By Greg Palast
August 5, 2008
North Shore, Long Island
I’m guessing it was excessive exposure to either radiation or George Bush, but Senator John McCain’s comments from inside a nuclear power plant in Michigan are so cracked-brained that I fear some loose gamma rays are doing to McCain’s gray matter what they did to Homer Simpson’s.
On Tuesday, the presumptive Republican candidate descended into the colon of a nuke to declare we need to build 45 new nuclear plants – that this is the way out of our energy crisis. Nuclear power, declared the senator, is a “safe, efficient [and] inexpensive” alternative to oil.
Really? We can argue all day about whether nuclear plants are safe (they aren’t –period). But there can be no argument whatsoever that these giant radioactive tea-kettles are breathtakingly expensive.
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Now, you Obamaniacs might not want to read this next paragraph:
While McCain is pushing nuclear power, a Senator from Illinois who shall remain nameless (skinny, just gave up smokes), was already embracing radiation as the solution to pollution. This Senator voted for George Bush’s energy bill, a law which contained massive giveaways to nuclear energy, legislation which diss’es and dismisses conservation. Indeed, the presumptive Democratic presidential candidate has been derided as the “Senator from Commonwealth Edison,” the Chicago company which is the nation’s largest operator of nuclear plants – and whose executives were the money backbone to his early presidential campaign.
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Homer Simpson? More like Obama wants to be Spongebob Squarepants, drilling for oil in the ocean. Both Obama and McCain are cartoons animated by big oil. And remember, nuke plants are very lucrative projects for Republican party “pioneer” types.
So, he’s like Homer Simpson because the plan is idiotic, or because Homer works in a nuclear power plant? I hope it’s both.
Also the Simpsons are (arguably) from Springfield Illinois, maybe Obama is comparable to Homer.