Obama's "War on Coal" has hit its "evolution" point, with Obama's campaign quietly editing its position on energy overnight. We're sure it had nothing to do with the fact that a prisoner, Keith Judd, took 41% of the Democrat primary vote in West Virginia against Obama last week, a state where Obama's policies have devastated the coal industry.
Reports The Washington Examiner:
Gay marriage isn't the only issue President Obama "evolved" on this week. This Tuesday we reported that while Obama was traveling around the country touting his "all of the above" energy plan, his website conspicuously left out a fuel source responsible for almost half of all domestic electricity generation: coal.
On the left is an Examiner screenshot from Tuesday. On the right, an Examiner screenshot from today.
Notice how "fuel efficiency" suddenly becomes "clean coal"?
Maybe Obama’s campaign thought by quietly adding clean coal back into their rhetorical position on energy, they could somehow sweep their “war on coal” under the rug.
Unlike the manufactured "war on women" the "war on coal" is real and demonstrably so. The Obama administration's new rules for coal plants effectively kill them by setting emission standards for new plants that are impossible to meet.
The head of the United Mine Workers of America, Cecil Roberts, recently said:
"The Navy SEALs shot Osama Bin Laden in Pakistan and [EPA Administrator] Lisa Jackson shot us in Washington…This rule is an all-out, in my opinion, decision by the EPA that we’re never going to have another coal-fired facility in the United States that’s constructed.”
Obama's graphic change is only a rhetorical change, he's still not backing off his policy plan to kill the coal industry. Just like Obama's stance on gay marriage, where he won't be pushing any policy, only changing his rhetoric, Obama's coal move is pure politics.
But the American people are smart enough to figure out when words change, but actions don't.
That’s why you have to call it “manufactured” while using the exact same terminology in your own made-up distortion. I can smell the desperation wafting from my monitor.
The One has made it clear that traditional blue collar based energy production has no place in “his” America. This has resulted in a Democratic former governor and current senator, Joe Manchin, to refuse to say whether or not he voted for Obama or the felon in last Tuesday’s primary. And if the Democrats are losing the support of one of the last effective private sector unions, the troubles they face with the rest of the working public aren’t minor.
I know what you’ll say, that it’s “RACIST!!!” for people to want to keep their jobs, and have reliable energy to light and heat their homes. But then, the working people in West Virgina are just more of those “bitter clingers” that Obama really doesn’t like anyways. After all they aren’t cool and rich like the Hollywood crowd, are they?
Why would I call that “racist?” Can you answer that, or are you just being an asshole?
that an influential union would come out against a sitting Democratic president in an election year.
I should have said, “Of course the left is calling it “RACIST” that people want to keep their jobs, and have reliable energy to light and heat their homes.
Basically, I’m mocking the left’s response to the election and to their default response to any dissent from the right.