RFK Jr.: Some Leaders Fall For Coal's Lies

ABC News:

"Clean coal is a dirty lie," says environmentalist Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who calls President Barack Obama and other politicians who commit taxpayer money to develop it "indentured servants" of the coal industry.

Read the whole story: ABC News

Comments

[PollyTics]

Actually, the idea that RFK Jr. would even think about using the term "indentured servant" is horrendous and just plain foolish. He has previously defamed Obama during the Primaries and now it seems that he is continuing this mantra.

Man, holidays must be difficult in this family!

[harriscrl3]

Funny I hear other people say the opposite folks need to Stop with their dogma as if they speak truth. The only universal truth is death and taxes.

Carol

[harriscrl3]

Cant people say things without being nasty anymore. No need to insult people to get your point across personally I think its a turn off.

Carol

[offred]

See correction of this sloppy piece of journalism on the HuffPo home page:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/josh-nelson/abc-news-intentionally-mi_b_189824.html

[Titus Pullo]

Cha-Ching!

Change you can't make change from

[SeanGardner]

Excuse me: RFK Jr. refers to President Obama as "an indentured servant"? WTF?

So I guess we'll here some about how ABC NEWS mislead with the story. Well, if RFK didn't refer to Obama in that way, he should call Arianna and get a post up in the GREE Section disavowing the story. If not, I know where he stands. And if that's where he stands, I've lost all respect for him.

[JakeMontero]

Jr is just that a Jr. The President is systematically making changes -- but a pace and direction that will ensure lasting changes to our reliance on coal/fossil fuel.

[philobama]

Jim Hansen related at a lecture at Dartmouth's Thayer School that Dick Gephardt took hundreds of thousands from Peabody Coal. And there is the Bipartisan Policy Center with Jason Grumet who touts himself as Obama's energy adviser with Chevron as one of the five largest contributors. And then one of my favorites is the Clean Air Task Force in Boston that provides expert testimony in public utility hearings on coal fired plants for Duke Energy and others. These are supposedly Democratic, pro environment people and organizations, but really just on the take. Kennedy and Gore and others with any access to Obama must continue to speak out about the clean coal fraud.

[bellemeade]

Just gotta love those Kennedy's.

[lizardbrain]

No doubt that RFK is right. It was painful to hear the "clean coal" rhetoric from Obama and Biden during the campaign, but it was necessary to win PA. Now that the election is over I thought they would evolve their position... More on "clean coal": http://www.dasolar.com/alternative-energy/clean-coal

[jdw1981]

"Clean coal" IS a lie. Anyone can find that out for themselves by doing a very small amount of reading on the subject.

If people find what Kennedy says about Obama personally offensive, that's one thing. But if they support Obama's stance that there is such a thing as "clean coal", they're entirely wrong.

[Savanna]

I remember watching Bobby Kennedy, Jr. at the Democratic National Convention assuring all of us that President Obama would never get elected. And President Obama is no indentured servent to anyone.
He is a very bright intelligent person who is very pragmatic and tries to do the very best for all the people of this country, not just Bobby Kennedy.

[VeggieVeal]

Well, RFK Jr. is in the midst of a meltdown. It's been going on now for some time. You can hear it in his voice-- listen to the guy sometime!

[b4christ]

don't worry guys. Obama has a plan. He may seem to be supporting it now, but he has stated that he will basically put the industry out of buiesness through cap and trade.

[Helzapoppin]

oh please. . . by all means, keep deluding yourself

[aliceinks]

Hasn't he put aside x amount of dollars for clean coal research..why do that if he has NO plans to carry thru. What you are saying is that he just don't care if he throws more of our ta x dollars away. hmmmm ok

[LadyX]

When are you going to take your blinders off re: Obama????
OMG, he changes his old campaign promises, almost daily.

I voted for and do support President. Obama, however I am VERY upset with many of his promises being broken.

We are still deeply involved in Iraq, and will be for a long time to come; the war in Afganistan is going full speed ahead. The money being spent on these wars is shameful. When will it all end??

I am losing hope.

[PhilipTaylor]

Clean Coal is about as Clean as the Washington-Wall Street Relationship!
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2008 WS Executives made 400 times average Worker
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NOW Britain Executives made 22 times average Worker
NOW Japan Executives made 11 times average Worker

300% Increase in Pay for Top 1% from 1980-2008!
20% Decrease in Pay for Other 99% from 1980-2008!

Top 400 Taxpayers Paid = $105 billion in adjusted gross income (Gross Much Larger)
Top 400 Taxes Paid = $18 billion = Tax Rate 17%
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