I want to be sure I don't take this quotation out of context (and I am not happy that I cannot find a single net reference that does not have an elipsis). This is Senator Obama campaigning in Oregon as reported by GoogleNews:
I am hoping that this quotation is just a verbally maladroit attempt to say that the US cannot exist in a vacuum, as if the ecological consequences of its actions will be automatically tolerated by the rest of the world.
I hope that's so, because what it sounds like is that Senator Obama is advocating some pretty serious government intervention into the lives of American citizens. Especially that part, "we can't . . . eat as much as we want. . . ."
What's up there? Enforced vegetarianism because wheat has a smaller carbon footprint than beef?
I wouldn't worry so much were it not for that Michelle Obama quote about pies:
I tried, in the spirit of non-partisan charity, to write that one off as a poorly phrased suggestion that US government budgetary priorities would have to change in an Obama administration, not that we would need to begin large-scale, involuntary transfers of wealth.
"We can't . . . eat as much as we want. . . ."
This stuff eventually starts to add up.
"We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times ... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK," Obama said.
I am hoping that this quotation is just a verbally maladroit attempt to say that the US cannot exist in a vacuum, as if the ecological consequences of its actions will be automatically tolerated by the rest of the world.
I hope that's so, because what it sounds like is that Senator Obama is advocating some pretty serious government intervention into the lives of American citizens. Especially that part, "we can't . . . eat as much as we want. . . ."
What's up there? Enforced vegetarianism because wheat has a smaller carbon footprint than beef?
I wouldn't worry so much were it not for that Michelle Obama quote about pies:
“The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more.”
I tried, in the spirit of non-partisan charity, to write that one off as a poorly phrased suggestion that US government budgetary priorities would have to change in an Obama administration, not that we would need to begin large-scale, involuntary transfers of wealth.
"We can't . . . eat as much as we want. . . ."
This stuff eventually starts to add up.
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I am very, very frightened by this guy.
If the American news media were doing its job, and not entirely captivated by him, he would long ago have been eliminated as a serious contender for the Democrat nomination.
And yet . . .
http://ace.mu.nu/archives/262826.php