Published by Reuters
President George Bush signed off with a defiant farewell over his refusal to accept global climate change targets at his last G8 summit.
As he prepared to fly out from Japan, he told his fellow leaders: "Goodbye from the world's biggest polluter."
President Bush made the private joke in the summit's closing session, senior sources said yesterday. His remarks were taken as a two-fingered salute from the President from Texas who is wedded to the oil industry.
And as McCain's (now under the bus) economic adviser, former Texas Senator, Phil Gramm -- whose initial support of the "Enron loophole" while his wife served on the Enron Board not only led to California's manufactured energy crisis, but was what opened the door for oil speculators to push up the price of gas , and whose involvement with UBS Swiss Bank coincided with his push to deregulate the mortgage industry, leading to he current sub-prime housing crisis -- states that the economic woes caused by his own actions are: "whining" by the American people and a "mental" recession.
To which Barack Obama replied:
John McCain's attempts at humor? Not so much, as he jokes about causing the deaths of Iranians through the cigarettes American corporations are exporting to Iran -- some joke -- while pushing for yet another oil war:
Goodbye from the world's biggest polluter?
Perhaps there are one or two others, Mr. President, who should accompany you out the door.
Labels: Barack Obama, C02, Climate Change, Emission Standards, Enron Loophole, Environment, G8, George W. Bush, Global Warming, James Hansen, John McCain, NASA, Phil Gramm, Politics, Pollution
Publishers: Reuters
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