Get out the pitchforks! Even the liberals are turning on the President! I thought, that was a pretty good summation of what we've done, how to handle the spill and it's cleanup, and a reminder of where we need to go. And then Olbermann, Matthews, and Fineman danced it flat and stomped on it.
Anything specific the President would have proposed in energy legislation would have been torn apart in minutes. It would be like the President dangling an idea into the Amazon, only to have the ravenous piranhas of Republicans, Blue dogs and media pundits strip it to the bone. I wish he would have done it, anyways, but that's just not how President Obama works. His legislative and executive accomplishments are massive, but since he does them with the best consensus he can muster, instead of the loud, sloppy, cow boyish screams of a dictator, America hardly notices.
What did bother me was later on the Rachel Maddow show, when it was brought up that he never used the phrases global warming or climate change. Then Ezra Klein (I think that's who it was) said they decided that they didn't use them because they don't poll well. THEY DON"T POLL WELL? We're not gonna tell the American people the truth because IT DOESN'T POLL WELL? WTF?
I'm not blaming the White House per se, but how far does America have it's head in the sand not to want to face up to reality? This whole oil spill crisis amount to nothing if it's just about getting the damn hole plugged (which may be increasingly problematic given the possibility of sea bed cracks).
I could go on and on, but the bottom line is climate change is not going to go away just because we can't face up to looking at it. We need more courageous politicians like Al Gore to come to the forefront and make us look at it, even it's not the politically smart thing to do. They have to do it because it may be the only thing that can save us.
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