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David Roberts: Newsweek's Michael Hirsh Transcribes McCain Campaign Spin on Energy
grist.org Last October, Barack Obama laid out a detailed, ambitious, and comprehensive Energy plan , and he's been talking about it ever since. A couple weeks ago, ... Full Article At HuffingtonPost
MSNBC's Political Bet Pays Off
New York — Phil Griffin, the NBC News executive who oversees MSNBC, is a coiled mass of Energy who needs little provocation to do battle. Now he's got something to fight for. MSNBC is a player... Full Article At HuffingtonPost
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UNITY 08!
The much-touted Obama/Clinton unity event went off well in Unity, NH, today. The Clintons each maxed out on contributions to the Obama campaign, and even Terry McAuliffe gushed , "I love ... Full Article At The American Prospect - Tapped
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The Ad Campaign: McCain Pitches a ‘Bipartisan’ Plan for Achieving Energy Security
John McCain’s latest television advertisement seeks to capitalize on voter discontent with Gas Prices and draw attention to his proposal for achieving ... Full Article At The New York Times - Politics
New McCain Ad: "Putting Country First" On Energy Policy
John McCain is up with a new ad that seems designed to reframe the battle over Energy policy as a National Security issue and even to some... Full Article At The American Prospect Election Central
More Energy Advertising From McCain
By Ed O'Keefe John McCain has released another TV ad about Energy, with yet another campaign slogan. "Purpose" will be cycled into the campaign's current ad buys on national cable stations... Full Article At Washington Post - The Trail
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$7 Gas By 2010?
It's looking more and more likely that Americans' long vacation from Energy reality may be coming to a close. Details here. Bradford Plumer comments. The full report is here (pdf).... Full Article At The Daily Dish
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Please, Keep Attacking Obama For Being "Typical"
Earlier in the week, I agued that McCain attacking other Republicans for opposing new Energy policies would, in the end, only result in more people Voting for Democrats, not McCain. Given this, I'm... Full Article At Open Left
Obama And McCain's Green Dream
(Fortune Magazine) -- What senators McCain and Obama believe about U.S. Energy policy matters - hugely. To fight Global Warming, the next President... Full Article At HuffingtonPost
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Mallaby's Failed Effort to Scare on Oil Price Regulation
We regularly see efforts to push favored public policies by trotting out really big numbers that are supposed to scare people. For example, there is a whole contingent running around Washington who talk about the country's $75 trillion long-term deficit as a way to push cuts to Social Security.... Full Article At The American Prospect - Beat the Press
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True or False: Candidates Should Never Flip-Flop
So it has already come to this. At the end of its first month, the great and noble general-Election campaign of 2008 has been defined by a single question: who is the biggest flip-flopper? ... Full Article At Newsweek - Politics
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At the Height of an Energy Crisis, Fat-Cat CEOs Still Litter the Skies with Private Jets
The private-jet perk is -- literally and figuratively -- a high-profile sign of an executive reward system out of control.... Full Article At AlterNet
A. Siegel: Reid: "Coal makes us sick ..."
Harry Reid spoke bluntly on Energy issues the other day. Looking the Faux and Balanced cameras square on, he spoke truth: Coal makes us sick This is an important statement. Reid is speaking truth... Full Article At HuffingtonPost
McCain: “Americans Are Hurting Very Badly Today”
In a live interview from Cartagena, the Senator explains his trip to Colombia and talks about the Economy on ABC’s “Good Morning America.” Stresses his trip will be short, says drugs flowing to the U.S. from the country is a “big... Full Article At Time - The Page
RNC Affiliate to Launch Energy Ads
By Michael D. Shear An Independent arm of the Republican National Committee plans to air its first political ad of the 2008 presidential campaign with a spot that contrasts the... Full Article At Washington Post - The Trail
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McCain + Obama = a valid energy plan
McCain + Obama = a valid Energy plan For years, Washington has been so feckless in reacting to the ... Full Article At USA Today - Chuck Raasch
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Bill Scher: To Win, Presidential Candidates Move ... Left
The punditocracy won't tell you , but Barack Obama and John McCain are moving to the Left. Take Iraq. Sensing that voters did not react kindly to McCain's December remarks expressing... Full Article At HuffingtonPost
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Raymond J. Learsy: $4 Gasoline at the Aspen Ideas Festival
Once a year there is a remarkable gathering of people in Aspen from all disciplines in life and an occasional interloper. Leaders in Academia, Politics, Business, the Arts, and Science. The conversations, seminars, and lectures are pretty heady in a rarefied yet pointed and pragmatic way. It was here... Full Article At HuffingtonPost
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John McCain and energy
John McCain has had on-off Energy policy stances, revealing the risks of a long legislative record on the presidential campaign trail.... Full Article At LA Times - Top of the Ticket
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Iran needs to hear firm no on nukes
The Bush administration's careful strategy of sanctions against Iran for its nuclear defiance has been on a glide slope of diminishing returns, and Iran has continued to plow ahead. By incrementally advancing its nuclear program while incrementally reducing its cooperation with the International... Full Article At Redstate