When the going gets tough on Keystone XL, Obama goes … golfing

[KoKo]

(And, Who can blame him...? He doesn't have any authority over Keystone Pipeline ...it's up to Congress and this deal has been in the works for a long time with Canada....This is from a Canada Website)

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WASHINGTON – A bright, clear, sunny November morning has greeted the environmentalists gathering Sunday at the White House to protest TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline. Several thousand activists are here to “surround” the White House in a human chain in a bid to convince President Barack Obama the pipeline is a bad idea.

Obama, for his part, took the opportunity presented by Sunday’s great weather to bolt the White House via motorcade – well in advance of the protest – for a golf game at Fort Belvoir in Virginia. Let’s be clear – this is a regular weekend golf outing for POTUS, one he’d likely be making regardless of whether there were thousands of protesters outside his house.

The Keystone XL protest is drawing quite the crowd of big names, from Oscar-nominated actor Mark Ruffalo to Obama’s fellow Nobel Peace Prize winner Jody Williams to John Adams, the founding director of the Natural Resources Defense Council. Adams, not so long ago, was invited into the White House last February to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom from Obama himself.

Ruffalo appeared Sunday morning on CTV’s Question Period, and had this to say:

“If we’re serious about climate change and we are honest with ourselves about the issues we face as a world … then we have to face this issue head-on, and exploding the tarsands is not the way to do it. What we really need for energy independence is a renewable energy platform, a plan that’s going to start taking us away from oil, not facilitating its use.”

http://blogs.canada.com/2011/11/06/when-the-going-gets-tough-on-keystone-xl-obama-goes-golfing/

[Vincardog]

1. He does have total authority over Keystone Pipeline, Congress has NO SAY in it. Anyone saying other

wise is lying.

[KoKo]

4. From what I've read ...he doesn't have ANY power but to Veto...and that wouldn't be wise

given the jobs it will produce in the states that are affected by it..along with Canadian Jobs.

So I don't think you are correct in what you say. But, if you have a link to difference I'd like to see it. I think it's a "done deal" because of our trade agreements with Canada and the need for jobs in US.

[Vincardog]

5. Try this link. Evidently the WH believes they have the authority

< http://www.montrealgazette.com/technology/Obama+vows+weigh+environmental+risks+Keystone+decision/5641868/story.html>
"In his most extensive remarks yet about the Keystone XL project, Obama indicated White House would be making the final call on the $7 billion pipeline after receiving recommendations from the U.S. State Department."

Read more: http://www.canada.com/technology/Obama+vows+weigh+environmental+risks+decision+Keystone+pipeline/5641868/story.html#ixzz1cyUdg4wP

I find it interesting that the Obama apologists can insist that he has NO authority to do anything and that he is totally responsible for everything they want to claim on his watch.
Funny that

[KoKo]

8. Here's my problem with what the President said on this...it seemed to be

a "waffle" which we know politicians are prone to do." And, Obama needs to have these jobs...so he's waffling to push it off (maybe hoping something else comes up) but, in the end, the deal will be approved given what we've seen of him from the past. He is Pragmatic...and that's why he is so loved. He says: "My General attitude is, what's best for the health of the American People." (Our DU experience with Obama is that the "ECONOMY" is "what's best for the health of the American People" and NOT...our Environment or Air Quality. Obama feels that a "full belly for our children and jobs for their Mothers and Fathers would outweigh whether there is sickness caused by the refinement of the Tar Sands in Texas that will waft over the Southeast US (already having high asthma and other repiratory problems because of our Coal Burning) and that the Northeast where the Banksters are in NYC will escape the gaseous fumes because of the ocean currents in NYC/LI/Greenwich Ct. and the other places the financial oligarchs call home. It's a trade off for him. And, I don't know that I could do different given the "time and place" this President of USA is in the scheme of what's going on with Global Climate Change and Global Meltdown. :shrug: He's a pragmatist. Not, a Humanist.
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From your first Link:

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Tuesday suggested it could be "several months" before he decides whether to approve Calgary-based TransCanada Corp.'s Keystone XL pipeline — and said environmental concerns would weigh just as significantly in his ruling as U.S. energy security or economic growth.

In his most extensive remarks yet about the Keystone XL project, Obama indicated the White House would be making the final call on the $7 billion pipeline after receiving recommendations from the U.S. State Department.

"My general attitude is, what's best for the American people? What is best for our economy both short term and long term, but also what is best for the health of the American people?" Obama said in an interview with a Nebraska television station.

Read more: http://www.canada.com/technology/Obama+vows+weigh+environmental+risks+decision+Keystone+pipeline/5641868/story.html#ixzz1cyYe0uoV

[Vincardog]

13. So now you admit that it is Obama's call?

[Autumn]

2. I'm waiting to see if he kicks this can down the road until after

the election. He has played it very coy with this. K/R

[CakeGrrl]

3. Gotta love the "gotcha" style

Lead with an accusatory, sensationalist grabber headline that implies That do-nothing President Obama ducks protesters! - and then quietly embed a comment in the article that that isn't TRULY the case.

They're learning well from the U.S. Corporate MSM.

[Skittles]

6. if the prez didn't have some fun time

he'd go certified nuts; yes INDEED

[Autumn]

9. It's good to have fun time. I think anyone can

look past that dumb line. I really hope he won.

[KoKo]

10. The article I posted and what I said..says exactly that. No one blames him for going Golfing...at

all. You rush to judgement and didn't even read my post.

[Skittles]

11. I'm just making a comment

apparently you are rushing to judgement

[dionysus]

7. that's nice. i hope he got a birdie.

[Beacool]

12. If this had been Bush, we would be all over him.

Since it's Obama, he gets a pass.

:D