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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-03-10 11:21 PM
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Poll question: Grade Obama on the environment
:shrug:
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Swamp Rat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-03-10 11:24 PM
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1. F-


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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-03-10 11:27 PM
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2. Of the five polls I have put up
this is the one area I have given him a solid F in. :(
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Swamp Rat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-03-10 11:35 PM
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4. Me too, but maybe that's because my food is poisonous, and soil drenched in oil
I guess you have to be here to believe it since the national news (and even the local news) is no longer covering the destruction of our environment here in S. Louisiana.

I guess the rest of America has already forgotten or just doesn't give a flying fuck.
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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-03-10 11:37 PM
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6. Note the avatar
I haven't forgotten. :pals:
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Swamp Rat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-03-10 11:37 PM
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7. Oh, I did!!
:hug: :cry:
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Angry Dragon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-03-10 11:42 PM
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8. The Angry Dragon has not forgotten
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Swamp Rat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-03-10 11:46 PM
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11. .
:hug:
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Angry Dragon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-04-10 12:09 AM
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18. ....
:grouphug: making room for the others
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Blue_In_AK Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-03-10 11:46 PM
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10. I haven't forgotten, Swampy.
Your experience is too similar to our own 21 years ago.
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Swamp Rat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-03-10 11:47 PM
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12. Yes, I have not forgotten that either, and a special thinks to some of y'all who came down here
to counsel us and lend a hand. :hug: :grouphug:
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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-03-10 11:52 PM
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13. I went over Prince William Sound when I was 11
The water was like an oily rainbow.

It was one of many moments that cemented my environmentalist core.
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Richard Steele Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-03-10 11:33 PM
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3. There needs to be a "less than F" option for BP's bestest spokesperson.
Just sayin'.
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Swamp Rat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-03-10 11:36 PM
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5. or a fucking guillotine with a very sharp blade.


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Richard Steele Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-04-10 12:02 AM
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14. Hiya, Swampie! Long time no text, old friend. nm
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Swamp Rat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-04-10 12:04 AM
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15. Way'at, brah!
:hi: I'm not in a happy mood at the moment, to say the least, but it's good to see you. :fistbump:
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Blue_In_AK Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-03-10 11:45 PM
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9. I am very unhappy with his decision
to allow oil exploration offshore in the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas, an extremely delicate ecosystem where a spill could almost certainly not be contained under ice.
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joshcryer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-04-10 12:07 AM
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16. C, he appointed Chu and made the EPA moderately relevant again.
Edited on Sat Dec-04-10 12:11 AM by joshcryer
Unfortunately the environment, and energy, doesn't hinge on the actions of one human being. While yes it would've been nice if Obama could've changed the narrative back when health care was an issue, and move it toward climate change, such an event was unlikely given the cold spells around the world. In many ways Bush's policies sabotaged climate action for a good decade or two, by causing a deep recession we will put off even considering climate change until after the world recovers.
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beforeyoureyes Donating Member (289 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-04-10 12:09 AM
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17. How can anyone give an administration that removed the 30 year mortatorium on off shore drilling

..the grade of A????
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lavendertimes Donating Member (5 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-04-10 12:12 AM
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19. Personal Responsibility 
I give the American public a F- for not paying attention until
BP.  Elected officials trying to change the deregulation we
all knew about starting with Reagan's trickle down theory and
culminating with Cheney's secret meetings, just what did you
think this atmosphere was leading to?  In the words of Spike
Lee,  "WAAKKEE UUUPPP!":wtf:
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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-04-10 03:36 PM
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21. Welcome to DU
:hi:
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orleans Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-04-10 12:22 AM
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20. a big fat fucking F! n/t
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JVS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-04-10 03:39 PM
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22. It was C level policy, but the timing of the resumption of offshore drilling and then the spill...
made for F level politics.
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Jamastiene Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-04-10 03:39 PM
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23. Even though I can think of a few things I'd give him a B or C in,
the environment is NOT one of them. President Obama's moves regarding the environment is one of those where I honestly think he deserves an F. The Alaskan Barbie Governor probably wouldn't do it that much different, sadly. That speaks volumes.

F, most definitely F.
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