• I Lost My Head in San Francisco

  Posted Monday, November 03, 2008 12:52 PM | By Emily Yoffe
  
  
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  This weekend it came to light that in January Barack Obama, during an interview with the San Francisco Chronicle, said that in order to combat global warming he favored a cap and trade system that would be so punitive to industries releasing carbon dioxide that it would "bankrupt" anyone attemping to build a new coal-powered plant. Can't he leave the pushing of a San Francisco-style national agenda to Nancy Pelosi? Obama needs to stay so far away from anything San Franciscan that he refuses even to eat Rice-a-Roni. It was at a San Francisco fundraiser that he gave his infamous, almost campaign-sinking sociological insights that the losers of small-town  Pennsylvania "cling to guns or religion." Surely when in San Francisco it sounds perfectly reasonable to say that in an Obama administration there will be no future for nasty, dirty coal. But such a promise probably doesn't sound so good to "cling" voters in the coal-mining swing states of Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Indiana. Nor does it sound good to anyone interested in this country's need to reduce our reliance on imported oil. It doesn't help that running mate Joe Biden recently remarked that he wants, "No coal plants here in America." At least you've got to give Joe credit for blurting this out in Ohio.
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