Barack Wants to Bankrupt Coal

We had Joe the Biden on the rope line quietly dissing coal the other day, Barack blaming farmers for obesity based on some Berkeley elitist's theories--when he was in DC not Des Moines, now we learn he wants to bankrupt the coal industry. Does he say this in Coal City, Tuscola or Mattoon, Illinois? No way. Barack Obama is truly a profile in liberal San Francisco Democrat courage, no question, and this illustrates yet again his radical and punitive approach to our economy. Newsbusters:

(Please read update about the San Francisco Chronicle neglecting to mention Obama's willingness to bankrupt the coal industry at bottom of this blog.)

Imagine if John McCain had whispered somewhere that he was willing to bankrupt a major industry? Would this declaration not immediately be front page news? Well, Barack Obama actually flat out told the San Francisco Chronicle (SF Gate) that he was willing to see the coal industry go bankrupt in a January 17, 2008 interview. The result? Nothing. This audio interview has been hidden from the public...until now.

Transcript and the rest of their post here. YouTube version:

He wants to turn the lights off in America.

UPDATE: Thomas Sowell is right about Obama and his self-obsessed vision which will wreck people's lives:

"This is our time!" he proclaimed. And "I will change the world." But ultimately this election is not about him, but about the fate of this nation, at a time of both domestic and international peril, with a major financial crisis still unresolved and a nuclear Iran looming on the horizon.

For someone who has actually accomplished nothing to blithely talk about taking away what has been earned by those who have accomplished something, and give it to whomever he chooses in the name of "spreading the wealth," is the kind of casual arrogance that has led to many economic catastrophes in many countries.

How about those coal-producing swing states looking for job creation? Plus another clip from the interview--this affects all Americans. HotAir:

In another clip from the same January 2008 interview with the San Francisco Chronicle in which Barack Obama promised to bankrupt anyone foolish enough to build coal-burning power plants, he also made an interesting admission about his entire energy plan. Obama told the editors that his policies would make energy prices “skyrocket” as the energy industry passed along the exorbitant costs of his cap-and-trade policy: