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   From: Clampett@Reagan.net   
      
   Obama Better Go Back   
   by Naomi Klein   
      
   When Obama arrives in Copenhagen tomorrow to support Chicago's Olympic bid,   
   he will be showing the world that he is willing to schlep to Scandinavia for   
   an event he considers important. The big question now is: will he do it   
   again on December 7, when Copenhagen plays host to the United Nations summit   
   on climate change, the highest-stakes environmental negotiations in history?   
      
   British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has already pledged to be there,   
   characterizing the summit as a last chance to pull the planet back from the   
   brink. "I will go to Copenhagen to conclude the deal," Brown told the UN   
   General Assembly. "This is too important an agreement -- for the global   
   economy, and for the future of every nation represented here -- to leave to   
   our official negotiators. So I urge my fellow leaders to commit themselves   
   to going to Copenhagen too."   
      
   No word so far on whether Obama will heed the call (remember that George   
   Bush Sr. went to the Rio Earth Summit...). Considering the Obama   
   administration's paltry proposals on emissions cuts, and the total absence   
   of a U.S. plan to help developing countries meet the massive costs   
   associated with a climate crisis they did not create (ask the residents of   
   flooded-out Manila), it's not surprising that the president might want to   
   avoid what promises to be a angry showdown in Copenhagen. Already U.S.   
   negotiators are trying to lower expectations for what the summit can   
   accomplish, an ominous sign.   
      
   One thing is certain: if Obama skips Copenhagen in December, after making   
   time to go there to promote the Olympics in October, he will be saying   
   something chilling about his administration's commitment to battling global   
   warming. Now is the time to tell Obama: you'd better go back to Copenhagen.   
      
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   Naomi Klein is an award-winning journalist and syndicated columnist and the   
   author of the international and New York Times bestseller The Shock   
   Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, now out in paperback. Her earlier   
   books include the international best-seller, No Logo: Taking Aim at the   
   Brand Bullies; and the collection Fences and Windows: Dispatches from the   
   Front Lines of the Globalization Debate (2002). To read all her latest   
   writing visit www.naomiklein.org   
      
   Yes, don't support the President or the USA. Support Brazil where hundreds   
   are killed daily by the military, homeless kids are murdered by police and   
   AIDS is rampant.   
      
   Do me a favor, blame Obama for everything Rush tells you to, afterall, your   
   support of the republicans for the past 8 years is what's got America in   
   this mess.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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