Obama: Domestic policy by global referendum?
- Posted by Beth on May 19th, 2008 filed in 2008 election, Barack Obama, Climate change, General, International, Moonbats, Politics, Stupid, WTF
Remember Jon Carry’s “global referendum” foreign policy? Well, Barack Obama apparently wants global referenda on our domestic policy, too. Actually, your domestic policy - at home.
Pitching his message to Oregon’s environmentally-conscious voters, Obama called on the United States to “lead by example” on global warming, and develop new technologies at home which could be exported to developing countries.
“We can’t drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times … and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK,” Obama said.
“That’s not leadership. That’s not going to happen,” he added.
OMG, other countries might not approve! Better get used to this idea - turn up the thermostat today so you’ll be acclimated to Obama’s Brave New World!
Note to Barack Obama: I don’t give a rat’s ass if your cousins or whomever in other countries are resentful of my 72-degree air-conditioning or my freedom to eat whatever I want. And if you think it’s “leadership” taking orders from the UN or whatever…well, what more is there to say? Isn’t that “appeasement?”
This guy is nuts. Maybe he’s just pandering to enviroloons in Oregon, but really, do you think he’d say this if he thought the sentiment were ridiculous? This is the kind of nonsense we’re in for if he’s elected (God forbid) - nanny state crap designed to make the rest of the world like us find something else to whine about. After all, Other Countriesâ„¢ will never be happy with us until they are the leading world superpowers. That’s what the world’s favorite candidate has in store for us - weakening the US sufficiently to make the rest of the world like us better. Appeasement. No thanks.
Cat says:
What Koolaid are these people drinking?
I have a real problem with any politician that is willing to make US law subordinate to some fuzzy international law or concept. We are doomed if that’s the direction he’s going to take us. The vast majority of countries in this world are run by some stripe of dictatorship. Which reminds me–Obama has very little in the way of a track record which makes him appealing. It cuts down on what he can be criticized for but this piece of legislation he sponsored is very telling. Take a look at his Global Poverty Act (S. 2433) In short, this is going to be voted on any day and it could amount to $845 trillion (0.7 % of the GDP) of US taxpayer money being distributed to third world countries. Those same countries whose governments are dominated by despots. Those same countries that whine the most about the US. This would be on top of other aid given to the UN and others.
If we are going to be the world’s daddy, maybe we should be able to drive what we want, eat what we want, and keep our homes comfortable for us. Heck…when I’m having a hot flash, the dogs and hubby go outside because you can hang meat in our house…. Which makes me happy because the Goreacle is probably feeling a disturbance in the carbon offset force.
BWWAAHAHAHAHA
Beth says:
Hot damn, Cat! Ditto on all counts!
*standing ovation*
Stix says:
Dittos here also
What a freaking diouchebag, he wants us to live by other countries rules and how they fweeel about us. I cound give a a rat’s ass howthe UN, England, Fwance or anyother country tinks about us. Wedo not need other people telling us how to live
Cat says:
Well…this arrogant limousine liberal twit has really fired my buns this am. I just saw the news item about his appearance on GMA.
Seems his highness isn’t too happy with the Tenn. GOP taking his bitter wife to task over some comments she made in February. He’s actually a bit threatening. That should tell people volumes . If she doesn’t want to have her words/actions criticized, then she should shut up and I don’t care if it’s his wife, kids or neighborhood dogcatcher. You are a fair target if you give speeches and generally run your trap. I’m tired of politicians, their spouses, and myrmidons saying something then when it becomes an issue it’s: a) taken out of context b) not what they meant to say. You are a politician, if you said it during an official speech to your sycophants, you meant it. Don’t play victim when it’s plastered on YouTube. What a tool.
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raz0r says:
Oh my. You mean someone in Fwance, Vienna, etc. will think less of us? I didn’t think that was possible.
And I’m sick and tired of having folks who have their hands out for my money telling me how to live. If they’re my supposed intellectual superiors, why can’t they foot their own bill? Oh, that’s right, they live in third world dung heaps or socialist nanny states.
“Put your helmet on before going outside. Wouldn’t want any thoughts of free will popping into your head.”
Cat says:
That is freaking hilarious TooFunny. I am going to have to get a few and send, anonymously of course, to a few of my dear but non-thinking liberal friends.
Lord Bitememan says:
This is what I never understood about the environmental mentality of progressives. Barack Obama wants to tell me what I can eat and how warm or cold my house can be, and he wants to do it in the name of making the rest of the world “like us,” and that’s supposedly okay. On the other hand, listen to some phone conversations to overseas in the name of keeping us safe from another 9-11 attack, and THAT’S somehow going too far?
Lord Bitememan says:
On a more personal note to Barack Obama, I know what those Chi-town winters are like. They’re a lot like our Detroit winters. $50 says that man’s thermostat never goes below 74 in the winter. Why should it? He’s rich and can afford to heat his house. Well, I’ll tell you one thing, that man has probably never spent a night in the cold because he couldn’t afford heating oil and I have. I’ll be damned if that snot nosed little prick is going to be the one to tell me how warm I keep my place in the winter.
Betty says:
You guys are all right on the money. If you can’t stand the heat, get off my TV.