The good? This is finally becoming public - and prior to the our (final) voting day.
The bad? That a man who is so close to the presidency obviously doesn't seem to appreciate how wrong headed and destructive having price controls and bankrupting (his word!) a particular industry would be.
"So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can; it’s just that it will bankrupt them because they’re going to be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that’s being emitted.
So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can.
It’s just that it will bankrupt them."
The ugly?
Yesterday, Sarah Palin demanded to know why the San Francisco Chronicle sat on this story for so long. The Chronicle responded by noting that the video has been available on their website since January 17th of this year. However, the Chronicle never reported on these quotes from Obama, and these statements certainly seem noteworthy enough to include in any look at Obama’s policies on energy.
Even more oddly, they never provided a transcript of the interview, an almost automatic step for any meeting between national political candidates and the editors of a newspaper. Why didn’t the Chronicle transcribe their meeting in the nine months between then and now? Did they realize how damaging this could be to Obama’s hopes in the middle of the primaries and chose to quietly shelve the interview?
Yet one more example of the press being in the tank for Obama. Imagine that there had been a tape of McCain or Palin promising to crush some business or industry or service - particularly one that is near and dear to the left's heart. Could you possibly think of the outcry if a Republican said "Someone can invest in a Hollywood movie; it's just that it will bankrupt them."
The voices would be many, loud and outraged - just as they should have been with this.
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