Obama Flips, Now to Back Offshore Drilling, Maybe
“Shifting from his previous opposition to expanded offshore drilling, the Illinois senator told a Florida newspaper he could get behind a compromise with Republicans and oil companies to prevent gridlock over energy.”
A little too late, Senator. He conveniently waited until the house Dems shut the lights off on the house Republicans to announce this CHANGE. This is politics as usual.
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August 5th, 2008 at 10:48 am
Ah yes. Barry FINALLY decided to change his view on offshore drilling. Not because he believes in it, but because he had a bit of sense that nearly 2/3 to 3/4 of Americans are now in favor of it.
What I find rather humorous is that, by doing so, he is VERY close to committing a cardinal sin of campaigning: alienating your base. Everyone knows that the core of the Democratic Party are those closely affiliated to the environmentalist base. Which is fine. But, with Obama now publicly changing his position, he leaves them wondering. Not that they will change to a McCain vote, but this may pressure some to stay at home, especially because the environment is no longer an issue on the back burner.
Further, Obama is now stuck. He changed his position once, and can reasonably justify it by saying he had not looked closely enough at the benefits, etc. But, should he EVER change back to “no we can’t drill there” ANY moderate-to-conservative voters he might have attracted from a pro-drilling stance will be lost. Thus losing TWO components of his electorate.
And, like I said: with the environment being this big of an issue, Obama may not be able to recover.
August 6th, 2008 at 10:05 pm
Obama just punked all of you.
Adam, I wrote a primer on offhore drilling for you. Have you figured out how fungible commodities trade on global markets yet?
August 8th, 2008 at 8:17 am
Not sure what you are trying to argue here.
This article is about the way Obama has changed his positions on the issue.