In remarks to his campaign staff Obama said (see video here):
Those of you who are concerned about global warming? I don’t care what he says, John McCain is not going to push that agenda hard.
Given McCain’s increasing lameness and doubletalk on the issue, his obsession with costly nuclear pork and his weak climate plan compared to Obama’s (see earlier posts below), I couldn’t agree more.
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The thing that astonished (and encouraged) me is that global warming was the first issue he mentioned, followed by Darfur, education, and the economy. I’ve no particular reason to believe that it’s Obama’s first priority, but he obviously thinks it’s really important to his campaign staff.