We’re going into a recession, how much slower do you want it? Does this guy really help his wife saying things like this? Maybe on the left but there are people out there who actually don’t want to be laid off or pay more for gas than they’re doing right now.

Former President Bill Clinton was in Denver, Colorado, stumping for his wife yesterday.
In a long, and interesting speech, he characterized what the U.S. and other industrialized nations need to do to combat global warming this way: “We just have to slow down our economy and cut back our greenhouse gas emissions ’cause we have to save the planet for our grandchildren.”
At a time that the nation is worried about a recession is that really the characterization his wife would want him making? “Slow down our economy”?
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He went on to say that his the U.S. — and those countries that have committed to reducing greenhouse gases — could ultimately increase jobs and raise wages with a good energy plan.

Yeah, that’ll happen.
One thing that helps him is that McCain is pushing the same message as well. Maybe that’s why Clinton thinks he can get away with being honest about it. Both candidates don’t mind tanking the economy over something we aren’t even sure is happening.
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Update: OOPS! This is teach me not to trust the MSM to get a quote right! I should have checked the fuller speech. My apologies to you and Bill Clinton 🙂

And maybe America, and Europe, and Japan, and Canada — the rich counties — would say, ‘OK, we just have to slow down our economy and cut back our greenhouse gas emissions ’cause we have to save the planet for our grandchildren.’ We could do that. But if we did that, you know as well as I do, China and India and Indonesia and Vietnam and Mexico and Brazil and the Ukraine, and all the other countries will never agree to stay poor to save the planet for our grandchildren.

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