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Monday, April 05, 2010

[ItsAllAboutMeMan] Re: [progressive] Offshore Drilling

 

On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 10:09 AM, Andre Kenji de Sousa <andrekenjilistas4@gmail.com> wrote:

 
1-) In fact, Obama said that he would allow offshore drilling in a debate with McCain.
 
I missed that partucular example of Obama saying he was going to do exactly what he went on to do. There are many others, of course. The faithful point to examples where he said he would do something else. Obama, supposedly a different kind of politician, is very much in the tradition, saying whatever people want to hear at the moment, and letting people think they are what the people want them to be.  I just got this email an hour ago, they seemed to think they had a promise from Obama:

Reminder: Stop Offshore Drilling NOW

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Jackie Savitz, Oceana

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Dear Matt,

Last week, President Obama announced his proposal to expand offshore drilling. Despite his previous statement that he would "keep in place the [offshore drilling] moratorium in Florida and around the country," he is now willing to sacrifice the oceans in the name of sub-par climate change legislation.

Remind Obama that a healthy planet includes healthy oceans, free from the threat of oil spills.

Voice your support for the oceans »


Offshore drilling has no place in our vision of a clean energy future. Expanded offshore drilling threatens marine habitats and contributes to carbon dioxide emissions.

However, clean energy alternatives, like offshore wind, provide three times as many jobs as traditional fossil fuel production, with the added benefit of a smaller impact on our environment.

Tell Obama that he should focus on clean energy alternatives instead of gambling with the oceans' future »

Jackie SavitzFor the oceans,
Jackie Savitz
Senior Campaign Director, Pollution Campaigns
Oceana

PS. We've fixed the technical issues from last week's email, so we hope that you will take action and then help spread the word! Forward the link, post it on Twitter and share it on Facebook.

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2-) That´s not the end of the world:  http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=cabo+frio%20praia
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[ItsAllAboutMeMan] Offshore Drilling

 

I just put this in my status line on Facebook (responding to a post on my own Wall):  "Xxxxxxx Xxxx, Xxxxx Xxxxxxxxx and Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxx became fans of 1,000,000 Strong Against Offshore Drilling...." some of the same people who urged me to vote for their guy because he was going to save us from all this. I checked out the group. To their credit, some of them have figured out the bait and switch. But ...they'll fall for it again in 2012, and 2016 and 2020.."


Many people were sooooo offended at a personal attack on Obama - a picture of him with an oil moostache that somebody had posted. It had been removed by the time I got there, I was curious to see it, so I looked in Google pictures. I didn't find it, but did find earlier photoshopped pictures of Sarah Palen and Dick Cheney with oil moostaches, harmless fun when it's them, of course. 

You can find thousands of images of Bush as Alfred E Newman, a chimp (made one myself), with the obligatory Hitler mustache... lefties got cold comfort from these scathing (though sometimes juvenile) images.  But lay off Obama, doggone it, because I'm a fan of his on every issue except this one!

Really?  What is it about torture, wiretapping, bloated military spending, pandering to the rich, etc. that you suddenly now like?

I started wondering what do liberals really like about Obama?  I tried to think it through. Well, they like his rhetoric.  They like that he's black, but not too black.  This view has been expressed publicly for them at least twice:

Biden's description of Obama draws scrutiny - CNN.com

31 Jan 2007 ... "I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy," Biden said. ...
www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/01/31/biden.obama/ - Cached - Similar

» Harry Reid: Obama 'Light-Skinned' 'with No Negro Dialect' - Big ...

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) apologized today for referring to President Barack Obama as "light skinned" and "with no Negro dialect" in ...
biggovernment.com/.../harry-reid-obama-light-skinned-with-no-negro-dialect/ - Cached


It's true, these guys got some heat for saying it... you're supposed to think it, but not say it out loud.
  Still, Biden is now the VP, and Harry Reid still has his job, so it's not like what Trent Lott or Earl Butts said.  It does represent the mainstream of white liberal political thought.



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