What do you think about the McCain/Palin ticket on the environment? McCain just chose Sarah Palin to be his VP.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080829/ap_o...

She%26#039;s only been Alaska%26#039;s governor for less than 2 years, so there%26#039;s not a lot of info on her environmental positions. However, she has supported drilling heavily, including opening ANWR.

http://www.ontheissues.org/Governor/Sara...

McCain has a rather poor environmental record. He received a zero score from the League of Conservation Voters (LCV) for his congressional voting record on environmental issues in 2007.

It wasn’t that McCain voted against environmental protections in the 15 key votes that the LCV used to compile its annual congressional scorecard; he just didn’t bother to show up at all.

%26quot;Out of 535 Members of Congress, John McCain is the only one who chose to miss every single key environmental vote scored by the League of Conservation Voters last year. When it came time to stand up and vote for the environment, John McCain was nowhere to be found,”

http://environment.about.com/od/environm...

McCain also doesn%26#039;t support renewable energy, and favors increased offshore drilling and nuclear as the solution to our energy problems. Here is an interview with McCain about energy and the environment:

http://www.grist.org/feature/2007/10/01/...

So what do you think about this ticket with regards to environmental issues?

Also feel free to chime in with any other opinions about the ticket. For example, what do you think about the fact that McCain has criticized Obama for being too inexperienced, then chose a VP with even less experience than Obama? I found that rather odd.

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6 days ago

Oh and coincidentally apparently Palin%26#039;s husband works for oil company BP.

6 days ago

To be fair, Palin successfully taxed oil company profits in Alaska.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080829/ap_o...

6 days ago

Tomcat - would you care to defend that obviously false statement?

6 days ago

Palin does indeed favor ANWR drilling (heavy supporter of it). McCain does not (although he%26#039;s open to changing his mind).

In short, Palin is a bigger supporter of increased oil drilling than even McCain.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/200...

5 days ago

Palin also opposes the Bush administration%26#039;s decision to list polar bears as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080829/ap_o...

5 days ago

bob326 - in your link he says very little about renewables, and his voting record and comments have shown no support for renewable energy whatsoever.

5 days ago

bob326 - I don%26#039;t consider a minimal amount of lip service to be support. I%26#039;m talking about actions, not empty rhetoric (and not even much of that).


The President only proposes a budget-- CONGRESS funds the budget usually after hundreds of amendments and pet projects and other pork are added to the spending Bill.

As for Palin, interesting choice. With Obama running, McCain had to choose someone who wasn%26#039;t your typical politician, and he has done that. With Palin, the McCain campaign has to overcome some obstacles--like her lack of experience. Either she will be huge for McCain, or they%26#039;ll burn.

Kind of funny--Obama, who has little experience, chooses Biden, who has a lot of experience. McCain, with a lot of experience, does the opposite.

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%26quot;bob326 - in your link he says very little about renewables, and his voting record and comments have shown no support for renewable energy whatsoever.%26quot;

I know. He doesn%26#039;t say much about renewables. However, what little it does say clearly shows your statement of %26quot;McCain also doesn%26#039;t support renewable energy%26quot; to be false.

Heck..it%26#039;s obvious. McCain should be the man down there. It%26#039;s high time somebody took the bull by the horns and did the right thing, opening new drill sites, opposing eviro-nazis who want polar bears put on endangered lists (a sickeningly political gesture only) and oppose fossil fuel use. It all makes good sense, how long do you wish to be under the control of the oil-rich Middle Eastern countries? If you have the resources, use them. Drilling can be done with extreme safety, without disrupting the surrounding ecosystems. We have the same thing in Canada, actually. The lefties want to limit oil production, ban just about everything, then raise taxes to fund their weird alternate agendas.

Does McCain actually oppose renewable energy, has he said this? Or does he just not support spending public money on certain renewables?

Choosing her for a running mate was a brilliant political move, which should neutralize Obama%26#039;s equally brilliant choice. Obama has been criticized by McCain and the GOP for being inexperienced, so he brought a very experienced legislator on board. McCain has been criticized for being too old, and being out of touch. Bringing aboard Palin should ease that criticism. She should draw some of the female vote away from Obama, particularly disenchanted Clinton supporters.

I don%26#039;t think her environmental record is very clear considering her short stint as governor. She did create a sub-committee on climate change last year, and taxed oil companies as you pointed out.

She went after a prominent member of the Alaska GOP for ethics violations which shows that she isn%26#039;t one of the %26quot;Good ole boys%26quot;.

Politics aside - it is a good day for diversity. We will either have an African-American President or a female Vice-President. I believe this election will finally break down the barriers that minorities have faced in achieving America%26#039;s highest office. I think that is a good thing for all of us.

She has more experience than Obama.


EDIT Ken and Dana:

I%26#039;ll choose a governor of a state with only 2 years experience over a two year US senator that spent most of his term campaigning, any day of the week, so no it is not a blatantly false statement, Obama may as well be the guy with the strange out of town name who moved down the street from you, and your ready to hand it all over to him.
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  The last thing we need is another Vice President who%26#039;s in the pocket of an oil company. We%26#039;ve had enough of that in the past eight years and look where it%26#039;s gotten us. I was already planning to vote for Obama and now I%26#039;m even more certain.