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Obama: climate change may be irreversible

Jennifer Chait — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 12:22:01 +0000

Recently more than 90 global leaders gathered for a climate change summit in New York City to brainstorm about the affects of global warming and to come up with some possible solutions to combat the problem. President Barack Obama spoke at the summit, noting that taking zero action on climate change could leave future generations with an “irreversible catastrophe.“

President Obama also noted that the United States is “determined to act” and has put climate at the top of the diplomatic agenda with countries across regions, from China and India to Brazil and Mexico. U.S. leader at the summit agree that security and stability of every nation are at stake with Obama recognizing that it’ll be difficult to reach a climate change agreement. However, because developed nations have caused much of the global warming damage, Obama says that we also have a responsibility to fight the effects.

*VOA News

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Obama: climate change may be irreversible

Obama/Bush Speeches – Double Standard?

Jennifer Walker-Journey — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 17:49:19 +0000

How about the school district in Arlington, Texas. It refused to allow students the opportunity to hear President Obama’s speech to students Tuesday because it didn’t want to interfere with lessons. Yet the same school district sees no problem in interrupting classes to bus 500 of its students to attend a Super Bowl-related event later this month where former president George W. Bush will speak. Sound like a double standard to you?

The school makes this distinction: “…it’s a field trip that parents have to grant permission for students to attend.”

Let’s see, current president Obama spoke about the importance of education and to not give up on school. Arlington schools did not broadcast the speech in its schools but did allow students to check out of school to watch it at a local church with parental permission. That is, if they could find transportation to get them to the church and back to school in a reasonable amount of time.

Former president Bush is speaking September 21st at a North Texas Super Bowl XLV Host Committee event at Cowboys Stadium in support of the Super Bowl’s new education program. Twenty-eight fifth-grade classes, or about 500 students, will be bussed there. Parents will have to sign the usual “field trip” permission slips so their children can attend.

Sound biased to you?

Source: Star-Telegram
Photo, Flickr, marcn

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Obama/Bush Speeches – Double Standard?

Hillary and Obama: The White House or The Fun House?

admin — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 00:04:15 +0000

Hillary Clinton’s Annoucement:

I’m in. And I’m in to win.

Today I am announcing that I will form an exploratory committee to run for president.

I don’t get it…has she announced that she’s in or she announcing that she will announce whether or not she’s in.

I guess it depends on what you mean by “In”.

But whatever…the gloves are off between Hillary and Obama…I smell a 3 ring-circus leading up to the 2008 elections…just throw Guiliani into the mix and we’ve got 2 more years of:

Platitudes and background checks and accusations...oh my!

Even though on the surface it seems like a special political season, and we’re all excited about the possibility of the 1st woman or the 1st black man or the 1st Italian-American…

…it all sounds like politics as usual to me.

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Hillary and Obama: The White House or The Fun House?