Voting “present” on climate treaty

Can you imagine the furor in the media if you substituted “President Obama” with “President [insert any Republican name in this space]” in this paragraph from the New York Times?

President Obama and other world leaders have decided to put off the difficult task of reaching a climate change agreement at a global climate conference scheduled for next month, agreeing instead to make it the mission of the Copenhagen conference to reach a less specific “politically binding” agreement that would punt the most difficult issues into the future.

At a hastily arranged breakfast on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit meeting on Sunday morning, the leaders, including Lars Lokke Rasmussen, the prime minister of Denmark and the chairman of the climate conference, agreed that in order to salvage Copenhagen they would have to push a fully binding legal agreement down the road, possibly to a second summit meeting in Mexico City later on.

If it were still Bush, the media would say that he bullied the rest of the world into capitulating to his capitalist whims. Instead, the New York Times makes excuses for him. Funny how that works, huh?

The current president is doing his level best to keep his accomplishments at “zero” – which is fine with me, except everything he doesn’t get done this year will all become “issues” that the Democrats will prostitute in the next election. Then they only have to drag out the same old bumperstickers we’ve been reading for decades.

Category: Barack Obama/Joe Biden, Liberals suck, Media