Monday, December 8, 2008

Obama's number one priority?


So everyone's prone to exaggeration now and then. When it's someone with a point counter to our own we may tend to get riled up and try to take them down a notch or two. Usually however, when it's a friend we let it slide. "It's just Uncle Bill talking smack" we might say to ourselves.

Such is the case with the email I received this morning from the Sierra Club touting that "President-elect Obama has made moving to clean energy his number-one priority." And..."But he'll need our help and support to make this change happen."

Yeah, no shit my dear friends at the Sierra Club. But seriously, number one priority. It maybe up there but it seems there's a deep economic were on the brink of teetering over into the proverbial abyss. Stimulating the economy through deep investment in clean energy and updating the grid would be a boon to the economic recovery plan, and may even be one its central tenents, but i'm having a hard time seeing where it's is President-elect Obama's number one priority.

Nonetheless, posturing happens on both sides the backyard fence and this is an instance that isn't getting me riled up. I also happen to very heartily agree that we need to show every bit of support and ecouragement and direction we can. Won't you join in signing the petition that adjoined the bold claim of being Obama's number one beau? I'd surely hate to miss out on being part of this courtship!

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