Obama Calls McCain’s Car Battery Contest a Bounty
Submitted by jmeasley on Tue, 06/24/2008 - 19:07.
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Energy has been the topic on the campaign trail this week, and today Barack Obama called McCain’s $300 million Clean Car Challenge a bounty that will increase our addiction to oil.
“After all those years in Washington, John McCain still doesn’t get it. I commend him for his desire to accelerate the search for a battery that can power the cars of the future. I’ve been talking about this myself for the last few years. But I don’t think a $300 million prize is enough,” Obama said.
Obama also criticized McCain’s lack of vision, “When John F. Kennedy decided that we were going to put a man on the moon, he didn’t put a bounty out for some rocket scientist to win – he put the full resources of the United States government behind the project and called on the ingenuity and innovation of the American people. That’s the kind of effort we need to achieve energy independence in this country, and nothing less will do.”
He referred to McCain’s plan as another gimmick designed to continue America’s dependence on oil, “But in this campaign, John McCain offering the same old gimmicks that will provide almost no short-term relief to folks who are struggling with high gas prices; gimmicks that will only increase our oil addiction for another four years.”
Obama is correct in pointing out that the majority of McCain’s proposals on energy are designed to offer a short term solution at best. Ten years from now, offshore drilling would offer three years of relief. The gas tax holiday would lower prices at the pump by 30 cents a gallon for three months, and his $300 million contest is a gimmick, not a long term energy policy. The only long term solution that he has proposed is nuclear power, which raises a variety of concerns with people all around the country.
There are two things that I find surprising about the McCain campaign so far. First, they have demonstrated an uncanny ability to shoot themselves in the foot on an almost weekly basis. Second, is the lack of leadership that McCain has shown. There has not been a single issue that McCain has been out in front of. All of his proposals are nothing more than a continuation or expansion of Bush policies. The result of this ineptitude will be that if Obama continues to look like the candidate who can lead, he will win easily in November.
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absolutely
You've got it right, that they keep shooting themselves in the foot. It's amazing, the things that we hear about, 5 months before the election. Whatever smoking gun they think they have against Obama, can't possibly compare to the pile of ridiculousness McCain and company have been collecting. Sheesh.
I really liked Obama's line about JFK. That was pretty brilliant.
JFK
That was a great line. Props to who wrote it. As far as McCain goes, this is almost a daily thing with his campaign.
McCain Stole the Battery Contest from a Democratic Candidate
A year ago a Democratic candidate for President invented and posted the contest for electric car battery on July 20, 2007 at http://www.franklynch.org/plug_in_cars.htm
Isn't it amusing that two things jump out at you:
First, the Republicans are so lacking in ideas that they have to steal them from obsurce Democratic candidates, and
Two, Obama and his crew are so unconscious that they did not notice this and are failing to reap the political bonanza of embarassing McCain
Conclusion: McCain and Obama are qualified to be President of Outer Mongolia, but not the US of A
Frank Lynch
http://www.franklynch.org
And O'Bama's suggestion is ???
The X prize generated a solution that ought to embarrass NASA. If we wait for all the money in the U.S. government to develop space travel, we'd best hunker down and build shelters that will protect us against the falling debris, which is about the most the modern incarnation of NASA is likely to produce. The NASA that went to the moon was pure-D Republican -- just look at those guys in the photos -- and the freedom they had to execute will never be seen again within any U.S. government operation. Certainly not one run along Democrats' principles.
The full faith, credit & resources extracted from the American people at large (that's what "government" is) are to be used to create exactly which non-extractive, non-polluting energy solution again? When you answer, remember that nuclear is off the table.
And when that R&D money is taken from Americans, half skimmed by politicians of the bipartisan conspiracy along with their lobbyist buddies, and then half of the remaining wasted on bureaucratic arguments over things like whether any particular photo is grounds for dismissal, and the last remaining 25% is tossed in the general direction of research (so long as it meets the PC standard established mostly by those scientific geniuses from Hollywood), you can be absolutely sure that no matter how you dice it, how you spin it, what you "offset" from, the ultimate burden will fall onto the poor, the less able, the disenfranchised.
Final note: batteries do not "power" cars. Obama needs to go back to grade school. Batteries store power that is loaded into the car from ... what was that again? Something the government is going to discover that all the scientists and engineers (including millions of Democrats) have overlooked??
For extra credit, name some major technological development that originated with government. Penicillin? Telegraph? Railroads? Automobile? Radio? Transistor? Internet? anything???? Like almost everything Obama says, it sounds great until you think about it for just a minute. It's the delivery that seduces, not the content. Take whatever he says, and imagine the Dali Lama saying it, and see how it sounds before you run out and vote for it.
-- an Independent with Libertarian leanings who is pretty disgusted with what the Dems have turned into since he was a young, idealistic warrior.
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"The X prize generated a solution that ought to embarrass NASA."
-Not really. NASA isn't in the business of flying rich people into space. Prizes like this should remain private sector initiatives. Putting up $300 million in tax money for a battery contest is idiotic. The money, of course, would be much better spent on development grants and tax credits. Most people need research money up front
"For extra credit, name some major technological development that originated with government. Penicillin? Telegraph? Railroads? Automobile? Radio? Transistor? Internet? anything????"
-You must be retarded. Perhaps you should read up on your history. The internet did, in fact, originate with government. So did the the human genome project, almost every medical advancement in the last 50 years (NIH-sponsored research), the Manhattan project, the discovery of the AIDS virus, the ENIAC computer. The list goes on and on. Flemming discovered penicillin while working for a Hospital in London, which are Government-funded. Every University gets a huge chunk of its research funding from Government grants. Medical and biotechnology research would grind to a halt without Government funding.
McCain's brainchild is one of the most ridiculous ideas ever put forth by a politician. To call it a "gimmick" is being way too nice.
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