From McCain's prepared text we see the Arizona Senator easily top Palin's lies (see "In her big speech, Palin repeats the GOP's big energy lie -- plus three other energy lies, too"):
My fellow Americans, when I'm President, we're going to embark on the most ambitious national project in decades. We are going to stop sending $700 billion a year to countries that don't like us very much.
LIE #1: McCain has no plan to reduce oil imports -- indeed, throughout his career he has explicitly rejected every plan that might reduce oil imports substantially, including fuel economy standards, biofuels, and renewables. Heck, he even rejected the plan offered by billionaire conservative oilman T. Boone Pickens to aggressively deploy clean energy and alternative fuels over the next ten years (see
The real, Luddite McCain: "The truly clean technologies don't work").
We will attack the problem on every front.
LIE #2: This is, of course, the GOP's Big Energy Lie, widely debunked (see "
The Big Energy Lie -- Blog round-up").
We will produce more energy at home. We will drill new wells offshore, and we'll drill them now.
LIE #3: No, we won't drill them
now. We might drill these new wells in 10 years, as the U.S. Energy Information Administration expert on offshore drilling explained to me (see "
The cruel offshore-drilling hoax, Part 1").
We will build more nuclear power plants. We will develop clean coal technology. We will increase the use of wind, tide, solar and natural gas.
LIE #4: McCain has fought against wind and solar and alternative energy for his entire career because he genuinely but mistakenly believes "The truly clean technologies don't work" (see "
Anti-wind McCain delivers climate remarks at foreign wind company" and "
Why McCain hates renewables but pretends he loves them.")
We will encourage the development and use of flex fuel, hybrid and electric automobiles.
SEMI-LIE: I'm gonna give this to him on a technicality. While he has traditionally opposed government programs to push fuel-efficient vehicles and alternative fuels into the marketplace (the only possible strategy the could lead to energy independence), he has announced a pointless gimmick that makes the statement technically true (see "
McCain proposes another energy gimmick, Part 1 -- pointless battery prize. Is this another $300M to ExxonMobil?").
Senator Obama thinks we can achieve energy independence without more drilling and without more nuclear power.
LIE #5: Senator Obama has made quite clear that he supports nuclear power and is open to an "all-of-the-above" compromise that includes drilling.
But Americans know better than that.
(hopefully) LIE #6: Let's all hope Americans don't buy McCain's lies.
We must use all resources and develop all technologies necessary to rescue our economy from the damage caused by rising oil prices and to restore the health of our planet.
LIE #7: This is a repetition of the Big Energy Lie. But by nature the big lie only works if you repeat it, so I'm counting it. The only energy resources McCain has ever pushed are drilling and nuclear.
It's an ambitious plan, but Americans are ambitious by nature, and we have faced greater challenges.
LIE #8:
There is nothing ambitious about McCain's plan. It doesn't even include strategies to promote the most important energy source, energy efficiency -- a source McCain doesn't even pay lip service to in his big speeches, a source he actually mocks (seem "
McCain on energy efficiency: He is Cheney's third term!" and "
Will McCain's cynical lies destroy the chance for serious energy and climate policy?")
Earlier in the speech, McCain said of Palin:
She's tackled tough problems like energy independence and corruption.
LIE #9: Palin has done nothing to help achieve energy independence because there is nothing the State of Alaska can do. As Pickens and EIA and every independent expert keeps telling us, this is one emergency we can't drill our way out of.
McCain also said:
We lost their trust when instead of freeing ourselves from a dangerous dependence on foreign oil, both parties and Senator Obama passed another corporate welfare bill for oil companies.
LIE #10: The 2005 Energy Bill was certainly imperfect, but it contained more clean energy and energy efficiency incentives than any bill in more than a decade, so of course McCain opposed it. Ironically, it also contained more nuclear energy incentives than any bill in more than a decade -- and yet McCain opposed it and keeps claiming that those who voted for that bill don't support nuclear power. Now
that is chutzpah.
Can you beat a liar if the media don't call him or her out? It is very, very tough, but it can be done. I'm gonna remain cautiously optimistic.
Maybe its because she is not qualified to speak to the press on any issues. So far I have heard nothing from her other than McCain's/Bush speech writer words, delivered with great gusto...but if you do your own investigation you will see that just about everything that comes off theire lips are lies.
It's an insult to the American people and to woman in particular. If she was middle age and not as attractive do you really think there would be this much hoopla?
Our only choice is determining who gets to do it.
The true path lies between the two extremes.
We need the military and social programs.
Without military security social programs have no meaning.
Notice the illegal alien problem isn't talked about by either party?
What happened to acid rain? Did we remove the problem.? No it was the cause of a few years then got replaced by a bigger and badder threat global warming.
Hold on if the sunspot cycle doesn't get started up again we might be entering another extreme cooling phase. Read the real news about it.
The Reagan era needs to come to a close. The alternative energy bill signed by Jimmy Carter would have put the United States in a far stronger position than it is now had Reagan not stopped it. Carter has been the republican whipping boy for decades. He wasn't a great president but he had vision on alternative energy and it should have been followed. He's one of the few politicians who actually learned something from the 1973 Oil Embargo.
This has always been my great disappoinment with Bill Clinton. He did very little in this area.
We shouldn't be following Brazil's lead.
The United States should have led on this issue. It's inexcusable that we aren't.
During his address McCain went on ad-nauseum about winning the war in Iraq.
Nothing was said of course about how Iraq did not attack us!
Why does this little detail consistantly escape these people?
I saw the body language and heard the voices of both McCain and Palin. Both told me "LIAR".
This convention caused the republicans to "run for cover", and avoid being swamped by Hurricane Gustav. If ever there were an arena full of the faithful that appeared to have dodged a bullit, it was this.
I suspect few, if any words were mentioned throughout the entire convention that addressed global warming and all those OTHER hurricanes that have been forming in the Atlantic as a direct result.
It's just like Israel, we don't talk about it.
2. Name one lie from the DNC.
The most limiting factor in getting gasoline to the pump is at the level of refining, not the actual supply of oil.
And don't fall for the lie about government refusing to allow new refineries. Big Oil adds on to the refining capacity of current refineries. That's cheaper to them than building new refineries from the ground up.
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Obama & the Dems have to start fighting back on that and not get too mad at her idiotic ideas about being a Community Organizer.
They GOP is so angry & despicably dishonest this year.
While respecting John McCain for who he is ---or at least WAS before buying into being managed by the Rove/Bush pliticians in order to get elected---I GRAVELY FEAR what can happen if he is elected. Whether the Palin choice and the hatefilled, attack posture of Wednesday night was orchestrated by power politics, poor judgement or poor vetting, or some other form of subtle or actual control,the fact is that McCain the man and former maverick seems HOSTAGE to the control of the power brokers who have nearly destroyed America over the last 8 years ----and putting him into the White House WILL NOT SOLVE their continued control over the MASSIVE WASHINGTON BUREAUCRACY which is one of the greatest barriers to change. If they can control his appointment for even the highest office (VP) by either coercion or false or distorted information, then they can control his choices for his Cabinet, Supreme Court, major Federal Agencies, and so on.