Obama's address Tuesday has to be nuclear in economics, energy, environment and peace
Lewis DiuguidPresident Barack Obama has to think nuclear as he delivers his State of the Union Address to the nation on Tuesday night.
The newly re-elected, first African American president plans to push policies and programs to benefit the recession-staggered middle class. That includes more manufacturing jobs and beefing up workers’ skills. Obama’s initiatives have to be bold enough to work and practical enough to appeal to the Republican-controlled House.
Pushing more renewable energy sources will have to be in the forefront of what Obama tells the nation, including wind and solar power installed even at facturies, offices and homes. Global warming, highlighted in Obama’s inaugural address, demands legislative action to reduce greenhouse gases.
Taking action on this planet-threatening issue has to be non-negotiable. More merciless and costly East Coast storms may not give Republican lawmakers an option but to act.
Also a threat to the Earth are the stockpiles of nuclear weapons. Obama plans to say in his speech Tuesday that he will reinvigorate talks to bring down the number of nukes held by the U.S. and Russia.
Could that affect the new Honeywell plant in the south Kansas City area? Could be.
Matt Henry
3 months, 1 week agoYes, by all means, let’s have more of the same, because it’s working so well! More government programs to bring back manufacturing jobs! Woo Hoo!
You are not suggesting any new approach at all. If you think his EPA hasn’t targeting global warming already then your head is sooooo in the sand. And I will anxiously await your column supporting nuclear power and natural gas fracking to bring down CO2 levels. Unless you are not serious. I won’t hold my breath.
And btw, what does the fact that he is the first African-American President have to do with a gosh-darned thing in this piece? Is this supposed to change how we see him or what we are allowed to say? Why do you always have to see color? You are just flat-out determined that we will never transcend race. Keep hustling, LWD.
Oblivious.
Karen Hernandez
3 months, 1 week agoMatt– There is nothing wrong with seeing color…God created us all in varying shades of color–all of them beautiful and all of them reflecting the glorious diversity of our ONE human family. To say one should not see color when it is all around us seems to me a bit strange. There is nothing wrong with seeing the color of another person’s skin. It is only wrong to JUDGE another person by the color of their skin. When we are able to do that–not judge–that IS transcending race. We are the Human Race–ALL connected by our common humanity. We are like a precious diamond that reflects many beautiful colors. I believe we all should celebrate our wonderful diversity in all its glorious facets. I believe that Lewis does that. You cannot truly celebrate something you cannot see and fully appreciate the beauty that is there. Thank God for the diversity that makes our world an interesting place to live. It gives us a taste of what Heaven will be like someday when we meet the Lord and are welcomed into HIs Kingdom.
Matt Henry
3 months, 1 week agoI would prefer that we all see each others as humans or American, not as members of divergent races or colors that hold some minimum common ground. I don’t see Obama as a black American. I see him as a horribly misguided American. The problem is, of course, that if I point out that he is a horribly misguided American I am easily accused of hating an African American. THAT’S the problem with wanting to see all the colors; too many people (including Lewis) use those colors to bludgeon other people. And based on his previous writings about race which are numerous and in my opinion littered with hateful racism, I cannot give him the benefit of the doubt as to why he included race here.
I will believe in your paradigm when I read a column of Lewis’s that celebrates somebody’s whiteness. But I won’t hold my breath.
George Hunsucker
Northland
3 months, 1 week agogreat parody lewis… zero will merely talk about how we need more “investmets” i.e. spending and higher taxes.
That is all he knows—big and ever-growing government…