old europe wrote:JW,
I was just looking up his comments from 2001, when he said things like
Quote:At a time when California has already experienced energy shortages, and other Western states are worried about price and availability of energy this summer, we must be very careful not to take actions that could harm consumers. This is especially true given the incomplete state of scientific knowledge of the causes of, and solutions to, global climate change and the lack of commercially available technologies for removing and storing carbon dioxide.
or
Quote:I do not believe, however, that the government should impose on power plants mandatory emissions reductions for carbon dioxide, which is not a "pollutant" under the Clean Air Act.
Now, he announces clean-energy research programs and promotes zero-emission power plants as well as pollution-free cars. I could accuse him of flip-flopping, but I'm just too happy with his new plans.
P.S.: I
am taking notes....
I definitely have a few bones to pick with our president and I'm sure the White House and my elected representatives are tired of hearing from me on those bones. There is also much that I appreciate and admire about him, too, and I pass along those observations as well as my complaints.
And speaking of bones, one thing I like about him is that I don't believe he has a phony bone in his body. He is who he is, says what he thinks, and doesn't worry a whole lot about how it might sound. And when he is speaking extemporaneously, he says stuff that can sound a lot different from his thoughts when he has an opportunity to explain and expand on them. Of course this is the stuff that makes for all the funny one-liners and sound bites on the evening news and his enemies do use those against him. But some of us think it makes him look more real and human instead of just another opportunistic politician.
Has he flip flopped on the environmental stuff? Possibly. This new policy shift looks as if he may have rethought some things though his environmental track record has been a lot better than what he's gotten credit for. And what does that mean? Have the pro-global-warming scientists convinced him he was wrong? Or has he been thinking this way all along but was just not willing to go along with Kyoto and his policy has been to clean up the environment without hamstringing industry? It's hard to say at this time.
I just hope those who are taking notes are taking notes on all he says instead of just the sound bites.
What does Cindy Sheehan have to do with censoring offensive cartoons? Before insulting folks clearly more coherent than yourself, you might want to censor the word idiot from your posts. 
