If Obama's Supposed to be a Liberal…What's a Conservative?
The latest sellout of progressives by the Obama administration is on the energy front. The plan announced in his speech today opens huge areas on the east coast and Alaska (click here for a map).
Even Nancy Pelosi is disgusted.
Here’s an open letter to Barack Obama, which I give permission to be reposted, circulated, reprinted, as long as the attribution remains intact.
President Obama, what happened to the bold young senator who understood that our future is not with fossil fuels, and not with nuclear? Our future, if we are to have a future, is in lowering our carbon footprint far beyond the puny standards you set out in Copenhagen, to the shock of a whole world willing to go much deeper. Our future is not in any way reliant on nuclear power…but it is very much aligned with protecting our environmental heritage, something to which you’ve dealt yet another crippling blow today.
On issue after issue, you disappoint. You sold us out on health care, on militarism, on controlling Wall Street, and now again you’ve sold us out on yet another energy issue (at least the third one).
President Obama, do NOT take our votes for granted. I wrote months ago that we would “have your” back if you pushed for the progressive agenda, the change you promised to bring. By the same token, we will desert you if you continue to desert us. Do you really want to align yourself with Sarah “Drill, Baby, Drill” Palin?
Sometimes, the lesser of evils, is still too evil to support. I do not believe you’re an evil man, but your policies, while not based in the malice and trickery of your predecessor, are getting too evil for me to go along with them.
Shel Horowitz is the primary author (with Jay Levinson) of Guerrilla Marketing Goes Green: Winning Strategies to Improve Your Profits and Your Planet
A lifelong activist, profitability and marketing specialist Shel Horowitz’s mission is to fix crises like hunger, poverty, racism, war, and catastrophic climate change—by showing the business world how fixing them can make a profit. An author, international speaker, and TEDx Talker, his award-winning 10th book, Guerrilla Marketing to Heal the World, lays out a blueprint for creating and MARKETING those profitable change-making products and services. He is happy to help you craft your messaging and develop profit strategies. Learn more (and download excerpts from the book) at http://goingbeyondsustainability.com
Well said!
Obama gives some beautiful speeches, but his consistent actions are stunningly corporate-friendly. Did you see the frontpage article in today’s New York Times? It details how the Obama administration has approved at least 22 new oil drilling sites offshore AFTER the BP oil spill – without minimum environmental protections!! What is this nonsense?
By the way, it’s also worth remembering that the Obama administration continues to rubberstamp the Bush-Cheney environmental standards on oil riggs. Translation? We use the same standards as Ecuador and Indonesia instead of the much higher standards used in Norway and Scotland. Thank you Dick Cheney! Thank you President Obama! What’s wrong with this picture?????
It is certainly disheartening. I didn’t expect a lot fo progressive change from Obama, but I did expect reversals of pretty much all the major Bush blunders other than Afghanistan–where he was very upfront that he liked that war.
That he continues down a path set by our own “rogue state” is highly troubling.
Well said!
Obama gives some beautiful speeches, but his consistent actions are stunningly corporate-friendly. Did you see the frontpage article in today’s New York Times? It details how the Obama administration has approved at least 22 new oil drilling sites offshore AFTER the BP oil spill – without minimum environmental protections!! What is this nonsense?
By the way, it’s also worth remembering that the Obama administration continues to rubberstamp the Bush-Cheney environmental standards on oil riggs. Translation? We use the same standards as Ecuador and Indonesia instead of the much higher standards used in Norway and Scotland. Thank you Dick Cheney! Thank you President Obama! What’s wrong with this picture?????
It is certainly disheartening. I didn’t expect a lot fo progressive change from Obama, but I did expect reversals of pretty much all the major Bush blunders other than Afghanistan–where he was very upfront that he liked that war.
That he continues down a path set by our own “rogue state” is highly troubling.