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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It?
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To: Ann Corrigan who wrote (37295)8/2/2008 12:20:47 PM
From: Hope Praytochange  Read Replies (1) of 224750
 
The Early Word: flipflopped hussein
Obama Open to Drilling Compromise: By Sarah Wheaton

Senator flipfloppedhusseinBarack Obama focused largely on the economy during his speech in St. Petersburg, Fla., on Friday and repeated his charge that opening new sites for offshore drilling would take a decade or more to produce results.
But in interviews with some Florida reporters, Mr. Obama suggested willingness to compromise on the matter.
“My interest is in making sure we’ve got the kind of comprehensive energy policy that can bring down gas prices,” Mr. Obama told The Palm Beach Post’s Michael C. Bender. “If, in order to get that passed, we have to compromise in terms of a careful, well thought-out drilling strategy that was carefully circumscribed to avoid significant environmental damage - I don’t want to be so rigid that we can’t get something done.”
Mr. Obama is referring to a bipartisan package that would also include more subsidies for alternative energy while making drilling possible off Florida’s West coast.
The show of political pragmatism is reminiscent of Mr. Obama’s decision to back legislation earlier this summer that would expand government’s surveillance powers and grant retroactive immunity to telecommunications companies that helped the administration with its warrantless wiretapping program – a provision he once said he would filibuster. The move drew the ire of the liberal netroots, who took to his own Web site to criticize him.
“At some point people are going to have make some decisions– are we going to keep on arguing, or are we going to get some things done?” Mr. Obama said to reporters during a press conference this morning in Cape Canaveral.
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