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Obama’s oil hyopcrisy

The Obamaliar is at it again.  From the AP:

Democratic candidate Barack Obama criticized Republican John McCain on Tuesday for taking a page out of “the Cheney playbook” on energy, overlooking his own support of oil-friendly policies that the unpopular vice president helped to craft.

Vice President Dick Cheney, a former oilman, early in the Bush administration helped draft an energy policy that Obama asserted is biased in favor of tax breaks and favorable treatment for big oil. Obama’s remarks were an attempt to capitalize on Cheney’s unpopularity.

There’s just one problem:

However, Obama himself voted for a 2005 energy bill backed by Bush that included billions in subsidies for oil and natural gas production, a measure Cheney played a major role in developing. McCain opposed the bill on grounds it included billions in unnecessary tax breaks for the oil industry.

The Obama campaign has said the Illinois senator supported the legislation because it included huge investments in renewable energy.

McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds, said, “Barack Obama is opposed to offshore drilling and is also opposed to admitting that he voted for the same corporate giveaways for Big Oil that he’s campaigning against today.”

More:

A new Obama ad says Big Oil filled McCain’s campaign with $2 million in contributions and that he “wants to give them another $4 billion in tax breaks.”

That $4 billion consists mainly of potential revenue from a McCain proposal to lower corporate taxes on ALL American businesses.

The McCain campaign pointed out that the ad doesn’t mention Obama has taken some $400,000 from oil company executives.

If that ain’t the pot calling the kettle…oh, wait.  That would be racist of me to finish the cliché, wouldn’t it?

August 7, 2008 - Posted by crushliberalism | hypocrisy, Obama, oil