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.
i guess there are two sorts of Americans these days.Those filled with an overwhelming sense of dread that Obama is right, and those that are filled with an overwhelming sense of dread that Obama is wrong, and no one cares…
There is a character from a Charles dickens novel that he reminds me of. Probably Uriah Heep.
But he’s so umble!
Oh, Uriah Heep. My boss has all their albums. ^¿^
Sometimes I think we need to fight fire with fire. How about a follow up visit from Christopher Monckton (and possibly a medical doctor), arriving in a Prius, with graphs/charts to explain why her child will still know what snow is.
Ahhhh, who am I kidding, Christopher has more class than that to make a pawn out of this poor woman to push his own agenda.
If Obama had Chris’s sense of showmanship, he’d have arrived on this worrier’s lawn by parachute. THAT would have made the news.
This is all paid for with fiat money. No gold was traded to pay for the fuel and motorcade to visit this woman.
Oh, BTW, the reason they do such things (visit grieving mothers and all) while on an essentially political trip, is so the politician (our President) can write off the entire expense of the trip to the US govt. Otherwise, the Democratic party would have to pay for his expenses. This is legal, although highly corrupt.
That is our govt. Legal, but highly corrupt.
Maybe there is something wrong with our concept of “legal.” Maybe we should call it “legit.”
“What’s scandalous in Washington isn’t what’s illegal but what’s legal.” —former New Republic editor
I think it was very special for President Obama to visit a needy neurotic. Not much catering is usually done for this kind of person. When was the last time that someone felt sorry for Chicken Little? Never.
He should have ordered an overflight of jet fighters and given her a medal as well. 🙂
What’s even better about Obama’s Omaha visit is that he brought two aircraft for himself. He flew from DC to Omaha in a 747, then to Baton Rouge in a 757. The 747 was too big for the Baton Rouge airport.
Not to mention all the support aircraft that brought the limos, etc.
Hi, I have a son. I don’t breastfeed him ’cause even though I have nipples I’m not capable of that. He’s a newbe. I found a woman who’s standards were sufficiently lax where she was willing to bed down with this old fart and conceive his (or her’s – we argue about that all the time) child.
Ok, the foregoing is all fantasy. Except, of course, for the fact that if I really did have a child I still wouldn’t be able to breastfeed him.
Even though I have nipples.
But, aside from the fact my nipples are vestigial, I too would be concerned for my son’s future if I had a son. You see, with all this stuff that gets belched to all of us about carbon pollution I’d be concerned about what just might happen to the carbon based life form I helped conceive. Would my son be regarded as pollution?
But, something even scarier has just dawned on me. Never ever before, in the history of civilization, hasone of the most powerful leaders in the world seen fit to make a public pilgrimage, and set national policy, based on one woman’s postpartum depression.
Tom Judd
January 15, 2016 at 5:21 am
I believe NOW is the right time to use the word ‘unprecedented,’ Tom.
Of course, this is a ridiculous stunt. However, the problem it highlights is real – not CAGW itself, of course, but the anxiety and distress that is caused by the relentless propaganda of impending doom heaped on the hapless public. Also, of course, not all of us are equally susceptible – people with postnatal or other forms of depression will be at greater risk.
You can’t open a children’s book about nature these days without coming across the dire “bad, bad humans” morale at the end. Who knows what the long-term outcome of that brainwashing will be.
you can see it now
4yr olds on prozac
There already are many at the kindergarten level and that started 35 years ago. We witnessed it with a friends family!
The free floating anxiety of this woman, post partum depression or not, strike me as being typical of those successfully brain-washed by 15 years or so of this nonsense. A look at the comments on any climate change article in the NYT provides many similar examples of hand-wringing. The lack of critical thinking is scarier than the impact of CO2 emissions.
Meanwhile, Omaha appears to be having typical winter weather.
http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?site=oax&zmx=&zmy=&map_x=220&map_y=156&x=220&y=156#.VpjxA4-cHDc
No worries. We’ve all seen results of polls which show that climate fear is far down the list of concerns for most people. Those results have been accompanied by no end of hand wringing and appeals to the fearosphere that more scary stories must be told, the rhetoric must be changed, new tricks must be pulled… people must be taught! The problem for the propagandists is that most people do develop critical thinking skills through life experience and they see through the nonsense.
I live just two or three blocks east of the whiny little English teacher that Obama dropped in on. The part of her letter I liked best was the concern that her son would have to go to a zoo to see a polar bear — just like everyone else. You don’t want to meet a polar bear in the wild, since you are part of its menu.
As far as The One’s visit to 1102 Sherman St., Papillion NE, there was an Omaha police helicopter circling the neighborhood for about half an hour and the area around Ms Whiny’s house was cordoned off. Made me think of one of those movies were the SS surrounds the Jewish ghetto. I was surprised there wasn’t an AC-130 gunship overhead. Maybe there was and I missed it.
The Atlanta zoo has a polar bear in it. Polar bears are a lot more heat tolerant than people give them credit for.
They do appreciate a deep pool and lots of ice blocks in it. I used to be a docent at Henry Doorly Zoo in Omaha
the polar bears are not a unique specie resulting from Darwinian evolution; they are products of micro-evolution, a well-recognized process regularly presented as empirical proof of the never-observed macro-evolution.
Rudyard Kipling’s Just-So Stories is a good guide to grasping macro-evolution.
Well. I’m sure glad you cleared that up.
I’ve met, over the years, four of Canada’s prime ministers just walking down the street or along the river. One I met many times was long ago retired and I bump into him at the supermarket occasionally. I had, by chance, hitch-hiked around Europe years before with his brother before this fellow had become prime minister. On an occasion I was in Calgary before Christmas, I, of course, looked up his brother. Before I left, he told me that he was late with his Christmas shopping and wondered if I had room in my luggage to take the few presents back to Ottawa with me. I did so. At the time, he was leader of the opposition in parliament so I delivered the presents a few days before Christmas to ‘Stornaway’ the name of the Oppo’s official residence. He answered the door and invited me in, but I was on my way for dinner.
Another I met a couple of times, once in the parking lot of a bagel/breakfast/lunch place. I chatted for a few minutes and learned his wife was supposed to have already picked him up. I was going in to pick up a bagel and coffee and asked if he’d like me to get him something while he was waiting for his wife. He thanked me and said no, she’d probably be there in a few minutes and he was gone when I came back out.
A few years ago, I met Harper strolling down the street through the perfume of the magnificent May lilacs in the neighborhood. He had a couple of security guys nearby – being a conservative, tough, no-nonsense type, it was probably prudent although I think he was quite safe.
Our new very young P.M. was very much out and about and my wife and I met him, his wife and young child at a nearby park/playground on a few occasions before he became P.M this past fall. In jeans and short-sleeved shirt, indistinguishable from other fathers, he was at ease and unpretentious.
I rue the day which will surely come when we have phalanxes of grim goons in dark suits, wired for action, and chains of limos that is the norm in the US.
Here is a Youtube of Obama buying maple leaf cookies at a large marketplace bakery (Byward Market) in downtown Ottawa just; a few blocks from the US Embassy. His security contingent looks desperate but I’m sure the Embassy told him he was pretty safe. Apparently his security almost lost him and were playing catch-up with him in these tight crowded conditions. The bakery now calls them Obama Cookies – they sell well apparently. Note the president proffers a Canadian $20 bill but they gave him the cookies. I hope we stay this way for awhile.
Oops should read Stornoway
U.S. protection of our Elitist Politicians is approaching that of Oligarchy (multi-headed dictatorship). An unstated founding basis of America was that Government would respect (be fearful of) We the People. America now suffers the reverse, a Government we fear, a Government that dictates to us.
Is that the President coming to visit or is it a SWATT raid?
Standard procedure for presidential visits. I was in Bad Axe, Michigan when Nixon visited to stump for a Republican congressional candidate Two choppers came in, Nixon was in one of them but nobody knew which. He did the speech and was outta there. Last public appearance before he resigned.
The candidate lost.
Heh, inflation. They have three now. Reduce the odds.
…and this is a teacher…..responsible for indoctrinating our kids
I thought the same thing. Because it is true: public school education in the USA is mainly indoctrination in the PC culture.
Public School Systems = “F-“
She is probably forced into 2 or 3 hour long indoctrination sessions every year at the teacher’s ‘professional development day’.
Only 2 or 3 hour sessions? Lucky them. When i was a teacher we had five whole days of the wretched stuff every year . And one of them was about ‘Sustainability’ in which we had someone from the local Council explain to us the dangers of global warming. It was his job. He was paid to do it. Why else would he have done it|?
Unless someone can show me otherwise, I’ll assume that she’s an activist shill in the NEA (Nebraska, or National, Teacher’s Union), which is a member of that bolshevik coalition. Wonder what her next letter to BO will be?
On that day the circus came to town.
An 18-car motorcade to express concern regarding CO2 emissions.
Leftists are no longer capable of self-awareness.
Would they have made the trip in bad weather?
It was 45 degrees and sunny.
Poor child of this woman. He has parents that buy into propaganda and fear. His life will be one of despair, not because of climate change, but because his parents will teach him the world is bad and evil for using fossil fuels. Worse, he may be white and have to suffer from white guilt on top of the global warming fears.
As for the hot cocoa, Michelle would say “NO” right now. So the child may not have the cocoa either, courtesy of Mrs. Obama.
Why is Gilbert Gottfried standing in front of the White House?
The irony is priceless…
What’s the carbon footprint of an 18-car motorcade?
CO2 emissions per gallon of gasoline consumed:
18 vehicles. Let’s guess that each vehicle burned 5 gallons of gasoline:
Assuming that the trip only employed Air Force One and a single C-17 Globemaster…
CO2 emissions per gallon of jet fuel consumed:
The fuel consumption rates can vary widely… A C-17 can burn more than 10 gallons per mile. A 747 burns 5-10 gallons per mile. Let’s just assume each aircraft burned 7 gallons per mile.
Motorcade + Air:
The per capita CO2 footprint in the US is about 17,500 kg/yr.
The Martins’ family of three would take nearly 6 years to emit 295,558 kg of CO2. Obama did it on a quick trip to visit then to assure them that he was fighting climate change.
The stupidity of this story is mind boggling.
When will Obama get around to visiting the Americans who fear Godzilla?
“The stupidity of this story is mind boggling.”
Ignorant Arrogance of which this story is based on is Hypocritical and Immoral. Belching out 295,558 kg of CO2 while Politicking about man-made CO2 being cause of Global Warming.
Somehow this fits David …….
I saw that in the theater!
Would that we could return to the days when the threat was foreign and not domestic!
That’s probably a conservative estimate. I bet the trip employed at least 3 air craft, one for the president, the C17 for the Beast, and one backup that carried staff.
*still laughing about that GIF
And for about $800.00, SHE could have be bought a round-trip ticket to Washington DC.
Wouldn’t have even needed a hotel room. Clinton proved ANY democratic donor can get a room upstairs in the Lincoln bedroom.
@David Middleton: you look at something like this and you reach for numbers to make sense of it. I rather doubt that the USA selects politicians for numeracy; my country certainly doesn’t. What if President Obama just *can’t* think like that? What if you showed him the calculations of so much CO2 for such and such a trip and he honestly *couldn’t* see the relevance? Human beings can have some very strange blind spots. I’ve actually met an adult who, in all sincerity, asked “how long would it take to go 50 km at 100 km/hour?”. Maybe understanding people, power, and persuasion helps you become President but ties up brain cells that could have helped you understand the physical world? Of course that why you have advisors. I’m inclined to see your President’s apparent hypocrisy in this case to an intellectual blind spot, but his minders really *should* have warned him, and it *is* his responsibility to see that he has minders/advisors who can and will. “There’s no way that’s going to look good, Boss. Skype her.”
David Middleton: youtube this comment and you’ll be calling the tune
the warmunists will dance like burning spastics.
My god I’m glad I’m not that woman’s child!
Think of it. Most people, whether mothers, fathers, or strangers, look at a baby’s cute, big-eyed, cherubic face and the first thing they do is smile back at it, make a silly expression, go for a tickle, and shoot little rays of giggles and joy. That mother looks at her baby’s cute, big-eyed, cherubic face, and the first thing she does is think of doom, end times, and the necessity of firing off a letter to the president of the US.
Who gratuitously sanctions this mother’s questionable behavior.
Sorry, he found a loon worried about whether her son would experience winters cold enough to warrant hot chocolate?? In NEBRASKA???
Just once, someone write a letter saying “I wonder whether my son will grow up to know what an eagle is? I fear not, with all the windfarms driving them to extinction by chopping them up.”
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Presidential actions speak louder than his words!
This doesn’t seem to be covered very much in the US main stream media, why would that be?
Symbolism to the end. Then it’s beach time in Hawaii.
The hubris of Obama sees no ends. Pushing a war against Specter of Global Warming, while ignoring proven deadly threat of Islamic Terrorists.
Ms. Martin wants her son to meet an ice-bear in the wild. In such a case usually the county social service arrives with flashing lights.