John McCain

Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund endorses Obama-Biden ticket

Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund today joined the growing list of environmental groups endorsing Barack Obama for president, citing John McCain’s pick of Sarah Palin as his running mate as a major reason they will not endorse the GOP ticket. “John McCain’s choice of Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate confirmed that the only […]

McCain’s running mate has offered mixed message on climate change

Sarah Palin, in her Sept. 11, 2008, interview with ABC News: “Show me where I have ever said that there’s absolute proof that nothing that man has ever conducted or engaged in has had any effect, or no effect, on climate change.” Palin, in a Newsmax interview last month: “A changing environment will affect Alaska […]

SpeechWars

Via Treehugger, SpeechWars is indeed addictive. Enter any word and you can see how many times Obama and McCain have used it in their speeches over the last four years: The results are not always intuitive. Then again, some are:

Obama thinks the American people don’t want diversions and manipulations … but why?

Obama responds to the trumped-up “lipstick on a pig” controversy, whereby the media dutifully reported the McCain campaign’s hilarious assertion that Obama was calling Palin a pig: [vodpod id=ExternalVideo.1011972&w=425&h=350&fv=launch%3D26640762%26width%3D400%26height%3D320] Yes, the McCain campaign would love to have this kind of thing continue right through November. Obama thinks the American people would rather discuss solutions to […]

New Scientist assesses McCain and Obama on science issues

The latest issue of New Scientist features a special report on the 2008 election, exploring the “most pressing science issues facing John McCain and Barack Obama in the run up to the November ballot.” The key issue? According to the experts interviewed for the piece, it’s simply having someone in the White House who is […]

Resentment in partisan politics

Reacting to this post, Reihan Salam (who majors in good blogging and minors in even better dancing) says there is enough fear, resentment, and moral arrogance to go around. He says arguing over who’s the bitterest of all is "unedifying." Your honor, I object! I wrote said post mere hours after Romney assaulted my logic […]

Turns out McCain doesn’t care about the greatest threat we face

All you need to know about McCain’s core beliefs on climate change: The 72-year-old McCain named a global-warming-denying, Big Oil Super-Shill as his vice presidential nominee. His much anticipated acceptance speech never once mentioned the gravest threat facing the health and well-being of the nation and the world. After walking away from a mandatory cap-and-trade […]

McCain’s VP pick has a mixed record on supporting renewables in home state

McCain VP pick Sarah Palin has a record of being both a friend and foe of Big Oil in her home state of Alaska. But she’s also made a point of voicing support for renewable and “clean” energy sources. Flashback one week to Palin’s big convention speech in St. Paul: “Starting in January, in a […]

It’s time to break the American addiction to oil

This post is by ClimateProgress guest blogger Bill Becker, executive director of the Presidential Climate Action Project. —– When George Bush declared that the United States is addicted to oil, it may have been the most insightful moment of his presidency. It is a cruel but apt analogy, and that’s why the big push for […]