red states rule
08-07-2008, 08:08 AM
For some reason the left elevates their failures to a high status and looks to them for guidance
Pres Peanut Carter was the worst President in my lifetime, and now Obama wants to be Peanuts second term
August 06, 2008
Recycling Jimmy Carter
By J. Robert Smith
Barack Obama doesn't just talk about conservation, he practices it. In his thinking and proposals on energy, the Illinois senator has expertly recycled Jimmy Carter. Though there may be a difference here or there, the Obama policies are essentially Carter's.
You have doubts? Read through Carter's energy speech from April 1977. In a nationally televised addressed, Carter struck themes that are echoed by Obama today.
- Whereas Jimmy Carter accused the United States of being "the most wasteful nation on earth," Obama is fond of saying that Americans are energy hogs, consuming a quarter of the world's energy while being only three percent of the world's population.
- Carter urged "strict conservation and a transition to "permanent renewable energy sources, like solar power." He spoke about the need to protect the environment.
- Like Obama raising the specter of manmade global warming, Carter had his Chicken Little, too. He conjured up the image of a mini-apocalypse, should Americans not come to grips soon with the energy crisis. In his own words:
"We will feel mounting pressure to plunder the environment. We will have a crash program to build more nuclear plants, strip-mine and burn more coal, and drill more offshore wells than we will need if we begin to conserve now. Inflation will soar, production will go down, people will lose their jobs. Intense competition will build up among nations and among the different regions within our own country.
"If we fail to act soon, we will face an economic, social and political crisis that will threaten our free institutions."
http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/08/recycling_jimmy_carter.html
Pres Peanut Carter was the worst President in my lifetime, and now Obama wants to be Peanuts second term
August 06, 2008
Recycling Jimmy Carter
By J. Robert Smith
Barack Obama doesn't just talk about conservation, he practices it. In his thinking and proposals on energy, the Illinois senator has expertly recycled Jimmy Carter. Though there may be a difference here or there, the Obama policies are essentially Carter's.
You have doubts? Read through Carter's energy speech from April 1977. In a nationally televised addressed, Carter struck themes that are echoed by Obama today.
- Whereas Jimmy Carter accused the United States of being "the most wasteful nation on earth," Obama is fond of saying that Americans are energy hogs, consuming a quarter of the world's energy while being only three percent of the world's population.
- Carter urged "strict conservation and a transition to "permanent renewable energy sources, like solar power." He spoke about the need to protect the environment.
- Like Obama raising the specter of manmade global warming, Carter had his Chicken Little, too. He conjured up the image of a mini-apocalypse, should Americans not come to grips soon with the energy crisis. In his own words:
"We will feel mounting pressure to plunder the environment. We will have a crash program to build more nuclear plants, strip-mine and burn more coal, and drill more offshore wells than we will need if we begin to conserve now. Inflation will soar, production will go down, people will lose their jobs. Intense competition will build up among nations and among the different regions within our own country.
"If we fail to act soon, we will face an economic, social and political crisis that will threaten our free institutions."
http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/08/recycling_jimmy_carter.html