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I’m still trying to understand what President Obama is doing when he attends this conference in Copenhagen.  There seems to be a bit of a conspiracy theory that Obama will sign away our nation’s sovereignty, but I’m hesitant to jump on board with that theory until I have more information.

I started learning about this when someone sent me an email asking me to check out the following video:

I have no idea who Lord Christopher Monkton is and I’m suspicious of anyone who is so arrogant that he needs to refer to himself as “Lord” or “Sir”…  So I’ll take this video as information that needs to be examined further.

Looking at some other sources, I’ve come across an internet publication from a group of Ivy League types called the American Thinker.   They are discussing US plans with Japan to lead the way for 80% global emission reductions by 2050 amongst other environmental goals that, on the outset, seem like a great idea.

But now you start looking at the nitty-gritty and apply these goals to industrialized vs. emerging industrial nations and the problem becomes insane.  Even in discussing the ideals of a proposed treaty were met with resistance from emerging nations like China, India and 70+ other yet-to-industrialize nations.

The Times of India reported Nov. 6 that even Western attempts to merely include a “shared vision” statement in the treaty “would destroy the firewall between the higher level of commitments of the rich countries and the conditional obligations of the rest” and was thus opposed by India, China, and the Group of 77.

This means that the developed countries of America, Japan, and the European nations will have to carry the entire burden of reducing energy use and industrial production to meet the targets set by the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). In Barcelona, fifty African nations walked out of negotiations, supposedly to protest the refusal of the “rich nations” to cut their emissions by 40% below 1990 levels by 2020 — the highest figure suggested by the IPCC. But what the Africans really wanted was a pledge of substantial financial aid from the West under the guise of paying for environmental programs.

So today, I read that President Obama has vowed to “finish the job” in Afghanistan. What does that mean? At this point, I’ve read a little bit and Time magazine seems to sum it up:

The war is now in its ninth year, and public support is waning. But Obama on Tuesday repeated his belief that neither al-Qaeda nor its allies can be permitted to flourish in Afghanistan. “We are going to dismantle and degrade their capabilities and ultimately dismantle and destroy their networks,” he said. “It is my intention to finish the job.”

It appears as if our President is about to order more troops over there.  I just want to remember that he just pledged to “finish the job”.  We’ll see, Mr. President.  I’m skeptical about such lofty goals unless, as was stated, he just pulls everyone out now.  I’m not saying that’s a good idea, but it would indeed finish that particular job while likely opening up a whole other set of miserable jobs to deal with the aftermath of a mass withdrawal…  none of which I’m an expert to talk about.

I guess the arguement of mass withdrawal is that the void will be filled by terroristic/militaristic “enemies” of our country – which is bad.

I’m done yapping.  I’ll post more as I learn more.

I’m going to try and commit to posting topics related to the things that President Obama has done that will either support re-voting for him or not in 2012. I’ve become near regretful that I voted for him (although the overall NY vote was destined to vote for him anyways). My wife has asked me to provide examples of things he’s done that are negative and I struggled to put together any specifics.

So now I’m going to try to better understand why I like or dislike our President with something more concrete than “he’s ruining our country.”

We’ll see how it goes. Feel free to respond.