Senator Gravel on Barack Obama:
http://annienyc.blogspot.com/2008/01/mik...

RUSSERT: Senator Obama, a difference in this campaign: You voted for the energy bill in July of 2005; Senator Clinton voted against it. We haven't built a nuclear power plant in this country for 30 years. There are now 17 companies that are planning to build 29 plants based on many of the protections that were provided in that bill, and incentives for licensee construction operating cost.

Did you realize, when you were voting for that energy bill, that it was going to create such a renaissance of nuclear power?

OBAMA: Well, the reason I voted for it was because it was the single largest investment in clean energy -- solar, wind, biodiesel -- that we had ever seen...And I think it is -- we talked about this earlier -- if we are going to deal with our dependence on foreign oil, then we're going to have to ramp up how we're producing energy here in the United States.

RUSSERT: Senator Clinton?

CLINTON: I think it's well accepted that the 2005 energy bill was the Dick Cheney lobbyist energy bill. It was written by lobbyists. It was championed by Dick Cheney. It wasn't just the green light that it gave to more nuclear power. It had enormous giveaways to the oil and gas industries.

It was so heavily tilted toward the special interests that many of us, at the time, said, you know, that's not going to move us on the path we need, which is toward clean, renewable green energy.

[We need to] Take the tax subsidies that were given in the 2005 [bill] that Dick Cheney wrote; take them away from the gas and oil industry. They don't need our tax dollars to make these enormous profits.

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This is just ONE example of why she is ready and Obama is not. Obama is a great guy and has a ton going for him, but this type of policy by Barack is no good. We need someone with conviction. Edwards sounds like he has conviction but how many votes has he had to apologize for so far? Too many.

It MAY be harder for hillary to win the GE but that is because republicans know she has a backbone. No republican has a chance at the white house anyway, we've had enough, your time is up.

Didn't the LVRJ endorse Bush in 2004? Just sayin'.

lol. GOP IS GOING DOWN. No matter what they bring out about Hillary or Barack, you are still going down. So you can pretend that you're happy about Hillary doing well all you want. We will unite against you this november. Sorry Charlies. :D

And we'll be taking Nevada back this year too. :)

The recap forgot to mention:

RUSSERT: Senator Obama, a difference in this campaign: You voted for the energy bill in July of 2005; Senator Clinton voted against it. We haven't built a nuclear power plant in this country for 30 years. There are now 17 companies that are planning to build 29 plants based on many of the protections that were provided in that bill, and incentives for licensee construction operating cost.

Did you realize, when you were voting for that energy bill, that it was going to create such a renaissance of nuclear power?

OBAMA: Well, the reason I voted for it was because it was the single largest investment in clean energy -- solar, wind, biodiesel -- that we had ever seen...And I think it is -- we talked about this earlier -- if we are going to deal with our dependence on foreign oil, then we're going to have to ramp up how we're producing energy here in the United States.

RUSSERT: Senator Clinton?

CLINTON: I think it's well accepted that the 2005 energy bill was the Dick Cheney lobbyist energy bill. It was written by lobbyists. It was championed by Dick Cheney. It wasn't just the green light that it gave to more nuclear power. It had enormous giveaways to the oil and gas industries.

It was so heavily tilted toward the special interests that many of us, at the time, said, you know, that's not going to move us on the path we need, which is toward clean, renewable green energy.

[We need to] Take the tax subsidies that were given in the 2005 [bill] that Dick Cheney wrote; take them away from the gas and oil industry. They don't need our tax dollars to make these enormous profits."
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ANYONE BUT OBAMA. He has no idea what he's doing, and I love Jimmy Carter, but we don't need another one in office. Actually, even Carter had more backbone.