Coal Official in Shock Call Obama Comments ‘Unbelievable’ At least one state coal industry leader said he was shocked by comments Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama made earlier this year concerning his plan to aggressively charge polluters for carbon and greenhouse gas emissions, according to West Virginia’s legal journal. Same Groups Involved: The Infamous “Bitter” Comments Obama is already on record of putting down townsfolk in the rust-coal belt. In the primaries with Hilary Clinton, he told the same liberal group in San Francisco that small towns in Ohio and Pennsylvania: ”get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or...