I'm QUITE sure that for one of the first times, he is NOT lying.
Posted on 06/08/2014 2:48:53 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
During an interview with The New York Times, President Obama admitted that the Republican anti-science climate change deniers are frustrating and that he wants to go off on them.
Here is the exchange between Thomas Friedman of the Times and the president:
“Yeah, absolutely,” the president said with a laugh. “Look, it’s frustrating when the science is in front of us. … We can argue about how. But let’s not argue about what’s going on. The science is compelling. … The baseline fact of climate change is not something we can afford to deny. And if you profess leadership in this country at this moment in our history, then you’ve got to recognize this is going to be one of the most significant long-term challenges, if not the most significant long-term challenge, that this country faces and that the planet faces. The good news is that the public may get out ahead of some of their politicians” — as people start to see the cost of cleaning up for hurricanes like Sandy or the drought in California — and when “those start multiplying, then people start thinking, ‘You know what? We’re going to reward politicians who talk to us honestly and seriously about this problem.’ ”
The president added: “The person who I consider to be the greatest president of all time, Abraham Lincoln, was pretty consistent in saying, ‘With public opinion there’s nothing I cannot do, and without public opinion there’s nothing I can get done,’ and so part of my job over these next two and a half years and beyond is trying to shift public opinion. And the way to shift public opinion is to really focus in on the fact that if we do nothing our kids are going to be worse off.”
The president finds himself in a familiar position. Most presidents have needed to rely on the public when the members of Congress are behind the times on an issue. The problem is that Republicans don’t have to respond to public pressure. They seem only concerned with what their big money donors like the Koch brothers want. Time and again, the American people have demanded action on everything from expanded gun background checks to extending unemployment benefits and they have gotten nothing, because this Congress does not work for or answer to the American people.
The fact that the one party in Congress has no interest in governing has to be frustrating to the president. There are vital long-term issues like climate change and immigration that are being ignored by a Republican Party that is only interesting in chasing the scandal of the day and raising more right-wing billionaire dollars.
Republicans are living in their own reality that is defined by whatever their big money donors tell them it is. When the anti-science religious right wing of the party is added into the mix, the result is a group of people who have no interest in dealing with fundamental reality, much less the future of the planet.
It was nice to hear that the president shares the same frustrations as the non-Koch owned and science embracing majority, and POTUS offered an attractive remedy to the nation’s current problem.
Voters must start rewarding politicians who are living reality, and throwing out those who have been blinded by Koch dollars and anti-science pandering.
I have to wonder what color the sky is in Jason’s world.
Seriously. I don’t give a sh*t what anyone at PoliticusUSA has to say.
I'm QUITE sure that for one of the first times, he is NOT lying.
Obummer:
So was last winter warmer, or colder than normal.
Just asking.
Jos Bastardi on his Sat report this week said “If you have a child graduating high school this year he/she will never have seen any climate warming.” (17.9 years without it warming).
The problem with losing your credibility is that no one (should) believe a word you say anymore.
Obama really does need someone here in the USA to give him the Wyatt Earp treatment. Unfortunately Putin and every other dictator in the world are doing it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2YVyLLKRHw
Clown Prince nobama is an ill-informed idiot. Who would have guessed?
Ted and Sarah are doing what they can, constrained as they are.
There is nothing more anti-science than “man made climate change”, nothing more anti-science than declaring a baby in the womb is not human, nothing more anti-science than saying a man can be a woman and visa versa....
I can go on and on.
Go ahead and do it Barry, don’t talk about it, just do it. Go off, it would be very enlightening and hilarious.
Lies will be perceived as truth; truth will be perceived as lies. Read that somewhere.
Truth is Obama has nothing to back him up in reality. He and his minions will try to scare little kids into submission. But in the end, he will do whatever he wants by fiat and nobody has the guts to stop him. Pretty sad day in America when a person, the President, is allowed to rip off and destroy peoples lives for a hoax that stands to pay off the top 1 percent off the backs of the middle class.
If Obama tries and sounds petulant doing it, it will be come Republican political commercial fodder for this year’s Congressional elections....
Most likely, all he ever sees when he looks up is the floor joists, wiring and waterlines in moms basement
Bring it, Commie pink fags.
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