Obama does not save the earth

Any person with even a rudimentary amount of business sense knows that you should meet with experts when seeking consultation for just about anything you need help on. That’s why you don’t hire a lawyer to fix your car, don’t hire a seamstress to build a house and certainly don’t hire PETA to go hunting. Yet Barack Obama is once again showing his ignorance when he criticized the Bush administration for consulting with oil industry experts when coming up with an energy policy.

Democrats continue to talk out of both sides of their mouth when it comes to just about anything imaginable. For instance, check out the following nugget that dropped out of Obama’s mouth this afternoon.

WAVERLY, Iowa (AP) — Democrat Barack Obama said the country faces an “an urgent moral challenge” to reduce reliance on oil and needs a president willing to defy special interests in Washington that dictate energy policy.Do you part for love earth today.


Obama, casting himself an agent of change in a crowded field of White House hopefuls, suggested that he is voters’ best bet to shake up the status quo.

“We’ve got to have a president in the White House who sets bold targets and sets broad goals and isn’t intimidated by the barriers and the roadblocks and isn’t driven by those who already have an investment in the status quo - somebody who can overcome the lobby-driven, divisive politics that characterizes this issue,” Obama told about 300 people at Waverly Light and Power, the city utility.

Words like “divisive” and “lobby-driven” are used by Obama supporters to describe Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York, a former first lady who is billing herself on the 2008 campaign trail as the only candidate experienced enough to make a change in Washington.

Obama did not mention Clinton or other rivals by name. But he did accuse the Bush administration of putting oil industry interests ahead of the public’s.

“We’ve got an energy policy that doesn’t just seem like it’s written by industry lobbyists,” he said. “It was written by energy lobbyists.”

Vice President Dick Cheney led the administration’s energy task force, which Obama said met once with environmentalists, once with renewable energy experts and 40 times with oil industry leaders.

Everybody knows that the Bush administration met with industry experts, just like every administration before him. This is no revelation. Yet Obama will say anything to get attention. Even the AP notes that environmentalists have their own lobbying groups that Democrats certainly met with on a regular basis.

The hypocrisy meter got stuck in the red when Obama talked about changing the status quo. Last I checked Obama was no different than any other politician that gains financially from shady land deals and quid pro quo favoritism. Too bad that most of us don’t get the same financial and political favors that Obama did from indicted businessmen like Tony Rezko who cornered the market on special interest perks. In Obama’s case it saved him a a couple hundred thousand dollars on his Hyde Park property that most of us aren’t status quo enough to own. Nor are we considered status quo enough to get a special internship from Obama, another perk of being tied to an unindicted co-conspirator and business associate of Tony Rezko.

In Waverly, Obama outlined his plans to require the use of more renewable energy, lower carbon in fuels and increase fuel efficiency of cars. Obama noted that his call to increase the number of miles an automobile can go on a gallon of gas upset politically important special interests in Detroit.

But he said smart energy policies are needed to reduce global warming, lower gas prices and make the country less reliant on foreign oil.

“It’s an urgent moral challenge that demands attention now,” he said. “We can free ourselves from the tyranny of oil.”

Obama was worried so much about those emissions that he used to drive a Chysler 300C SUV, a car that got 20mpg on a good day. Not to fear though, Obama’s campaign uses a flex-fuel GMC Yukon (pictured above). The only problem is that the Yukon is even less fuel efficient than the Chrysler. So when Obama talks about saving energy or changing the status quo you know he is talking with a mouth full of dung. In fact he is talking so much crap that Al Gore should be looking to charge him for expelling for excessive carbon emissions.

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