On a side note. This putting the coal industry out of business comment should hurt Obama in Penn, Ohio because they mine a lot of coal there.
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John, I personally didn’t take issue with Obama’s statement based on the facts, as his position is somewhat similar to McCain’s. I think what unnerved me was the casual way in which he talked about power plants having to go bankrupt as a result of the emissions caps. Because each time a plant goes out of business, someone loses a job. And the sense I get from this guy is that, despite all his rainbows and warm and fuzzy decals, he just doesn’t care if your company goes bust. He was kind of dispassionate, almost professorial, about it, like he was commenting on a research paper. Much the same way that he casually noted that his beloved Aunt Zeituni would have to pack her bags and get going if she were in the U.S. illegally. Now, no one would expect him to excuse her crime or to make an exception for her, but a little empathy or some emotion would seem to be in order. Take a page from Biden — get choked up, wipe your eyes, do something. Get teary and bite your lower lip like Slick Willy used to. But don’t just sit there like an Ivy League robot and tell someone that their life is about to go to crap, so long, its been nice having you as an aunt and including you as a compelling character arc in my memoir. I suppose if it’s not on a teleprompter, he just doesn’t get it and can’t fake it. There’s a wee bit of sociopath in Obama that disturbs me. McCain is senile, but Obama is just creepy.
A very sad choice for any American to have to make.
