Reply #10: But the address today was understood as a lack of support to this approach.

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I know you dont want to hear that, but the fact he did not mention cap and trade or carbon pricing, for example, at the very least will push people to interpret the speech the way Marc Ambinder did (and, as I said in your thread in GDP, this is how I interpret it).

Here is what the Times writes,
http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/15/obama-seeking-new-ideas-on-energy-and-climate/?partner=rss&emc=rss

As I said earlier, it looks like the lack of commitment to the public option: avoid to pronounce the name is not asked. We already know that there are people in the WH who dont think it should be done.