Obama-Biden Used Not to Support Coal

Published May 11, 2012 5:04pm ET



After a disappointing showing in West Virginia, where President Obama received only 59 percent of the vote against a prison inmate in the Democratic primary, the president’s reelection team decided to highlight the importance of coal (or clean coal, to be exact) on its website. (West Virginia is a major mining state.) Well, the Obama team has had problems with coal in the past. 

In the 2008 election, Vice President Joe Biden admitted that Obama-Biden platform did not support coal plants in America: 

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