McSame gets called out on his flip-flopping (offshore drilling)

[babylonsister]

Off-shore drilling on the California coast
Posted June 24, 2008 10:22 AM
The Swamp

by Jill Zuckman


During a fundraiser in Santa Barbara last night, Sen. John McCain came face to face with the downside of his new call for off-shore drilling. People who live on the coast, don't want it.

"Santa Barbara has among other things a great natural beauty -- one of our great natural beauties lies before you out there to the South," Dan Secord told McCain, gesturing toward the ocean. "We're really kind of goosey here about oil spills, and we're goosey here about federal drilling and oil lands, which are abundant offshore.

"So we ask you to look out there to the south and the southeast and remember the greatest environmental catastrophe that's hit this state and then balance that with the notion of winning California," continued Secord, a member of the California Coastal Commission.

"This gathering is adjourned," McCain joked in reply.

McCain said he knows that California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger disagrees with him when it comes to off-shore drilling, but that Florida Governor Charlie Crist agrees. And he stressed that he believes in the rights of states to decide the issue for themselves. McCain also noted that in Louisiana and Texas, where drilling is allowed off the coast, two massive hurricanes have had little effect on the rigs.

more...

http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2008/06/offshore_drilling_on_the_calif.html

Related article on Santa Barbara spill:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=3504221&mesg_id=3504221

[kentuck]

1. He stresses his belief that states have the right to decide...?

As if that somehow mitigates his support for drilling off the coasts? He is still for it no matter what rights the states have, unless he is trying to win political points?

[babylonsister]

2. Of course he's trying to win points. He's the say/do- anything-to-get-elected

candidate. He wants to please everyone, but it seems he's inspiring the opposite reaction. Not to mention that the statement in the OP provides yet another flip-flop from him. I found it funny that he mentions Crist; so, if Crist told McSame to jump off a bridge, would he? Crist is parroting McSame...or is he? :crazy:

[wileedog]

4. Except for Alaska, which doesn't get to decide

as McCain continually votes no on ANWR.

He doesn't have a position on anything, just makes shit up depending on who he is talking to. I have never seen a worse candidate in my life.

[rwork]

3. Did'nt they lose over

130 rigs during Katrina?

[babylonsister]

5. Not that I know of: BP says theirs were all in tact:

http://www.forbes.com/home/feeds/afx/2005/08/30/afx2196030.html

Here's the google link, but that's a huge overestimate from what I'm seeing:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=oil+rigs+%2B+Katrina&btnG=Google+Search