breitbart.com - 11/3/2008
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COLUMBUS, Ohio, Nov. 3 /PRNewswire--USNewswire/ -- Mike Carey, president of the Ohio Coal Association (OCA), today issued the following statement in response to just-released remarks from Senator Barack Obama about the nation's coal industry. "Regardless of the timing or method of the release ...
blogs.wsj.com - 11/2/2008
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blogs.wsj.com —
Nick Timiraos reports from Marietta, Ohio, on the
presidential race. Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin unleashed a
new volley against Barack Obama on a four-city tour of Ohio on Sunday by touting newly released audio ...
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Palin Attacks Obama on Coal Production
politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com - 11/3/2008
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politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com —
MARIETTA, Ohio (CNN) – Campaigning in coal country
just two days before the presidential election, Sarah Palin
is highlighting an interview Barack Obama gave to the San Francisco Chronicle in January in which the Democrat suggested coal plants ...
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Palin knocks Obama over months-old coal comments
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October November Surprise?
Babalú Blog: an island on the net without a bearded dictator —
... A small detail he neglected to tell the voters in coal producing states such as Ohio, Virginia, West Virginia, Indiana, and Pennsylvania during his many campaign stops there. It remains to be seen if this newest revelation will have any ill effects on Obama's hopes for a win tomorrow, but considering the fact that coal is an immensely important industry in these battleground states, this just may be the October Surprise that came in November. Read more about this HERE , and HERE . Posted by Alberto de la Cruz at November 3, 2008 12:10 PM Comments Post a comment
Ohio reacts to Obama "bankrupt" coal industry
USS Neverdock —
People are just now waking up to the real Obama. Let's hope it's not too late, but, we told you so. ""Regardless of the timing or method of the release of these remarks, the message from the Democratic candidate for President could not be clearer: the Obama-Biden ticket spells disaster for America's coal industry and the tens of thousands of Americans who work in it. "These undisputed, audio-taped remarks, which include comments from Senator Obama like 'I haven't been some coal booster' and 'if they want to ...
Coal, Mining Groups Blast Obama
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Coal, Mining Groups Blast Obama National and state coal groups are blasting Barack Obama today over a recently publicized audio tape of Barack Obama talking coal with the San Franciso Chronicle in January. The National Mining Association, the West Virginia Coal Association, the Ohio Coal Association, and the Kentucky Coal Association have all criticized the Democratic candidate over a controversial remark about coal power plants, made in a January interview with the San Francisco Chronicle , in which Obama suggests building coal power plants would "bankrupt" energy corporations and investors. In the tape, Obama outlines his cap-and-trade energy plan, ...
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American Thinker —
Federal and state governments use taxpayer-funded subsidies, grants, accelerated depreciation, and ratepayer subsidies to enable economically unviable wind energy businesses to compete with highly efficient electricity producers. The proposed cap-and-trade legislation would pile even more taxes and higher rates on the efficient competitors. Mr. Obama indicated that he wants to use those predatory pricing actions, along with costly regulations and taxes targeted at the coal industry to put it out of business ...
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Obama, McCain fire final shots of campaign —
Reuters: Politics 11/3/2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain took their final shots at each other and barnstormed battleground states on Monday to wrap up a U.S. presidential campaign in which Obama was leading but McCain hoped to pull off ...