Hope this isn't going to be a trend: Obama losing financial backing of big S.F. donor

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61. Yes, the environment is serious. But so is healthcare. It doesn't matter...

if the air is clean, if you're dead. It matters to the remaining people, of course, but I would argue that not stopping the Keystone Pipeline will not directly result in people dying. A lack of healthcare does.

Everything is important. Everything. He DID do a lot for the environment. Including rejecting the KP, for the time being.

I also don't think some donor is the cause of the rejection of the KP. It was because the Republicans forced him to make a decision on it before the full environmental studies could be done. So he had to reject it, which the Republicans knew he would do. They think it's a good political move, is why they did that.

Now maybe he hadn't allowed it before then because of some donors. I don't know. But this donor backed Kerry, it seems, and he was in FULL support of so-called clean coal mining (now that's a misnomer for you). Apparently that wasn't close enough to her house, so she didn't care about that. It wasn't her pet project. The KP will be passing on her end of the country, so there you go. It's not THE environment she cares about, it seems. It's HER environment.

Let's see what the environmental reports say re the KP, before we start electing Santorum or Romney.