A New Kind of Politics

Barack Obama attempts to rise above the trivial matters (i.e., chemistry and economics) that divide supporters and opponents of liquid coal technology and makes everyone unhappy with a nonsensical compromise position. UPDATE: To say more, I think Obama had an opportunity here to just tell the truth -- it's pretty obvious he backed liquid coal because he was representing a coal-producing state even though it's not actually a good idea, and now he's flip-flopping to the correct position because as president you need to respond to matters of pressing national and global importance. UPDATE II: The good news, though, is that an Obama presidency promises to sharply raise the value of pundits capable of making NBA analogies. For example, Obama may be like LeBron but Hillary Clinton is like the Spurs.

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