This would be much funnier if it wasn’t so sad. Our potential next President thinks our nation’s nonexistent energy policy is a joke:
Republican presidential candidate John McCain said Monday that the search for alternatives to the country’s dependence on foreign oil is so urgent that he’s willing to throw money at it.
The Arizona senator proposed a $300 million prize for whoever can develop a better automobile battery…
A prize like it’s a box of cereal. The McCain Administration!
John McCain has said many dumb things, and will no doubt add to his list during the campaign. But this statement isn’t one of them.
A better automobile battery is one of the innovations we need to reduce our dependence on oil — foreign and domestic, and I don’t see it as a joke at all.
The part of the story that angered me was Charlie Black’s apology for his comment that Bhuto’s assasination helped McCain, and another terrorist attack would help him even more.
This was not a “misstatement” or something taken out of context. IT was EXACTLY what Black meant, and was consistent with the Bush/Cheney/Rove playbook that relies on terror threats to scare the public into voting for the Republicans — as if the GOP’s record of protecting the homeland is something to be proud of! And as if McCain’s years as a POW have somehow given him the credentials to be the expert on foreign affairs and military matters.
THAT’S the joke in this story!
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I agree that we need to do everything we can to reduce our addiction to oil, but the way McCain presented this proposal made it come off more as a farce than a serious attempt to do anything substantive.
Besides, now that Obama will raise hundreds of millions of dollars in campaign donations, do you really think McCain can afford to turn off Big Oil and their petro dollars? This is pure pandering and not a solution.
I agree about your Black comments. A national security event would definitely help McCain and I can envision a non-spontaneous “October surprise,” where the threat level gets raised based on new terrorist chatter while the mainstream media works us all up into a tizzy right into the voting booth.