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MBS

(9,688 posts) Tue Oct 30, 2012, 05:20 AM Oct 2012

Eugene Robinson on Sandy and election

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/eugene-robinson-romney-would-pass-the-buck-on-disasters/2012/10/29/c1dbbdca-21f2-11e2-ac85-e669876c6a24_story.html

Back when he was being “severely conservative,” Mitt Romney suggested that responsibility for disaster relief should be taken from the big, bad federal government and given to the states, or perhaps even privatized. Hurricane Sandy would like to know if he’d care to reconsider. . .
I know it’s impossible to definitively blame any one storm on human-induced atmospheric warming. But I’m sorry, these off-the-charts phenomena are becoming awfully commonplace. By the time scientists definitively establish what’s happening, it will be too late.

As has been noted, the words “climate change” were not spoken during the presidential debates. Hurricane Sandy wants to know why.

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Eugene Robinson on Sandy and election (Original Post) MBS Oct 2012 OP

Our country is so delusional that even the President... polichick Oct 2012 #1

But Biden did not, if you remember his chiding remark to Romney during the Dem Convention... Moonwalk Oct 2012 #4

How sad that our leader should have to play such games... polichick Oct 2012 #5

Rampid ambition haunted the 20th Century, Rank stupidity so far in the 21st Century. gordianot Oct 2012 #2

+1. bemildred Oct 2012 #3

polichick

(37,152 posts)

1. Our country is so delusional that even the President...

Reply to MBS (Original post)

Tue Oct 30, 2012, 06:11 AM

Oct 2012

...keeps silent about the biggest threat human beings have ever been faced with.

Moonwalk

(2,322 posts)

4. But Biden did not, if you remember his chiding remark to Romney during the Dem Convention...

Reply to polichick (Reply #1)

Tue Oct 30, 2012, 07:44 AM

Oct 2012

...that rising sea levels were no joke.

The President may have to bite his tongue and bide his time to win this dicey political game, but actions speak louder than words. So long as he puts his support behind science and alternative fuels, forwarding that agenda, they and Joe will speak for him.

polichick

(37,152 posts)

5. How sad that our leader should have to play such games...

Reply to Moonwalk (Reply #4)

Tue Oct 30, 2012, 10:39 AM

Oct 2012

Too many people in this country have lost their damned minds!

gordianot

(15,238 posts)

2. Rampid ambition haunted the 20th Century, Rank stupidity so far in the 21st Century.

Reply to MBS (Original post)

Tue Oct 30, 2012, 06:44 AM

Oct 2012

Spread through a communication technological revolution.

bemildred

(90,061 posts)

3. +1.

Reply to gordianot (Reply #2)

Tue Oct 30, 2012, 07:20 AM

Oct 2012

I see a notable increase in the stunned butt-covering mode among our "elites" since 2000, that's for sure. I'm sure you all can fill in the list, starting with Selection 2000, what a way to start off the century, eh? Do any of those fools think they are going to go down in History in any other way than for that?

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