“An early 2005 episode [of "West Wing"], “King Corn,” raised ethanol trashing to an entirely new level. In this episode, all of the presidential candidates, liberals as well as conservatives and Democrats as well as Republicans, strongly object to ethanol, although in the end all but one ends up “pandering” to Iowa’s caucus voters by endorsing the fuel.”
“U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell has been front and center in opening up avenues to produce and sell ethanol made from wheat straw and other non-corn biowaste. …cellulosic biomass will represent a greenhouse emissions reduction …about seven times the air quality benefits of starch or corn-based ethanol.”—-”Conscious Choice“
“The roughly 543 million gallons of ethanol Nebraska’s plants were producing annually in 2006 trailed only Illinois’ 780 million gallons and Iowa’s 1.1 billion gallons, according to the trade group Renewable Fuels Association.”–Nebraska could become #2 ethanol state
So forget that Barack Obama can’t keep his stories straight from year to year –
Not that he was in the United States Congress at the time but he feels compelled to put himself in that small elite against the war in Iraq crowd, you know, the leaders of the few in Congress who did say “No,” the ones who now run dark on Presidential ’08’s trail; Ron Paul and Dennis J. Kucinich.
“[Obama's] speech itself took Bush to task for lying about the reasons for war and for invading and occupying “without enough troops to win the war, secure the peace, and earn the respect of the world.” In other words, Obama, the great liberal hope, thinks that Bush should have sent more troops–and that the Democrats are more capable of seeing the war on Iraq through to victory.”–August 3, 2004, Counterpunch
Barack Obama’s groping inconsistencies in how he feels about Reagan:
Reagan this
“…I think Ronald Reagan changed the trajectory of America in a way that Richard Nixon did not and in a way that Bill Clinton did not. He put us on a fundamentally different path because the country was ready for it. They felt like with all the excesses of the 60s and the 70s and government had grown and grown but there wasn’t much sense of accountability in terms of how it was operating. I think he tapped into what people were already feeling. Which is we want clarity, we want optimism, we want a return to that sense of dynamism and entrepreneurship that had been missing.”–Obama compares himself to Reagan, 1/16/2008
Reagan that
“In his book, [Barack Obama] attacks Ronald Reagan, the modern leader whom Republicans most revere. Obama sneers at “his John Wayne, Father Knows Best pose, his policy by anecdote, and his gratuitous assaults on the poor.”–“George W. Obama.”
Within Barack Obama’s current platform there are far far too many ripoffs from George W. Bush’s 2000 campaign. See “George W. Obama.”
… Hey, the man is on top of his crop! Because after all is said and done, when the lights go out each night, its all about how our states divide us.
see also:
Back to their Verbs: Hillary Up, Obama Down
The Verbs of their Senate Record; or why Hillary just missed second place in Iowa
