VIDEO: Will Keystone be Obama's biggest liability in the general election?
During Current's "Politically Direct 2012" post-debate analysis, one viewer asked, "What attack made on the president tonight could you see actually being effective in the general election?" Cenk Uygur's answer is the Keystone pipeline attacks could be one. "The veracity of those statements is a different issue," Cenk says, "but we're within days of Obama buckling on this issue." Jennifer Granholm says she "totally disagrees," because "that was a hard enough decision for [Obama] to make in the first place."
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Ambill94
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As usual the Pres has painted himself into the corner that enables him to "compromise"...or said another way...he will most likely cave as he has on nearly everything else of note...he should veto the bill thats coming to him on principle alone and then get on TV and tell the American people that he is through trying to play nice with Boner and Co. when they hold the middle class hostage again...but he won't...as some other poster put it: "Obama doesn't have the stones."
He has so screwed this one up that no matter what he does it will be wrong...
- 5 months ago
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Ambill94
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thinkingfree
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More proof that there is no real distinction between left and right political players. The only difference is in the rhetoric. The bottom line decisions always reflect a contempt for Americans.
- 5 months ago
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thinkingfree
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JanforGore
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Obama should have said NO to this pipeline in the 1st place and this wouldn't be an issue now because they wouldn't be able to use it as leverage. They are also only temporary jobs and more could be made with renewable energy that are permanent... but please, don't make that obvious in your responses which actually were pretty poor on this. And sorry, but this entire discussion where you all act as if the XL decision means nothing but to be used as a political wedge about jobs while totally ignoring the effects of tarsands on the environment, climate and human health and apologizing for him ( and actually Republicans who don't care about this) is truly sickening. When he caves on this like he always does to Republicans and this toxic crude spills into the Ogalalla aquifer or some other body of water toxifiying it and agriculture even more than it already is, call him your president then.
- 5 months ago
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JanforGore
