It is the eternal struggle between these two principles — right and wrong — throughout the world. They are the two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time; and will ever continue to struggle. The one is the common right of humanity, and the other the divine right of kings. It is the same principle in whatever shape it develops itself. It is the same spirit that says, “You toil and work and earn bread, and I’ll eat it.” No matter in what shape it comes, whether from the mouth of a king who seeks to bestride the people of his own nation and live by the fruit of their labor, or from one race of men as an apology for enslaving another race, it is the same tyrannical principle.Abraham Lincoln, The Lincoln-Douglas Debates
That’s not part of his power, but this is part of the whole theory of George Bush that he can make laws as he goes along. I disagree with that. I taught the Constitution for 10 years. I believe in the Constitution and I will obey the Constitution of the United States. We’re not going to use signing statements as a way of doing an end-run around Congress,
“That’s not part of his power, but this is part of the whole theory of George Bush that he can make laws as he goes along. I disagree with that. I taught the Constitution for 10 years. I believe in the Constitution and I will obey the Constitution of the United States. We’re not going to use signing statements as a way of doing an end-run around Congress,” Senator Obama, 2008.
Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe. Chu
Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe. Steven Chu, December 12, 2008, Obama Administration transition team. So, up to $5 to $8 per gallon is the Obama Administration’s goal according to Chu. [Update: now U.S. Secretary of Energy.]
October 2008, Hottest October on Record, according to NASA
On Monday (Nov 10, 2008), NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), run by Al Gore’s chief scientific ally, Dr James Hansen, stated that October 2008 was the hottest October on record. The problem? NASA had used September’s figures again for October. We’ve mentioned before how NASA and Hansen have had to revise figures due to errors and problems with methodology, but the cult of global warming is willing to ignore data and rely solely upon computer models to make their arguments. GISS is one of four bodies responsible for monitoring global temperatures.
Obama ready to rule on day one
Valeria Jarret, co-chair of the Obama transition team told Tom Brokaw on Meet the Press (Nov 9, 2008) that “given the daunting challenges that we face, it’s important that president elect Obama is prepared to really take power and begin to rule day one.”
As a country, we elect Presidents to govern, not rule.
See http://www.youtube.com/v/q7Nlq80DVpo&hl=en&fs=1
Obama, the pocket change we need
Obama says he is the “change we need” – if elected change is all we’ll have left, pocket change.
Obama Wants to Bankrupt the Coal industry
From NewsBusters.org and a January 17, 2008 San Francisco Chronicle interview. See the link below for the full NewsBusters story. Obama, January 17, 2008:
Let me sort of describe my overall policy.
So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can; it’s just that it will bankrupt them because they’re going to be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that’s being emitted.
What I’ve said is that we would put a cap and trade system in place that is as aggressive, if not more aggressive, than anybody else’s out there.
I was the first to call for a 100% auction on the cap and trade system, which means that every unit of carbon or greenhouse gases emitted would be charged to the polluter. That will create a market in which whatever technologies are out there that are being presented, whatever power plants that are being built, that they would have to meet the rigors of that market and the ratcheted down caps that are being placed, imposed every year.
That will also generate billions of dollars that we can invest in solar, wind, biodiesel and other alternative energy approaches.
The only thing I’ve said with respect to coal, I haven’t been some coal booster. What I have said is that for us to take coal off the table as a (sic) ideological matter as opposed to saying if technology allows us to use coal in a clean way, we should pursue it.
So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can.
It’s just that it will bankrupt them.
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Obama does not know the meaning of Charity
Obama Oct 31, 2008:
The point is, though, that — and it?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢s not just charity, it?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢s not just that I want to help the middle class and working people who are trying to get in the middle class — it?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢s that when we actually make sure that everybody?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢s got a shot…
Senator, it is not charity when it is someone else’s money. It is not charity when it is not voluntary. Holding you up at the point of a gun and then giving the money to charity does not make it virtuous.
Biden: the most important thing as Barak Obama says is a 3 letter word “JOBS”
A three letter word, JOBS, J-O-B-S, jobs. Joe Biden, October 2008
Obama says Constitution ‘relfected fundamental flaw of this country”
One keeps thinking that one has heard it all:
“I think we can say that, ah, ah, the Constitution reflected a enormous blind-spot in this culture that carries on until this day, and, and, ah, and that ah, the Framers had that same blind spot. Ah, ah, I don’t think that the two views are contradictory to say that it is a remarkable political document, ah, that paved the way for where we are now. And to say it ah, also, ah rep, ah, reflected fundamental flaw of this country that continues to this day.”