Updated: Obama (& Wen Jiabao) to Go to Copenhagen With Pledge of Emissions Cuts

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Wednesday November 25, 2009 · 6:21 PM PST

2009/11/25 · 18:21

November 26, 2009

Obama to Go to Copenhagen With Pledge of Emissions Cuts

By JOHN M. BRODER

WASHINGTON — President Obama is pledging a provisional target for reductions in greenhouse gas emissions in the United States, the first time in more than a decade that an American administration has offered even a tentative promise to reduce production of climate-altering gases, the White House announced Wednesday.

At the international climate meetings in Copenhagen next month, Mr. Obama will tell the delegates that the United States intends to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions “in the range of” 17 percent below 2005 levels by 2020 and 83 percent by 2050, officials said.

The figures reflect targets specified by legislation that passed the House in June but is stalled in the Senate. Congress has never enacted legislation that includes firm emissions limits or ratified an international global warming agreement with binding targets.

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Wednesday October 28, 2009 · 10:52 PM PDT

2009/10/28 · 22:52

... I joined dKos in Nov 2004.

Please place this diary on the Daily Kos Front Page:

POTUS heads to Dover Air Force Base To Honor Fallen Soldiers

Thank you,
Bob

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Tuesday October 20, 2009 · 10:43 PM PDT

2009/10/20 · 22:43

As most of you know, General Smedley Butler was an extraordinary soldier. He was awarded the Medal of Honor not once, but twice.

In 1935, after delivering a speech similarly entitled, he published War is a Racket.

As I read comments in the exceptional diary by Dallasdoc, One Every Twelve Minutes I was reminded of General Butler's assessment of war and that informs the next letter I will send to President Obama on 23 October 2009.

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Thursday October 01, 2009 · 10:57 PM PDT

2009/10/01 · 22:57

... Baucus and his committee are still at it, live on C-Span.

I know this is not a "diary" - just a heads up.

But, I think it should be brought to all those whom may be checking in on Daily Kos that they are still at it ...

http://www.c-span.org/...

To say that Baucus and Conrad make great Republicans is no surprise to anyone here.

Wyden is definitely not on their team.

Obama: "I happen to be a proponent of a single payer ...

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Tuesday September 29, 2009 · 11:07 PM PDT

2009/09/29 · 23:07

"... universal health care program.

I see no reason why the United States of America, the wealthiest country in the history of the world, spending 14 percent of its Gross National Product on health care cannot provide basic health insurance to everybody.

And that’s what Jim is talking about when he says everybody in, nobody out.
A single payer health care plan, a universal health care plan. And that’s what I’d like to see."

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Saturday September 26, 2009 · 9:05 AM PDT

2009/09/26 · 09:05

Yesterday late evening I considered posting President Obama's Weekly Address but decided not to because I thought it would likely scroll from the list of diaries with little attention so I was delighted to find that SusanG 'front paged' it.

The past week President Obama clearly signaled a very different approach to the community of Nation's than the world has experienced from America during the Bush/Cheney era of tyranny.

As to consequences ...

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Wednesday September 23, 2009 · 10:59 PM PDT

2009/09/23 · 22:59

President Obama's address to the UN today was not ordinary, in any sense.

Perhaps many of you watched it or have since either read it or watched the video.

If not, I assure you the 38 or so minutes you spend watching and listening will be well spent. This is not an ordinary message.

I've included the full text below. A year ago we could only dream of a day when America would have a President committed to and capable of the leadership President Obama exemplified today.

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Tuesday September 22, 2009 · 10:37 PM PDT

2009/09/22 · 22:37

New Policy May Affect Wiretap, Torture Suits
By Carrie Johnson
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, September 23, 2009

The Obama administration will announce a new policy Wednesday making it much more difficult for the government to claim that it is protecting state secrets when it hides details of sensitive national security strategies such as rendition and warrantless eavesdropping, according to two senior Justice Department officials.

The new policy requires agencies, including the intelligence community and the military, to convince the attorney general and a team of Justice Department lawyers that the release of sensitive information would present significant harm to "national defense or foreign relations." In the past, the claim that state secrets were at risk could be invoked with the approval of one official and by meeting a lower standard of proof that disclosure would be harmful.

That claim was asserted dozens of times during the Bush administration, legal scholars said.

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Monday September 14, 2009 · 12:25 PM PDT

2009/09/14 · 12:25

... how hard the SEC tried to prevent that from happening.

I think it is interesting that on the day the President Obama delivered a reasoned and tough message to the financial industry, the Beltway gang (including many members of Congress) who are the servants of that financial industry, and to failed regulatory agencies that a Judge had this to say regarding the proposed SEC settlement with BoA:

[It] ...“does not comport with the most elementary notions of justice and morality,”

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Saturday September 12, 2009 · 9:56 PM PDT

2009/09/12 · 21:56

a black man whose legitimacy is constantly challenged by a loco fringe."

I realize we have a diary on the Rec list reflecting on Ms Dowd's latest NYTimes Op-Ed.

However, I want to bring attention to this poignant fact:

"this president is the ultimate civil rights figure"

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Wednesday September 09, 2009 · 10:44 PM PDT

2009/09/09 · 22:44

When your opponent fails at even one dimensional reality.

Tonight we witnessed the collapse of any pretense to any skill on the part of GOPers to be credible on anything that matters to our Nation.

We now know we have a masterful President - what now needs to happen is for each of us to be masterful citizens.

Beyond all of the options he opened for those whom truly intend to create a major legislative overhaul of access to health care - and yes he opened doors for Rep Weiner and the Progressive Caucus - he established a moral compass for Congress and all of us.

He also defined what he expects and what he will not tolerate.

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Tuesday September 08, 2009 · 9:33 PM PDT

2009/09/08 · 21:33

9 September 2009

Good morning Mr President,

Sir, we have abundant evidence that the G1M1S1 pandemic is ravaging our Nation.

That's shorthand for 'Greed First (G1), Me First (M1), Stupid First (S1)' and Mr President if you do not yet have ample evidence of the devastation that raging virus is causing our Nation - then you have been living on another planet these past six months.

Mr President you speak of the improbable, you speak of the single voice that amplifies to a societal outcry for Change - a voice that we all heard on the cold Springfield morning, Winter 2007. A voice that we enjoined and propagated and the result, Sir, is that you are President of the United States of America.

Improbable, yes indeed.

But what must not be improbable or obscure or 'political' or obtuse tonight, President Obama, is that your Presidency will be defined by 'Change We Can Believe In.'

You are wanting in that regard Mr President.

Wanting in several fundamental ways. Wanting in that you have not yet underscored a commitment to the rule of law, the value of each American's life, the vast harm that the culture of greed has wrecked on our fellow citizens these past 40+ years.

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