Debunking McCamp's Coal Slander against Obama

McCain campaignâ??s last minute distortion of Obamaâ??s coal record an act of desperation
date: November 3, 2008


United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) International President Cecil E. Roberts issued the following statement today:

â??Sen. John McCain and his running mate, Gov. Sarah Palin, have once again demonstrated that they are willing to say anything and do anything to win this election. Their latest twisting of the truth is about coal and some comments Sen. Obama made last January about the future use of coal in America.

â??Here is what the McCain campaign left out of Sen. Obamaâ??s actual words: â??But this notion of no coal, I think, is an illusion. Because the fact of the matter is, is that right now we are getting a lot of our energy from coal. And China is building a coal-powered plant once a week. So what we have to do then is figure out how can we use coal without emitting greenhouse gases and carbon. And how can we sequester that carbon and capture it.â??

â??Sen. Obama has been consistent with that message not just in the coalfields, but everywhere else he goes as well. Despite what the McCain campaign and some far right-wing blogs would have Americans believe, Sen. Obama has been and remains a tremendous supporter of coal and the future of coal.

â??I noted that Sen. McCain even went so far yesterday as to say he has always been a supporter of coal. I wonder, then, how he can justify his statement at a Senate hearing in 2000 that, â??In a perfect world we would like to transition away from coal entirely,â?? and his leading role in sponsoring legislation in 2003 that would have wiped out 78 percent of all coal production in America?

â??Fortunately, UMWA members, their families and their friends and neighbors in the coalfields know all too well what is going on here. Theyâ??re not going to fall for it, and we urge others throughout America who care about coal to review what the candidatesâ?? records on coal actually are. We are confident that once they do, and once they see the many other benefits to working families of voting for Sen. Obama, they will make the right choice for themselves and their families

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Nothing says it better than you-tube.

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwCksX9wrOA[/YOUTUBE]

Have a good one!:s4:

Obama has no clue about Coal. How can he be supporting so called clean coal when it is just as dangerous as regular coal? He lost me on that one issue.

As for McCain I am impressed that he wanted to do away with Coal. I wonder if he would be willing to make that claim today?

Don't forget about the write-in spot on your ballots!!