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Obama calls for clean energy activists in commencement speech

Posted by David Roberts at 1:27 AM on 27 May 2008

From Barack Obama's commencement speech at Wesleyan University, 25 May 2008 (he was standing in for Ted Kennedy):

At a time when our ice caps are melting and our oceans are rising, we need you to help lead a green revolution. We still have time to avoid the catastrophic consequences of climate change if we get serious about investing in renewable sources of energy, and if we get a generation of volunteers to work on renewable energy projects, and teach folks about conservation, and help clean up polluted areas; if we send talented engineers and scientists abroad to help developing countries promote clean energy.

That last sentence is a reference to two graduating Wesleyens who are heading to Kenya with biogas digesters.

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Is This Oratory?

Libs are so caught up in their current dream candidate, B. Obama, that they pass of his vacuous prose as having some merit. When I read things like

if we get serious about investing in renewable sources of energy, and if we get a generation of volunteers to work on renewable energy projects, and teach folks about conservation, and help clean up polluted areas

Duuudddee! We gotta like do something about investing in renewable sources of energy. Serious! Like environmentalism is like all about like teaching folks to clean up toxic waste sites and stuff.

by jabailo at 6:34 AM on 27 May 2008

call to service

You need us?
We need you to do the right thing.
Dont Tell Anyone What to Do.
Speak for yourself, whoever

by billgee at 9:20 AM on 27 May 2008

funny

YEA, oil has been pretty hot... for oil companies. But why don't you ask the average American how they feel about our swell, oil-dependent economic system that has done nothing but produce high gas/food prices, unwarranted military entanglement in the Middle East, and a world wherein the world's last remaining superpower has staked it's prosperity on politically volatile petrostates rife with anti-Amrican sentiment? (SOUNDs LIKE A DUD TO ME!)

by mmmtashty at 8:01 PM on 27 May 2008
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