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Presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama are each touting a plan to save America from the looming energy crisis, but they're providing too many sunny outlooks and not enough tough candor, Walter Shapiro writes in Salon. "The Ten Commandments of politics now began, 'Thou shalt not talk honestly to the American people about sacrifice,'"
McCain is pushing detachment from foreign oil as key to his energy plan, but the Arizona senator talks little of the "wrenching transition" needed to free the US from Middle Eastern dependence.
http://www.newser.com/story/35165/sa...rgy-plans.html
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The first thing that leaps out at you these days at John McCain's Web site is his ballyhooed energy plan "to ensure our national security, economic prosperity and clean environment by breaking our dependence on foreign oil." But there is a word missing in both the online summary of McCain's "Lexington Plan" and his late June speech announcing it -- the word "sacrifice." For all of McCain's patriotism,
for all his boasting about "straight talk,"
there is barely a whiff in the Arizona senator's public comments that the wrenching transition away from Middle Eastern oil will inconvenience any American or require anything more arduous than voting Republican in November.
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/20.../energy_plans/
I'm back out of here. Have fun boys.




