Monday, August 04, 2008
Politicians - Barack Obama
If it sounds good (and plays to your audience), just say it.
Never mind the truth!...
Never mind the truth!...
I found this in an Investors Business Daily editorial:
"When Barack Obama brought up global warming during last week's Berlin speech, his lecture resonated with the audience — but not with the truth.
'As we speak,' said Obama, 'cars in Boston and factories in Beijing are melting the ice caps in the Arctic, shrinking coastlines in the Atlantic, and bringing drought to farms from Kansas to Kenya.'
He followed that up by suggesting that the world 'reduce the carbon we send into our atmosphere' with 'the same seriousness of purpose as has your nation,' apparently unaware that CO2 emissions in Europe, to which he was appealing, grew 2.1% from 2000 to 2004, while U.S. emissions increased just 1.3% over the same time."
