Posted on 11/29/2015 8:28:47 AM PST by PROCON
WASHINGTON â At a joint news conference here Tuesday with President François Hollande of France, President Obama veered from his focus on the terrorist attacks in Paris to bring up the huge international gathering beginning in the French capital on Monday to hammer out a global response to climate change.
âWhat a powerful rebuke to the terrorists it will be when the world stands as one and shows that we will not be deterred from building a better future for our children,â Mr. Obama said of the climate conference.
The segue brought mockery, even castigation, from the political right, but it was a reminder of the importance Mr. Obama places on climate change in shaping his legacy. During his 2012 re-election campaign, he barely mentioned global warming, but the issue has become a hallmark of his second term.
And on Sunday night he arrives in Paris, hoping to make climate policy the signature environmental achievement of his, and perhaps any, presidency.
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This dude never managed or built anything, yet he loves to lecture us on things he knows nothing about, and deride the US when out of the country.
Every other president has had a foreign policy. Obama doesn't, and that makes him unique.
Obama’s legacy as the absolute worst POTUS ever is already guaranteed.
It's been two weeks and all these wonderful reports of terrorists leaving ISIS and going home due to the world standing as one in the climate talks have been great to read.
No wait, I didn't read any of these stories after all.
These terrorists better watch out, Obama might call a climate meeting.
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