McCain's Laughable Oil Ad, And A Response

Obama has a new ad out, in response to McCain's ridiculously laughable ad that actually suggests Obama is to blame for high gas prices, because he opposes offshore drilling. If you know even a tiny bit about the issue, you should have no trouble seeing why it is ridiculous.

Let's just put aside the fact that offshore drilling won't solve any of our energy problems, and the that the lack of it certainly isn't the cause for our current high gas prices (the war in Iraq, energy speculation, and oil companies deliberately keeping supply tight to get rich of high prices are the actual main causes). So McCain is blaming Obama for high gas prices, because he opposes offshore drilling, just like McCain himself did up until a few weeks ago when he completely flip-flopped on the issue and sold out to big oil (which paid handsomely). Offshore drilling hasn't even come up for a vote since McCain's flip-flop, so by McCain's own logic, he is just as much to blame as Obama. Furthermore, since McCain has been in Congress longer, he must be MORE to blame than Obama for high gas prices because even if Obama had voted for offshore drilling on his first day in Congress, not a drop of oil would have been pumped from these areas yet, and wouldn't for years to come (or even decades since oil companies are already not even trying to pump on plenty of lands they already have access to). Secondly, there has been an executive ban on offshore drilling this whole time, which Bush just rescinded in the last few weeks, so up until then, Bush was standing in the way of offshore drilling! Yet it is supposedly all Obama's fault. I won't even get into how many times McCain voted against alternative energy and other energy policy that would lower gas prices. I think McCain's blatant lies and rampant hypocrisy in this ad are reason enough to laugh at his ad. Anyway, Obama's ad, which does a good job at hitting back, even if it can't possibly fit everything that is wrong with McCain's ad in 30 seconds: