RFK Jr. On Palin's Oil Obsession: "The Only Difference Between Sarah Palin And Dick Cheney Is ... Lipstick"

RFK Jr. On Palin's Oil Obsession: "The Only Difference Between Sarah Palin And Dick Cheney Is ... Lipstick"

Palin's enthusiastic embrace of Big Oil's agenda (if not always Big Oil itself) has been the platform of her hasty rise in Alaskan politics. In that sense she is as much a product of the oil industry as the current president and his vice president. Palin, whose husband is a production operator for BP on Alaska's North Slope, has sued the federal government over its listing of the polar bear as an endangered species threatened by global warming, and she has fought to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and Alaska's coast to oil drilling.

When oil profits are at stake, her fantasy world appears to have no boundaries. About American's deadly oil dependence, she mused recently, "I beg to disagree with any candidate who would say we can't drill our way out of our problem."

I guess the only difference between Sarah Palin and Dick Cheney is ... lipstick.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is an environmental lawyer and a professor at Pace University Law School.