Put that fork down!

Barack Obama wants to "lead by example".  Which means we've got to make a few changes:

Pitching his message to Oregon's environmentally-conscious voters, Obama called on the United States to "lead by example" on global warming, and develop new technologies at home which could be exported to developing countries.

"We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times ... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK," Obama said.

Yuval Levin:

There's a winning message

I'll say.

***Update 8:38 PM CT***

IBD, Obama's Bad Example:

...Obama has even bigger ideas, such as repealing the Industrial Revolution

I think we need to brush up on the 19th century.  If Obama is elected President, that's where we're headed.  Unless we get lucky.  Then we'll wind up in 1910:

What Obama wants to do is reduce U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by 80% by 2050. That assumes that such emission cuts are even necessary considering that the Earth has not warmed since 1998 and is likely to stay that way at least for another decade as the solar cycle wanes.

Steven Hayward of the American Enterprise Institute has actually sat down and crunched the numbers and found that Obama's 80% reduction from 1990 levels means that in 2050 we cannot emit more than one billion tons of CO2. The last time U.S. emissions were that low, Hayward estimates from historical energy data, was in 1910.

1910 might not be so bad.  On March 19, 1910:

In the USA, Republicans reduce the powers of the Speaker of the House of Representatives to influence Committee membership.

Comments

[c.a. Marks]

Hope and change Julie hope and change. LOLOLOL

[Julie]

You know Carol, as one gets older that short term memory begins to fade. I had forgotten all about Hope and Change. Thanks for the reminder. I feel SO much better now...

(And I did LOL when I read your post. Thanks for the laugh, too!)