This week, Barack Obama’s campaign has picked a fight with the largest supplier of oil and gas to the US — Canada.
Jason Grumet, Obama’s senior energy adviser, told reporters it’s an “open question” whether oil produced from northern Alberta’s oil sands fits with the Democratic candidate’s energy plans, suggesting that there continues to be “unacceptably high carbon emissions” associated with production of the fuel.
Obama and Grumet — both in the ethanol tank — seem to have no problem with the possible increase in global warming associated with biofuels. But both supported the energy law passed in December 2007 that bans federal procurement of alternative fuels that generate more greenhouse gases than “conventional sources,” which could include oil from the oil sands. As result, an increasingly angry Canadian energy industry is seriously looking at non-US markets for its oil.
It is worth remembering that Obama has already made Canada nervous on trade issues. And that European officials are already fretting that an Obama presidency would engage in an unconditional surrender regarding the Iranian nuclear threat. Barack Obama was supposedly running as a candidate who would not alienate US allies — did he flip-flop on that too?
Comment by Techie on 6/26 @ 8:32 am #
Wasn’t Obama going to heal all our “broken friendships” with our nominal allies?
Comment by iconoclast on 6/26 @ 8:33 am #
Just wait. Obambi will throw someone under the bus for this statement as well.
When does Obambi actually take responsibility for his own idiocies? And will that mean he (pardon me, He) will throw Himself under His Own bus?
Comment by JD on 6/26 @ 8:34 am #
Come on, you loonie Canucks. Baracky has already told you that he does not really mean any of this campaign rhetoric.
Comment by RTO Trainer on 6/26 @ 8:34 am #
Well,…Canada is old North America.
Comment by Radish on 6/26 @ 8:46 am #
Shit. I was hoping to at least get to the election before Obama destroys the economy…
Comment by twolaneflash on 6/26 @ 8:49 am #
Vero Possumus!
Comment by JD on 6/26 @ 8:51 am #
En Baracky non Veritas
Comment by twolaneflash on 6/26 @ 8:56 am #
This is the Obama I knew.
Comment by happyfeet on 6/26 @ 8:58 am #
This from your second National Post link sounds very real…
Baracky is already making us less secure. He’s a lot changey like that.
Comment by TheGeezer on 6/26 @ 8:59 am #
in bourbon veritas
Comment by CArin -BONC on 6/26 @ 8:59 am #
I’m just confused. I thought Canada HATED George Bush? Why wouldn’t they welcome change and hope?
Comment by Log Cabin on 6/26 @ 9:01 am #
Now that’s Change you can believe in! Hope you all survive!
Comment by Roboc on 6/26 @ 9:01 am #
I’m just confused. I thought Canada HATED George Bush? Why wouldn’t they welcome change and hope?
It’s not the change they were hoping for!
Comment by CArin -BONC on 6/26 @ 9:01 am #
Where’s Thor and Nishi to defend the great Vibrator?
Comment by TheGeezer on 6/26 @ 9:03 am #
It’s a plot: Obamamania results in everybody being pissed off and since the Democrats control the government, and so where we can drill, mine, or beg for fuel to power prosperity, our nation collapses into a snivelling mass, a vassal to superior Canadian acon and beer and hockey. The Obamans, however, will retire to the gated community where their beloved reverend now lives.
Comment by BJTex on 6/26 @ 9:05 am #
Wow, Geezer! You need to give J.J. Abrams produced shows a break, man! ;-)
Comment by troy mcclure on 6/26 @ 10:41 am #
Except for the Canadian bacon and whiskey part (and sharia law will take of that problem) But it’s not Cloverfield level
crazy. Maybe he has an account with Credit Delphine, through SD-13. Now with thisdetail,
can we speculate that Barry Sunshine had contact with General Intelligence or ISI back when he was in Pakistan, more than a quarter century ago. His actions, would be no different, if he wasn’t an agent of influence. The Pashtun candidate, maybe.
Comment by TheGeezer on 6/26 @ 11:18 am #
I’ve been battling a SQL double-hop query security issue that just popped up four days ago, the AD guy is out sick and would kill me if I got into policies to see if that’s where my problem is, and I needed a break.
I’ll back off and have a nice, cold Frothing Insinuations™
I feel better already. Thanks, BJ, for the intervention.
Comment by The Lost Dog on 6/26 @ 11:21 am #
Baraky’s campaign is nothing more than a strip of fly paper baited with sticky goo that attracts ignorance. He is just expanding on Gore and Kerry.
Comment by happyfeet on 6/26 @ 11:22 am #
The thing is, the sad little retarded student class president probably had no fucking idea what the implications of his “tar sands” rant were. This is because he’s ignorant. A deeply, deeply ignorant person. For real. Baracky knows a lot of marxist dogma and leftist policy boilerplate, but he knows jack about the lives of real people.
Comment by happyfeet on 6/26 @ 11:24 am #
And he’s not going to learn it having a latte and a smoke while pouring over his New York Times, no matter how moist it makes Maureen.
Comment by JD on 6/26 @ 11:30 am #
no matter how moist it makes Maureen
You may have just ruined my afternoon.
Comment by TheGeezer on 6/26 @ 11:40 am #
Maureen Moisture Orifice Oil™
Apply liberally to smother reason and generate stars-in-eyes.
Comment by BJTex on 6/26 @ 11:48 am #
What, Maureen Dowd’s swimming?
Oh… EEEEWWWWWWWWWW! MIND BLEACH! STAT!
Comment by BJTex on 6/26 @ 11:52 am #
For those who may not know or who have forgotten: I coined the phrase back in ‘06, Geezer invented the drink:
Into a 32-oz. tumbler filled with shaved ice pour one ounce each of the following:
cheap vodka
cheap gin
cheap bourbon
cherry juice
bitters
lime rickey
Haleys M.O.
cheap whiskey
cheap Scotch
cheap rum
Add 1 16-oz. can Colt 45 Malt Liquor (just for color)
Add 1/4 cup soaked tapioca pearls
Add white from one egg
Blend on low speed until frothing
Enjoy!
Comment by Roboc on 6/26 @ 11:59 am #
Why not just say one ounce of everything in your liquor cabinet?
Comment by BJTex on 6/26 @ 12:05 pm #
Roboc: Two words: Licensing Fees!
Oh and you keep Haley’s MO in your liquor cabinet? Wierd…
Comment by TheGeezer on 6/26 @ 12:09 pm #
And what liquor cabinet is complete without tapioca pearls? So good for digestion.
My goodness, BJ, you still had the recipe! Under lock and key, right?
Comment by Roboc on 6/26 @ 12:09 pm #
I stand corrected! Haley’s MO? Isn’t that like Maalox!
Comment by Semenswallower on 6/26 @ 12:33 pm #
Like Maalox? Haley’s is a Sigmoid Regulator, a Colonic Tonic. It’s what gives a Frothing Insinuations™ its finale.
Comment by kelly on 6/26 @ 2:46 pm #
That you, al?
Comment by kathy berg on 6/26 @ 3:26 pm #
Your lying about Canada. Besides, Obama is not the flip-flopper–McCain is. Afterall, McCain’s the guy who flipped-flopped on his “I do’s” to first wife Carol and had an affair with Cindy, his trophy wife-to-be!
Comment by Karl on 6/26 @ 3:29 pm #
Indeed, I’m lying about Canada — as evidenced by the fact that kathy can’t really explain how I am. Followed by the “McCain’s a flip-flopper too jazz,” which I have written about quite recently. And the adultery thing is so post-Clinton.
Comment by kathy berg on 6/26 @ 3:37 pm #
And, Karl….you are so post-mortem! Adultery is still not cool even among those of the FAITH. But then, you’re probably like the mirror image of Karl Rove who saw himself standing in the corner of a countryclub smoking a ciggie and looking at the babes–ARROGANT.
Comment by Karl on 6/26 @ 3:41 pm #
I see kathy still has no backup for her lying charge. And if she wants to run on the “McCain sowed some wild oats when he got back from 5 years in the Hanoi Hilton,” about which he has been brutally honest, I doubt she’ll get very far. Also, since kathy seems new here, she should know that I and many of the commenters here are fans of McCain, either. Just sayin’ as a political matter that diving into McCain’s personal life won’t get anyone anywhere with the mushy middle voters.
Comment by alppuccino on 6/26 @ 4:05 pm #
I like this kathy berg. She really lays it out in an organized manner and gets to the crux of the matter in a succinct fashion. And she called Karl by his first name – made him feel important.
Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 6/26 @ 4:07 pm #
Maureen Moisture Orifice Oilâ„¢
Also known as “Oil of Old Lay”, or perhaps “Oil of Old Haven’t-Been-Laid-in-a-Very-Long-Time”.
Comment by Karl on 6/26 @ 4:08 pm #
al, you tease!
I thought I restrained myself by not directing her to my lengthy essay on black liberation theology when she tried to play the faith card.
Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 6/26 @ 4:08 pm #
kathy: Again? In English this time? We already have a house illiterate here.
Comment by Karl on 6/26 @ 4:09 pm #
And fuck Obama? I don’t swing that way.
Comment by kelly on 6/26 @ 5:27 pm #
[psst, karl. I believe you elided the word not in #35. I'll give you a hint: McCain, fans of. thnx]
Comment by lee on 6/26 @ 5:58 pm #
Obama is not the flip-flopper–McCain is. Afterall, McCain’s the guy who flipped-flopped on his “I do’s†to first wife Carol and had an affair with Cindy, his trophy wife-to-be!
LOOK! OVER THERE!! An ADULTRESSSSS
Obamas just having a tiny change of tactics…nothing to it really…Now move along!
Comment by McGehee on 6/27 @ 12:10 pm #
I want to subscribe to her newsletter.
Comment by Heather on 1/30 @ 4:47 pm #
I am an American living in Canada and may I say that thank God I live here! I knew Barack Obama is a liar and untrustworthy..it’s hard to piss of Canadians, but hat’s off to him! He really stuck his foot in his mouth this time. Maybe the people who elected him will finally realize when gas goes up to $5 to $7 a gallon after Canada reverses the pipelines going into the US, they might call for their elected officals to vote for Impeachment on the grounds of stupidity.