Of course it’s a photo op, but I’m beginning to think something interesting is afoot.
The other day Obama signed a bill that had to do with exempting American airlines from Europe’s carbon taxes. It was a clear poke in the eye to environmentalists, who lobbied for him not to sign it.
Obama no longer needs the cash from enviros, he still has unions and gays, and he will continue to please them. Obama is most certainly an ideologue, but I don’t think he saw environmentalism as anything more than a tool to gain and maintain power. Socialists like oil, once they have power.
Could it be he is beginning to care about his legacy? Is it possible he will throw them under the bus? His history is full of examples of dispensing with those he no longer needs.
Enviros didn’t like Obama signing that bill, and they don’t like this meeting with Romney either.
We will know where environmentalism stands with Obama if he opens the Keystone pipeline to Canada.
Perhaps wishful thinking, but we’ll have to wait and see.
I would be surprised if you are right. Leopards do not change their spots.
Obamugabe was taught as a child to hate America. He will likely carry that attitude forever.