McCain To Visit Oil Platform Owned By Chevron; McCain’s National Finance Co-Chairman Lobbies For Chevron
McCain To Visit Oil Platform Owned By Chevron; McCain’s National Finance Co-Chairman Lobbies For Chevron
Today, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) is touring an oil rig off the coast of Louisiana in order “to highlight his support for increased domestic offshore drilling.” Although he will not join McCain today, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) promoted McCain’s oil rig visit in an appearance on Fox and Friends this morning.
Making sure to note that the drilling platform McCain will visit is owned and run by Chevron, Jindal oddly suggested that the photo-op will “emphasize that drilling alone is not enough” to address America’s energy needs. Watch it:
It should come as no surprise that the McCain chose to visit a Chevron-owned drilling platform, considering that lobbyists for Chevron both fundraise and work for his campaign:
Wayne Berman: Berman, the managing director of lobbying firm Ogilvy Government Relations, is McCain’s national finance co-chairman and has bundled over $500,000 dollars for his campaign. Berman has lobbied for Chevron since 2004.
John Green: Green, who also works for Ogilvy, has been the McCain campaign’s chief Congressional liaison since March. Green has lobbied for Chevron since 2005.
Richard Hohlt: Hohlt, who is the leader of a group of Washington, DC insiders called the “Off the Record Club” that includes top McCain strategist Charlie Black, is a fundraiser for the McCain campaign. Holht has lobbied for Chevron since 2005.
In June, McCain went before oil executives in Texas to reverse his position on offshore drilling and lay out a set of policy proposals that add up to a big fat kiss to Big Oil. Since then, the oil industry has flooded McCain with money and McCain has begun promoting the advice of “the oil executives.”
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Well, now - isn't that just ...cozy??
August 19th, 2008 at 11:13 amWhen you're in the pocket of Big Oil, you have to go out and admire their derrick....
*ahem*
August 19th, 2008 at 11:16 amMcCain: Bought and Paid for
August 19th, 2008 at 11:17 amMaking sure to note that the drilling platform McCain will visit is owned and run by Chevron, Jindal oddly suggested that the photo-op will “emphasize that drilling alone is not enough” to address America’s energy needs.
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So lemme get this straight -- McCain is posing on a drilling platform to point out how INADEQUATE it is??? Why bother?
Oh. Right. Free advertising for his masters.
August 19th, 2008 at 11:17 amWait a minute.
I clearly heard McIIIrd state that he had no ties to lobbyists on his campaign.
Something must be amiss.
August 19th, 2008 at 11:19 amThere was a point in time not too long ago when pushing an agenda that you or your surrogates have accepted money for was shunned (by the very same POS who has now embraced the practice). Once money exchanged hands you had no credibility. It's deeply sad to see what has happened in our Country when a contender for the position of POTUS is paid for and owned by corporate and foreign interests. And he still is considered a maverick?
August 19th, 2008 at 11:19 amWhere are my posts?
August 19th, 2008 at 11:19 amMcCain is looking after the interests of Oil Corporations, people be damned.
August 19th, 2008 at 11:20 amHello? When will a country with only 3% of the world's oil supply ever be able to drill enough to get the 25% that we actually use? Jesus Christ. These folks aught to be drilling in tehir own brains. Lobotomies would improve their intellectual capacity...
August 19th, 2008 at 11:20 amSimply put, John McCain was never as noble as mottoed nor as pure as wished.
August 19th, 2008 at 11:20 amMcCain wants the money and he wants the power...he has no other agenda except the fetus which is suspect of just being a ploy to get votes.
August 19th, 2008 at 11:24 amwhen oil OWNS you, you have to make appearances...
August 19th, 2008 at 11:26 amMcCain's co-finance chair? A Chevron lobbyist?
No one could have predicted! No one!
August 19th, 2008 at 11:27 amWill he be sporting a life vest and be accompanied by a coast guard cutter and two or three helicopters?
August 19th, 2008 at 11:27 amMcIIIrd? Another great nick!
August 19th, 2008 at 11:28 amThanks Daddy-O, I coined it to represent not only his priveleged upbringing, but the heralding of BushitCo v3.0
August 19th, 2008 at 11:30 ammccain cannot get the leaders of the corpocracy to support a stolen election in 2008 if he does not pander to them now.
Besides, the MSM will continue to "catapult the propaganda" and the vast majority of Americans will never know about this shady-looking deal.
Not trying to be cynical - just commenting on the criminality that is largely unchecked right now.
The media no longer serves as a "check" on corruption - perhaps it never really did.
August 19th, 2008 at 11:30 amWill he be wearing his Budweiser water wingies in case the wind blows him off the platform ?
August 19th, 2008 at 11:30 amMcCain falsely accused Obama of using the race card but he continually uses the POW card, the maverick card and now the surge to avoid answering any of the real questions that might disclose his true character if he had to answer them.
August 19th, 2008 at 11:30 amMcCain proves again he can be bought and sold. Originally against offshore drilling, he's now in the pockets of big oil. What was your price McCain?
http://progressiveworldreview.com
August 19th, 2008 at 11:34 amElecting McCain is nothing but electing Bush, and then some.
August 19th, 2008 at 11:35 amdon't anyone tell GRAMPY this.....but......
Americans HATE oil companies.....and when he goes there and stands on their platforms? well.....we all know what happened last time we voted in an oil man.
August 19th, 2008 at 11:37 amWell, after all, those drilling platforms are wonderful phallic symbols and heaven knows that McNumbNuts needs to associate himself with images of virility.
Dole had his Viagra; McNumbNuts has his oil derricks.
August 19th, 2008 at 11:38 amJust don't allow Johnny McCrappedmypants to pilot the plane out to that oil rig! Oh, what the hell am I saying? By all means give that maverick the keys, a flight suit and a cod piece! Now that I think about it I hope he brings along Droopy Dawg and the Boehner with him! He'll probably have the Shrub's "Mission Accomplished" banner streaming from the back of the plane as he crosses the Gulf of Mexico while they all join in a rousing chorus of "Let the Eagle Soar"!
August 19th, 2008 at 11:38 amThis campaign was, and always will be, a slow-motion train wreck. The really pathetic thing is how the MSM is, was and probably will contiune giving him a pass on his unbelievable insanity! Hopefully enough Americans will stand up and end this lunacy on November 4th, hopefully!
August 19th, 2008 at 11:42 amImpeach Pelosi, Cheney and Bush and Save the Constitution!
The Admiral's son is definitely collaborating with Big Oil. He'll say or do anything they want him to.
August 19th, 2008 at 11:42 amA little OT:
Did anyone else wonder why, when Rick Warren asked McSame to name the three people on whom he'd rely for wise counsel, one of the names was Georgia Democrat John Lewis?
Yeah, John Lewis wonders that, too.
August 19th, 2008 at 11:46 amPruis will soon be introducing a car with solar panels.
They will make money from this, while they will be helping people and the environment. It is possible to do both.
Coal, oil and nuclear energy are all non-renewable and dirty energies. What do the cons have against safe, clean and renewable energies?
August 19th, 2008 at 11:47 amLet's hope the '08 election isn't as rigged as this platform.
The Bakken Formation in Western ND & Eastern Montana has 2-4 Billion barrels of oil.
Not ONE big oil player is there. Not ONE.
They don't want to, because the profit margin isn't as high as it is with 'sweet crude'.
There you have it...
Supply is less important than profit margin.
Ethics are less important than profit margin.
America is less important than profit margin.
Our Planet is less important than profit margin.
Corporate greed will be the death of Earth this century.
August 19th, 2008 at 11:49 amSen.McCain could of saved himself a trip if he had read this article in Daily Kos 3 weeks ago!
August 19th, 2008 at 11:52 amhttp://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/7/31/153634/127/223/560162
especially the last two pages!
Would someone drill McIIIrd's campaign staff and see if they can find a glimmer of intellect?
August 19th, 2008 at 11:52 amAlthough recent polls show that Americans have been duped into wanting to drill for oil, they still resent the hell out of the obscene profits BIG OIL is pocketing.
Just wonderin what the hell is wrong with Bobby Jindal's eyes?
That pix makes him look like a hungover drug fiend.
August 19th, 2008 at 11:54 amBoth the Capital and the White House kept Chevron's Burmese natural gas tap open. So what if it provides $ millions to the brutal military junta.
Chevron = Human Energy (the head cracking kind)
August 19th, 2008 at 11:54 amWhat I meant by "last two pages" is how it copied out, however it can be read on 1 page!
August 19th, 2008 at 11:54 amIn 'CRAZYWORLD' there are no conflicts of interest. There are no rules or laws to be obeyed by filthy rich Republicans....none. Kakistocratic dictators (Bush/McCain/Chaney) tell everyone else to obey their whims or die.
August 19th, 2008 at 11:54 amunbelievable at 11:47 am
"What do the cons have against safe, clean and renewable energies?"
Then they would have to admit Al Gore deserved his Nobel Prize. They would rather jump out a window and cut their throat on the way down.
August 19th, 2008 at 11:58 amI know I'm not a genius Republican so maybe I just don't get it but isn't it better for the citizens of the world that oil prices go down because we're using less than if they go down because we're drilling more.
August 19th, 2008 at 12:02 pmGrampy McSame says - My friends back in the day we had fire lobbyist, we all needed them and would pay them lots of clams to make sure we had access to fire, well, I invented fire, so I should get to control that fire, and I sold fire to big corporate fire guys, who then pay me for that fire and my fire lobbyist make sure the corporate fire guys fleece the American public of their clams for fire, see that's how it works, you need fire and if you don't have fire, then you're screwed, screwed I tell you, if you can't afford fire then get 3 jobs to pay for it, you whiners, I have lots of fire, I use it all the time, fire is great for BBQ's, Cindy, that trollop c**t like getting all messed up on those pills she borrowed and dancing topless at my BBQ's, my fire lobbyist just love that, more beans please....I think I sat on a warm raw steak.
We know you are bought and paid for by Lobbyist Grampy, it's the MSM that is not telling the general public about it...oh those Low Information Voters, dear, dear.
August 19th, 2008 at 12:03 pmMcCain To Visit Oil Platform Owned By Chevron
Will there be a "Mission Accomplished" banner?
August 19th, 2008 at 12:04 pmMcCain To Visit Oil Platform Owned By Chevron
Will there be a “Mission Accomplished” banner?
Chevron will only be displaying a "Mission Accomplished" banner if McCain is actually elected.
August 19th, 2008 at 12:08 pmgee,i wonder why the trolls are not here defending saint john mcpaidfor?
August 19th, 2008 at 12:13 pmHouse of Roberts Says: Then they would have to admit Al Gore deserved his Nobel Prize. They would rather jump out a window and cut their throat on the way down.
Yeah, that's always a good reason to spite yourself...
I've never seen anyone die from admitting they were wrong. :)
August 19th, 2008 at 12:35 pmraynman Says:
Chevron will only be displaying a “Mission Accomplished” banner if McCain is actually elected.
Okay - how about "Submission Accomplished" ?
August 19th, 2008 at 12:35 pmZonaRider, mayhaps the TP IP address flusher is now fully operational.
Kind of like a death star for trolls.
August 19th, 2008 at 12:36 pmMaybe just maybe all these fat cats wiil just falloff the OIL rig, Mcwars included then they see what it feels like to be drowning in $4 a gal gas, because that`s this country is going right now.......keep on pandering old man.
August 19th, 2008 at 12:43 pmrastaman Says:
don’t anyone tell GRAMPY this…..but……
Americans HATE oil companies…..and when he goes there and stands on their platforms? well…..we all know what happened last time we voted in an oil man.
I do hope the Dems use one of those photo-op pics of McDepends with that big dick, er .... derrick in the background and over run it with the numbers of how much Big Oil is making and how much it has contributed to Johnny Boy's campaign. And also make sure he has a big set of Chevron and Exxon logos plastered on his coat, like a NASCAR driver.
August 19th, 2008 at 12:44 pmRUCerious Says:
ZonaRider, mayhaps the TP IP address flusher is now fully operational.
Kind of like a death star for trolls.
I haven't been around for a couple of days. Did TP actually say they would ban by IP address?
August 19th, 2008 at 12:52 pmACME_Troll, are you sure that's the comment you want to open up with?
You don't want to read it over one more time and correct anything that sounds... y'know, stupid?
'Cause the way it stands now, it really isn't doing you or your side any good. But whatever floats your boat.
August 19th, 2008 at 1:16 pmI think what the troll was trying to say is, "the Reichwing won't rest until the Earth is a lifeless cinder".
August 19th, 2008 at 1:27 pmACME_Democrat Says:
I think what you are trying to say is,...
Right there is your problem, Junior. Trying to think.
Give it up - you got nothin'.
August 19th, 2008 at 1:31 pmThe Songbird is now singing for the oil corporations.
August 19th, 2008 at 2:05 pmDrill, drill, drill; bomb, bomb, bomb; smear, smear, smear.
August 19th, 2008 at 5:20 pmThe mccain mantra.
His South Carolina Finance co-chair pays undercover police officers in toilets for sex!
August 19th, 2008 at 7:12 pm