Posted on 03/25/2011 6:24:19 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa -- Potential presidential candidate Haley Barbour appears to be staking out a moderate position on global warming than some of his possible rivals, saying at an event in eastern Iowa on Friday that the country should “proceed in national policy as if global warming is actually happening.”
Barbour, who has consistently opposed regulation of the energy industry, made the comments in response to a question from an Iowa voter who asked the Mississippi governor whether he thought global warming was real.
“I think the prudent thing for us, when you consider the potential risk, the prudent thing is to proceed as if global warming is an issue,” Barbour said at a luncheon organized by a local Republican group, the Linn Eagles, “but we don’t have to destroy the American economy for no positive results to do that.”
But in an interview with a blogger at the Conservative Political Action Committee Conference in Washington last month, Barbour seemed more skeptical when asked to comment about record cold temperatures in parts of the country this year.
“This global warming is about to freeze me to death,” Barbour said in jest. It's not the first time Barbour has used the quip -- he said nearly the same thing in January during his State of the State speech at the Mississippi statehouse.
And on Friday, at the same time he acknowledged that global warming is occurring, he also added: “There are a lot of people who are very, very, very learned scientists who question whether or not what is happening is caused by man-made activity.”
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Nope, having a great day. Don't know how you determined otherwise by my remarks. You'll notice I'm not the one with a knot in my knickers. Must be a reading comprehension problem.
Well, you certainly live up to your reputation as being condescending.
STFU and stay in Mississippi.
I have a reputation as being condescending? Wow. That's news to me. I'll have to re-read the very few posts I've written and the replies for accusations of "condescension", though I think I would have remembered such a rebuke, even by just one fellow freeper.
Ditto that! Adios!!!
Say ‘good night’ Haley.
The first candidate to seriously go after the ‘pissed-off’ vote, will win in a landslide.
Career lobbiests are used to saying whatever they think will curry favor—and Barbour is a career lobbiest.
Maybe it’s more fun than we think to be on a couch with pelosi...
How long will it take before he starts “explaining” what he really meant? This may rate him an interview with Couric, and they can leave the stage together.
How long will it take before he starts “explaining” what he really meant? This may rate him an interview with Couric, and they can leave the stage together.
You are missing quite a bit. “Issue” is the PC new word for “problem”.
I can’t stop laughing....LOL.
"I'm a lobbyist, a politician, and a lawyer
"That's the trifecta"
source: Dana Milbank "K Street has a steak in his hopes", Wash. Post, Sunday March 27, 2011
Fat, dumb and liberal is no way for Haley to go through life. I told you guys that this little corporatist man is bad news for National politics... and he is. I would NEVER vote for him... he does not deserve to polish Palin’s shoes... and he is my governor. He gets a B- from me on that. Yes, he did well after Katrina but that does not make him presidential... which he is most certainly is NOT!
LLS
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