THIS is the kind of pandering that keeps me from ever being enthusiastic about Obama. This is the fantasy that mainstream environmentalists feed to their ditto-heads. ..JS
AN EXCERPT: The president also made clear that it would be hard to find areas of compromise, and that he would not be pushed by environmental allies into policies that did not have broad support.
“If the message is somehow that we are going to ignore jobs and growth simply to address climate change I don’t think anyone is going to go for that. I won’t go for that,” Obama warned.
“If on the other hand we can shape an agenda that says we can create jobs, advance growth and make a serious dent in climate change and be an international leader I think that is something the American people would support.”
(NOTE: Most environmentalists will be delighted. It’s the same absurd, “We can have it all” delusion offered by the NRDC, the EDF, the Sierra Club and other major green groups, heavily funded by the 1%…JS)
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/nov/14/obama-climate-change-second-term
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Inshgits like this liven things up around here.