Don't Hope For More Energy

By Dave
Jul 21st 2008 12:55PM

Filed Under:eBarack Obama, John McCain, 2008 President, Energy

...vote for it. Excellent tagline.

While the rest of the blog world is trying to figure out who Nouri al-Maliki is going to vote for, let's remember that the most Americans probably don't know who Maliki is. The only thing that can be said for sure about the current Iraq kerfuffle is that it won't matter in this political cycle. Love him or hate him, Bush picked a strategy that for now, has taken Iraq off the political table. It won't be a silver bullet for McCain, and it won't be the hammer it was in 2006 for the Democrats.


All Americans know is that gas is $4 a gallon, and food and energy costs are wreaking havoc in their day to day expenses. Even the ones who aren't being hammered by having the bad luck to buy a house in 2005 with a subprime mortgage!


If I was McCain's messaging man, I would tell him to ignore the Iraq nonsense and focus on energy costs. Well, as it turns out, someone on the team has the same idea.




Great ad as far as messaging goes, but substantively dishonest, unless McCain has at some point, without me noticing, decided that it's ok to drill in the ANWR. But while Obama goes to Iraq, maybe McCain can go visit Alaska and some deep ocean oil derricks. I know which issue will get more attention from the American people right now.

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