ALERT! Obama Blows It with Remarks on Coal

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.