Obama's Disregard for Canada and Ourselves

President Barack Obama has rejected the Keystone Pipeline project, despite the fact that it would create 20,000 direct jobs. Who would those jobs go to, you might ask? Mostly union members, the exact people who seem to have wed themselves to the Democrats without any real real concern for what Democratic policies must actually mean for the working stiff. Is there a lesson in all this? One would think so; yet they'll still vote for him in November.

The President had three and a half years to make up his mind about the Pipeline, then had the audacity to blame the GOP for his dismissal of it. What more needed to be done? This is little more than an elections year ploy towards the environmental left, a group for which many if not most union members have little regard. But will they ask whether the President is selling them out because of this? It's highly doubtful; they may even bend over backwards to find reason to support him anyway. Has Big Labor ever stopped and asked if maybe they're being played?

Meanwhile, what does this say about our regard for Canada? This is costing them time, effort, and jobs as well. They're trying to be good neighbours by selling to us first, and we spit at it. What kind of message does that send? Isn't it better to get oil more locally rather than from halfway around the world and stay involved in the Middle East? Call it dirty oil if you will, but we'll never have a war for oil with Canada, you know. Now they'll simply sell it elsewhere.

We have a President who hurts America and her greatest ally and friend. He hurts the very people who are supposed to be among his core supporters. Yet it will all mean nothing to his apologists.

But it does mean something to the rest of us. November 2012 cannot come quickly enough.