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The Spectacle Blog
Well, today in New York with his speech that actually was unremarkable in its genus except that it comes from a head of an erstwhile serious nation, President Obama continued his tour of singling out his own country, the greatest force for good the world has ever known, today implicitly pinning on us the global warming industry's hysterical claims of apocalypse.
This set the tone for the UN's climate talks this week and related discussions at the G-20 in Pittsburgh. But it's got me wondering. The world's fourth-largest economy (way back behind #s 1 and 2) in the largest emitter of greenhouse gases, and shooting up with a bullet. Yet this treaty is all about us (read today's rather absurd compendium of environmentalist howls and snivels making up today's Financial Times).
Numerous far smaller economies are in the top-15 list of emitters, all of whose emissions are rising rapidly, including Brazil at #11 yet the fourth largest emitter. Yet this is about us.
In fact, many of the top emitters are growing their emissions rapidly, none of them are us.
Emissions in the U.S. have fallen flat since 2000. This appears to be about us and not about GHGs. Sadly, however, the agenda fits nicely with the current administration's agenda of bringing us down to our proper place and under proper international supervision, so things will move forward until the voters say hold, enough.
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S.L. Toddard| 9.22.09 @ 11:16AM
"the greatest force for good the world has ever known"
It says nothing good about the state of political discourse when a political writer's world-view is so un-nuanced that he describes his country in terms more appropriate to glorifying a comic book super-hero. If even now - after the many, many thousands slaughtered in a mistaken search for weapons that did not exist in Iraq - if one can still employ such laughably hyperbolic phrases as "the greatest force for good the world has ever known" to describe the U.S. gov't then one is no longer dealing in reality. What doesn't status as "the greatest force for good the world has ever known" justify? What restrictions should ever be put on "the greatest force for good the world has ever known"? Should an antiquated, outdated document like the Constitution in any way restrain "the greatest force for good the world has ever known"? Of course not - why restrain something that is inherently good from doing more good? Restraining *good* is by definition *bad*.
Chris Horner: a statist, glorfiying the State with language curbed from a Superfriends script. Ugh.
William Mandrake| 9.22.09 @ 12:54PM
You are a fool. Move to Canada or Europe. You'll fit in very nicely there. We (freedom loving Americans) have had enough of your ilk, so good riddance...and take the rest of your haggard bunch with you!
S.L. Toddard| 9.22.09 @ 1:25PM
Maybe you're right. Maybe those America-haters who speak ill of our Commander In Chief should scram - after all, either Love It or Leave It, right? And right now the American gov't - The Greatest Force For Good The World Has Ever Known - is trying to take over the healthcare industry. Can you believe these America-haters who oppose that? Opposing The Greatest Force For Good The World Has Ever Known, and the Commander In Chief of that Goodness-Force? Insane. Just insane.
Also I would ask the Christians here - how far behind America does Jesus rank on the list of The Greatest Forces For Good The World Has Ever Known? Is he at #2, behind the country that slaughtered Iraqis to find phantom weapons, that maintains torture chambers and spys on its own citizens? Or he he further down the list?
Just curious.
William Mandrake| 9.22.09 @ 12:56PM
By the way...self-loathing is SO 1960's.
Alan Brooks| 9.22.09 @ 11:39AM
America is a very bad nation.
But better than most. Scandinavia is, overall, still the best place to live.
For how long?
Until globalzation poisons it.
Alan Brooks| 9.22.09 @ 11:42AM
Globalization is no respecter of nations.
So we really do gain the world and lose our souls.
Life improves materially, but not psychologically or spiritually.
Dan Henke| 9.22.09 @ 12:38PM
Life improves materially? How so? This is all about state control and allocation of resources: rationing through the command economy. I've seen how well that worked materially, and it was far from an improvement.
Nick| 9.22.09 @ 12:32PM
If a Republican happens to beat B.O. in '12, on January 20th, 2013, the first thing out of the new president's mouth should be: "On behalf of United States of America, I would like to apologize for the last 4 years of incompetence that was thrust upon the world."
Oldefarte| 9.22.09 @ 12:43PM
Global warming is a liberal Democrat HOAX, and beyond that, it's pure 'BS' !!!!!!!!!!
Tim| 9.22.09 @ 1:44PM
Obama loves giving speeches, and speeches and speeches.
And speeches.
Kerry Marvin| 9.22.09 @ 2:33PM
Thought Billy May was dead?
Does this poser really expect us,
to buy his Sham-Now?
Well, um, er, ah. Cap and Trad is Not a Tax!
LOL..and this too: It Will Not Pass, Either.
Nor will His Health Care Agenda. Nov 2010! Jugement Day!
Kerry Marvin| 9.22.09 @ 2:36PM
corr: Judgement Day!