Posted on 06/06/2010 11:22:21 PM PDT by speciallybland
Environmentalists, already peeved with the administration’s handling of the Gulf oil spill, are accusing President Obama of breaking his campaign pledge to end the slaughter of whales.
The Obama administration is leading an effort within the International Whaling Commission to lift a 24-year international ban on commercial whaling for Japan, Norway and Iceland, the remaining three countries in the 88-member commission that still hunt whales.
The administration argues that the new deal will save thousands of whales over the next decade by stopping the three countries from illegally exploiting loopholes in the moratorium.
But environmentalists aren't buying it.
"That moratorium on commercial whaling was the greatest conservation victory of the 20th century. And in 2010 to be waving the white flag or bowing to the stubbornness of the last three countries engaged in the practice is a mind-numbingly dumb idea," Patrick Ramage, the whaling director at the International Fund for Animal Welfare, told FoxNews.com.
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Soooooooooooooooooo, how’s that hopey changey thang workin’ out for all y’all?
The question is...Whats in it for Obambie?
There has to be a massive payoff of some kind.
This is a really strange story. Why would BO take on this fight? The only groups that care strongly are greens, Japanese and Norwegians. Greens will sit out an election over stuff like this and they were 100% Obama supporters. Japanese and Norwegians don’t vote. Even the fuzzy American public generally thinks it’s mean to hunt whales and that they’re all on the verge of extinction.
BO’s opponents and indie voters really don’t care about the issue much (if they even think about it). So he’s not replacing lost green votes by a pivot to the middle. Clinton could do that on welfare reform. But non-leftist people cared about that issue and it bought Clinton a lot of support.
So why? I wonder if it’s related to Japan, the recent resignation of the Prime Minister, and/or the crisis in Korea. Maybe it’s the price for something.
If you posit that Obama is rational, it is. Then you have to stretch to find scenarios where this is a payoff to the Japanese (yeah, right) or even to the Norwegians (even weirder).
Look in Obama's muslim mentality instead. Where muslims go, the landscape is littered with carcasses. There was a prticularly nasty case involving dolphins not much more than a year ago - sickening and completely irrational.
“If you posit that Obama is rational, it is. Then you have to stretch to find scenarios where this is a payoff to the Japanese (yeah, right) or even to the Norwegians (even weirder).
Look in Obama’s muslim mentality instead. Where muslims go, the landscape is littered with carcasses. There was a prticularly nasty case involving dolphins not much more than a year ago - sickening and completely irrational.”
It’s the mad magazine of politics. Maybe it was the payoff for the silly Peace Prize. Or, more credible, there has been a lot of dickering about US bases in Guam. Japan has done quite a turnaround on that issue recently. Maybe related.
There’s more to this than that Obama thinks commercial whaling is a good idea. If there weren’t, nothing would have happened that disturbed the restful sleep of the hard-greens during this admisisitration.
Nuke the Whales instead of Iran and North Korea.
Lift the ban on commercial whaling, impose a ban on offshore oil drilling.
Cluuueeeeeeeleeessssss.....
Obama is sowing discord and conflict. Any conflict is good, any conflict that is irrational is even better. Chaos comes from conflict, and chaos is where islam builds itself.
Diid you know, by the way, that islam is building furiously in Japan? They've been at it for years, keeping a low profile...
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