June 19, 2010
Mort Zuckerman tries to be serious about Obama
But, the US News chieftain goes swimming in the neocon kiddie pool and fails miserably. Probably about 10 percent of his schtick is actually true, and another 15 percent is true-ish.
Deepwater Horizon: NOT worst enviro disaster ever
The NYT makes that clear in its refutation of one bit of Obama's rhetoric.
Worse, one thing they miss and the biggest, most ironic, or timid, omission of Obama's speech, is global warming itself, the meta-disaster behind the Deepwater Horizon disaster. But, certainly the Dust Bowl, among NYT examples, is far worse than this, too.
(For more on global warming as disaster, with a direct comparison to Deepwater Horizon, go here.)
Beyond the overarching fact of global warming, we could include inside it species extinction, shoreline erosion, island drowning and other things all worse than Deepwater Horizon.
Mountaintop removal coal mining, still countenanced in "light" form by Team Obama, is also worse.
Arguably, so is giving out new nuke plant loans without figuring out where you're going to put the waste.
The push for even more ethanol in gas tanks by Obama's EPA, when ethanol is, at best, energy-return neutral?
I guess that's why Obama wants to make Deepwater Horizon look so bad — to try to get us to forget about worse disasters unfolding or getting worse on his watch.
Worse, one thing they miss and the biggest, most ironic, or timid, omission of Obama's speech, is global warming itself, the meta-disaster behind the Deepwater Horizon disaster. But, certainly the Dust Bowl, among NYT examples, is far worse than this, too.
(For more on global warming as disaster, with a direct comparison to Deepwater Horizon, go here.)
Beyond the overarching fact of global warming, we could include inside it species extinction, shoreline erosion, island drowning and other things all worse than Deepwater Horizon.
Mountaintop removal coal mining, still countenanced in "light" form by Team Obama, is also worse.
Arguably, so is giving out new nuke plant loans without figuring out where you're going to put the waste.
The push for even more ethanol in gas tanks by Obama's EPA, when ethanol is, at best, energy-return neutral?
I guess that's why Obama wants to make Deepwater Horizon look so bad — to try to get us to forget about worse disasters unfolding or getting worse on his watch.
To any of my media analysis friends, or contacts of theirs (Jay Rosen types), who tout a financier idea of New Media, this is why New Media with big private donor subsidy is just as bad as "old media.' (That said, shock me that Huff Post is the poster child.)
Turkey wins, Iran loses, Israel still looks idiotic
A doctoral candidate and a professor at Princeton (both being Jewish, I believe) note how Turkey and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan smell like roses over the Gaza flotilla. And, Iran stinks, even in the nostrils of Hamas. While the Arab sheikdoms are jealous of democratic Turkey. And, Israel, and by extension, the US, remains clueless.
Other than the possible danger of an Armenia genocide resolution passing Congress, as long as Batman and Robin remain clueless and act on their cluelessness, Turkey continues to be the winner.
Other than the possible danger of an Armenia genocide resolution passing Congress, as long as Batman and Robin remain clueless and act on their cluelessness, Turkey continues to be the winner.
June 18, 2010
Neoliberal blech at TPM
Talking Points Memo proprietor touts this weak-tea defense of Obama against true liberals on his handling of Deepwater Horizon by Theda Skocpol. I write back:
Any non-Gang Green enviro group worth its salt 18 months ago was saying how bad, relatively, Kenny Boy Salazar was as Interior nominee.
The recent Rolling Stone article points out just how bad MMS continued to be under Salazar/Obama.
Greenwald had more. (In part because I and others told him to look at Salazar and more.)
And, don’t forget Obama’s hands deep in Exelon’s pockets; hence, all his nuke plant guarantees.
Finally, did Skocpol actually listen to Obama’s excuse of a speech, mixed of platitudes and the lack of tough specifics?
Or Robert Reich’s latest post (at TPM)?
Finally, her “do not support” leading to “rabid Right” comment is like the spouse of an alcoholic and “enabling.”
The only way Progressivism got on the plate of either major party a century ago was vigorous third-party movements in the late 19th century.
Any non-Gang Green enviro group worth its salt 18 months ago was saying how bad, relatively, Kenny Boy Salazar was as Interior nominee.
The recent Rolling Stone article points out just how bad MMS continued to be under Salazar/Obama.
Greenwald had more. (In part because I and others told him to look at Salazar and more.)
And, don’t forget Obama’s hands deep in Exelon’s pockets; hence, all his nuke plant guarantees.
Finally, did Skocpol actually listen to Obama’s excuse of a speech, mixed of platitudes and the lack of tough specifics?
Or Robert Reich’s latest post (at TPM)?
Finally, her “do not support” leading to “rabid Right” comment is like the spouse of an alcoholic and “enabling.”
The only way Progressivism got on the plate of either major party a century ago was vigorous third-party movements in the late 19th century.
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