Posted on 06/06/2010 10:27:48 PM PDT by Chet 99
WASHINGTON, June 6 (UPI) -- U.S. President Barack Obama is breaking a campaign promise as his administration backs an effort to lift a 24-year ban on commercial whaling, critics say.
Environmentalists, already unhappy with the administration's allegedly lackluster response to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, say the president is going back on his campaign pledge to end the slaughter of whales, FOX News reported Sunday.
The administration is leading a push within the International Whaling Commission to lift the ban on whaling against Japan, Norway and Iceland, the three countries in the commission still hunting whales, FOX News said.
The White House says a new agreement will save whales by keeping the three countries from exploiting loopholes in the current moratorium, but environmentalists say they aren't buying it.
"That moratorium on commercial whaling was the greatest conservation victory of the 20th century," Patrick Ramage of the International Fund for Animal Welfare said.
"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," he said.
Australia has announced it will take Japan to the International Court of Justice to try to end its "scientific whaling" program in southern oceans, the Australian Broadcasting Corp. reported.
Hey LIBOTARDS!
How’s that Hopee changee thing workin for ya NOW???
We WARNED you.
Karma WORKS.
If this isn’t satire, then Barry has lost his marbles.
Obama’s already killing coastal birds by not letting Louisiana build sand berms, so why not support whaling?
Nice pictures. Great color. Whale meat is delicious, I highly recommend it.
"Daddy did you make that alien probe quit messing up our weather yet?"
Obama thinks that we can do away with petroleum by killing whales and using whale oil to power our economy.
Maybe he is trying to get the left so angry that they commit violent acts so he can declare martial law. It didn’t work inciting the conservatives so he is trying a new angle. Or he is paying off Japan for buying our debt.
He is such a POS. I support the whaling ban. They are amazing creatures and they are not stupid as s**t like Democrats or brainwashed TV viewers who will become serfs for cable TV.
It makes you wonder what in the * he is thinking about? Maybe he really doesn’t want to run again.
More details at FOX News:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/06/05/obama-backing-deal-lift-global-ban-commercial-whaling/
I too support the ban on whaling-—its a market that has seen its end of usefulness. I don’t now how much ambergris the world needs these days.
Priceless, pass the whale mean you Obamatards!
There are hundreds of thousands, perhaps even millions, of Sei whales. The loss of one or two hundred will not affect the population’s health in the slightest. Whales are just another animal. Hunting to extinction is bad. Regulated, sustainable hunting in support of long-established traditional folkways is fine by me.
“daddy, did you kill a whale, yet?”
Obama sure is behaving like someone who only wants one term. He may have hoped for two [or more] at first, but the job is so boring for him that he`s decided that since Gore and Carter are the two most beloved libs around, he can suicide-bomb the nation in 4 and then get back to the links where he clearly would rather be. As with Al and Jimmy, being loathed by the majority is no biggie for a campus cult figure, but a badge of honor. In this case, the whale lovers will eventually get over it, considering how he did so much to kill capitalism.
The theory advanced by others that his real objective is Secretary-General of the UN is gaining traction with me.
Makes sense—gut the nation, empower the UN, then he can ruuuule theworrrrllddd! The UN is perfect for him—he can talk and be applauded and yet not have to be held accountable.
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