Presidential Politics, Petroleum and Pandering

“I have seen hypocrisy that was so artful that it was good judgment to be deceived by it.” - Josh Billings

If your house were on fire, President Barack Obama is the civil servant who would insist the firemen get the hose to your house immediately and he would make sure it happened. Then, as he posed for pictures, he would refuse to allow anyone to attach the hose to a water hydrant as your home went up in flames.

Keystone XL Pipeline (Photo credit: shannonpatrick17)

Essentially this is what President Obama is doing with the Keystone XL Pipeline. The oil pipeline would be capable of pumping 700,000 barrels of oil per day from Canada into the United States if it were attached to a supply of oil. President Obama is all for building the oil pipeline, he just doesn't want it delivering any oil.

President Barack Obama is following the trail hewed by former President Bill Clinton: Audacious shamelessness and hypocrisy so dense that gamma rays find it impenetrable. Which makes the hypocrisy only slightly less dense than those who still support the man who would be President - if only everything weren't still George Bush's fault.

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There are two theories on why President Barack Obama blocked the implementation of the Keystone XL Pipeline (KXP) and neither is good. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Incompetent) had blocked KXP and it was suspected this was at the request of President Obama and this recent development gives more credence to that theory. See: The Do-Nothing Senate's Pipeline to Hell

The Man Who Killed 20,000 Jobs At Once
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The first theory is that Obama was following the dictates of the Green movement. This is where the willful ignorance comes into play. The tie-dye crowd is of the opinion that if the evil United States refuses to buy Canada's oil reserves that it will sit idly in the ground. Canadians; however, are not dumb and we are not the only nation on the planet in need of oil.

The Canadians are our friends and it made economic sense for us to get first shot at this much-needed oil. President Obama wanted Canada to sit on the oil while he waited until after the 2012 election to make a decision, which does not make sense. President Obama rejected a great opportunity to make our supply of oil more secure and create 20,000 jobs.