Al Gore Wins. Gordon Smith Ignores. Oregon Loses.
Has Gordon Smith heard of Global Warming?
Not according to his campaign and U.S. Senate websites. There is no mention of “global warming” nor “climate change” on either site.
There is nothing to indicate he has changed his stance from 2003 when The Daily Astorian said his climate change position would earn him induction into the Flat Earth Society.
And his voting record signals little concern over climate change. Smith has voted against proposals to reduce green house emissions, against boosting CAFE standards, and for windfall profits for Big Oil.
In each of those votes, Smith voted opposite Oregon’s other U.S. Senator, Democrat Ron Wyden.
So, with Al Gore’s Nobel Peace Prize victory today, do we have an opportunity to get Smith’s attention on this issue?
What would it take to get Smith to recognize global warming as a priority?
A phone call from Al Gore?
A free copy of “An Inconvenient Truth"?
An all expenses paid trip to the polar ice caps?
What do you think it will take to get Smith to recognize the causes and threat of global warming?
Posted October 12, 2007 Environment 1 comments
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Cross posted from wiseass.org:
Does Gordon Smith also think Gore should not have won the Nobel Prize?
As picked up by Eric Kleefeld over at Talking Points Memo, John McCain, whom Oregon Senator Gordon Smith has endorsed for his floundering bid for President, commented to a crowd today in Davenport Iowa on Al Gore's Nobel Peace Prize with negative spin, saying that there were more worthy people out there to whom the prize could have been awarded.
"I would have liked to see that prize go to the Buddhist monks who are suffering and dying in Burma," McCain is quoted as saying.
While most of the world is deeply troubled and opposes the military junta's crack-down on the Burmese monks in their struggle for human rights and democratic reforms, it flies in the face of several facts.
First, the nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize are closed after February 1st each year, since the deadline for the nomination process was already closed before the recent military crack-down on the monks, the Nobel committee could not even consider them for this years prize.
Second, Aung San Suu Kyi, who is the noted prisoner of conscience and advocate of nonviolent resistance was a pivitol person in support of the recent growing protests which are at the center of military crack-down, already won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991 for her peaceful and non-violent struggle for human rights and democratic reforms in Burma.
So not only is McCain's poltical back-biting in extremly poor taste, but leads one to ask exaclty how divorced from reality is John McCain? What does it also say about someone like Gordon Smith's judgement when he is backing him for the most powerful position in our nation who is not just so petty, but so horribly uninformed when making such pathetic backhanded comments about the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize recipients?
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