The Glacier Speech
DR Tucker at the Washington Monthly thinks the President’s speech last week at the GLACIER conference in Alaska will down in the history books.
They should teach this speech in schools.
Future generations are going to look back upon the date of August 31, 2015 and thank President Obama for stating, in clear, bold and stark terms, the immorality of carbon pollution and the moral necessity of taking action to defend the only planet we have. His speech to the “Global Leadership in the Arctic: Cooperation, Innovation, Engagement and Resilience” conference in Anchorage, Alaska was a soul-stirring call to action, and a testament to the power of words to awake the international conscience.
Excerpts cannot do this speech justice. It must be watched, in full, to appreciate its grace and power.
This was far better than his overrated address to the 2004 Democratic National Convention, far better even than his 2008 “A More Perfect Union” speech on race relations. This speech was every bit as majestic as his 2008 and 2012 election-night victory speeches, and his 2009 and 2013 inauguration speeches. It was that damn good.
So I decided to post it here so you can watch it if you had not already seen it.
I hate to be snarky at a time like this, but with 500 days to go… really? All that was true 500 days into his administration.
And the administration gave Shell oil approval for drilling weeks before. What a crock!
I am going to buy a TDI clean diesel car. Gets over 50mpg.
Obama came into office promising green jobs and investment in green energy, but his economic performance is due in large part to the US drilling and fracking expansion and windfall. Not that I am complaining about the economic recovery. But that’s easy for me to say since I’ll be dead by the time Kirkwood Highway becomes a beachfront road.