Same Old Tired Thinking

If there’s anything we’ve learned about the 2008 presidential election cycle, it’s that this year it’s about Change.

So why is John McCain still peddling the same old tired thinking that has landed our country in this economic quagmire?

While Senator Obama and most of the nation is looking forward, Senator McCain is most definitely looking backward.  His suggestion this week that states should be allowed to reconsider offshore oil drilling is the perfect example that McCain just doesn’t get it.  The nation has moved beyond the “we can drill our way out of this situation” thinking.

All of us, except McCain and the oil companies that is.

At the time when we need leadership that will commit us to developing alternative energy sources, leadership that will invest in and jump start the next technological revolution, McCain has offered us proof that his administration would be just more of the same.

Under McCain, Big Oil lobbyists would still be writing national energy policy.  No one else wants to open up offshore oil drilling where doing so would not benefit consumers or have any effect on world oil supply or prices.  The only beneficiaries of offshore drilling are Big Oil CEOs.

Sound familiar?  Yes, the same folks who brought us $4 a gallon gasoline.  The same people who have been running the store the past seven years under President Bush,

And McCain doesn’t see any need for change.  He’d rather drill than invest.  He’d rather listen to the oil companies than to us.

In 2008, when voters come to the fork in the road, they can choose to take a new path with Obama or continue down the same one with McCain.

With more pronouncements like this one, McCain is going to be on a lonely path.

Posted by Bernie Campbell on Tuesday, June 17, 2008
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