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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPresident Barack Obama becomes mocker-in-chief on climate change skeptics
The sarcastic bear is loose, and hes loving every minute of it.
President Barack Obama is letting his inner Don Rickles run free, mocking climate deniers as the crowd who used to think the moon was made out of cheese or spineless dopes who cant or wont listen to science even though the science is all overwhelmingly pointing in one direction. Their heads are in the sand. They are members of the Flat Earth Society.
For the White House its about getting the liberal base excited for the midterms. Its a confidence that climate change has shifted in voters minds. Its a broader play against congressional Republicans as obstructionists.
And for Obama, its a good time. Wednesday night, Obama ripped into his opponents in front of a League of Conservation Voters crowd so friendly that some were pumping their arms in the air as he spoke.
Its pretty rare that you encounter people who say that the problem of carbon pollution is not a problem, Obama said. In most communities and workplaces, they may not know how big a problem it is, they may not know exactly how it works, they may doubt they can do something about it. Generally they dont just say, No I dont believe anything scientists say. Except, where? he said, waiting for the more than accommodating crowd to call back, Congress!
Obama smiled not his big toothy self-satisfied grin, but his stick-it-in-the-ribs smirk.
http://www.politico.com/story/2014/06/barack-obama-climate-change-108338.html
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President Barack Obama becomes mocker-in-chief on climate change skeptics (Original Post)
IronLionZion
Jun 2014
OP
While mocking all of us with his environmentally destructive trade agreements. nt
woo me with science
Jun 2014
#2
Wish Politico would print the barbs rather than their impression of his delivery.
SleeplessinSoCal
Jun 2014
#4
Uncle Joe
(58,282 posts)1. Kicked and recommended.
Thanks for the thread, IronLionZion.
woo me with science
(32,139 posts)2. While mocking all of us with his environmentally destructive trade agreements. nt
IronLionZion
(45,380 posts)3. Video:
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SleeplessinSoCal
(9,082 posts)4. Wish Politico would print the barbs rather than their impression of his delivery.