I just can not get the pipeline out of my mind. The one that will create thousands of jobs transporting oil from Canada. It barely comes up in the press. There does not seem to be any express reason for not approving it, except, environmental groups, those who have jobs or are on entitlement programs, are against it. And somehow this minority voice drowns out the voice of the numerous groups that are in favor of it.
The Chinese have already told Canada they will finance and build a pipeline to the west coast to transport the oil to China, and they will buy all the oil that Canada can produce. I wish the republicans would have rammed Obama's denial of the pipeline down his oratorical throat. But Romney did not seem to have the backbone, or he could not get the TV time, to call Obama out on this opportunity.
Keep your eyes on this issue for a resolution in the next few months, in favor of the democrats. Obama will claim that he has always been in favor of the pipeline, but has waited for the changes to be made that make the pipeline less environmentally sensitive as the pipeline passes through the Midwest. And you wonder why he made so many trips to Iowa.
Al Gore, the inventor of the Internet is against the pipeline, but I expect Bill Clinton to come out in favor of it, as soon as Arkansas has a stake in the result.
Watch Obama's decision to see who was the big donors to his campaign. It is the American way.
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