16 June 2010

What if McCain were president?

According to a recent AP poll, 52 percent of Americans disapprove of President Obama's handling of the BP oil spill. Time will tell if his speech last night will make a difference.

As I watch it all, I shudder as I imagine what it would be like if John McCain had won the election in 2008.

At least President Obama has put a freeze on offshore drilling (albeit temporary) and is encouraging the development of clean and renewable energy resources.

I cannot imagine that a McCain-Palin administration would be handling it as intelligently. After all, the theme of their 2008 Republican National Convention ended up as "Drill, baby, drill!"

And Palin continues to call for more drilling, even going so far as blaming the oil spill on environmentalists. (Yes, really!)

Obama uses a logical approach. Those on the right use emotion. And the tea partiers -- especially those who live near the Coast -- should calm down long enough to ask themselves, honestly, which is really more effective when disaster strikes.

After all, livelihoods are on the line. As is the planet itself.

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