Waaaay OT: John McCain on Global Warming Consequences

Luftmensch067

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Wed Jan-16-08 05:29 PM
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Waaaay OT: John McCain on Global Warming Consequences

Just for laughs:

McCain: I have been to Greenland, I have been to the South Pole. I've been to the Arctic and I know it's real. I believe that we've got to go back to nuclear power. We've got to do alternative energy. We've got to have a cap and trade proposal which Joe Lieberman and I have proposed.

We need to do green technologies. Let me put it this way to you. Suppose I�m wrong, there's no such thing as climate change, and we adopt green technologies. Then we've just left our kids a better world. Suppose I am right and we do nothing? Then what kind of planet have we handed to our children.

Am I crazy, or does that bolded part look slightly familiar to anyone here???! Maybe McCain put it that way first, but I doubt it!

Found here.

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beachmom

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Wed Jan-16-08 05:52 PM
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1. Yup-- everyone copies how Kerry has talked up dealing with global

climate change. I do want to point out that McCain actually has a record on this, and is the best Republican on this issue.

Is anyone else weirded out by Lieberman's support of McCain? He really is no longer a Democrat. Nobody can have any confusion on that anymore.

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Luftmensch067

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Wed Jan-16-08 06:04 PM
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2. It's true that a good environmental message is the important thing

But the wording was just too close -- it really made me laugh!

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karynnj

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Wed Jan-16-08 08:05 PM
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3. I'm not surprised

Two of the biggest issues for Leiberman are the environment and the War/National Seccrity. He is completely in sync with McCain. Leiberman was also one of the Democrats who was good on ethic bills. Here Obama is likely closer, though McCain has a semi- reasonable record here. Clinton, I will not discuss and Edwards has no record. Leiberman on economic issues was very much a centrist, so he may be to the right of all three Democrats (sort of like Edwards' senate record). Leiberman was better on civil rights than McCain.

But weighing issues by likely importance - he is a better match for McCain.

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Noisy Democrat

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Thu Jan-17-08 01:41 AM
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4. I think you're right

He pretty much lifted the words -- maybe not literally at the level of cut-and-paste, but somebody copied JK's argument, clearly. I don't think this is a coincidence.

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karynnj

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Thu Jan-17-08 06:59 AM
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5. NYT on McCain fighting back against swiftboating

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/17/us/politics/17carolina.html?_r=1&ref=todayspaper&oref=slogin

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BlueIris

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Thu Jan-17-08 06:04 PM
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6. Oh, come on. Let the little poser save face.

That's my subtitle for the McCain candidacy: Conservatives Saving Face.

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