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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>McCain: Bush's piggyback</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/06/18/1151595.aspx</link><description>One day after McCain proposed lifting the federal ban on off-shore oil-drilling, President Bush will call on Congress to lift the ban as well, the New York Times writes. "Even before the disclosure of Mr. Bush’s decision, the drilling issue caused a heated</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2.0 (Build: 60608.1)</generator><item><title>McCain: Bush's piggyback</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/06/18/1151595.aspx#1151607</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 13:53:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:1151607</guid><dc:creator>Obama For President!!</dc:creator><description>ha.. ha.. What is Bush trying to do.. Remain in office?&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Sorry, Guys! &amp;nbsp;It's Obama time!!!&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;** 20% JULY BLOW-OUT SALE on Barack Obama products $8.99 &amp;amp; Up ( up to 80% Off). Use this coupon at this Obama Store. &lt;br&gt;&lt;a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="http://www.MyObamaStore.com"&gt;http://www.MyObamaStore.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;Coupon - Obama20Now (20% OFF) </description></item><item><title>McCain: Bush's piggyback</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/06/18/1151595.aspx#1151612</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 13:53:47 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:1151612</guid><dc:creator>Diane from Illinois</dc:creator><description>One day after McCain proposed lifting the federal ban on off-shore oil-drilling, President Bush will call on Congress to lift the ban as well.&lt;br&gt;------------------------------------------------------&lt;br&gt;For someone who doesn't want to be tied to Bush during this campaign, they seem to STILL be working together very well, don't you think?</description></item><item><title>McCain: Bush's piggyback</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/06/18/1151595.aspx#1151619</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 13:55:01 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:1151619</guid><dc:creator>thats a fact jack</dc:creator><description>the oil industry has over 300 million acres of land where they have oil exploration and drilling rights yet they do not drill, these lands have proven oil &amp;nbsp;so why don't they drill? &amp;nbsp;easy cause if they don't drill there is less supply and they can charge YOU more and pretend it is a supply and demand issue &amp;nbsp;but the reality is bush/cheney/rove/mccant are stealing your $$$$</description></item><item><title>McCain: Bush's piggyback</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/06/18/1151595.aspx#1151621</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 13:55:07 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:1151621</guid><dc:creator>jerry/corpus christi texas</dc:creator><description>Barak Obama comes out making himself look like he is against helping poop people by attacking John McCain on offshore drilling. &amp;nbsp;Typical liberal. &amp;nbsp;Obama doesn't care if gas prices are high. &amp;nbsp;At least my party is coming up with ways to lower gas prices by drilling. &amp;nbsp;The liberals approach is to make people suffer more.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Liberalism is a disease......</description></item><item><title>McCain: Bush's piggyback</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/06/18/1151595.aspx#1151629</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 13:56:29 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:1151629</guid><dc:creator>Diane from Illinois</dc:creator><description>Regarding Cindy McCain:&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Guess we can add &amp;quot;liar&amp;quot; to her list of talents she would bring as First Lady. The others include adultress and pill popper drug addict. Attributes ANY little girl would want to emulate. Oh well, at least she's proud of her country.</description></item><item><title>McCain: Bush's piggyback</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/06/18/1151595.aspx#1151633</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 13:57:35 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:1151633</guid><dc:creator>Rob, Denver</dc:creator><description>...and another flip-flop by McCain. &amp;nbsp;Is it possibly to pander every single constituency? &amp;nbsp;According to the McCain camp, yes.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I found this morning's RCP homepage quite refreshing:&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Quinnipiac State Polls&lt;br&gt;Ohio: Obama 48, McCain 42&lt;br&gt;Pennsylvania: Obama 52, McCain 40&lt;br&gt;Florida: Obama 47, McCain 43&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I know Quinnipiac is just one of many pollsters, but this is certainly ominous for Old Man McCain.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Obama 08&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;</description></item><item><title>McCain: Bush's piggyback</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/06/18/1151595.aspx#1151641</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 13:59:11 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:1151641</guid><dc:creator>Auntie Fascist</dc:creator><description>Yeah! &amp;nbsp;All things are possible to he who marries a beer heiress!!</description></item><item><title>McCain: Bush's piggyback</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/06/18/1151595.aspx#1151648</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 13:59:55 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:1151648</guid><dc:creator>Midwest Mom, Illiana</dc:creator><description>Both Cindy and John are so wrong for America. &amp;nbsp;Talk about being out of touch and condescending.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="http://ilfamilypolitics.blogspot.com"&gt;http://ilfamilypolitics.blogspot.com&lt;/a&gt;</description></item><item><title>McCain: Bush's piggyback</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/06/18/1151595.aspx#1151674</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 14:04:02 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:1151674</guid><dc:creator>The Truth</dc:creator><description>Yesterday US Senator Bill Nelson explained the reason for 4.00/gal gas. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;“Speculators”.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;</description></item><item><title>McCain: Bush's piggyback</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/06/18/1151595.aspx#1151677</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 14:04:25 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:1151677</guid><dc:creator>Pete - Albany, NY</dc:creator><description>&amp;quot;By the way, I think the president might deserve a little credit for the fact that there's not been another attack on the United States of America since 9/11.&amp;quot;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;-------------------------------------------------&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Post hoc, ergo propter hoc.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;You should know better than to argue with this kind of reasoning, McCain!</description></item><item><title>McCain: Bush's piggyback</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/06/18/1151595.aspx#1151687</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 14:06:19 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:1151687</guid><dc:creator>Facts matter!</dc:creator><description>jerry/corpus christi,texas: &amp;nbsp;Do you ever bother to get the facts? &amp;nbsp;You do know the oil companies already have millions of acres they are choosing not to drill on just to keep prices high? &amp;nbsp;If you do see any savings on gas (which is unlikely) it won't be for at least 5 years and probably closer to 10. &amp;nbsp;Still sound like the answer???</description></item><item><title>McCain: Bush's piggyback</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/06/18/1151595.aspx#1151708</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 14:11:07 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:1151708</guid><dc:creator>Barack My World!</dc:creator><description>&amp;quot;By the way, I think the president might deserve a little credit for the fact that there's not been another attack on the United States of America since 9/11.&amp;quot;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;This statement always bothers me because...HELLO! We were attacked under his watch! And we had warnings and reports, several of them, saying this would happen!!!&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;So we need to congratulate him on the fact that it only happened once???</description></item><item><title>McCain: Bush's piggyback</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/06/18/1151595.aspx#1151722</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 14:13:41 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:1151722</guid><dc:creator>Andrea, New York City</dc:creator><description>McPain is looking more and more like BUSH THE OLDER in his views. And the FLIP FLOP is getting more pronounced. When is the rest of the country going to get the clue?&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;McPain is one scary dude! </description></item><item><title>McCain: Bush's piggyback</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/06/18/1151595.aspx#1151727</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 14:14:26 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:1151727</guid><dc:creator>Clara Kansas City, MO</dc:creator><description>Here’s a quote from McCain at another fundraiser in swanky River Oaks, a ritzy section of Houston: &amp;quot;Thank you for welcoming us in the modest middle-income tract home,&amp;quot; McCain said sarcastically. &amp;quot;Thank you Tilman, you know these public housing projects are quite much more successful, section eight, than a lot of us give them credit for. And you know one of the differences between me and Senator Obama – Senator Obama wants every American to have a home. I want every American to have a home like this one.&amp;quot;&lt;br&gt;McCain is a complete insensitive nutcase. &amp;nbsp;I mean seriously? &amp;nbsp;This sounds extremely mocking to me. &amp;nbsp;Like if you don’t have this, you aren’t working hard enough. &amp;nbsp;He will achieve the housing dream of his by labeling the poor Un American, and then only Americans will have fancy houses. &amp;nbsp;Out of touch? &amp;nbsp;You bet,…He is a bush hugger, and the off shore drilling is just the surface.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Any woman (or true blue dem) thinking about voting for him has bigger issues than can be addressed here. &amp;nbsp;He's either a complete moron or his geriatric moments are an endangerment to the country. &amp;nbsp;Either option is not a Commander in Chief material. &amp;nbsp;This administration and the McSame continuation is completely priceless. &amp;nbsp;CHANGE, a diabolical concept.</description></item><item><title>McCain: Bush's piggyback</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/06/18/1151595.aspx#1151766</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 14:20:46 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:1151766</guid><dc:creator>RENEA,PLYMOUTH,MI</dc:creator><description>BIG OIL CHARGES THE SAME PRICE FOR DOMESTIC OIL AS WE PAY FOR IMPORTED OIL.HOW WOULD DRILLING BRING DOWN THE PRICE AT THE GAS PUMP? BIG OIL HAS NEVER PASSED ON ANYTHING TO THE AMERICAN TAX PAYER!PLUS THEY DID SUCH A GOOD JOB TAKING CARE OF THE OIL SPILL IN ALASKA.</description></item><item><title>McCain: Bush's piggyback</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/06/18/1151595.aspx#1151804</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 14:25:20 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:1151804</guid><dc:creator>Tired of hypocrites.</dc:creator><description>How can the GOP straight laced conservatives embarce the McCain's who obviously feel adultery is OK? &amp;nbsp;Man, if the Obama's had cheated on their spouses can you imagine Bukkkanen and company???</description></item><item><title>McCain: Bush's piggyback</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/06/18/1151595.aspx#1151827</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 14:30:10 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:1151827</guid><dc:creator>GOP: Gullible Old People</dc:creator><description>Ha Ha! &amp;nbsp;What a funny joke about rich people living in public housing projects and section eight housing. &amp;nbsp;Oh, that McCain, he's such a funny, funny guy. &amp;nbsp;He really cracks me up. &amp;nbsp;Ha, Ha, Ha!</description></item><item><title>McCain: Bush's piggyback</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/06/18/1151595.aspx#1151855</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 14:37:44 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:1151855</guid><dc:creator>donna</dc:creator><description>I will not attack Cindy for her recipe faux pas.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I will take issue with her statement that, &amp;quot;I have always been proud of my country&amp;quot;, in an attempt to score political points for her husband, and embarrass the Obamas. (I admit Michelle made a gaffe. She put voice to what the majority of American's think, or have thought at times).&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;If your level of pride in your country has always been such, Mrs. McCain, why did you develope an addiction for, and steal opiates? Why was it that your POW war hero husband, your millions, your children, your charity work, and your pride did not make you peaceful, and happy?&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The repubs, and their patriotic rhetoric is hypocritical, as they complain plenty too, when the dems have the reigns of the country, and lead in a direction they have no will, nor desire to follow.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Unlike Michelle, they go far beyond and honest dialogue, however, and stock pile weapons, and join militias, with the intention of overthrowing the government. They become domestic terrorists.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I don't hate Cindy McCain. I hate that she would let herself be used by her abusive, mean spirited husbans, and the hateful, angry repub party.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Who are the repubs to rebuke Michelle for being angry?&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;</description></item><item><title>McCain: Bush's piggyback</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/06/18/1151595.aspx#1151913</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 14:48:56 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:1151913</guid><dc:creator>Jon</dc:creator><description>Amazing that the Bushies will sacrifice anything before they ask *anything* of Big Oil. &amp;nbsp;These Bushies, despite the tough-guy exterior have no sack when it comes to dealing with their big biz friends - we need to work Big Oil over with lead pipes.</description></item><item><title>McCain: Bush's piggyback</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/06/18/1151595.aspx#1151942</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 14:54:30 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:1151942</guid><dc:creator>Pacheck, Huntington Beach, Ca.</dc:creator><description>Since WWII our economy is centered around the production ans sales of war material. Currently, our war budget is larger than all the rest of the worlds combined. We have been and are capable of attacking just about any country, for any reason. Business is allowed (no encouraged) to bribe our law makers into deregulating all common sense protection laws. We participate in no international treaties that impact big business. The campaign for president includes, a person who wants to keep this system the same and one who knows that this form of government has to CHANGE.&lt;br&gt;Where are you. You are the one who has to pay. </description></item><item><title>McCain: Bush's piggyback</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/06/18/1151595.aspx#1151981</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 15:04:36 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:1151981</guid><dc:creator>Tired Dem OKC.</dc:creator><description>Well said Donna!!!!&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I would apply the same to Hillary Clinton who obviously hasn't found her &amp;quot;happy place&amp;quot; either.</description></item></channel></rss>