The Big Story

[phantom power]

As usual, Digby Is Right.

There is a lot about the incoming administration that's making me nervous. But this, which I think must be the overarching storyline of the next few years, is looking very, very good:

Barack Obama is set to deliver a surprise speech via video to the bi-partisan Governors Global Climate Summit in Los Angeles this morning.

Obama's team sends out the speech video, which renews Obama's commitment to battling global warming and casts it as an economic and national security issue.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvG2XptIEJk

It's the tying together of these three issues as one that makes it so potent. They really are inextricable and making that explicit is going to give Obama far more power to move on them simultaneously.

This is very smart stuff. I hope he doesn't get so bogged down in the details that he loses the narrative thread. It's essential.

http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2008/11/big-story-by-digby-there-is-lot-about.html

[tama]

1. I had a dream about Obama

- a good dream. He's certainly not the Saviour and still a slave to the sick system like the rest of us with many misguided views. But he has the potential to take few steps in the right direction - if Americans are willing to follow.

[Sal Minella]

2. Follow, yes, or climb into harness beside him.

[tama]

3. Sadly

I saw nothing of willingness to follow and support Obama taking steps in right direction in recent discussion about gasoline taxes. But maybe that can change, how unlikely that may seem now.

[Nihil]

5. Yes, that was pretty damn disappointing.

> I saw nothing of willingness to follow and support Obama taking steps
> in right direction in recent discussion about gasoline taxes.

Anyone who says that the republicans are the petty, vicious and short-sighted
side of the country needed only to see that hate-fest to discover the same
ignorant selfishness lurking in DU too ... sickening.

:-(

[Dead_Parrot]

6. To be fair...

...It's not DU. It's Homo Sapiens Sapiens {sic}.

[quidam56]

4. END MOUNTAIN TOP REMOVAL !!!

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