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In reply to the discussion: Report: SecState candidate Rice "Has a Major Financial Stake in Canadian Tar Sands" i.e. Keystone XL [View all]patrice
(47,992 posts)nothing else matters.
I feel confident of the anti-XL activists I met to steer they own path and to get back to the rest of us when they need our help in supporting their decisions, meanwhile . . .
I'm not a single issue person, like tooooooooooooo many others. Though the 21 card-game analogy is useful, the actuality is that the deck is much much much bigger and there are more players and the arithmetic is more complicated than that.
Everything has consequences whether we can see them or not, whether we can/choose-to characterize those consequences with validity or not, so I'm not giving Obama "a pass" on anything. That doesn't mean that I can't focus selectively when I feel it is a valid thing to do, nor that I wear blinders about the big-picture.