by Josef Sperzel

Created on: October 22, 2008

The neocon mantra, "Climate Change" has decreased the statements worth. George W. Bush and his cabinet of oil company beneficiaries have somehow found a way to diminish the effects that seem so dire and blatant to those who wish to look into it. The "Climate Change" phrase is over-simplified. It is a phrase that most would attribute to traveling from Chicago to Southern California. The images that this phrase conjures, do not speak to the catastrophe that a few degrees can cause. Already the number and intensity of hurricanes and typhoons has increased worldwide and even the seasons have begun to shift differently, especially here in New York where I am from. "Global Warming" used to be a buzz phrase, often at the butt of a joke but in recent years and especially after Al Gore thrust the issue into the limelight with his "An Inconvenient Truth" film, book and eventual Oscar and Nobel Peace Prize, has morphed into a global "green" phenomenon. Every corporation has jumped into the fray with a green product, a sustainable product or even an organic product. Americans, in general, understand that global warming is happening and now with the impending economic downturn and the amount that our country pays for oil, the populus is interested in a President who can provide the steps necessary to lead us toward alternative fuel and energy sources.

Neocon is not a label that many would place on John McCain because he has not displayed that in his 27 years in Congress. Yet, in recent weeks he has embraced the more right-wing mantras and the Rovian fear-tactic politics of the neocons. I would have suspected that McCain could engineer a plan to get us off our dependence on oil last year, but now I am not so sure. McCain is now in bed with the very people who only four years ago would say global warming is a myth and have now after seeing the public outcry have adopted a pseudo-environmental climate change argument. McCain keeps talking about off-shore drilling and then flubs out a few buzz phrases like wind and solar energy. Then he quickly darts back to ethanol and "Drill, baby, drill." In the past McCain has opposed tax credits or incentives for wind energy, so I take his new found love for wind to be blowing smoke well you know. The Senator from Arizona should be embracing solar energy and should be devising a plan to use the sun's energy, which is abundant in Arizona, to fuel our nation and make us less dependent, but Rove, Cheney, Bush and Condy wouldn't be happy with

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