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RNC: Raising McCain

Posted on September 04, 2008

By Kate Sheppard John McCain. Republican presidential candidate John McCain's acceptance speech in St. Paul this evening had plenty of references to the nation's energy concerns, calling for drilling here and now, as well as nuclear, clean coal, and renewables. There was not, however, a single mention of climate change, an issue he has in the past led his party in discussing. On the energy issue, he pledged to embark on the most ambitious national project in decades in pursuit of energy independence, and stop sending $700 billion a year to countries that don't like us very mu...

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