Oil Industry told Obama: "You do what we say on Keystone or there’ll be political trouble’”

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4. That was my reaction: too late

at least for him.

I'm sorry, but is Bill McKibben quoting something or just putting out a theory about what he presumes they said? One can only think the latter. And what if that even was the general message?

We saw in the last election that despite the hundreds of millions of dollars spent on attack ads and support to crazy Tea Party candidates, the Democrats did just fine. Keystone XL doesn't really have that much sway over American voters.

I'm not predicting what Obama will do one way or another. But one thing I think I know about him after all this time: he's not bullied by political pressure. He'll do what he thinks is best. We may not agree with him. But the process will be his.