Guest essay by Eric Worrall
President Obama has paid a personal visit to one of the few Americans who is genuinely worried about the climate.
US President Barack Obama has paid a personal visit to a mother who has echoed the greatest fears for many parents across the world in a heartfelt letter.
Mr Obama arrived in a quiet community in Omaha, Nebraska, in an 18-car motorcade on Wednesday to visit Lisa Martin and her husband Jeff in their living room.
The unexpected visit stemmed from a letter to the President Mrs Martin penned 12 months ago as she sat awake at 4am feeding her newborn son Cooper.
She wrote to Mr Obama — not expecting a response — to convey her thoughts, worries and hopes for the future in which her son would grow up.
In her letter, Mrs Martin described her “overwhelming sense of dread” about climate change.
“Will my son be able to thrive on this planet?” she wrote.
“Will he be able to experience the small things, such as winter in Nebraska, where he has snow days and sledding?
“Where he comes home to me cooking homemade hot cocoa for him, like I did?
“Sadly, I think the answer is no.
I suggest an 18 car motorcade, no doubt preceded by a flight in Air Force One, to visit someone who is worried about CO2 emissions, neatly encapsulates the utter farce which is the President’s position on climate change.
Shame he didn’t bother visiting the families of the victims from the San Bernadino terrorist attack.
How kind of Snowbama to pay such a visit.
SHOWbama you mean. BOb has taken this fear and guilt show on national and international tours since taking office. it was nothing to burn up a little more fossil fuel for an Omaha daydream detour.
“Shame he didn’t bother visiting the families of the victims from the San Bernadino terrorist attack.”
Um, well,
actually…he did.
Nick’s link seems to be dead, but Nick is right:
http://edition.cnn.com/2015/12/18/politics/san-bernardino-obama-visit/
Hwoever, the visit to the “climate woman” is still ridiculous
Michael J,
Now you went and spoiled it…
True, but ONLY to make the point about how bad it is for the general population to be able to own/have guns.
Nick,
You post Interesting and informative comments at times, and I’m sorry but this time you’re just an *ss. You cherry-pick an article to refute a trivial and irrelevant point while totally ignoring the main point.
Michael Jankowski is right to point out it took him 16 days, and it was on his way to his Christmas vacation in Hawaii. I wonder if the shooting had occurred during his vacation if he would have interrupted his vacation to visit the families or waited until the end and visited them on the way back. Maybe if he hadn’t gone on vacation, he would never have visited the families.
I’d bet that you’re also impressed with Obama’s speech against ISIS after they beheaded James Foley…just before he hopped in the car and went golfing.
“You cherry-pick an article”
Huh? The lead comment to which I responded made one point only, that Obama had not visited the San Bernardino victims. And it was flat wrong. He had. I said so.
Nick,
You’re right, your point was correct. But the ’16 days’ comment pretty much demolished your point.
Nick,
Do you seriously think that The lead comment to which you responded,
?
I don’t need to speak up for or defend JSM, but I think he made a much broader point. Can you understand that he was validly criticizing Obama’s response to the shooting, vs. his responses to other things that are more politically expedient? You seem to be extremely selective on which trivial errors and inconsistencies you nit-pick but don’t seem to be able to address the point of the comment.
“But the ’16 days’ comment pretty much demolished your point.”
Frustrating here is the resistance to getting simple facts right. JSL said Obama didn’t visit. I said he did. He did. 16 days had nothing to do with my point. The indifference to just getting facts right is what makes argument here incoherent. Obama didn’t visit, and also he took too long, and had wrong attitudes or something. It makes no sense. First you have to establish whether he visited. Then you can start talking about tardiness or whatever.
Hmm. Guys? Nick is sort of right here. Jim criticized Obama for not visiting the victims of the San Bernadino shootings for a whopping 16 days. I was primed to make a snarky remark about there being more golf courses in his home state of Hawaii than there were in Southern California, but s short check on Google sort of shut that line down. Meanwhile, we may observe that he waited over a year to visit Mrs. Martin and her family. It seems he may have really taken some time to make the visit as economical as possible (18 armored limousines notwithstanding).
If any of you are familiar with my previous posts on this site you’ll know in advance that I’m not a fan of Mr. Obama’s policies, nor am I a fan of the AGW hypothesis. It’s my personal opinion Mr. Obama is either dumb as a box of rocks or he’s being paid to support AGW. I tend towards the primary interpretation based on his performance on other subjects. Naturally, I didn’t vote for him.
Nevertheless, in all fairness you have to admit he waited over a year to respond to the “distressed mother” and only 16 days to respond to the murder victims. At least his handlers have their priorities in order?
Why do we keep giving Internet “life” to drivel like this? Best thing we can do is let it scroll on by as quickly as possible!
“Goldrider January 15, 2016 at 6:18 am”
Because it’s an integral part of the Obama Propaganda Effort, which intentionally employs “Perception is Reality” Delusionalism instead of reason, fact, and Science. The Obama Propagandists use this tactic because, 1] If they can make it work, it’s better than the latter – reality simply doesn’t matter; 2] It does work on a certain per cent of people; and 3] It has worked out well for Obama so far! Therefore we must do our best to make it not work by facing it directly. It doesn’t just scroll on by the millions of people who will see it.
The “Anthropocene” is in effect “The Age of Propaganda”, and it ain’t going away anytime soon!
JPeden,
Yep. It’s actually the ‘Idiocene’. They even made a movie about it.
why does the US President not lead by example and travel via solar powered electric vehicles?
If the US Government, with all its resources, cannot figure out how to move the President without using massive amounts of fossil fuels, when the President tells the world that this is the greatest danger we face, how can the average person be expected to do what the President and US Government cannot?
It really looks like the President is saying “I want everyone else to stop using fossil fuels so there will be plenty for me”.
That’s one of the main reasons why so many celebrities want to ban travel for the masses. The best vacation spots are getting too crowded.
He’ll put Biden right on it!
ferdberple you found the Key.
While most of us lose sleep at night over paying the mortgage, feeding the family, putting the kids through school. And the less fortunate in third world countries lose sleep over just staying alive. The Obscenely wealthy lose sleep over running out of necessities to buy.
The CAGW scam is a well orchestrated plan that preserves limited resources for those with multiple cars, planes and yachts to power. First they install puppet dictators then deploy multiple strategies that keep the middle class too poor to buy energy and so guilt ridden they feel good about it. .
Insomnia solved. There will be plenty of fossil fuels to go around for them and their future Little Lord Fauntleroy’s.
That is Liberal politics in general everybody is supposed everything except for them.
Your president did at least have solar panels installed on the White House. See http://usgovinfo.about.com/od/thepresidentandcabinet/tp/History-of-White-House-Solar-Panels.htm
“Security concerns” prevented covering the roof — I don’t understand that part — so the average power (dividing the yearly total by the length of a year in hours) is just 2 1/4 kW. Enough to offset maybe two bedroom heaters.
progressive propaganda for ‘war on fossil fuels’
we are carbon based life forms – no contest
the love of carbon is the root of all evil
““Will my son be able to thrive on this planet?” ”
Not if the US don’t get rid of Obama and the dumbocrats very soon !!!
“get rid of Obama and the dumbocrats very soon”
Get rid of all the greens and derivative believers. They hate humans and will do anything to put him in the ground.
Sustainability and thrivability are not the same. Do you want to merely sustain your existence, or rather thrive?
I hate to sound sexist but having gone through parenthood I wonder if this Young mother isn’t suffering from post partem syndrome? ( My wife had it after the birth of one of ours )
The reaction to fly and drive with 18 cars over to see her is pure showman’s ship and ludicrous on top of that, as others have said!
Seems to make this required reading IMO
http://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2016/01/we-have-superbly-gifted-readers-victor-is-md-of-a-significant-australian-business-speaks-fluent-russ.html
The quotes from the letter suggest psychopathology, especially the “overwhelming sense of dread”. They would surely get hundreds of similar letters every day. It’s a bit weird…and perhaps even a little exploitative of someone’s vulnerablility.
I very possible the woman was suffering from post natal depression. Of course something like that would be of no consequence to Obama if it adds to his so called legacy.
It really says something that he took a whole year even to notice her.
He had to wait for a slow news day.
Absolutely agree, reading the quotes there are signs of possible clinical depression fed by delusion about her “overwhelming sense of dread about climate change” and projecting fears about her sons future, akin to Munchausen syndrome by proxy (projecting fake symptom on someone else for attention).
By visiting her in this manner (a presidential cavalcade) they are feeding her delusion and placing her son at further risk of psychological harm.
Of course the President may have just called in to use the rest room on his way to Hawaii.
I’m not a psychologist and unqualified to discuss psychopathology or post-natal or clinical depression, but this is an example of the real unintended consequences of the global warming scare:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamerica/argentina/7344329/Baby-survives-parents-global-warming-suicide-pact.html
I wonder if Obama will visit the baby that survived the next time he’s in Argentina. Oh, wait…there are no golf courses down there. (hey, Nick. find a golf course in Argentina and refute my post).
Well, if Nebraska heat and drought get as bad as in the mid-1930s then I guess she’ll really have something to worry about…till it passes. Meanwhile, hasn’t Nebraska had plenty of cocoa weather in recent winters?
Just feed your kid, Lisa, and be glad you don’t live in the good old organic days when mothers woke at 4 to worry about lack of food for their children, not lack of sledding.
And Barry? That soaring rhetoric thing you do? Not making it any more. And don’t even think of saying “asthma” one more time.
Asthma? No worries, it’s covered by Obamacare. They’ll all get free breathalyzers.
Maybe… (go to 3:30 on this one)….
My heart goes out to George W, it really does! When the Queen visited America a few years back, his speech was brilliant. He mistakenly referred to her Majesty’s visit 200 years ago, then corrected himself immediately making a gag out of it, by saying “she looked at me the only way a mother looks at a child!”.
What’s really scary is that obamba acts so weak and stupid that we probably aren’t even really represented by him. Someone or ones are controlling him and he is just the front for show. How can anyone be so stupid and actually have any say in the workings of the Presidency? Barry Soretoro? Obama? No wonder he just loves Iran and won’t call islamist terror for what it is.
Richard Keen,
Maybe this explains it…
@ur momisugly db 10:59 am you have got to be kidding me!!! Why in the heck is that not on the news! That is so sad to watched and embarrassing and if it would have been Romney or McCain it would have been news for days!!
[It appears to be an edited (slowed, picked + cut, and rejoined) montage. .mod]
[It appears to be an edited (slowed, picked + cut, and rejoined) montage. .mod]
Dearest moderator,
Slowed or not, Obama admits that he’s drunk! And someone in the audience shouted, “Go home and sleep it off!” — and Obama answered him, so that wasn’t edited. There are many similar examples, in many other videos.
They didn’t need to slow it, but that’s just a quibble. The erstwhile member of the ‘Choom Gang’ was toasted.
Oh Lordy, this one sums up Obama’s asthma policy…
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Obama has made it clear that he is not the president of all Americans, only those who support him.
Sadly I have not been able to convince my (former, perhaps) best friend from college of the ways of Obama. Typical of the left he never gives a straight answer but spouts about things Republicans have done in the past. As if two wrongs make a right.
It was Obama who promised Hope and Change. All he really did was ramp bad behavior up to never before seen levels.
Anyone heard of post-natal depression? I’d say she suffered an unhealthy dose of it.
Worse than that, she is a teacher and most likely spread this nonsense daily.
Earlier in the day, the president went to the suburban home of Lisa Martin, a high school English teacher who sent Obama an email last year, one she wrote with her newborn on her lap at 4 a.m., in which she worried whether her son and the planet would survive if those in power ignore the threat of global warming.
At Baxter Arena, Martin delivered the opening remarks welcoming Obama to the stage.
http://www.courthousenews.com/2016/01/14/obama-revitalizes-hopeful-tone-in-omaha.htm
We tend to embarrass ourselves with rational criticism, it’s irrelevant. These folks are anti-capitalists who’ve converted the once-innocent AGW hypothesis into pure political phylosophy.
Puppets have no balls.
Male puppeteers do though.
Allegedly.
Thr worst American President — ever.
Are you congratulating Obama for achieving his goal, AB, or was that a criticism? ;o)
Quite an achievement, isn’t it!
My keyboard skills on a phone — not, rrrrr. 😰
Given the dangers and costs of severe winters cold, this is an example of the consequences of fear mongering, gooders bumptiousness and stupidity!
Some years ago a family with kids committed collective suicide over global warming fears. I believe it was somewhere in South America. Someone should put this woman on suicide watch.
“I suggest an 18 car motorcade, no doubt preceded by a flight in Air Force One, to visit someone who is worried about CO2 emissions, neatly encapsulates the utter farce which is the President’s position on climate change.”
Politics often has theatre, that does not undermine the science of the position.
No but it undermines the credibility of those who tell you that the science is good. More significantly it gives the rest of us a template how to behave over reducing CO2, which is talk about it but never actually get round to it.
But we have to be saved from that one one-hundredth of a degree Celsius.
U.S. House Science Committee – July 9, 2015
CHAIRMAN LAMAR SMITH: “On the Clean Power Plan, former Obama Administration Assistant Secretary Charles McConnell said at best it will reduce global temperature by only one one-hundredth of a degree Celsius. At the same time it’s going to increase the cost of electricity. That’s going to hurt the lowest income Americans the most. How do you justify such an expensive, burdensome, onerous rule that’s really not going to do much good and isn’t this all pain and no gain.
ADMINISTRATOR GINA MCCARTHY: “No sir, I don’t agree with you. If you look at the RIA we did, the Regulatory Impact Analysis you would see it’s enormously beneficial.
CHAIRMAN SMITH: “Do you consider one one-hundredth of a degree to be enormously beneficial?”
ADMINISTRATOR MCCARTHY: “The value of this rule is not measured in that way. It is measured in showing strong domestic action which can actually trigger global action to address what’s a necessary action to protect…”
“that does not undermine the science of the position”
Perhaps the fact that the world hasn’t warmed in 18 years and 8 months may under mine the ‘science’ of the position?
The warmists were so desperate for something to show for all that grant money they had to doctor the historical temperature record. To the point that they are claiming 2015 was the warmest ever when the data clearly shows 1997 was way above it.
A motorcade of only 18 cars? Doesn’t he usually travel with a 40 car motorcade? It sounds like the prez is cutting back, he’s an inspiration to us all.
/snark
“Theatre”, like when Edison executed an elephant to discredit Tesla?
Had to look that up. Ouch.
http://www.wired.com/2008/01/dayintech-0104/
I just stamp news like this ” IN SUPPORT OF BIG OIL AND COAL” OR “MADE POSSIBLE BY BIG OIL AND COAL”
Lost opportunity costs, compounding, wasted on this social mania of catastrophism have already diminished our grandchildrens’ prospects.
At best, the societal wisdom gained from this scientific and social policy fiasco will partly compensate them for our brief bit of destructive madness.
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Damn kim, you’ve wowed me again.
You would have thought reading “1984” might have sufficed as a surrogate for having to actually live through it. Alas, we are only a year away from having President Camacho, so I guess life does really imitate art.
POTUS has an IQ of 85
That seems too high to me…………… ;^D
85 goldfish is believable.
Borderline anyway.
You’re being generous today.
I have to agree with Patrick MJD. The overwhelming feeling of dread and a fear of the future for ones child is a sure symptom of Post Natal Depression and the letter should have been forwarded to the young mothers local health visitor for immediate action. Obama could have turned up a year later to visit a grave and an orphan. Lucky for him another body was not added to his count.
It’s called ‘baby brain’. Most women suffer it for 10 years (plus or minus).
Sorry. Most men suffer it for 10 years.
Yes, but instead he turns up a year later to use her in a political stunt. Classy guy.
Some here hope that the next election will bring a “better” president. God love the eternally optimistic!
The fact is that we have not had a good president in at least 150 years, probably longer. Sure, we might get one that is a little better on “global warming”, but he/she may well be worse on starting more foreign wars, CIA led secret horrors, dumb economic rules or federal intervention into our lives. Why does no one run against the idiot TSA?
The simple fact is that the next election will simply bring the slaves and opportunity to pick one of two overlords to rule and beat you down for the next 4 years. Pick the least evil one, but don’t think you are going to “save America”. The “America” you want to save died a long, long time ago.
Hades people, most Americans can’t even spell laissez-faire and they darn sure could not define it. They think our present system is “free market capitalism” and it most certainly is not.
I suggest supporting this candidate:
🙂 well said 😉 +++++many many
Unfortunately, he’s not running (flying? swimming? whatever it is he does). I’d put that bumper sticker on my car, if there was one. Maybe even on my rear window!
Great bumper sticker, but I think a better tagline would be:
Why settle for the lesser evil?
(Also, +++ for the rest of your comment.)
Thanks, and i think I like your tagline (but Friday night and bourbon might be swaying my opinion).
Mrs Martin is not the sharpest tool in the box.
Even in California-
“New Stanford poll: Only 39% of Californians persuaded of global warming by temperatures
Funny.
New Stanford poll: Only 45% of Californians impressed by alleged climate ‘consensus’
Another good one.
New Stanford Poll: Climate ranks 15th in priorities for Californians
Earth to Gov. Moonbeam.”
http://junkscience.com/
Everybody complains about the weather, but only President Obama will sacrifice virgins to change it.
he’d probably stab himself.
Video?
“Listening to my son breathing next to me gave me a feeling of urgency.”
He looks like a toddler and not an infant but bed-sharing is the leading cause of death for those 3 months and younger in the US.
While I don’t want to interfere in how she raises her kid, she’s a teacher! She can’t be that intelligent to think the risk is worth the feel good factor but she is willing to destroy her child’s future on the grounds that the number of heatwaves or tornadoes in Nebraska might be one less than if she didn’t give a toss.
Actually, that’s a complete myth.
Obama rejoices in, and makes political capital out of, his ability to generate despair in nursing mothers using only pseudoscience-based propaganda. He is, not to put too fine a point on it, a piece of human refuse.
cephus0.
If obama could [trimmed] flush it.
Seems to me that Mrs Martin needs the help of a qualified Psychologist – and if that fails, a call to Prof Lew in Bristol.
Whatever ones views on global warming, this woman was clearly sick when she wrote such a silly letter. Obama should be ashamed of himself for exploiting a sad case for political purposes. I wonder whether he can tell us what exactly he achieved from the huge cost of his cheap little stunt when there is so much more good he could have done in America or the world with his time and the cost of such an expensive and useless exercise. which, apart from the huge amount of fuel being used by an 18 car motorcade plus the huge cost of Air Force One, probably tied up 100 or more employees in security staff, drivers, local police etc. He should be asked to explain the purpose.
Mr. Obama did this so he can charge to the US govt all the expenses of his political trip.
Clinton did the same thing. They all do it. It’s legal.
And, then we complain when businessman write off expenses excessively.
At least businessmen make the money to cover expenses whereas Obama lives off the public purse.
When the POTUS travels, there are also support aircraft – there is a C-17 or a C-5 carrying the cars for the motorcade, and helos have to be pre-deployed. There is a lot more fuel burned than just AF1 and the 18 cars.
So, I thought when I started reading that Eric is spinning a story that’ll have an amusing finis … then I got to the end, blinked and read the ABC article from the link and, well, ye gods – this really happened!?
This President is in a fugue state.