“All-of-the-above” energy policy doesn’t mean just adding “clean coal” to campaign energy web page
This guy is so obvious it amazes even me at times.
He loses 41% of the Democratic vote in the West Virginia primary to a Texas jailbird and suddenly he’s all for “clean coal.” Does he really, honestly believe that now West Virginia will rally to his cause because he put “clean coal” on his campaign web site where it has been conspicuously absent prior to the primary? This is “smartest guy in the room” stuff?
After coming under fire for its consistent hostility to the coal industry, the Obama campaign quietly adjusted its energy policy website to include “clean coal” among the president’s energy initiatives.
The energy policy page of BarackObama.com now includes a section for “clean coal,” claiming the stimulus package “invested substantially in carbon capture and sequestration research.”
But until recently, that page made no mention of coal. Its Google cache shows a section for “energy efficiency” where “clean coal” now appears.
The change comes mere days after Obama lost 41% of the vote in the Democratic primary in West Virginia – a state heavily reliant on the coal industry – to a convicted felon and current federal inmate.
The chairman of the WV Democratic Party blamed Obama’s poor showing on his stance on coal energy. “A lot of folks here have real frustration with this administration’s stance on coal and energy,” said state Democratic chairman Larry Puccio. “They are frustrated and they are upset, and they wanted to send Obama a message.”
Of course everyone who has followed how Obama operates knows very well he’ll say anything. It is what he does (or doesn’t do) that matters. Just like being “for” gay marriage. That doesn’t mean he’ll do anything to make it happen. It is about how he calculates being “for” something will benefit him politically. The same holds true for “clean coal”.
Should he win re-election, “clean coal” will be removed as quietly as it was inserted onto the campaign web page.
Forward.
~McQ
Twitter: @McQandO
How ’bout just plain old “COAL”? “Clean” coal is a distant…expensive…aspiration.
REALITY energy is HERE. NOW. AND ESSENTIAL.
“This guy is so obvious it amazes even me at times.”
He did run some premise of transparency, though I would not have thought this to be what he meant.
More of the ‘whatever you want’ from the 2008 campaign, except now he has a record we ALL know, and he can’t hide it. He’s officially in the “can’t fool all the people all the time” portion of Lincoln’s saying.
He continues to evolve. Not unlike ichthyostega crawling from the primordial sea.
Obama ate one of those, too…
According to his book, he also bullied one of them as well…
Biden said it was worse than terrorism a few years back, but since we’re negotiating with Al Queda these days, the Administration must now see their way clear to negotiations with Al Coal too, at least until November 5th 2012.
http://blog.heritage.org/2012/05/11/video-biden-claimed-coal-power-is-more-dangerous-than-terrorism/
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Let’s face the fact that Obama has already used up his entire “carbon footprint”
Obama has long advocated for clean coal, although it’s not his preferred energy resource—because of the cost. http://www.democracynow.org/2010/2/26/as_obama_pushes_clean_coal_jeff
But he just added it to his web site after he lost 41% in WV. And, as we’ve all learned about Obama, he may be “for” many things, if the politics favor him to be “for” them. Doesn’t mean he plans to do anything concrete to advance their cause – see gay marriage, for example.
He’s “for” closing GITMO, too. Promised to do it, in fact.
Now he’s “for” gay marriage…if you are a COMPLETE fool.
Anybody run over by that new nuclear power plant? He’s been “for” nukes for BEFORE he took office.
Some idiots really cling hard to their pwnage.
So your chosen proof Obama favors clean coal is a documentary about the myth of clean coal? Knife drawer, sharpest knife doesn’t have your name on it huh?