Courtesy the folks over at C&L:

McCain deflates his own “tire-gauge” attack: ”

After all the stupidity and charade surrounding the GOP’s attack on Obama -including this lampooning by Stephen Colbert — for proposing a common sense approach to increasing fuel efficiency, McCain is forced to admit that it’s a pretty good idea.

Reuters:

The surprise came during a telephone town hall meeting McCain held on Tuesday with voters in Pennsylvania.
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‘Obama said a couple of days ago says we all should inflate our tires. I don’t disagree with that. The American Automobile Association strongly recommends it,’ McCain said.

But he kept up his broad criticism of Obama on energy: ‘I … don’t think that that (inflating tires) is a way to become energy independent.’

Would that be another flip-flop, McSame?’ Contrary to the Team McCain attacks, Obama never suggested that properly inflating your tires and keeping your engine tuned alone will make us energy independent. But as is always true with the Republican distortion machine, facts and context never get in the way of a good smear… even when the attacker admits that the target of the smear was right all along.’

There are more Colbert/Stewart videos on the campaign available at Indecision ‘08.

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McCain tips hand on plans for launching elite drill team that can produce oil in months!

US Candidates | APTNvideo.net: ” John McCain, presumptive Republican presidential candidate:
‘We all know the comprehensive solution is wind, tide, solar – all of the things that all of us believe in. But it also means offshore drilling, and it also means nuclear power and it also means clean coal technology. In the meantime, as we develop all of these alternate sources of energy it will be vital that we continue oil production at a high level including offshore drilling. Now, the briefings that I have had with the oil producers, there are some instances that within a matter of months, they could be getting additional oil.’ “

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