Arizona Republican John McCain and Illinois Democrat Barack Obama say a lot of the same things about energy and environmental policy: Both want to reduce U.S. reliance on foreign oil and fight global warming. Both want binding caps on greenhouse-gas emissions. Both see a stepped-up role for nuclear power. Full Story »
Posted by Kaizar Campwala
This article is reasonably fair, but does tend to focus more on questions about Obama's energy policy than on McCain's. I don't particularly trust the WSJ, especially since being bought by NewsCorp. I also am wary of trusting financial publications because they can get away with publishing a quote like this: "When government jumps in and distorts the market, then there's unintended consequences as well as intended." -John McCain, without following that with a qualification that there is no such thing as a free market because of the Federal Reserve, and that the Fed represents the government constantly jumping in and distorting the market. As far as quotes go, there seems to be some cherry picking of McCain quotes.
