Last summer, when Texas was on fire, President Obama slammed Governor Rick Perry for denying climate change. The president has a long history of global warming advocacy, what with his Cap and Trade bill (thankfully defeated in the Senate) and tendencies to use disasters (like the Deepwater Horizon oil spill) for his own political advantage.
Back in 2008, he even threatened to bankrupt coal-burning power plants so that they could no longer spew their evil carbon emissions upon the people that rely upon them for silly things like energy. Thanks for the clean air, Obama, but boy do we miss our air conditioner!
Having principles is a good thing, and I applaud anyone that wants to make the world a better place, even if I completely disagree with them on how to do it. I don’t believe that humans control weather patterns. I think it’s been thoroughly proven that all of the global warming hype is pure propaganda. But I can respect the opinion of people who believe otherwise, and live their life according to those beliefs.
After all, if the world is ending because we humans are producing too much carbon, shouldn’t we take the greatest of care to produce as little as possible? Why, then, does the First Family travel separately to vacation destinations?
Last summer, Michelle and the girls traveled to Martha’s Vineyard mere hours before Barack and Bo the dog joined them. What was so incredibly important that Michelle couldn’t wait a couple of hours for her husband, the leader of the free world, to tie up some loose ends before beginning his vacation? After all, isn’t she endangering the polar bears by not limiting her carbon footprint?
Last week, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid revealed that President Obama told Senate Democratic leaders that he would delay his Hawaiian Christmas vacation until Congress agreed to extend the payroll tax break.
Said Reid:
I’ll paraphrase it, but I’m pretty close. He said, "Michelle and the girls are going to have a great time in Hawaii. They don’t need me there."
In addition to (as Senator Barbara Boxer recently said) endangering humankind with nasty jet fuel fumes, the extra trip will cost the taxpayers around 100 grand.
So much for shared sacrifice. It's hard to take someone seriously about climate change or fiscal sanity when they spend money and carbon credits like there's no tomorrow.
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You need a hobby.
Thanks for the clean air, Obama, but boy do we miss our air conditioner!
That may be one of the more unintelligent things I've read. Like...ever.
And look...she's now one of the "unbiased" political bloggers. HA
" I think it’s been thoroughly proven that all of the global warming hype is pure propaganda."
For lack of a better response... LOL WUT?! Proven by who exactly? Even one of the top global warming deniers has recently changed his tune.
" I think it’s been thoroughly proven that all of the global warming hype is pure propaganda."
For lack of a better response... LOL WUT?! Proven by who exactly? Even one of the top global warming deniers has recently changed his tune.
...and people ask me why I post stuff about Obama in the comments after one of several posts on the Rick Perry "gay bashing" commercial. Because most of the bloggers and commenters here are Obama Sycophants, blind and deaf to any truth spoken about the man.
Obama doesn't care about the environment. He cares about getting reelected. period. During his first week in the White House, I remember reports of keeping the temp set very warm ("you could grow orchids in there," ~David Axelrod), ostensibly because he's "from Hawaii" and was used to the climate there. Funny... I thought he was a senator in Illinois. And last time I was in Illinois, it was 20 degrees out.
The hypocrisy this man projects is staggering. The hypocrisy in the entire party is staggering.
And the "global warming" debate did take a huge hit with the revelation that much of the research regarding climate change (or whatever the politically correct term is this week) was manipulated to achieve a particular political end.
Further, the integrity of Charles Monnet, the man responsible for the "Polar Bears are drowning and it's all because of Global Warming" theory, has been brought into question because of inaccuracy in observations that led to his reports.
The fact is, Global Warming, like Evolution, is a theory. One that still hasn't been proven beyond a shadow of a doubt - hence the "theory" part of it. Yes, there is evidence. But is that evidence proof, when the earth has been around for millions of years, and we have only really been tracking weather patterns accurately and scientifically for the last hundred or so? When looked at in that context, it is impossible to prove.
Does man have an impact on the environment? Of course he does. Is it enough of an impact to cause us to completely eradicate not one, not two, but three major industries (oil, coal, incandescent bulbs), and alter many others (automobiles, for one)? We don't know. And we don't know if changing those things will help, or, in the case of the CFL, do more harm? They contain mercury, which is toxic.
BUT, if Obama believes so strongly in Global Warming, then he should walk the walk, not just talk the talk when it's convenient and gets him votes.
I know this article is supposed to be about Obama's hypocrisy but, how much do you think George W spent with all of his vacation days? He sure did travel to Camp David quite a bit. Are you not worried about how many tax dollars were spent on that too?