With less than a day to go until the general election, the controversy surrounding Barack Obama's remarks on the coal industry may well cost him the election.
In Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Indiana, and other major coal-mining states, Obama's statement that he wishes to 'bankrupt' the coal industry has created such a firestorm of controversy that it is difficult to see how the election could not be effected in those states.
The President of the Ohio Coal Association was particularly harsh in his response to Obama's remarks.
Stating that the Obama-Biden ticket is clearly not supportive of the coal industry, Association President Mike Carey asserted that the Democratic ticket 'spells disaster for the American coal industry and the tens of thousands of Americans who work in it.'
Earlier in the campaign Joe Biden stated that he 'supports building new coal facilities, provided they are in China.'
In Ohio and Pennsylvania in particular, such remarks could make a huge difference among working class men and women who depend on the coal industry for a living.
As expected, Obama has backtracked from his remarks, claiming he 'support clean coal.' But once again, as we have seen so many times during this campaign, the candidate spends more time backing off from previous policy statements than he does advocating his new proposals.
This time, however, Obama has been caught with his pants down less than one day before the election. The voters need to do some serious soul-searching about which Obama is to be believed--the one who will say anything to get elected, or the one who in private, candid moments has made known his true beliefs.
Monday, November 03, 2008
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If it were reported in the media, along with even a fraction of the things we in the blogosphere know, this man would be sweating his seat in the senate and nowhere near the White House.
But alas, the media won't report this gaffe. I fear it is too late.
I have the same fear.
But maybe it's not too late after all. Most people haven't voted yet.
Yeah, d. but most of them will go to the polls tomorrow still never having heard it.
You are probably right, but I think many who work in the coal industry in those battleground states heard it, and that may be enough to make a big difference.
Or so I hope...
Great post, I have heard a lot about this on the Patriot programs, but I do not know if enough of it is getting out to those in the states that matter. Lets hope so!
It depends on how quickly and thoroughly the coal associations in those states were able to alert their members about the ominous Obama plan.
But I don't know how effective they were in getting the word out on such a short notice.
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