The nominee on ANWR

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Larry, I'm with McCain at a town hall meeting in Philadelphia today where the senator was asked for his position on drilling in ANWR and elsewhere. He wasn't happy the subject came up. "I knew I should have ended this [before that question]," he said.

He said that he opposed drilling in ANWR for the same reason that he "would not drill in the Grand Canyon... I believe this area should be kept pristine." (Proposed oil and gas exploration in ANWR would only affect 2,000 of its 19 million acres, or 0.01 percent.)

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This is the sort of vapidity we've come to expect from "liberals".

Sadly, though, this drivel comes not from Senator Obama but Senator McCain.

Surely you all remember that wonderful three-part "Brady Bunch" epic wherein this group that had somehow become a family piled into the paneled station wagon and set out for the pristine playground we now call ANWR.

En route they were temporarily imprisoned by Jim Backus, who feared they'd befoul the breathtaking landscape with carelessly discarded Kitty Carryalls and expired trading stamps.

After escaping his crusty clutches and after a harrowwing mule ride, Bobby and Cindy got lost chasing a swarm of exotic mosquitoes but were directed back to camp by a kindly old caribou.

Perhaps this is where Senator McCain got his misperception of ANWR?

Yikes, we're in trouble!