Terrorists and Thugs should rise UP to OUR LEVEL of honor, decency and love of freedom BEFORE they are privileged to speak with us. Obama thinks we should lower our expectations without reason and start dialogue with throat cutting murders as a standard practice.
Diplomacy requires decades of hard work to establish strong, respected standards. It has paid off many, many times in the past. When you say what you mean, when you stand for something great, people respect your words even if they disagree with your stand. All of it has been flushed down the toilet using "dumb power" in an Administration full of "learn-as-we-go" and "hit-and-miss" flip-floppers.
Recently, Obama sent rank amateurs to the economic summit in Davos, Switzerland. Result was confusion and dismay. The world looks to USA for leadership on many levels, but they are going to have to get by for 4 more years because we don't have a "leader" we have a 15 year old kid having football parties and $100 steaks while our economy suffers.
His adolescent attitude is reflected in his embracement of "AGW" thinking.
The shackles regarding fossil fuels are real and not something you can wish away or break, unless of course you want to build hundreds of nuclear plants. We need to drill for our own oil too.
Windmills and solar panels might eventually supplement conventional sources. But they are NOT cost effective and should be used only where they make economic sense. It is energy and economic suicide to punitively tax carbon fuels.