the fact that mine workers are unionized will help to limit the fallout from this coal spat: the UMW has Obama's back and they will keep their workers informed. Incidentally, I'm a bit ambivalent that we have to kneel before the altar of Big Coal to win this election, but I guess you have to make choices in elections.
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Miners_union_McCain_camp_twisting_truth_1103.htmlThe union representing coal miners came to Obama's defense Monday.
"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," said Cecil E. Roberts, president of the United Mine Workers of America, in a statement released Monday afternoon.
Roberts noted that McCain and the Republicans ignored Obama's overall point during his interview.
The Democratic candidate told the Chronicle, "This notion of no coal, I think, is an illusion," noting the amount of energy the US dervies from coal. Obama pushed for development of technology to sequester carbon emissions, the central tenant of so called "clean" coal.
"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," Roberts said.
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