What's up with the overdub "which won't produce oil for 10 years" - it looks and sounds shoddy. Tell me they aren't going to release it like this.

How is this any more newsworthy than the crap I post on YouTube? Until they put some money behind it's nothing but some poorly-shot footage--your claim that they're going to spend 150k notwithstanding.

Well, show's over. Nothing to see here. The trup card has been played, nobody needs to wait for the end of the game. "You let my children down." Parading the spectre of let-down children around is exactly the kind of taste we've come to expect from MoveOn.org. Of course it is terrible form for Obama to run a negative ad against his opponent, but laudable and its sacred duty as a bastion of truth and fairness for MoveOn to invoke our dear sweet little children.

But of course the DNC had nothing to do with it, so fair game, innit?

Why aren't the DNC and MoveOn AND Obama all attacking McCain on the real problem with off-shore drilling, the fact that the only people who tangibly benefit are oil companies?

This whole "lowering prices at the pump" is a bogus lie. How exactly will prices go down as consumption is still rising? Unless I am greatly mistaken, the oil companies will be able to sell the oil on the GLOBAL MARKET, meaning we fight with India and China and the other 7 billion for our gas.

If nothing else this seems like a good day for this ad to come out. The only way offshore drilling will benefit the American people is if they hold oil company stock. Exxon made $12B last quarter while we all paid $4/gal for gas. I'm not shocked that an oilman President has led to record oil company profits. Capitalism run amok.

My understanding is that the more oil the world has the lower the price goes. We are using all the oil that we have so the demand is more than the supply. Whatever we can do to add to the supply, will help the price go down. We will get the oil in 2 to 4 years...not 10. Oh and just think, if Bill Clinton hadn't vetoed the Anwar drilling legislation, we would already be getting oil out of Alaska and the prices wouldn't be so high. Stop this insanity and realize that drilling is more of a sure thing than alternative fuels and all the other long term solutions. We need to move forward and stop whining and act like Americans.

Oh and the ad sucks! Waa Waa Waa

My understanding is that the more oil the world has the lower the price goes. We are using all the oil that we have so the demand is more than the supply. Whatever we can do to add to the supply, will help the price go down.

That only works in a true free market where all suppliers complete for business. We don't have such a market. Most of the global oil supply comes from OPEC, and they can control the supply to manipulate the price. If the U.S. adds more production, OPEC can simply throttle their own production to keep the price wherever they want it. They can even drive the price higher to make up for the reduction in sales.

The only way the U.S. could drive the price down is by replacing a substantial fraction of OPEC's output. Since the U.S. only has about 2% or 3% of the world's oil reserves, that just ain't gonna happen.

We will get the oil in 2 to 4 years...not 10

Nope, not the offshore oil because there is a 5+ year waiting list for deep-water drilling ships and equipment before exploration can even begin. And not from the wildlife reserve either because a lot of infrastructure needs to be built to move oil from the middle of nowhere to someplace useful.

P.S.: You might want to consider the benefits of patience.

If Congress rushes through a lifting of the drilling bans and the Bush administration gets to cut the lease deals, you can be certain that Bush will give the oil companies sweetheart deals that let them screw our eyes out. We might do better if the next administration isn't a wholly-owned subsidiary of the oil companies.

Thank you Alkaline!

It is rather frightening that some (meanstreet) so profoundly misunderstand the situation. And it is very frustrating that McCain realizes and exploits this. Be certain, he is completely aware his strategy will not produce the results he touts and is counting on some voter's simple reading of a complex problem (more means cheaper, right?) to get him into office. It does not work that way. Please everyone, do your homework. This will effect us all. At least force McCain to do something substantive by showing that we can see through smoke and mirrors.

They REALLY need to reshoot this thing. The middle audio edit is horribly distracting.