<p>[Obama</a> shifts, says he may back offshore drilling - Yahoo! News](<a href=“http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080801/ap_on_el_pr/obama]Obama”>http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080801/ap_on_el_pr/obama)</p>
<p>He found out that it is polling well with the electorate from his pollsters.</p>
<p>Obama’s position on offshore drilling is no different than McCain’s position on raising the payroll tax. </p>
<p>Also, McCain changed his position too so he’d have to be pretty audacious to call Obama a flip flopper. However, given the things he’s said this week like Obama is an unpatriotic, idiotic, promiscuous, vacuous, race-baiter who doesn’t know his “place” in this race as the “black” candidate it certainly wouldn’t be beneath McCain to do so.</p>
<p>Obama said:</p>
<p>“If, in order to get [the kind of comprehensive energy policy that can bring down gas prices] passed, we have to compromise in terms of a careful, well thought-out drilling strategy that was carefully circumscribed to avoid significant environmental damage — I don’t want to be so rigid that we can’t get something done.”</p>
<p>Newjack88, yes McCain has also changed his views on offshore drilling, but he has admitted it. Obama was still bashing the idea today that it wasn’t going to help.</p>
<p>I need to major in mental gymnastics to understand what Obama means most of the time.</p>
<p>vossrom, How is that different from McCain’s position?</p>
<p>I promise that by tomorrow, Obama supporters will be for offshore drilling, and they will swear that they have always supported offshore drilling.</p>
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<p>Now that we have more supporters including Obama and his followers, maybe we can get to work on a real plan. Bush needs to call the House and Senate back so they can vote on this Monday. Stop wasting time!</p>
<p>“vossrom, How is that different from McCain’s position?”</p>
<p>I think McCain is enthusiastically in favor of it and thinks it will help lower oil prices.</p>
<p>“I promise that by tomorrow, Obama supporters will be for offshore drilling, and they will swear that they have always supported offshore drilling.”</p>
<p>Not this one; I’m still against it. It won’t lower prices, results would be five to ten years out, and it’s wrong to want to spew even more carbon into the air. We should reduce consumption, not enable more.</p>
<p>The Democratic candidate doesn’t care what you think about offshore drilling. Ask the loyal gay coalition in the Democratic party what they thought when the candidate staged a gay-bashing gospel tour in South Carolina. Or, now when he not only opposes gay marriage but twists the knife a little deeper by always adding his belief that marriage should be between a man and a woman.</p>
<p>I think that Obama is realizing that the American people dislike thinking and consider it “major mental gymnastics.”</p>
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<p>Newjack88, the mental gymnastic comment has nothing to do with thinking.</p>
<p>Obama holds so many positions on so many issues that it is difficult to know where he stands on any issue. Thinking is not a problem for me, I do that everyday when I work on my research.</p>
<p>Thank you for the MIT link about solar!</p>
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<p>No problem. I think that Obama would be more willing to explore these sorts of things than McCain would. McCain is already planning on giving oil companies tax breaks and other incentives so that they actually drill once/if offshore drilling is expanded. I think that and the fact that he wants to make Bush’s tax cuts permanent limit how much money he can invest in alternative energy while trying to control spending.</p>
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<p>Why not apply your researching thinking skills to politics? Is it that you think you shouldn’t have to? You think that the candidates should make all the issues “yes or no;” “black or white;” “cut n’ run or stay the course;” etc.? You just want to not have to think critically like you do at your job?</p>
<p>McCain has already said he supports carbon credits and alternative energy. Obama has said he will raise taxes. I think taxes are high enough, and a lot of our tax money ends up being wasted. I do think that things will improve soon because Bush is starting to pull troops out of Iraq.</p>
<p>“McCain is already planning on giving oil companies tax breaks and other incentives so that they actually drill once/if offshore drilling is expanded.”</p>
<p>To be fair, McCain is not singling out oil companies for tax breaks; he want to lower the corporate tax rate for all companies.</p>
<p>Newjack88, I think you should read the Lexington project on McCain’s website. He believes that we should explore all sources of energy, and we should also conserve. </p>
<p>Obama can’t afford his policies either, he was going to use the windfall tax to fund more research on alternative energy, and now he is going to give the same tax revenue to everyone. </p>
<p>The country is broke, unless we implement policies that can help the economy grow at about 5% a year, the deficit will keep on growing.</p>
<p>I think the point is here is a tradeoff: Democrats want investments in renewable energy and Republicans want more domestic drilling. The obstructionist Republicans in the Senate can block almost everything with a filibuster, and that’s why the Congress can’t pass a bill renewing tax credits for clean energy.</p>
<p>So no, off-shore drilling is still an incredibly stupid and irresponsible solution to our energy crisis, but a trade off package deal might still be worth consideration, and that’s the direction I think Obama’s heading. Then Democrats can get a better energy policy enacted, and Republicans can explain to voters why the oil prices haven’t magically fallen like they promised.</p>
<p>Oh I said it, Obama supporters would find a way to justify his new position on offshore drilling.</p>
<p>He was even bashing it today, after he promised to give everyone a $1000 (he is going to pay for it by putting a windfall tax on oil companies). </p>
<p>Offshore drilling is polling well, so he decided to change his position for political expediency.</p>
<p>McCain, always ready to put the country first.</p>
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<p>You can say the same thing about McCain. McCain flip flopped so that he could solidify his support among conservatives.</p>
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<p>Wow. You are actually buying into the ads. Just a question, who doesn’t put country first anyway? What does that mean?</p>
<p>If McCain really believes in country first, why is he still running his campaign? A majority of Americans trust Obama on more issues and a majority of Americans want a Democrat in the Whitehouse. Are you sure you didn’t mean to say, “McCain first; everyone and everything else including his paralyzed wife he cheated on multiple times and then divorced second?”</p>
<p>This is the only thing that counts:</p>
<p>[RealClearPolitics</a> - Electoral Map](<a href=“http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/maps/obama_vs_mccain/?map=10]RealClearPolitics”>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/maps/obama_vs_mccain/?map=10)</p>
<p>Save the link and look at it regularly to see any trend.</p>