Thursday, April 17, 2014
Jimmy Carter pisses off Canada's Head Hoser
And the former President was just one of a number of Nobel Peace Prize winners who called upon current President Obama to reject the Keystone XL pipeline. This call was what upset Canadian Teabagger PM Harper.
Former President Jimmy Carter has incurred the ire of Canadian Premier Stephen Harper after pleading with Barack Obama to reject the controversial Keystone XL pipeline proposal, imploring the U.S. president to show "bold leadership" and not make a "dangerous commitment to the status quo."Jimmy Carter also knows what filth and fertilizer are and that you don't breathe one or step in the other.
In a letter addressed to the president and Secretary of State John Kerry, Carter, along with other Nobel Peace Prize laureates — including South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu — called climate change "one of the greatest challenges humanity has ever faced" and urged the U.S. government to decide against approving the $7 billion pipeline project.
"The rejection of the Keystone XL pipeline would have meaningful and significant impacts in reducing carbon pollution," the laureates wrote on April 15. "History will reflect on this moment and it will be clear to our children and grandchildren if you made the right choice."
Harper bristled at the letter, with the prime minister's office responding the following day with a dig at Carter.
"Mr. Carter knows from his time as president during the 1979 energy crisis there are benefits to having access to oil from stable, secure partners like Canada," Harper’s office said in a statement.
Carter served only one term as president, following harsh criticism and a drop in popularity that in part stemmed from his handling of the Iranian revolution and the subsequent oil supply crisis it sparked.
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