Breaking Down the Inaugural Address: Obama on Global Warming and Alternative Energy
We, the people, still believe that our obligations as Americans are not just to ourselves, but to all posterity. We will respond to the threat of climate change, knowing that the failure to do so would betray our children and future generations.
Some may still deny the overwhelming judgment of science, but none can avoid the devastating impact of raging fires, and crippling drought, and more powerful storms. The path towards sustainable energy sources will be long and sometimes difficult. But American cannot resist this transition. We must lead it.
We cannot cede to other nations the technology that will power new jobs and new industries. We must claim its promise. That's how we will maintain our economic vitality and our national treasure, our forests and waterways, our crop lands and snow capped peaks. That is how we will preserve our planet, commanded to our care by God. That's what will lend meaning to the creed our fathers once declared.
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Mar '11
Re: Breaking Down the Inaugural Address: Obama on Global Warming and Alternative Energy
Any excuse for more government.
Mar '12
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"We, the people" ???
Does his meglomania know no bounds? To read the real meaning simply replace "we" and "our" with "me", "my" and "I".
Ego is Latin for "I".
Sep '11
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He will only be able to any of this if we lose the house in 2014. Otherwise he's done. The man is incapable of compromise, he will get nothing accomplished in a divided government.
Jan '12
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James Delingpole has tackled this vacuous drivel already:http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100199161/obama-declares-war-on-reality/
Aug '12
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"We cannot cede to other nations the technology that will power new jobs and new industries. We must claim its promise." And now, the next sentences if Obama were a rational form of life: "With that in mind and the writings of Eduard Teller fresh in my memory, I will issue an Executive Order tomorrow instructing the NRC to authorize the construction of 20 new nuclear power plants within the next decade. Concomitant to that I will instruct the IRS to rescind all renewable energy tax credits."
Aug '11
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Obama has a knack of placing two or three unrelated things together in a paragraph, and through the magic of juxtaposition, mesmerizing his dim disciples into believing there's a connection of some sort.
And anyone who denies this connection is an enemy of the state and of the future.
Oct '10
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"We cannot cede to other nations the technology that will power new jobs and new industries. We must claim its promise."
And where does that magical technology materialize from? So far, the Obama supported technologies are batting about as well as socialism has historically. They are all failures. Meanwhile, the technologies that will save the world? If not the US, who?
Kenya will still cook over wood fires, as does 80% of the underdeveloped world. They will continue to use coal fired power plants, as do China and India. They will also continue to dump raw sewage into streams and lakes. They will continue driving vehicles built 50 years ago, with no exhaust mitigation.
And while the American economy drains away, where is the money for all these miracles?
If we were even dumb enough to by the global warming BS, none of what Obama proposes will do anything to help, and will, indeed, insure destruction.
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It doesn't matter that climate change lost its political momentum several years ago, and that even the new IPCC report has a bunch of monster-sized caveats and walkbacks. It doesn't matter that the stimulus-era experiment with throwing buckets of money into the green-energy bonfire has been an across-the-board debacle: it matters because he want's another chance to play his favorite games.
He's always drawn to policies to control behavior, tweak markets to his desired endstates, pick and choose winners and losers in his crony capitalist economy and to demonize the opposition ("Obviously, since they oppose climate change reforms just as they oppose gun control, they want your children to be shot and drowned.") is irresistible for him.
Edited on January 21, 2013 at 11:39pmMar '11
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Round two:
Jun '10
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Ricochet Editor's Desk
Sep '10
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Alternative energy is like alternative medicine: both sound great but neither will cure your illness. Worse yet, they preclude effective treatment.
Jun '11
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Ugh. So hard to respond to this nonsense without the vitriol it so justly deserves. But let's try this:
Mr. President, I know you are a sports fan. I assume you like the Chicago Bears (though if you ever show up in cold Soldier Field wearing mom jeans and throwing a ball the way you did here, you should not expect Bears fans to embrace you as one of them; but I digress).
Imagine that the Chicago Bears decided that instead of signing linebackers, nose tackles, running backs, etc, they would try a new strategy: they will sign primarily field goal kickers. After all, field goal kickers are generally the leading scorers in the league!
In wanting to replace coal, gas, and nuclear power plants with renewable resources, you are essentially advocating such a field goal kicker strategy. You are trying to turn resources that will never, ever play more than a niche, complementary role in meeting our future energy needs into our only resource choice.
Just as the Bears will never have a field goal kicker play linebacker, so too a wind turbine will never replace a base load coal or nuclear plant.
Just ask a Bears fan.
Apr '11
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Ricochet Editor's Desk
Your response?
America is screwed.
Feb '12
Re: Breaking Down the Inaugural Address: Obama on Global Warming and Alternative Energy
It has elements of JFK's Moon speech but without the eloquence or sincerity to actually mean what he said..
"We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon, we choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too."
- John F. Kennedy, 12th of September, 1962
This on the other hand is meaningless drivel delivered to the witless followers of climate fashion by the fake man..
"Some may still deny the overwhelming judgment of science, but none can avoid the devastating impact of raging fires, and crippling drought, and more powerful storms. The path towards sustainable energy sources will be long and sometimes difficult. But American cannot resist this transition. We must lead it."
All in a short 51 years.. From Moon to gloom and doom..
May '12
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It's called to "conflate" or "conflation" and it's a standard practice and tradition amongst Lefties. It allows them to sound superior without knowing a damn thing. I attack this debate technique by pointing out said technique to the liberal, then force the scum-bag to address each issue separately, where upon the socialist creep's argument rapidly dissolve.
What fun!
Edited on January 22, 2013 at 12:05amSep '12
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The first sentence is so beautiful and so fitting, if only he were talking about the need and indeed obligation to tackle the federal debt. By taking any meaningful cuts to social security and medicare off the table in the same speech, Obama has stated his clear intent to pass the burden of financing current consumption on to our children.
Giving our children a higher standard of living will not be achieved by an expensive and necessarily ineffective pursuit of "green" policies, but rather by setting the next generation free from the shackles of their parents' bad spending habits.
His assertion that "we cannot cede to other nations the technology that will power new jobs and new industries" is patently ridiculous. The very pursuit of such technologies in the form of subsidies and over-regulation of competing products will result in this very loss of competitive advantage to other nations.
Mar '11
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doc molloy: It has elements of JFK's Moon speech but without the eloquence or sincerity to actually mean what he said..
All in a short 51 years.. From Moon to gloom and doom.. ยท 6 minutes ago
More like from Moon to navel gazing.
Jul '11
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"I will bankrupt this country and sell all our BLM resources and national parks to the Chinese".
Nov '10
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I would translate the Presidents comments as follows:
"I will continue to borrow money and give it to the people who helped make this speech possible. "
Feb '12
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Illiniguy
More like from Moon to navel gazing.
You may well be right, the navel is closely associated to birth hence "omphalomancy" or in His case Obamalomancy.. Oh that birth certificate and its origins.. but let's not go there.. We have the Moon.. Or as Bette Davis so wonderfully put it at the end of Now Voyager.. Charlotte Vale
: Oh Jerry, don't let's ask for the moon. We have the stars.
But what will the Fake One give..?