Big Coal Launches Last Minute Smear Campaign Against Obama
by David Sassoon - Nov 3rd, 2008
It is the best way to win an auction on eBay: wait until 10 seconds before the auction is over to submit a bid. Time runs out and the item is usually yours.
The coal industry apparently thinks the Presidency is an eBay auction. It's launched an orchestrated campaign today in key coal battleground states in a last minute bid to scare voters about an Obama Presidency.
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.
You wonder how long Big Coal has been keeping its powder dry on this January interview that just happened to resurface on the eve of the election.
For more, see the Wonk Room, which has dissected Big Coal's last-minute gambit and in the process pointed out an inconvenient truth that's been ignored:
At a September 15 townhall meeting in Orlando, FL, McCain warned against building new coal plants.
The Ohio Coal Association's Mike Carey had this to say:
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.
Regardless of the timing or method of the release of these remarks....
That's a very loose and revealing paraphrase of what the Wizard of Oz once said:
Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.
Nothing like an election eve strategy -- brought to you by Big Coal -- that relies on a voting public lacking in heart, brains and courage.
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