Discussion for article #242672
More first-class trolling from the “no fucks left to give” President. God, I love it.
I guess if it helps the activists to feel good about having achieved something, great. But honestly, I’d call it a victory for midwestern refineries serviced by the Enbridge pipeline, and a defeat for the more southerly refineries who wanted a piece of the Canadian tar sands action via Keystone. Hardly the stuff of major Presidential accomplishments.
BREAKING: The butthurt Associated Press once again accuses President Obama of spiking the ball; mangles the name of Organizing for America.
Yes and no: he waited too long, but fine.
I suspect there was a lot more to killing Keystone than we’ll ever know. I wonder if that $1.90 gas we had a few weeks ago was just the market, or did other oil interests consider it a bargain to forgo profits for a few months to make Keystone no longer economically viable?
Obama is going to one day write a riveting memoir.
Not sure what “leadership” he is referring to. Ok, that pipeline shouldn’t be built, but other countries are way ahead in adopting alternative energy solutions and conserving. I feel conflicted about dinging president Obama for this, but US politicians need to realize that saying that the US is leading doesn’t make it so. In fact, deceiving our citizens into thinking we’re leading when we aren’t has to opposite effect.
I am moderately certain that the President never planned to okay it and was playing a lot of political football with it. Which kinda bugs me, since I think any statement made would have been much clearer if it were done as a quick and unconditional rejection.
It’s called leading from behind. The man’s a coward.