If you vote them in , I hope your not on a fixed income !!
The Democrats keep getting dumber and Dumber ! If Democrats win the
whitehouse,
are they going to bring back the vietnam war ? They've brought back
everything else,
including racism, bigotry and civil unrest, oh",and let's not forget
raising taxes. It's
there trademark !!
Obama Would Find Cabinet Post for Gore
By DEVLIN BARRETT, Associated Press Writer
Thursday, April 3, 2008
(AP) WALLINGFORD, Pa.
Barack Obama said Wednesday he would give Al Gore, a Nobel prize
winner, a major role in an Obama administration to address the problem
of global warming.
At a town-hall meeting, Obama was asked if he would tap the former
vice president for his Cabinet to handle global warming.
"I would," Obama said. "Not only will I, but I will make a commitment
that Al Gore will be at the table and play a central part in us
figuring out how we solve this problem. He's somebody I talk to on a
regular basis. I'm already consulting with him in terms of these
issues, but climate change is real. It is something we have to deal
with now, not 10 years from now, not 20 years from now."
Since leaving the White House, Gore has gone on to become one of the
world's leading voices for combating the greenhouse gases blamed for
global warming. His work earned him a share of the Nobel last year.
Popular among Democrats, Gore is perhaps the single most coveted
endorsement up for grabs in the long-running competition between Obama
and rival Hillary Rodham Clinton.
The relation****p between Gore and the Clintons became strained after
Gore limited Bill Clinton's campaigning on his behalf in the 2000
presidential race which elected George W. Bush.
Obama said he would use Gore to help forge a cap-and-trade system for
carbon emissions designed to lower pollution.
The Illinois senator cautioned that such a system could mean an
increase in electricity bills from power companies that rely on coal-
burning, and that some of the money generated from a cap-and-trade
system may be used in the beginning to help lower income or fixed
income customers with those bills.
He also called on individuals to do their part to lower energy
consumption.
"All of us are going to have to change our habits. We are a wasteful
culture," he said.
Using compact fluorescent light bulbs, energy efficient appliances,
and unplugging power chargers when they're not in use are relatively
simple solutions, he said.
"Those kinds of simple steps, if everybody takes them, can drastically
reduce our energy consumption."
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