58% oppose Obama's green car subsidies. Obama should reconsider his insults.
(WaPo) — President Obama blasted his Republican critics Thursday for their resistance to investing in alternative energy sources, comparing their stance to the beliefs of those who thought that Columbus would sail off the edge of the world.
In another in a series of speeches defending his energy policies, Obama touted his push for green energy growth — including wind and solar power, electric cars and biofuels — as a way to help wean the nation from a dependence on foreign oil. And he mocked his rivals for failing to embrace his ideas.
“If some of these folks were around when Columbus set sail, they probably must have been founding members of the flat earth society. They would not believe that the world was round,” Obama told an enthusiastic crowd of hundreds of students at Prince George’s Community College in Largo. “Maybe they would have agreed with one of the pioneers of the radio who apparently said, ‘Television won’t last. It’s a flash in the pan.’”
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Wait...you mean it's NOT flat? Who woulda thunk? It's a wonder that no one has had the balls to bluntly tell Obummer to go piss up a rope. Oh and to look in a mirror because it isn't the people opposing him doing the stuff he's accusing them of? It's HIM and his acolytes doing it.
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