During commencement remarks delivered yesterday at
University of California at Irvine, President Barack Obama demonstrated yet again how
thoroughly and banally ensnared in the Boomeritis wave he is.
According to an article by Mark Landler published in the New
York Times,
Speaking in gleefully sarcastic
terms to a commencement ceremony at the University of California, Irvine, Mr.
Obama likened those who deny climate change to people who would have told John
F. Kennedy, at the dawn of the space program, that the moon “was made of
cheese.”
He saved his most scathing words
for lawmakers who say they are not qualified to judge the issue because they
are not scientists. These people, the president said, recognize the truth but
will not utter it for fear of being “run out of town by a radical fringe that
thinks climate science is a liberal plot.”
“I’m not a scientist either,” Mr.
Obama told this young audience, “but we’ve got some good ones at NASA. I do know
the overwhelming majority of scientists who work on climate change, including
some who once disputed the data, have put the debate to rest.”
For Terry Patten, Jeff Salzman, and the other Obama acolytes
in the Integral Institute, this should put paid to the fantasy that the
President represents the possibility of an integral transcendence in the
Democratic Party. Obama and all his yes
men have never evinced anything but the impoverished depradations of the
narcissism that has, so far, eviscerated green’s powerful potential.
