Not Ready For Prime Time -- Why Did President Obama Throw His Environmental Base Under The Bus? -- September 1, 2015

Headlines:

• Obama confirms global warming with walk up to Alaskan glacier
• Obama opens up the Arctic to drilling, maritime routes 

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Fascinating Story: Nixon Opened Up China; Obama Opens Up The Arctic

This is really quite fascinating.

Anyone who "knows" President Obama and his ideology knows he has no desire -- no desire, whatsoever -- to open the Arctic Ocean to exploitation.

If one is really concerned about the Arctic, one doesn't break up Arctic ice into smaller pieces to hasten it's demise.

Anyone who "knows" President Obama, there is no indication he places the US "above" any other country in the universe. In his mind, there is nothing "special" about the United States.

There is no reason to help American corporations -- especially the oil and gas industry -- exploit the Arctic.

Allowing Shell to drill in the Arctic was huge -- it was very huge -- it has opened the door to full-scale oil exploration and production in the Arctic.

Nothing he has said or done in the last several years would have suggested that he would ever have allowed Shell to drill in the Arctic.

And now another incredible announcement: he wants more military ice breakers to open the Arctic to more exploitation. His environmental base must be going nuts. Look at the Fox News story at the link. This is so incredible, the New York Times is "avoiding" the story. It's that dreadful.

Someone suggested this was a "gift" to the shipbuilding unions in Groton, CT. Unlikely. He's thrown the unions under the bus so many times, a single ice breaker means squat to the unions in Groton. Connecticut is so blue the state will probably vote Obama in for a third term as a write-in candidate. He doesn't need Connecticut unions.

He certainly did not do this to make the US military "happy." On his list of top ten favorite US departments, the Department of Defense doesn't even make the list. I doubt the president has a patriotic song on his playlist of 10,000 songs.

So, what gives. The headline at the Fox News sort of gives it away. But not quite.

Why did President Obama throw his environmental base under the bus by opening up the Arctic to a full-scale "exploitation-of-the-Arctic" race with Russia? One word: Putin.

Putin has gotten inside Obama's head.

One has to remember President Obama's DNA. DSM IV 301.81.

By this time, Obama had expected Putin to be kicked out of office (after the Crimean, after the economy meltdown, after the sanctions). But Putin is still in office. Not only is he still in office, Putin's approval ratings among his people are twice the approval ratings Obama has among US poll respondents.

But this is what really, really galls the US president. On January 21, 2017, president Obama is a private citizen, again, no longer president. Vladimir will still be president. For life.

The best thing the Tea Party could do? Invite Putin to attend the January 20, 2017, swearing in of the new president, regardless of who it is.

Whatcha Gonna Do When They Come For You, Bob Marley