Obama is trying to undercut the Left and Native Americans with this 'reroute the pipeline' sop.
Obama's statement shows that he is supporting this oil pipeline.
In a previous life, I believed that Democrats were left wing anti business, anti energy development extremists.
But now with WikiLeaks showing us the big business ties to Hillary we can see how it works for Obama, too.
We got Obamacare which opened the spigot for a bigger cash flow into the healthcare industry with mandatory insurance coverage to bail it out and capped business costs for healthcare with the "Cadillac Health Care Plan Tax".
And now we have Obama approving and promoting an oil pipeline (Dakota Access) of all things after shutting down another one (Keystone XL).
I smell the kind of crony capitalism Sarah Palin discovered with the relationship between the energy industry and the Frank Murkowski Republicans in Alaska.
We have a Corporatist Uniparty system with D's and R's talking to the Left and Right, but doing what the big money tells them to in the end from TPP to the Iran Nuclear Deal to Dakota Access Pipeline etc. etc.
It's a rigged system and that's why I'm voting for Donald Trump.
I'm sympathetic with the protestors and hope a President Trump will send in someone like Sarah Palin to sort out the corruption behind the pipeline project and come up with a good solution.
It doesn’t even pass through the reservation. Almost betting that the Tribes let them pass through their reservation....so they can get some bucks out of this.
LOL, then why are they campaigning that the pipeline shouldn’t happen? It is doublespeak if I ever heard it.
He cares nothing for what Christians or Jews consider sacred...
“Sacred lands”. BS. Just go to a real reservation and see how sacred it is.
Go to the Dakota Access Pipeline website and read all the attached filings then come back tell us how DAPL has failed to meet detailed requirements for environmental or cultural issues.
http://www.daplpipelinefacts.com/
I listened to the NPR report on this yesterday. They were making fun of Obama. It was obvious that the comment by Obama was him talking out of his a$$. They said that nobody involved in the pipeline has heard anything about it and the idea is absurd when you look at the cost of the project and where it currently stands, both in construction progress and legally. Obama was doing what he does without a teleprompter: Talking like a fool.
But he is the president, so an hour later, on NPR, the news story was that “Obama says pipeline may be rerouted.”
This is a nothingburger. The protesters will be rounded up and the project will continue, without a reroute.
If Trump wins he should threaten to route the pipeline through the property of some of the protestors.
“I’m sympathetic with the protestors”
Why? Its a bunch of socialists, invading land that isn’t theirs, to stop a project that doesn’t touch land they own, that is infinitely safer than rail transport...and all being done in the cause of nutty pagan superstition.
What?
This administration is NOT going to WACO/RUBY RIDGE the native AMERICANS?