ANCA: OBAMA ACCUSES MCCAIN OF COMPROMISING TIES TO BIG OIL COMPANIES
PanARMENIAN.Net
06.08.2008 14:25 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ In a new campaign unveiled today, Democratic
Presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama underscores his presumptive
Republican challenger’s compromising ties to big oil companies, a
point driven home by the revelation that Sen. John McCain has already
received more than $1.1 million in contributions from oil companies
and their executives.
In a major policy speech Monday, Obama discussed America’s "addiction
to oil" and delineated an energy plan, which among other elements
proposed a windfall profits tax on big oil corporations that would
be used to provide a $1,000 rebate to people struggling with high
energy costs, the ANC-WR told PanARMENIAN.Net.
The new ad campaign also drew a linkage between the environmentally
destructive and economically unsustainable policies supported by
Senator McCain as a member of Congress for the past 26 years and
the large-scale generosity of the energy industry in supporting his
campaign for the presidency.
The policies pursued by Senator McCain would ensure that the
U.S. remains a hostage to nations, such as Azerbaijan, which have
large oil and gas reserves but are major human rights violators and
remain sources of regional instability.
"It would be more of the same with a McCain Administration in the White
House. The Arizona Senator would – as he has for the better part of
the last three decades – continue supporting big oil companies that
profit from high gas prices and are pouring billions of dollars into
countries like Azerbaijan, which lack the basic principles of human
rights," said Areen Ibranossian Chairperson of Armenians for Obama.
In his major policy speech on energy Monday, Obama urged Americans
to look inward to resolve the energy crisis and proposed concrete
steps to wean the US from foreign oil dependence in 10 years.
"The Armenian-American community appreciates the innovative approach
to this very critical global issue and believes that progressive
approaches such as the ones presented today by Sen. Obama would ensure
a safer more prosperous future for all Americans, while discouraging
big corporations from investing in undemocratic regimes such as
Azerbaijan," added Ibranossian.
Armenians for Obama is a nationwide voter registration, education, and
mobilization effort dedicated to electing Barack Obama President. Based
in Los Angeles, and with chapters and affiliates in all 50 States,
Armenians for Obama will harness the energy and enthusiasm for Barack
Obama’s candidacy to ensure record high Armenian American turnout in
critical battleground states.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
