Obama and liquid coal

I'm in the break-out session with Barack Obama. Interestingly (to me) this is the second time I've been in this room with him today--he held a shadowy meeting with some of us before the forum here.

He was, however, much more convincing in that session, where he didn't have to address his position on coal subsidies. Echoing somebody in the audience he actually uttered the words "coal is evil". His plan to address that evil, of course, is to provide billions of taxpayer dollars to coal companies. He argues that huge amounts of funding for research into carbon sequestration and CTL technologies is necessary to segue into a green energy future. This is simply not true. He insists that his stance has nothing to do with the coal in his state and I'm not even close to convinced.

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[JimPortlandOR]

Well, consider the whole game, Brian. Let's say he's not the Dem. Pres. candidate. He has to run again as US Sen. from Illinois, or run for Governor of Illinois to remain viable for 4/8 years after the 08 elections when he tries again for the Pres. spot. This is just the first quarter for him.

Now tell me why coal isn't part of his future? (heheh)

I'll forgive him this one, since I'd do the same thing, and hypocrisy is spelled the same north and south, east and west. I might even support digging up the coal to put it later in salt mines to keep it 'safe', if I were in his shoes - the national coal reserve.

[Consumatopia]

Then we dig up salt and put it in coal mines!