Enviro groups state obvious: Bush has zero credibility on greenhouse emissions

[BurtWorm]

and less than zero credentials to lead a campaing to reduce them. His game is transparently plain and par for his course: to look like a hero while passing the buck to others to do the real work he hasn't the courage, wisdom, intelligence or sense to undertake.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,2093357,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=networkfront

Environmentalists on both sides of the Atlantic condemned Mr Bush's speech as vague and insubstantial and unlikely to herald any real progress before he leaves office at the start of 2009.

"This is a classic spoiler," said Robin Oakley from Greenpeace. "The G8 should be debating global mandatory emissions caps, not facilitating an ad hoc conference hastily proposed by Bush that's designed to kick this issue into the long grass until he leaves office."

The Friends of the Earth director, Tony Juniper, called the US plan "a transparent attempt to derail negotiations that are already going on in the G8 and the United Nations.

"If the president wishes to be taken seriously on the subject of climate change, he needs to arrive in Germany next week with a willingness to negotiate rather than a determination to wreck talks which are already going on," he said.

The sentiment was echoed by the US National Environmental Trust, which said Mr Bush did not have any credibility on the issue.

[samq79]

1. WHAT...!!??

You mean that Dubya, the president who cares more about big oil and his oil interests than the people of this country, doesn't get a good "green" rating?

SHOCKING!!


as if you needed to ask... :sarcasm:

[Cabcere]

2. Call me immature, but...

...the first thought I had on reading that subject line was "Dee-dee-dee!" (a la Carlos Mencia). :P My brother is very fond of using that phrase to describe much of this administration, lol...

[Buzz Clik]

3. No kidding. I hope these guys didn't miss any sleep coming to this conclusion.

[gratuitous]

4. Bush has a keen understanding of group work

I hope the G8 folks are a step ahead of him, though. If someone is just trying to dictate the proceedings without having participated in any of the lead-up work it takes to come up with a proposal, it can fairly be said that they're trying to monkey-wrench the group.

Now Bush wants to be the lead soloist in the global climate change choir when he hasn't been to any of the rehearsals, doesn't know the music, and is singing noticeably off-key. Uh, no.

[ProgressiveFool]

5. wow, this line really pissed me off

"Let's be clear. For the first time, America is saying absolutely clearly it wants to be part of such a global deal," (Tony Blair) said.

One last reach-around for Bush, Tony?

[BurtWorm]

6. Blair is shameless.

I wish he'd exited long ago so we wouldn't have to witness more of his embarrassing poodling.