BlogHer - Politics and Policy Hit Home: Part II of my Michigan Observations - Comments

no nuclear....then i guess it is all hot air

davet. — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 14:11:54 -0500

well, i guess we can continue to pay $4, $5 for gas and not invest
in safe nuclear and coal technology. i can always have nancy pelosi, al
gore, john edwards and ed begley jr. stand outside my residence and
blow all their hot air my way. should at least keep my place nice and
warm in the winter.... done correctly, nuclear and coal will work,
along with drilling and other technologies. at this crossroads in our
lives, i'm open to trying anything to bring down energy costs.

dave

san diego, ca.

Um, which potential first lady...

nelle2nelle — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 21:54:03 -0500

is hotter? We need to know this. :-)

I'm not very inclined to fry the land for a million years for the right to not pay $4.5 a gallon for home heating oil. Seabrook station here was a huge mistake, and remains a huge mistake. Making more huge mistakes just creates even more of an unmanageable problem.

nelle

llhaesa

Coffe Shop Schmoffe Shop

Adriennevh — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 16:18:49 -0500

You're sitting in a Coney aren't you?!

Such a great mix of people, people who aren't really sre what or whom to believe but when they figure it out they stick to it and support it to the end.

nuclear power plants

davet. — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 16:04:44 -0500

i think mccain is right on track with building more nuclear plants.
i was a 14-year-old living a few hours from three mile island in 1979.
while it was scary, we have to remember that there has not been 1 death
in this country due to nuclear power plants. obama wants to make the
lefties happy, so he talks only of conservation and wind and solar.
after seeing this is not the mainstream thought, he has moved more to
the center to say he'd support some drilling, etc. go a step further
barack and back more nuclear and coal. we need to do it ALL if we're to
escape this ridiculous dependency on foreign oil.

dave

gocalifornia.blogspot.com

Politics and Policy Hit Home: Part II of my Michigan Observations

Erin Kotecki Vest — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 15:43:58 -0500

I'm watching the candidates sweep through the midwest while I sit at a coffee shop in the midwest and look around.

My cousin and I were just chatting about how she rarely sees her husband, who's working in another state. He had to go where where the work was, and it wasn't here in Michigan. He comes home a few times a month and his kids and wife go about life here in Metro-Detroit as though it's just normal for Dad to work out of town.

My other cousin, a teacher and administrator, has nothing on her mind but budget cuts.

Neither cousin wanted to talk politics, nor cared to talk about who they would cast their ballot for in November. Both shook their heads at me when I asked.

It didn't stops a few guys the other night at the bar though.

They laughed as they joked about Senator John McCain's comments from Sturgis, and remarked on why it "wasn't a big deal" and "why is it in the news?"

Then they spent an hour comparing which potential First Lady was hotter.

Jen at MOMocrats writes, "I mean, it's bad enough that you view your partner like this, but when you do it publically it's just plain gross. As in needing a shower gross. And if the MOMocrats private email thread today is any example of what women are saying across the country, I'd say this kind of shit has everyone going ewwww. This isn't the kind of "experience" our country needs.

You know what IS sexy? Sexy is standing up for your wife not pimping her out."

BlogHer Contributing Editor Morra Aarons-Mele writes, "I've written before about McCain's risque line-towing, but I'm wondering if new campaign advisor Steve Schmidt (who helped foster the "I'd rather have a beer with Bush" phenomenon in 2004 and made John Kerry French) has been taking McCain out to Hooters in Virginia Beach as part of message training.

Between the belligerent yodeling --"We have to drill here and drill now"--and offering up his wife for a cash prize I'm wondering if this is McCain's attempt to channel the elusive white male voter he so needs to win?"

Morra is right and I'm starting to think the John McCain camp functions much like the guys at the Michigan bar.

While my family took great interest in Senator Obama's promise of $4 Billion to retool the auto industry (and then debated if it would work) - I had to tell them McCain was touting Nuclear Energy at Fermi II in Monroe.

There were then many jokes about fish with three-eyes and stories of the reactor that had a partial meltdown back in the 60's.
It's hard to convince people around here nuclear power is safe, regardless of the number of years between "accidents."

Martina Stewart blogs, "John McCain's call for the nation to make a big push into nuclear power to become more energy independent can certainly be met, if the country is willing to pay more for power and tolerate the safety risks.

Earlier this week McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee for president, said he wants to build 45 more nuclear power plants in this county. That would add significantly to the nation's current fleet of 104 active plants, which produce about 20% of the nation's power."

My cousins laughed and yelled toward their kids,

"Hey guys! Do you want to glow in the dark??!!"

A confused second cousin looked at his mom and said "what?" and then asked when Dad was coming home again.

Contributing Editor Erin Kotecki Vest also blogs at Queen of Spain blog