of the charges USA had the warrants for UBL

Robert OKane at 2:20AM on Aug 6th 2008

19. Robert Okane pretends not to know that the cheney-bush junta wanted an excuse to invade Afghanistan and that excuse was....

"We have to go into Afghanistan to capture Boogeyman bin Laden!"

IF the junta had accepted bin Laden into U.S. custody, the American people might say, "We've got him. Why do we need to invade an entire country when we've got the alleged perpetrator?"

Give it up, Robert. The bush-cheney junta has told more lies than truths. This is just another example of the junta lying in order to DUPE the American sheeple into supporting their effort to grab the pipeline route through Afghanistan.

Stop being an apologist for the worst, most corrupt, most criminal "administration" in U.S. history.

Captain Negative at 5:44AM on Aug 6th 2008

20. Obama is uppity! There is nothing wrong with syaing the truth. His experience is limited, he rose to office in Chicago unscrupulously, he had plotical influence with his cronies there. Will I vote for him? Probably. But I don't shy away from calling him what he is.

kitty sinned at 7:05AM on Aug 6th 2008

21. 16. Ded
Excellent insightful post! It is interesting that the left always wants to yell "big oil". Everyone knows the history of the oil companies. However who is Soros? Other than a Socialist. Who is behind the scenes of Moveon? They claim to own the Democratic party are extremely organized, incredibly vile(single handedly ruined Hillary's candicy using "racist" as a trademark"), and are able to raise 300,000 dollars in one day for Obama via the internet.

luke at 9:35AM on Aug 6th 2008

22. 12. "The Code" in itself, is a code. It's liberal "code" language for; "If-we-can't-find-anything-wrong-with-you,-we-have-to-make-up-sh!t."

Lizard
"Bomb, Bomb, Bomb, Bomb , Bomb, Iran...heh heh heh" "I quit beating my wife" (who he calls a cunt in public)Happy cigarette exports are up for Iran as this will hopefully lead to an increase in their cancer deaths)Doesn't know Chekoslovakia hasn't been a country in 15 years, he thinks Iraq shares a border with pakistan, he hasn't met a flip or a flop he hasn't fallen madly for (worked tirelessly to stop MLK Day in AZ but now portrays himself as having champoined the cause), Employs supporters of terrorists, was caught more than once with his hand in the cookie jar, he didn't defend his wife after Rove accused her of having a mixed breed baby in 200 (remember that?) Perhaps he didn't do so because he was still beating her then or because of her status as a cunt. Can't find anything wrong with a guy who finished at the very bottom of his class and who couldn't go a week without crashing a plane, this while in his 20's? He's a doddering, stupid, cantankerous and volotile old man who the republicans hated with a passion untile he somehow squeeked by their only other options of Huckabee and the sainted one Romney. Now he's the reincarnation of Ronnie Raygun. Really. What a sack of excrement you embrace.

Tim at 12:55PM on Aug 6th 2008

23. Give it up, Robert. The bush-cheney junta has told more lies than truths. This is just another example of the junta lying in order to DUPE the American sheeple into supporting their effort to grab the pipeline route through Afghanistan.

Stop being an apologist for the worst, most corrupt, most criminal "administration" in U.S. history.



Captain Negative
Unlike the left who have been known to eat their young our rightwinged counterparts support their guys with the zeal and fervor of two spartan lovers/warriors. I think they're gay for Bush et al. Why else can't they for a moment entertain the notion that these guys have made even one major error in the setting, procedure, or implementation of a given policy? Why else can't they admit that were thing going thus under Gore, Kerry, or another Democrat that they would be howling for thei head(s) on a fucking platter?

Tim at 1:03PM on Aug 6th 2008

24. Captain Negative says#19
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Give it up, Robert. The bush-cheney junta has told more lies than truths. This is just another example of the junta lying in order to DUPE the American sheeple into supporting their effort to grab the pipeline route through Afghanistan.

Stop being an apologist for the worst, most corrupt, most criminal "administration" in U.S. history.

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Robert had said on post#10

Try looking up a code word for "spineless", "cowards" or "yellowbellies" for the Democrats in Congress, led by Pelosi and Reid, who should have and have not and will not impeach Bush and Cheney. In the just released book suthor states a forged letter was in part used to start the Iraq War. If they had the balls, sorry Nanvy, the Democrats would have acted on the Tax Cheat Wexler's Impeach Resolutions, many, and all of this would have been cleared up one way or the other.
I guess Code word for Coward could be Democrat.
Robert OKane at 9:57PM on Aug 5th 2008
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Captain Negative you keep on proving how incredabily stupid you really are. You call me an apologist for Bush/Cheney, but 9 posts earlier I was calling for their Impeachment.
Captain Negative, are you really this stupid?????
Go put your head back up your ass where it belongs.

Robert OKane at 1:56PM on Aug 6th 2008

25. Captain Negative is back for the "Captain Negative again proves he is a asshole show"

Negative stated on post#19
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"We have to go into Afghanistan to capture Boogeyman bin Laden!"

IF the junta had accepted bin Laden into U.S. custody, the American people might say, "We've got him. Why do we need to invade an entire country when we've got the alleged perpetrator?"
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Same old bull shit Negative tried before and dummy is at it again. Taliban never offer Bin Laden to the USA.

Captain Negative says Taliban offered Bin Laden to USA and Bush refused.

Shown is portions of stories from ABC, CNN, and LA Times.

ambassador to Pakistan, Abdul Salam Zaeef, said Friday that the Taliban would never surrender Osama bin Laden to the United States. Rejecting a U.S. demand made by President Bush, the Ambassador said that turning over the suspected mastermind of the September terrorist attacks would be “an insult to Islam.” Afghanistan’s Taliban leaders rejected a U.N. ultimatum to surrender suspected terrorist Osama bin Laden and castigated the world body Saturday for threatening sanctions.

“We will never give up Osama at any price,” Mullah Mohammed Hassan Akhund, the Taliban’s foreign minister, said in a statement addressed to U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan.Akhund said a Taliban inquiry into U.S. allegations exonerated Bin Laden.
The Taliban's ambassador to Pakistan, Abdul Salam Zaeef, made the offer at a news conference in Islamabad. Zaeef said the Taliban would detain bin Laden and try him under Islamic law if the United States makes a formal request and presents them with evidence.

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Even stupidier, is that Captain Negative offered a source which showed he was wrong, that Negative's source said Taliban did not offer Bin Laden to the USA, but to a 3rd country/neutral for trial under Islamic Law. Country to be chosen by the Taliban.

Captain Negative hardly ever uses sources to back up what he says, and I can see why. He cannot read so does not see his own source shows him wrong.

Negative, put your head back up your ass where it belongs

Robert OKane at 1:57PM on Aug 6th 2008

26. I see not much has changed in fifty years with crackers. The same dimwits, the same dimwitticisms.

Obama is now promoting a workable plan and personal responsibility and the dumb white guy is saying to drill right now wherever he happens to be standing, shakes his fist at the congressmen on his lawn and tries to sell eighty five cent gas gauges for twenty five bucks.

And he owns you. Nothing would change your mind because the guy making sense is first considerably more intelligent than any of you and second, he's black.

You've had eight recent years of this and look where you are because of it. More of the same isn't going to make things different. You'd have to be insane or so bigoted your decisions are just as psychotic as if you were, so it doesn't matter. Vote hard...

Clif Kuplen at 2:27PM on Aug 6th 2008

27. Personally I am offended by the casual use of the term "racist". Too many people have suffered and died from real racism for this word to ever be flippantly used. Barack Obama is not the best choice for president. John McCain may not be perfect, but he has more political, military, and international experience than Obama. I am Pro-Life and despite McCain's shaky record on Pro-Life issues, it is in no comparison to Obama who has a 100% approval rating from NARAL. He voted against the Illinois Born Alive Infant Protection Act! Barack Obama has used race as a weapon in this election. It is very subtle, but he has consistently played to fear of persecution among blacks and guilt among whites. He mentioned race in Florida and Missouri. The Reverend Wright fiasco should not be dismissed. I grew up in a predominately African-American denomination. I have never heard those types of sermons. Obama had to be aware of the beliefs of his church. He is a Harvard educated attorney. He is not so unsophisticated as to attend a church without investigating it first. He only denounced Reverend Wright when it was obvious that further association would harm his campaign. People select friends by what they have in common. I no more excuse Obama who attended a church that preaches racism and anti-Semitism than I would someone who is member of the white supremacist church, “Church of Jesus Christ Christian!

janesophie1 at 3:28PM on Aug 6th 2008

28. Personally I am offended by the casual use of the term "racist". Too many people have suffered and died from real racism for this word to ever be flippantly used. Barack Obama is not the best choice for president. John McCain may not be perfect, but he has more political, military, and international experience than Obama. I am Pro-Life and despite McCain's shaky record on Pro-Life issues, it is in no comparison to Obama who has a 100% approval rating from NARAL. He voted against the Illinois Born Alive Infant Protection Act! Barack Obama has used race as a weapon in this election. It is very subtle, but he has consistently played to fear of persecution among blacks and guilt among whites. He mentioned race in Florida and Missouri. The Reverend Wright fiasco should not be dismissed. I grew up in a predominately African-American denomination. I have never heard those types of sermons. Obama had to be aware of the beliefs of his church. He is a Harvard educated attorney. He is not so unsophisticated as to attend a church without investigating it first. He only denounced Reverend Wright when it was obvious that further association would harm his campaign. People select friends by what they have in common. I no more excuse Obama who attended a church that preaches racism and anti-Semitism than I would someone who is member of the white supremacist church, “Church of Jesus Christ Christian!

janesophie1 at 3:28PM on Aug 6th 2008

29. More BS..Obama offered inflated tires and a tune up, no plan to do squat aout 10 years ahead.

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jeez, another squidbilly. You are a liar and you are lying now, cracker. Obama has a comprehensive energy plan and mcsame sells dollar tire gauges for twenty five bucks, end of story. That's the truth, squidbilly.

Here's the plan you and apparently the mcsame aren't resourceful enough to find for yourself:

Barack Obama’s Plan

Reduce the Burden of Rising Gas Prices on Working Families
Provide a Tax Cut for Working Families: Barack Obama has called on the President to enact a second round of economic stimulus to immediately put tax rebates in the pockets of American families to pay for rising energy prices. As president, Obama will enact a tax fairness agenda that provides 150 million workers a “Making Work Pay” tax credit of $500 per person or $1,000 per working family.

Crack Down on Excessive Energy Speculation

Fully Close the “Enron Loophole”. One of the reasons our energy market is particularly vulnerable to excessive speculation is the so-called “Enron Loophole” which prevents the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) from fully overseeing the oil futures market. As president, Barack Obama will fully close the Enron loophole by requiring that U.S. energy futures trade on regulated exchange to crack down on any excessive speculation in the energy market.
Ensure That U.S. Energy Futures Cannot be Traded on Unregulated Offshore Exchanges. Barack Obama will limit the price impacts of excessive speculation by preventing traders of U.S. crude oil from routing their transactions through off-shore markets in order to evade speculation limits and also impose reporting requirements.
Work with Other Countries to Coordinate Regulation of Oil Futures Markets. Barack Obama believes we must work with our other countries to establish uniform approaches to avoiding excessive speculation in commodities futures markets. This effort will help ensure that as the U.S. strengthens oversight and transparency in U.S. exchanges, these efforts are not undermined by overseas trading subject to lax regulations.
Call on the Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice to Vigorously Investigate Market Manipulation in Oil Futures. Barack Obama does not believe we cannot afford to wait weeks and months more to vigorously investigate whether energy traders and oil companies manipulating the market at the expense of consumers. He is calling on the FTC to immediately expedite its investigation into market manipulation, including in the oil futures markets.
Enact a Windfall Profits Tax on the Top Grossing Oil Companies and Ease the Burden on American Families: The oil industry has profited greatly—over $150 billion in 2007—due to global instability fueled by conflict in Iraq, failing domestic fiscal policies that have weakened the U.S. dollar and skyrocketing global demand resulting from a lack of investment in alternatives. Barack Obama supports imposing a windfall profits penalty on oil selling at or over $80 per barrel. Revenue from the proposal will be invested in a number of measures to reduce the burden of rising prices on families.

Require Oil Companies to Use Existing Drilling Leases: The 68 million acres of stockpiled leases have the potential to produce an additional 4.8 million barrels of oil each day. This would nearly double total U.S. oil production. The Obama plan would force oil and gas companies to either produce or pay a fee on unused federal onshore and offshore leases they are stockpiling.

End Oil and Gas Industry Tax Breaks: Obama has called for repealing the oil and gas industry tax breaks that President Bush himself has said himself are unnecessary given today’s strong market incentive for expanding exploration and production.

Cooperate with Oil Importing Nations to Reduce Demand: As new large oil importing nations come on the market, the United States is at the mercy of an ever more volatile oil market. Obama believes we should use existing organizations, like NATO, to make energy security a shared global goal. We should take steps to engage the largest new consumers, China and India, including by inviting them to join the International Energy Agency.

Reduce Carbon Emissions 80 Percent by 2050
Cap and Trade: Obama supports implementation of a market-based cap-and-trade system to reduce carbon emissions by the amount scientists say is necessary: 80 percent below 1990 levels by 2050. Obama's cap-and-trade system will require all pollution credits to be auctioned. A 100 percent auction ensures that all polluters pay for every ton of emissions they release, rather than giving these emission rights away to coal and oil companies. Some of the revenue generated by auctioning allowances will be used to support the development of clean energy, to invest in energy efficiency improvements, and to address transition costs, including helping American workers affected by this economic transition.
Confront Deforestation and Promote Carbon Sequestration: Obama will develop domestic incentives that reward forest owners, farmers, and ranchers when they plant trees, restore grasslands, or undertake farming practices that capture carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
Invest in a Clean Energy Future
Invest $150 Billion over 10 Years in Clean Energy: Obama will invest $150 billion over 10 years to advance the next generation of biofuels and fuel infrastructure, accelerate the commercialization of plug-in hybrids, promote development of commercial-scale renewable energy, invest in low-emissions coal plants, and begin the transition to a new digital electricity grid. A principal focus of this fund will be devoted to ensuring that technologies that are developed in the U.S. are rapidly commercialized in the U.S. and deployed around the globe.
Double Energy Research and Development Funding: Obama will double science and research funding for clean energy projects including those that make use of our biomass, solar and wind resources.
Invest in a Skilled Clean Technologies Workforce: Obama will use proceeds from the cap-and-trade auction program to invest in job training and transition programs to help workers and industries adapt to clean technology development and production. Obama will also create an energy-focused Green Jobs Corps to connect disconnected and disadvantaged youth with job skills for a high-growth industry.
Convert our Manufacturing Centers into Clean Technology Leaders: Obama will establish a federal investment program to help manufacturing centers modernize and Americans learn the new skills they need to produce green products.
Clean Technologies Deployment Venture Capital Fund: Obama will create a Clean Technologies Venture Capital Fund to fill a critical gap in U.S. technology development. Obama will invest $10 billion per year into this fund for five years. The fund will partner with existing investment funds and our National Laboratories to ensure that promising technologies move beyond the lab and are commercialized in the U.S
Require 25 Percent of Renewable Electricity by 2025: Obama will establish a 25 percent federal Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) to require that 25 percent of electricity consumed in the U.S. is derived from clean, sustainable energy sources, like solar, wind and geothermal by 2025.
Develop and Deploy Clean Coal Technology: Obama will significantly increase the resources devoted to the commercialization and deployment of low-carbon coal technologies. Obama will consider whatever policy tools are necessary, including standards that ban new traditional coal facilities, to ensure that we move quickly to commercialize and deploy low carbon coal technology.
Support Next Generation Biofuels
Deploy Cellulosic Ethanol: Obama will invest federal resources, including tax incentives, cash prizes and government contracts into developing the most promising technologies with the goal of getting the first two billion gallons of cellulosic ethanol into the system by 2013.
Expand Locally-Owned Biofuel Refineries: Less than 10 percent of new ethanol production today is from farmer-owned refineries. New ethanol refineries help jumpstart rural economies. Obama will create a number of incentives for local communities to invest in their biofuels refineries.
Establish a National Low Carbon Fuel Standard: Barack Obama will establish a National Low Carbon Fuel Standard to speed the introduction of low-carbon non-petroleum fuels. The standard requires fuels suppliers to reduce the carbon their fuel emits by ten percent by 2020.
Increase Renewable Fuel Standard: Obama will require 36 billion gallons of renewable fuels to be included in the fuel supply by 2022 and will increase that to at least 60 billion gallons of advanced biofuels like cellulosic ethanol by 2030.
Set America on Path to Oil Independence
Obama's plan will reduce oil consumption by at least 35 percent, or 10 million barrels per day, by 2030. This will more than offset the equivalent of the oil we would import from OPEC nations in 2030.

Increase Fuel Economy Standards: Obama will double fuel economy standards within 18 years. His plan will provide retooling tax credits and loan guarantees for domestic auto plants and parts manufacturers, so that they can build new fuel-efficient cars rather than overseas companies. Obama will also invest in advanced vehicle technology such as advanced lightweight materials and new engines.
Improve Energy Efficiency 50 Percent by 2030
Set National Building Efficiency Goals: Barack Obama will establish a goal of making all new buildings carbon neutral, or produce zero emissions, by 2030. He'll also establish a national goal of improving new building efficiency by 50 percent and existing building efficiency by 25 percent over the next decade to help us meet the 2030 goal.
Establish a Grant Program for Early Adopters: Obama will create a competitive grant program to award those states and localities that take the first steps to implement new building codes that prioritize energy efficiency.
Invest in a Digital Smart Grid: Obama will pursue a major investment in our utility grid to enable a tremendous increase in renewable generation and accommodate modern energy requirements, such as reliability, smart metering, and distributed storage
Restore U.S. Leadership on Climate Change
Create New Forum of Largest Greenhouse Gas Emitters: Obama will create a Global Energy Forum — that includes all G-8 members plus Brazil, China, India, Mexico and South Africa –the largest energy consuming nations from both the developed and developing world. The forum would focus exclusively on global energy and environmental issues.
Re-Engage with the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change: The UNFCCC process is the main international forum dedicated to addressing the climate problem and an Obama administration will work constructively within it.
Barack Obama's Record
Renewable Fuels: Obama has worked on numerous efforts in the Senate to increase access to and use of renewable fuels. Obama passed legislation with Senator Jim Talent (R-MO) to give gas stations a tax credit for installing E85 ethanol refueling pumps. The tax credit covers 30 percent of the costs of switching one or more traditional petroleum pumps to E85, which is an 85 percent ethanol/15 percent gasoline blend. Obama also sponsored an amendment that became law providing $40 million for commercialization of a combined flexible fuel vehicle/hybrid car within five years.
CAFE: Obama introduced a bold new plan that brought Republicans and Democrats, CAFE supporters and long-time opponents together in support of legislation that will gradually increase fuel economy standards and offer what the New York Times editorial page called "real as opposed to hypothetical results."

Clif Kuplen at 4:21PM on Aug 6th 2008

30. . Personally I am offended by the casual use of the term "racist"

I'm more offended by your casual use of the term 'murderer'. You're a hypocrite about that, so why would this be any different?

Clif Kuplen at 4:28PM on Aug 6th 2008