Politirazzi

How green is Sen. Hillary Clinton? (Bloomberg)

By Lynne

With the Pennsylvania primary falling on Earth Day, running as a “green” candidate makes a lot of sense. But every mainstream article pretty much says the same: Clinton and Obama are practically indistinguishable on the environment. According to Newsweek, both Democrats

“aim for a reduction of 80 percent (of carbon emissions) from 1990 levels by the year 2050, which most scientists think is the minimum necessary to head off the worst effects of climate change.”

Gee, policies to meet the bare minimum necessary. Change is really in the air ...

McCain even lays claim to some serious eco-cred (although it’s still not enough to make up for that ZERO score from the League of Conservation Voters). The Lieberman-McCain Climate Stewardship Act of 2003 was the first climate change bill introduced to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but it lost 55-43. A later version received even less support due to the addition of billions in taxpayer subsidies for the nuclear energy industry.

Speaking of which, want to hear a dirty secret? Nuclear industry executives and employees have donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to Obama and Clinton. Clinton is apparently agnostic on the issue, but with Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant just 24 miles north of NYC and millions of New Yorkers in the peak injury zone, I get nervous when McCain and Obama make supportive noises about nuclear power. And don’t get me started on the exploitation of indigenous lands for uranium mining, nuclear testing and radioactive waste dumping.

Enough of the doom and gloom (that’s so Al Gore 2000), it’s time for a green makeover.

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Be honest: Do you really care that Jimmy Carter kinda-sorta-almost endorsed Obama?

Even Carter couldn’t be bothered to make it official. Maybe he didn’t want to be yet another former Democratic president trying to inject his has-been self into the primary season (blog to Bill: go home and bake some cookies).

Or perhaps it was recognition that his endorsement wouldn’t make a peanut-sized bit of difference to Obama’s crucial youth vote. Didn’t Carter lose the presidency almost a decade before most of the 700,000 college students in Pennsylvania were even born?

As for the rest of those pesky superdelegates, they’re going to vote for whoever they think will win (hey, everyone likes to back a winner) or whoever they think will help them get re-elected or whoever they think will deliver the most pork to their district.

While she may not be a Skinny Bitch, Clinton was recently outed in Slate Magazine as an avid snacker of the soy-based meatless Boca Burgers. If Clinton is smart, she’ll ditch the pork and go after the millions of veggie voters in the US.

“Soy Hillary” may very well be her next campaign slogan.
— Lynne