John McCain says Obama’s word cannot be trusted. Yes, we saw Barack Obama adjust his campaign finance decision for this campaign, but he remains in favor of a functioning public financing system, and opted out to combat the massive fundraising of the Republican party and the independent smear organizations. Together these groups basically circumvent the restrictions.
We need to look only at one example to see whose word we can trust, who is ready to lead. Senator Obama goes to Detroit automobile plants and promotes the absolute need for higher fuel standards. (This is not some “tree-hugger” quest; It’s a change we need for our environment, our safety, and our future.) McCain went to Houston and flip-flopped hard on offshore drilling and told oil executives that it would be in our best interest (read: oil executives’ wallets) to start drilling in new areas near our coastal states.
Instead of destroying the economy by eliminating the market for tourism, and literally killing our planet with massive oil drills, let’s restore funding to the American science community. According to the the American Physical Society:
“The appropriated funds do not allow the Department of Energy to address several critical needs which, if left unresolved much longer, will place our nation’s innovation and competitiveness at great risk.”
From the most practical and even political aspect, at a time where fuel prices are always on the rise and one of the top issues in the 2008 presidential election, we are failing to fund energy research with the potential to develop viable alternatives, end our addition to foreign oil (often found in enemy nations), and preserve our security. (Release)
John McCain finds offshore drilling to be a convenient sound bite, designed to fool Americans into thinking help is on the way. But it’s nothing of the sort; any “help” is years away, and the new development will have no effect on speculation for the future (which supposedly would lower prices now) when OPEC still reins supreme in the market for oil. These words are only what we want to hear. These words we cannot trust.
