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Obama to Stop Climate Change, Forge Mideast Peace, Fix Africa, End Poverty Today At UN

092209Saint-Obama.jpg Think your job sucks? The Times gives you the lowdown on Barack Obama's day: first a speech to the UN Climate Change Conference, with two impossible goals: establishing some kind of US credibility on the issue, and getting India and China to sign on. From there he meets with Mr. Sweetcakes himself, Benjamin Netanyahu, then with Mr. Energy and Action, Mahmoud Abbas, then with both of them at the same time.

Once he's got climate change and peace in our time in the can, he'll lunch with African heads of state — hopefully including our sharp-dressed desert despot — and then head for a summit meeting with Chinese President Hu Jintao. Then it's to the Global Initiative sessions to talk about economic development in the Third World. Then a climate-change dinner in the evening.

We've got some text from WCBS 2 from his climate-change speech this morning. It's certainly not what previous American presidents have been saying: "We understand the gravity of the climate threat. We are determined to act," Obama said. "And we will meet our responsibility to future generations."

Really, sometimes it makes you wonder why anyone would want that job. That said, God bless him for at least trying. His agenda makes James Joyce's refrigerator look tame.

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  • MLHencken

    btw, Obama, the (evil secret Kenyan terrorist Muslim), wants to use his ACORNS to unplug your grandma.

  • GOP

    Ooo, same position he took in the campaign: promise everything. Water, food, wealth, peace, love, happiness for all of humankind... brougth to you by OBAMA.

  • Elm Street

    Saving us from hell thanks to your everyday corporate jackass: DONE.

    One for him, zero for ya!

  • Bottomless Chips

    Ooo. Corporations are scary. No more tax breaks for them. Let's tax them instead and give the money to public bureaucrats. Because they're saints and have never stolen, defrauded, grafted, or lied like those evil white men in suits who create goods efficiently!

  • nicemarmot

    I normally don't jump in on these idiotic arguments but can't you two see - you're BOTH wrong? Socialism is not necessarily evil. Corporations are not necessarily evil. However both can do evil if used incorrectly. Corporations aren't automatically efficient anymore than your digestive system is automatically efficient - market forces do work, but often in ways we do not foresee, and which cannot be predicted by simple rhetoric. Socialism can take you to the awful place the UK is at right now, where the masses keep voting themselves more bread and circuses at the expensive of a shrinking tax base. Making arguments that Obama is an evil grandma killing socialist and corporations are evil greedy money suckers allows those bad things you're whining about to happen! Try coming up with an answer instead of rhetoric that was old years ago.

  • Mr. Shankly

    It's actually worse than that.....we're stuck with the mutant offspring: corporate socialism.

    Bailouts , subsidies , 'free speech' and takeovers for all! Corporations are people too!

  • GOP

    The answer is not change.

  • Elm Street

    Nobody is advocating for the destruction of the corporations, NO BODY!

    That is the self proclaimed truth, the troy horse of the GOP.

    INSTEAD we actually do have a FAILED system of corporate corruption that they are very happy to keep intact!

    That is the problem, demonizing social causes in favor of keeping the status quo so the oligarchy can keep screwing us all like it has always happened: those are the values to protect!

  • GOP

    Through socialism. Thanks.

  • Elm Street

    socialism?!

    WTF are you talking about?

    FOX Shit in a can?

    Nobody is advocating for the state monopoly. What are corporations to fear: competition? regulation?

    gop puppet!

  • ides_of_march

    The UN is nothing but group therapy for a bunch of third-world losers. A place they can blame all their own failures on that tiny little sliver of land called Israel.

  • ladyjane

    you certainly have a lot of criticism out there for uhh...everything. any suggestions or are you just determined to be argumentative?

    it seems like you'd rather sit back and watch everything denigrate rather than try. i'd say that's the mark of a true coward.

  • Amanda Harletsch

    put a gun on those empty criticism and distrust for government and you have a party!

  • Mr. Shankly

    Sort of agree, but screw them all...Israel included.

    Not our fucking problem.

  • MLHencken

    Sure, why not pretend we're the only people on the planet? USA! USA! /sarcasm

  • Bottomless Chips

    Ed, why do you defend the UN so much? How has it benefited Americans? Hasn't the UN and NATO actually cost tangible American lives as well as billions of dollars?

  • Elm Street

    it is called diplomacy, not everything has to go the pockets of a few to be worthwhile. Multilateralism is a concept that not many republicans even are aware exist, because it doesn't benefit them. Of course GOP puppets make demons out everything that has social development interest, like they are so so much part of the club oligarchy: the freedom they see is only in desiring to belong to the corrupt suit club.

  • Elm Street

    "bunch of third-world losers.": if they were to bring a nuke each then it will be a real Party.

  • ides_of_march

    Obama is going on all these shows because he's narcissist and in love with the sound of his own voice. He can waffle on and yuck it up with all the tv hosts he wants, a lot of Americans recognize his marxist policies for what they are.

  • MLHencken

    Yes, a narcissist. Totally selfish of him to bust his ass trying to fix all the broken shit left to us by 8 years with everyone's favorite former frat boy.

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