Is there anyone here that honestly believes that Obama’s energy plan is to have us all keep our tires inflated? Is there anyone here that honestly believes that keeping our tires inflated is even an [b]important[/b] part of Obama’s energy plan? This whole flap really highlights how ridiculous our political discourse has gotten, and how disingenuous talking points can be.

FFS, McCain [url=http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/08/06/mccain-i-dont-disagree-with-obama-on-inflating-tires/]agrees with Obama[/url] that keeping our tires inflated is a good idea – as does the Department of Energy’s own website and uber-liberal NASCAR, and yet the RNC gleefully passes out tire gauges. I’m positively stunned at the immaturity. It’s madness.

People always say that they want their politicians to focus on the issues, offer more than sound-bites, and engage in civil discourse, but anyone that purports to believe this and sides with the RNC this year is officially a hypocrite. The “Celebrity” ad was one thing and “The One” was another, but apart from being something you would expect from a 10-year old, the tire gauge thing is just intellectually dishonest. It is literally impossible to hear what Obama actually said and conclude that his proposal for getting off of foreign oil is to establish the Department of Tire Inflation and make sure everyone is fully aired up.

The irony, I think, is that if a person were to objectively look at the McCain energy plan and the Obama energy plan, they’re not even that far apart. Both are in favor of doing more to produce our own energy through a variety of different means including drilling for more oil, alternatives like wind and solar power, etc. – there might be difference in emphasis, but they are really pretty close, I think. There are some differences of opinion in how we finance that, but the ultimate goal is pretty much the same.

To the end of meaningful political discussion, I have to offer a rare tip of the cap for CNN, which has begun a segment each morning where they just excerpt a candidate’s speech for a few minutes so you actually get to hear what they have to say, in context, rather than just hearing a 10-15 second clip. Nice move, hope it sticks around.

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yeah, someone shuold have informed the RNC that mccain actually agreed with barak on this one, even backing barak up when john was questioned about it. stupid political groups. :roll:

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Immature is correct when I saw what the Republicans are doing with the tire gauges. Obama's response was great today when he said they Republicans are proud to be ignorant.

Btw, the whole flip flop thing the Republicans go on about is tired too. If you were wrong on an issue and you got more information or insight, then you should change your position.

The Republicans are way too negative in this election for me. Every time I turn the TV on, it's attack, out of touch or flip flop. I don't even know what they stand for at times besides tax cuts.

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i was litening to am radio yesterday, to Glen Beck to be exact, and he was talking a lot about this, to the point where he compared killing people and molesting children to keeping youre tires well inflated.

i think it was something to the likes of::

"asking everyone to keep their tires well inflated is like asking everyone to stop killing or stop molesting children, i mean the problems of the world would be solved"

sometimes its so damn funny listening to some of these dudes, limbaugh, hannity, mark lavin, savage, beck the funniest thing of all its that ive been listening to O'reily lately and hes been making a lot more sense than any of these freaks.(not that im a O'reily fan)

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i inflated my tires before i drove back to indiana today. normally the trip takes two tanks of gas. today, it only took 1.7 tanks.