Coal industry comment needs to be put in context
November 3rd, 2008 at 01:07pm Chuck Sweeny
The irony about the “bankrupt coal industry” charge being made today by Sarah Palin is that the San Francisco Chronicle interview the charge is based on is more than a year old and has been available on its Web site for the whole time. If anyone bothers to listen to it, Obama is talking about how the coal industry will have to be responsibile for cleaning up its emissions, otherwise it will go bankrupt. In context, the interview sounds reasonable, and it reflects the way Obama talks about issues in a wide-ranging, intelligent way. The problem with that, is that isolated sentences and fragments can be easily taken out of context. Saying Obama wants to bankrupt the coal industry in Ohio on the last day of the campaign will be damaging to Obama, and it’s a state he needs to win.
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1. Penelope Garbe | November 3rd, 2008 at 3:35 pm
Once again, you prove you are either naive or ignorant on this issue. Bankrupting the coal industry is exactly what Obama meant b/c the government would put so many restrictions into producing coal energy, that it would be prohibitively expensive to even try & go into that form of energy industry.
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