Unleashing the Furies

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By Keith Kloor
Apr 8, 2011 8:20 PMNov 20, 2019 4:46 AM

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There are big rumblings in the climate wing of the environmental movement. I felt them several weeks ago while reading this post ("Why are Obama and Salazar pushing a massive expansion of coal production") and thread. Much of the anger from CP readers was directed at President Obama. Comments ranged from looney (Obama is a manchurian candidate) to exasperation (Obama"doesn't get it"). But two major themes emerged from the 100+ comment thread: 1) betrayal (Obama is "not the man I voted for" and 2) punishment, as reflected by this commenter:

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