Alaska natural gas pipeline
Obama in the Palin fanclub less than one short month ago!
 While he was Algore envy green when Sarah Palin addressed the Republic National Convention last night, Barack Obama was in Governor Palin’s cheering squad last month.
It was only in August when presidential candidate Barack Hussein Obama was touting the Alaska natural gas pipeline!
Masters of wiping out inconvenient truths on the Internet, the Obama campaign can’t wipe out the words of the Alaska News.
“Obama included the project in the energy plan he announced this week, calling for working “with the Canadian government to finally build the Alaska natural gas pipeline, delivering clean natural gas and creating good jobs in the process.” (Alaska News, Aug. 2008). “Two of Obama’s top advisers repeated the theme in a teleconference with Alaska reporters Wednesday. They said Obama would encourage a federal partnership with Alaska to further the project and try to prevent Exxon Mobil from having a “disproportionate influence over the timetable over the construction of the pipeline.”
True to form, they were vague about exactly how the partnership would work and how Exxon’s influence might be blunted, saying that would have to be worked out with the governor.
“The federal government could play a bigger role in trying to get all parties together to get this thing moving and try to find consensus in how to get it moving,” said Obama adviser Pete Rouse, a former Alaskan.
“Rouse said Obama spoke about the gasline with Anchorage Mayor Mark Begich and former Gov. Tony Knowles. McCain, he noted, opposed the federal loan guarantees and other incentives Congress passed for the Alaska gas pipeline project in 2004.”
The Republican National Committee corrected the Obama campaign faux pas by pointing out that McCain is for increasing the nation’s supplies of energy while politics is driving Obama’s energy plan.
“Obama reversed his position on the strategic petroleum reserve, downplayed his position against offshore drilling, and inflated his position on tires,” said RNC spokesman Bill Riggs. “With an energy policy so out of touch with the America people, it’s not surprising that Obama is doing everything he can to move closer to John McCain’s “all of the above” energy solution.”
Both Obama and McCain are against oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
Palin said she’s not giving up hope that McCain will change his mind on ANWR—and that was before she moved onto the McCain-Palin presidential ticket.
Less than one month later, Obama moved out of Palin’s fanclub to become her best-hidden detractors.
Palin’s experience is outshining “The Messiah’s”, and the media who never did come up with those bikini pics, is now spotlighting Mom-to-be Bristol.
Meanwhile, even with the media and the Dems in a frenzy, some folk are already spelling Alaska’s clean natural gasoline with Canada’s government onboard: P-a-l-i-n.
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