Posted on November 3, 2008 by Richard Koppel
The Wall Street Journal confirms that Barack Obama’s and John McCain’s coal policy is essentially the same.
Noting that Sarah Palin’s accusations in Ohio had fired up a campaign rally, the Journal, which is widely considered to be country’s financial organ of record, reports in Coal Warriors: Palin, Obama Camp Spar Over ‘Bankrupting’ Big Coal, that,
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Posted on November 3, 2008 by Richard Koppel
FactCheck.org caught McCain-Palin’s lie regarding Barack Obama’s support for clean coal, but that hasn’t stopped them from putting out their robocalls in coal states on the eve of the 2008 election.
See the September 30, 2008, Annondale Political Fact Check, Not Coming Clean on Coal.
A McCain-Palin ad claims the Obama-Biden ticket opposes clean coal. Not true. [...]
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Posted on November 3, 2008 by Richard Koppel
While Barack Obama wants to revitalize the coal industry with a $150 Billion investment in technololgy and clean coal, Senator McCain will abandon coal for nuclear power.
Blooomberg.com reports that, calling Palin’s charge a “last-minute, desperate distortion” of Obama’s record, Governor Ted Strickland of Ohio warns that while John McCain wants to abandon coal, Obama wants [...]
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Posted on November 3, 2008 by Richard Koppel
Sarah Palin falsely accused Barack Obama of saying, in a secret tape kept hidden by the Main Stream Media, that he wants to bankrupt the coal industry.
“He said that, sure, if the industry wants to build coal-fired power plants, then they can go ahead and try, he says, but they can do it only in [...]
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