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Scott McInnis and Josh Penry are going after Joe Biden's declaration that he is opposed to coal power plants in the United States. The Grand Junction Sentinel reports on their reaction:

 Biden “doesn’t give a dilly about a coal miner’s family or a coal miner’s job,” said Scott McInnis, a Republican who represented Colorado’s 3rd District, which includes several coal mines, such as those in Delta and Mesa counties.

“No coal plants here in America,” Biden said on a campaign swing in Ohio. “Build them, if they’re going to build them, over there” in China. “Make them clean.”

Biden’s comments “sacrifice 300 years of clean and inexpensive energy on the altar of extreme environmental ideology,” state Sen. Josh Penry, R-Grand Junction, said in a Tuesday conference call with reporters set up by the presidential campaign of Republican Sen. John McCain.

It's not just McInnis and Penry who disagree with Biden's position, but apparently Barack Obama does as well. Here's an excerpt from Obama's energy plan copied from his website:

Develop and Deploy Clean Coal Technology.

Obama’s Department of Energy will enter into public private partnerships to develop five “first-of-a-kind” commercial scale coal-fired plants with clean carbon capture and sequestration technology.

And to think we were all told that Palin was the one who would be a drag on the ticket...

This story was largely drowned by the DNC and the left-wingers' subsequent foaming at the mouth over the selection of Sarah Palin:

Sen. Barack Obama sought more than $3.4 million in congressional earmarks for clients of the lobbyist son of his Democratic running mate, Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. of Delaware, records show. Obama succeeded in getting $192,000 for one of the clients, St. Xavier University in suburban Chicago.

Obama's campaign has taken a hard stance against the world of lobbying in the nation's capital. Obama said he limits his own efforts to get money for pet projects -- a process known as earmarking -- to those that benefit the public. He has posted his earmark requests on his presidential campaign Web site to encourage transparency.

Since Obama announced his selection of Biden on Saturday, attention has focused on Biden's lobbying connections as well as his son's lobbying activities. R. Hunter Biden is one of many relatives of members of Congress who work as lobbyists.

The younger Biden started his career as a lobbyist in 2001 and has registered to represent about 21 clients that have brought in $3.5 million to his Washington firm, according to lobbying disclosure forms.

Sen. Biden has collected more than $6.9 million in campaign contributions from lobbyists and lawyers since 1989, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.

You have to wonder if the vicious attacks on Palin from the left are a strategic move to distract from this or are just motivated by lingering rage that a woman dared to oppose The One in the primaries.

Barack Obama has made it official and selected Delaware Sen. Joe Biden as his running mate. Biden was known as the "Gaffe Machine" when he ran in the presidential primaries and with good reason. Here is a brief RMR video highlighting some of his more recent foot-in-mouth moments:

The fact that Obama would pick Biden as his running mate is only further evidence that he is unfit to be president. No one with judgement this bad deserves to sit in the oval office.