Obama's WAR ON COAL: Sucking Money From the True Believers

I've been so angry over this afternoon's anti-coal "Climate Doom" speech that I've been spitting nails. However, when a friend sent me a copy of this email - received shortly after if not during the speech - my nail-spitting slowed and a Great Cynicism descended on me.

The subject line reads, "What I need from you"

Name Redacted  --

I told Congress in February that if they didn't take action to fight climate change, then I would.

 Today, I announced a plan of action to make good on that promise.

 My administration is taking steps to cut carbon pollution, prepare our nation for the unavoidable impact of climate change, and put America's best and brightest to work to solve this issue on a global scale.

One thing we know is we'll face a well-organized and well-financed opposition by the special interests that profit from keeping things the way they are -- and there are members of Congress who fundamentally deny the science on this issue.

But we cannot stand by any longer. I need to know you'll fight alongside me. Say you will. [Line links to Organizing for Action]

Over the next few months and years, I'm going to need the millions of OFA supporters who understand that we have a responsibility to future generations to fight climate change to join me, and be a force of change in your communities.

We owe it to our children and grandchildren to take action -- and now is the time.

Today, I'm here to tell you I am committed to doing my part. Say you'll do yours:

[ Link to Organizing for Action:

"Stand Up Against Climate Change" ]

Thanks,

Barack

The speech was certainly meant to upset the opposition and set us off on a tangent that's NOT Benghazi, the IRS, the NSA, Immigration, the ChiComms and Putin flipping us off in our Quest for Snowden or the Atomic Bombs that will eventually come flying out of Iran.  But beyond that, it was just an effin' fundraiser so the True Believers would kick in some big bucks for next year's hate ads against Republicans.

 

 

THINK PROGRESS                

 

Comments

[Mannie Sherberg]

Granted, this guy will do anything to squeeze another buck from the legions of rubes, boobs, and simpletons who put him into office. But I think there's something else going on here. Today's speech was an attack -- not just verbal but existential -- against a segment of American culture that Obama loathes: those many Americans who work with their hands and do the hard labor that has always kept this country going -- and has always evoked the scorn and condescension of elite snobs and do-nothings like Obama. The people who mine our coal, like a horde of other Americans who do real labor and real toil, are an affront to every phony, every freeloader, and every parasite who walks the earth. Obama, himself a phony, a freeloader, and a parasite, detests these people with every fiber of his being -- and is determined to put them out of business, even if he must destroy their livelihoods to do it. We've all heard of class warfare -- but Obama genuinely believes in it, and is practicing it with gusto. Depend on it: once he finishes off the miners, he'll go after some other group who know what it's like to earn their bread by the sweat of their brows. This is the revenge of the Charlatans-and-Pretenders against the Makers-and-Doers. At its heart, it's not about soliciting money -- it's about getting back at a group of people they deeply resent.

[annieoakley]

I certainly understand how you feel (spiting nails) I have to turn him off everyday(since he feels the need to speak nearly every day). Then, reading about what he said makes me nearly as angry.I am amazed everyday by the numbers of people who see nothing wrong with destroying the country and pretend everything is fine.

[annieoakley]

Lived in CO too long, maybe. Lived very near WVA too and it seems changed.

[Elan]

I just got an email from him, offering me a chance to enter a lottery with a chance to meet him (backstage). He campaigns, he golfs, he pivots, he runs a lottery. The amazing shrinking president.