McCain & Bush want to help the oil companies

McCain & Bush want to open up more areas in the U.S. for drilling... the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and our coastlines, for example.

Democrats make the quite interesting point that the oil companies already have leases for 68 million acres of federal lands on which they haven't yet drilled. How about starting there first?

A nice line from Obama, echoing McCain's own words:

"Sen. McCain said, 'Our dangerous dependence on foreign oil has been 30 years in the making, and was caused by the failure of politicians in Washington to think long-term about the future of the country,'" Obama said Friday in Dayton, Ohio.

"I couldn't agree more," Obama said. Then, smiling and in an incredulous tone, he added: "The only problem is that out of those 30 years, Sen. McCain was in Washington for 26 of them!"