as he personally lobbied the senate today to once again kill the pipeline project. Still hiding behind we haven't had sufficient time to look at it....and the dumbest statement ever...what's the hurry there would not be any drilling starting for a couple of years anyway. How very unstrategically stupid.

We have waited 40 years while the government has done nothing about energy independence.
What are the risks:
1. The project has already been cited as being more environmentally safe than any of the existing pipeline projects.
2. The project will provide a subsatntial number of new jobs.
3. The project would send a message to the mideast we are serious about getting away from them.
4. It would signal the USA and the rest of the world we are doing something that America needs.

Now why is it that Obama has chosen to make this bold move to make sure the bill gets killed again?
I am betting on #4 as a political pawn for friends in the middle east.

btk