Spinning the Planet: John McCain and Climate Change

This is a classic case of what our president calls the soft bigotry of low expectations. Judged against his fellow Republicans, McCain is a paragon of atmospheric wisdom. Judged against the climate and energy legislation afoot in Congress, he falls short. Judged against the two leading Democratic presidential candidates, he is a pale shadow. Judged against the imperatives of climate science -- that is to say, judged against brute physical reality -- he ... Full Story »

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Jack Dinkmeyer
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by Jack Dinkmeyer - Oct. 1, 2008

McCain has angered ultra conservatives by going against their mantra a number of times. But now that he's their presidential candidate, his positions are shifting. (If he was Kerry, we would say, "flip flopping".) His vanishing enthusiasm about global warming puts him in company with the likes of such anti-global warming ultra conservative darlings like Tom DeLay and Jim Inhofe. Coupled with his statements about leaving troops in Iraq for a hundred years (probably to guard the oil), there is something strangely disconcerting about McCain.

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