Jonah Goldberg noted some cliche clunkiness ("gathering clouds and raging storms"), strained sensibility ("For us, they…endured the lash of the whip" For us?), and pure nonsense (we will harness the sun to power our factories) in BHO’s speech.
Goldberg: "Why not distill energy from our strategic unicorn manure stockpile?"
The Seablogger is logically moved to wonder if The One (the great backtracker, after all) is reversing course on anthropogenic global warming: "[W]hen he promises to ‘roll back the specter of a warming planet.’" A specter, after all, is a ghost.
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On the other hand it could be an attempt to shore up the ice-cream factories.
Positive act if so.
Ah. They wouldn’t have to worry about melting.