Obama Walks the Plank

Senator Barack Obama is the latest victim of a cheesey, anti-green, smear campaign. At a recent town hall meeting Senator Obama apparently spoke on a wide range of topics including global warming and the need for individuals to drive more fuel efficient vehicles. He mentioned that he himself favors using an SUV. It turns out his GMC Envoy is a flex-fuel vehicle capable of running on e85 (85% ethanol fuel), a step in the green direction. I guess The Drudge Report and its ilk just like the headline and figure nobody will dig any deeper and actually read the story. The whole thing would be a more obvious non-issue if Obama downsized to an armored Prius, but I don't think they're in production yet and it might be difficult to get his beefy security detail and press people into a fleet of tiny hybrids. Al Gore and Obama are addressing an issue that everyone should be aware and concerned about and are being targeted for doing so. It's an election year and the right-wing attack machine is just wetting its appetite on this one. The smear campaigns and personal attacks don't change the science or create more oil reserves. The, "there is no global warming" folks, are getting concerned at the traction and impact that "An Inconvenient Truth" and the global warming issue are making and are taking an old-school, attack politics, approach to the issue. Whether or not Al Gore uses a water conservation toilets in all of his oversized homes is really not the issue (politicians are usually rich guys with wives who like nice stuff). Story Partison politics is a dirty business so be prepared for more.
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