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To coincide with the UN's climate change conference in Copenhagen, the president warned yesterday in his weekly Saturday radio address that we "...cannot let bad habits and phony arguments be responsible for the nations of the world ignoring the climate change crisis."

Giving thanks for their own protection from the scorching Scandinavian winter inside soundproofed limousines and hotel suites, it was impossible for the media to hear the emissaries' wailing and plaintive prayers for the climactically-challenged masses on the ground in flyover states of the un-emerging world. 

As forced students of Obamaspeak (formerly known as hot air) for nearly as long as most of us studied a foreign language in high school, we understand that when Our Dear Leader blames international coalitions for anything, he is actually blaming un-progressive Americans for that particular dastardly deed.

The previous administration, Republican politicians and especially Conservative-Libertarian Tea Party activists and the growing number of like-minded Americans are constantly being held responsible.  We are demonized for promoting yet another despicable movement designed to discredit, if not derail, the latest gigantic spending endeavor that was so carefully crafted by the know-it-all majority to avert "an emergency that will ultimately become a catastrophe."

This 2004 statement -- the left might wish to attribute it to George W. Bush -- is a perfect example of what Obama calls "bad habits and phony arguments"... 

"The Kyoto Protocol is a death pact, however strange it may sound, because its main aim is to strangle economic growth and economic activity in countries that accept the protocol's requirements."

Actually, this was a pronouncement by Andrei Illarionov, Russia's economic minister under neo-communist Vladimir Putin. Illarionov went on to call the Kyoto Protocol an "economic Auschwitz".

It is highly unlikely that China, India, Indonesia, Brazil and other emerging nations, with growing carbon footprints will risk their economic growth by signing onto any UN resolutions that may be created in Copenhagen. Just the same, the "phony arguments" of those of us living in the snowy American flyover states will ultimately be blamed when the next iceberg cracks off a glacier. 

After the president's weekly speech I switched the radio dial to New York City's WABC-Radio.  Investigative journalist John Stossel was in the process of explaining to Mark Simone's listeners that "if all of the nations of the world had signed Kyoto and then obeyed their pledge to the letter, the global temperature change would be virtually immeasurable."

"Meanwhile," Stossel continued, "millions are dying of malnutrition, malaria and so many other things that are really at a crisis level."  Mr. Stossel would, no doubt, be quite surprised if any of the wealth derived from the greenies' "phony arguments" is ever re-distributed to those around the world who are starving, dying of preventable diseases and living in darkness. 

Al Gore, UN emissaries and the president himself will continue to get carbon credit (formerly known as a free pass) and Nobel Prizes for their good environmental works but they will never be criticized for their hypocritical "bad habits" (including excessive private flight and oversized homes and lifestyles) that are excessively energy-consumptive even when compared with anyone driving a pick-up truck on an American freeway.

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