The Presidency of Barack Obama has, perhaps, veered to the right. At the least, the environmental left (is that a redundancy?) thinks so, and there may be something to that.
In his State of the Union address, the President called for offshore drilling and increased subsidies to the nuclear industry. He has recently moved to support the ethanol and carbon energy fields. In short, he's trying to appeal to areas of traditional energy sources and agricultural political strength. This is not a bad idea politically, one supposes, yet it certainly does not paint him as a green-eyed idealist to the fringe left.
It is a response, surely, to the wake up calls the White House and the Democrats has heard jingling in their ears since November. They went too far, and now they have to move back if they hope to avert disaster in the coming elections. But is it too little, too late.
Let's hope so. The Spirit of 94: pass it on!
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If politicians continue to appeal to winning the next election instead of doing the right thing, nothing good can ever come from their offices.
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