Obama Uses U.N. Speech to Address…Climate Change
- Posted on September 21, 2011 at 11:58am by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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President Obama used his U.N. General Assembly speech Wednesday to tackle a lot of things. He covered the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the AIDS crisis, and even the global economy. But he also made sure to cover one other issue near and dear to his heart — climate change.
Here’s what he said (according to his prepared remarks):
To preserve our planet, we must not put off the action that a changing climate demands. We must tap the power of science to save those resources that are scarce. Together, we must continue our work to build on the progress made in Copenhagen and Cancun, so that all of the major economies here today follow through on the commitments that were made. Together, we must work to transform the energy that powers are economies, and support others as they move down that path. That is what our commitment to the next generation demands.
And here’s how he delivered them (video has been updated):
The comments come as Former President Clinton said this week that the green movement is strapped for cash.
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lembrandt
Posted on September 21, 2011 at 1:05pmportrait of a dictator…
Report Post »smithclar3nc3
Posted on September 21, 2011 at 3:35pmWith more and more evidence pointing away from the seriously flawed science behind GLOBAL WARMING their window of opportunity is all but closed. He and his ilk will find themselves deported from the soveriegn U.S. before long.
Report Post »its_time_to_arrest_our_government
Posted on September 22, 2011 at 12:35pmfor you dumb sobs the climate changes twice a year summer to winter winter to summer. i am sop sick of these tree huggers who claim they know what this planet is doing. they should all be taken out and chained to a tree and fed to the bears. its the bears right to eat your dumb a$$es.
Report Post »Liberalismsamentaldisorder
Posted on September 21, 2011 at 1:05pmThis guy is just too much. How can even the most casual political observer not see right through him? The ONLY thing the liberal world has going for them is the tuned-out, uninformed masses. This is why they need so much control of your life. By nature humans look to better themselves, libs rely on keeping people shackled.
Report Post »NuffSaid
Posted on September 21, 2011 at 1:04pmWanta preserve the planet? Pick up up after the mexicans in the Arizona dessert, duf-o! Replant the cactus, fence off the homes of the tortoises and lizards from pilferage, clear the brush to prevent wild fires, put in some bike paths and drinking fountains…”
Oh that’s right, you never had to pick up after anybody before… You are totally incompetent in any world but Chicago.
Report Post »lketchum
Posted on September 21, 2011 at 1:01pmI am frustrated with President Obama’s tone, which persists as coming off as scolding and off-putting.
To whom does the man thing he is speaking?
Report Post »scuba13
Posted on September 21, 2011 at 2:23pmTo all of his subjects.
Report Post »NOTYERHUCKLEBERRY
Posted on September 21, 2011 at 4:22pmThat’s why he is always looking down his nose at us little people.
Report Post »michael48
Posted on September 21, 2011 at 1:01pmgood grief…he didn‘t have much to lose but he’s lost whatever he had…menally ill or a drug addict…quite posibly BOTH…get ready for a tele-tantrum and a vacation…
Report Post »zenjak
Posted on September 21, 2011 at 1:00pmAnd here’s what he meant:
“To preserve my agenda, we must not put off the action that a climate scare tactic demands. We must tap the power of thuggery to confiscate those resources that are scarce – the last remaining money in the handsof private citizens. Together, we must continue our work to build on the progress made in Copenhagen and Cancun, so that all of the major economies here today follow through on surrending to our political will. Together, we must work to increase the mandates that suck the life from our economies, and kill others as they move down that drain. That is what our commitment to bigger government demands.”
Report Post »stealthyk9
Posted on September 21, 2011 at 1:12pmThanks for the accurate translation. I feel like I’m living in an George Orwell or Ayn Rand novel.
Report Post »bigmountain1969
Posted on September 21, 2011 at 12:58pmYesssss, let’s dump more $$$ into companies like Solyndra so we can advance our future in clean energy production.
Report Post »biohazard23
Posted on September 21, 2011 at 1:04pmI‘ve said it before and I’ll say it again:
I’ll start taking these global warming freaks seriously when they all decide to forgo each and every convenience of modern life and decide to live as the cavemen did. If they go ahead and live a hand-to-mouth existence, hunting and foraging for food, giving up their computers, Blackberrys, Facebook, hybrid cars, birkenstocks, and soy lattes, and living in a desolate cave somewhere AND MAKE IT WORK, then perhaps they may be taken a little more seriously.
Oh, and they can’t use fire for cooking and warmth since fires are bad. No recycling anything that they already have. That wouldn’t be very fair since they would still be utilizing those evil capitalist materials that contributed to the global warming crisis in the first place. So no tools, no clothes or shoes, no creature comforts of any kind. Live off the land, my friends, utilizing all that Mother Nature has to offer and show us how it’s supposed to be done!
Oh, and no modern farming conveniences to help feed their fellow greenie masses. After all, agriculture is what got the ball rolling as far as some of those folks are concerned. Farming destroyed the land and eliminated all kinds of critters, right? So if they mean what they say and they’re willing to put their nasty capitalist dollars where their hypocritical mouths are, then it’s a strictly caveman existence for them. (That goes for you, too, Al Gore.)
We’ll anxiously be waiting to see how long the
Report Post »biohazard23
Posted on September 21, 2011 at 1:11pm*they last. :)
Report Post »Salamander
Posted on September 22, 2011 at 2:23amLook for the feedback loop! Follow the money! Solyndra may be little more than a conduit, a means to funnel money from the Federal Treasury to the next election campaign!
Report Post »JLGunner
Posted on September 21, 2011 at 12:32pmHow many motorcades delivered all these dunderheads to the UN building? Were there private jets flying in the psudoleaders?
Report Post »DTOM_Jericho (Creator vindicator)
Posted on September 21, 2011 at 12:46pmCan someone please cap and trade this ***hole?
Report Post »RIGEL_ORION
Posted on September 21, 2011 at 12:51pmRofl!!
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on September 21, 2011 at 12:30pm.
Report Post »Sitting around talking with the Tooth Fairy, Easter Bunny & Santa we all think he’s Full of Crap…..
Rational Man
Posted on September 21, 2011 at 12:29pmObama and his presidency reminds me of little league basball.
Report Post »They want all the kids to have a chance to play so they have to put in the inexperienced, uncoordinated kid that keeps putting his glove on the wrong hand and doesn’t have a clue.
All the players and spectators are embarrassed for the kid and frustrated with his bungling the plays and can’t hardly wait for him to be called off the field.
He gets lots of coaching from the stands and the players but the poor kid just can’t get it right and he looks uncomfortable and out of place out there.
And his poor parents are embarrassed for him and themselves having to tollerate the frustrated jeers from everyone.
It’s an uncomfortable, unpleasant time that everyone hopes will be over soon…………
November 2012 can’t come soon enough!!
symphonic
Posted on September 21, 2011 at 12:57pmSounds like you have a disfunctional little league going on there… One that is focused primarily on winning the game. Sad sad sad to put that kind of pressure on little kids that ought to just have FUN at the sport. These kids are 8 years old for crying out loud. EASE UP!!
Report Post »RIGEL_ORION
Posted on September 21, 2011 at 12:58pmIt’s even worse than that. After the kid misses another catch in deep left field, he takes no responsibility. Instead, he blames his misfortunes on the baseball fat cats and their bleachers getting in his field of vision. Instead of actually learning to hit or catch, he spends every half inning preaching about the need to fundamentally transform the shape of the field, to finally make it fair.
Report Post »symphonic
Posted on September 21, 2011 at 1:06pmThis is a really BAD analogy, and only shows the misplaced expectations of prideful parents who want their kid to be the center of everything, the star of the team, and kids who have paid their dues by starting the game when they were merely 1 year old. (gotta start em young!)
Report Post »RIGEL_ORION
Posted on September 21, 2011 at 1:13pm@Symphonic
There’s absolutely nothing wrong with children learning the lessons of winning and losing. Learning to trust and depend on your teammates, and in return working hard to not let your teammates down is an essential part of that lesson.
Accepting incompetence, awarding participation trophies, not keeping score, etc., only encourages more mediocrity and ingrains attitudes that you deserve something just by showing up and being you.
Report Post »Rational Man
Posted on September 21, 2011 at 3:25pmBesides the fact that what I posted about kids ball games is the truth of what I have observed and experienced at those games, (right or wrong), you are missing the point and focusing on the wrong thing.
Obama is the kid in the game that got there because people thought everyone should get a chance to play ball. Even if he is inexperienced, uncoordinated and bungles the plays. Other players like Clinton, for instance, try coaching him. The American people, (in the stands), are shouting at him and cringe when he bungles yet another play and is causing the team, (America), to lose the game. They are calling for him to be taken out of the game. It’s an uncomfortable situation and stresses everyone out, except the opposing teams, (other countries), who want to see us fail. (Or lose the game)
Maybe it’s a goofy analogy to you. Maybe you want to sound off and beat your chest over the behavour of the people at kids ball games. But your just missing the point.
Report Post »It’s just an analogy of a person who is in way over his head and in an embarrassing, stressful, game changing situation. And in Obama’s case, a dangerous situation.
Take it for what it’s worth, or just move on to another post……..jeesh!
Rational Man
Posted on September 21, 2011 at 3:37pmCome to think of it, this reminds me of another analogy when watching a Blue Collar Comedy show on TV and Bill Engvall has to explain to Larry The Cable Guy what an analogy is.
GIT-R-DONE!!
This thread and my goofy analogy are not about little league baseball……get it?
Report Post »Salamander
Posted on September 22, 2011 at 2:27amOnly THIS kid has such a big ego that he isn’t embarrassed by the ill-fitting glove! He just keeps on reading the Teleprompter and wagging his head from left to right and spouting off like he knows something-kind of a Knute Rockne/Barney mix! (Nah, really more of a Teletubbies nightmare! Will somebody pinch me when it is all over?)
Report Post »AwakenedGiant
Posted on September 23, 2011 at 11:42pmNice analogy
Report Post »Joe1123
Posted on September 21, 2011 at 12:28pmI’m honestly beginning to believe he wants to lose. None of the stuff he’s been doing lately does him any good. Makes no sense. I really think he wants out and this is the way he’s chosen (not that I’m complaining … good riddance as far as I’m concerned).
Report Post »cessna152
Posted on September 21, 2011 at 12:41pmIf I hear one more person talk about great education from Ivy league schools, I‘m gonna’ ask them “How come so many Ivy league graduates can be SOOOOOO stupid”? These dopes have no clue clue about business 101…GRRRRRRRRR!!!!
Report Post »symphonic
Posted on September 21, 2011 at 12:59pmThey only APPEAR stupidly, or act stupidly. They actually know exactly what they are doing and they are trying to bring down the country and usher us into some new world order once they get that danged Constitution out of the way.
Report Post »heavyduty
Posted on September 21, 2011 at 12:27pmI get it now. The feud between Palestine and Israel is causing climate change. I wonder why I didn’t think of that myself. What in the world does climate change have to to with Israel and Palestine?
Report Post »justasoldier
Posted on September 21, 2011 at 12:24pmWhy do I always feel like I’m on Candid Camera? Seriously…this has got to be the biggest prank ever…right?
Report Post »AxelPhantom
Posted on September 21, 2011 at 12:18pmCancun, that would be?….Agenda 21
Report Post »capecodsully
Posted on September 21, 2011 at 12:15pmI think he means let’s continue to throw away American tax revenues (which we should increase) chasing after pretend energy sources that show no chance of every supplying the worlds needs. Good thing he brought up something really important, we wouldn’t want an American president looking like a complete tool for the new world order. What a jacka**.
Report Post »rienheart
Posted on September 21, 2011 at 12:15pmOur commitment to the world would be to rid our Natiopn of Obama and all the Commies who have infiltrated our Federal Government, State and Cities too.
Report Post »texascav
Posted on September 21, 2011 at 12:14pmwhat a dumb@#*
Report Post »Hockeytown
Posted on September 21, 2011 at 12:14pmI’m so sick of hearing about climate change and the sheeple that believe it. If people would just learn history they wouldn’t be able to get away with this crap.
Report Post »lionB
Posted on September 21, 2011 at 12:14pm“FADE AWAY SIR, FADE AWAY” That is awesome! Put it on a t-shirt and I will buy it.
Report Post »opNorthwoods
Posted on September 21, 2011 at 12:11pmwatch Rick Perry scandal > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cfsib8lPi8I
Report Post »Joe1123
Posted on September 21, 2011 at 12:35pmNo thanks, you watch it.
Report Post »stang289
Posted on September 21, 2011 at 12:11pmYou big fat LIAR !
Report Post »HKS
Posted on September 21, 2011 at 12:14pmObummer is just keeping his eye on the prize.
Report Post »Rational Man
Posted on September 21, 2011 at 12:09pmStuff like this is just embarrassing for America.
Report Post »I feel like telling the world that Obama is not my president.
I didn’t vote for him!!
We are not all that stupid!!
Fly Old Glory 24/7 365
Posted on September 21, 2011 at 12:13pmBarack Hussein is the president, he is NOT my President. He is an embarrasment, he is not qualified to be the dog chaser little lone president…
Report Post »Salamander
Posted on September 22, 2011 at 2:31amBut we are surrounded by those who thought they were doing their progressive duty by electing this fluffy! We really need a threshold literacy test to hold office. Every other profession has standards. Maybe it is about time we set some standards for political office!
Report Post »Mandors
Posted on September 21, 2011 at 12:08pm“Our commitment to the next generation” should be to stop mortgaging its future. Cut spending.
Global warming is a myth.
Report Post »Hemingway in Cuba
Posted on September 21, 2011 at 12:07pmHe is vying for his next Nobel Prize no doubt. This is yet another way to turn over American sovereignty to little dictators and global entities. How long before we can send him back to Chicago?
“The true patriot is motivated by a sense of responsibility and out of self-interest for himself, his family, and the future of his country” – Ron Paul http://www.theburningplatform.com/?p=21641
Report Post »TRONINTHEMORNING
Posted on September 21, 2011 at 12:04pmQuit lying to the world, Barry. You are a foolhardy man who cannot be trusted. You say what you think people want to hear–which makes you less than a man. Fade away, sir; fade away.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on September 21, 2011 at 12:08pmHe won’t “fade away” he will have to be REMOVED kicking and screaming all the way.
TEA!
Report Post »lketchum
Posted on September 21, 2011 at 12:09pm@TRONINTHEMORNING Love it, Sir! could not have expressed it any better:
“Fade away, Sir; Fade away…”
Indeed. If we are lucky, he will, and it will be that simple.
Report Post »drattastic
Posted on September 21, 2011 at 12:13pmWell put. The only thing this man really cares about is himself .
Report Post »Fly Old Glory 24/7 365
Posted on September 21, 2011 at 12:15pm@ Cat: I think he loses in the primary to Hillary and I think he welcomes the defeat. I don’t believe there will be any kicking and screaming.
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