McCain Campaigns for Oil Companies on Oil Rig

McCain's destination, Republicans think it's the money shot

I just love a photo of a presidential candidate on an oil rig. Don't you? It sends chills up my spine. Looks like he may be upstaged, once again, by Mother Nature.

NYT: NEW ORLEANS—Senator John McCain finally headed out to an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico on Tuesday morning to sound his call for more offshore drilling, a refrain he has repeated almost daily in this summer of gas-pump sticker shock. Hurricane Dolly had forced Mr. McCain to cancel a trip to the rig planned in July.

“Americans across our country are hurting because of the cost of energy,’’ Mr. McCain planned to say on the rig,’’ after an hour and 15-minute helicopter flight from Kenner, La., a suburb of New Orleans. “Gas prices are through the roof. Energy costs have seeped into our grocery bills, making it more expensive to feed our families. And now, as people prepare for the winter, they are going to be hit with higher costs for home heating oil. It is time for America to get serious about energy independence, and that means we need to start drilling offshore at advanced oil rigs like this.’’

McCain's Oil Rig Appearance Cancelled

Update: Perhaps the big event was cancelled due to the big oil spill.
McCain can't catch a break. Apparently, McCain was going to helicopter to an oil rig tomorrow to counter Obama's speech and make a pitch for oil companies (more drilling) but the event was cancelled due to bad weather. 

Politico: While Barack Obama is speaking about international affairs in Germany before thousands of fans tomorrow, John McCain will be talking about a pressing domestic issue with an equally striking if very different backdrop.

Weather permitting, McCain will helicopter from Louisiana to an oil rig in the Gulf Coast to make the case for expanded off-shore drilling, says a McCain aide.