Obama Campaign Staff issues "Tin foil hat alert!" - SLAMS Boehner on climate change denial

By Michael D. Shoesmith

Jim Messina, Obama's campaign manager and current chair of Obama's "Organizing for Action" - the official national community organizing website, has sent out a bulk email with the subject "Break out the tin foil hats" referring to Boehner's refusal to acknowledge anthropogenic (man-made) global warming. They are using this (we figured dead) cause as a fundraiser.

Messina resorts to an easily-spotted logical fallacy (red herring) in his attempt to discredit Boehner who seems to have "grown a pair" recently, so to speak. In response to Boehner's (appropriate) stance against blaming people for the global climate for the sake of government profit and wealth re-distribution Messina went all the way back to 2009 and quoted him on a topic not even related.

If Messina was going to be honest here he would quote the most recent findings on the subject and not resort to name-calling and belittling. Has anything in Boehner's comments from 2009 been disproved? No. Messina is simply going with the old "when did you stop beating your wife" ploy. The severity of the accusation outweighs the nature of the evidence in far too many cases.

I once had a conversation with a man who works for child protection services here in Canada. He told me they are trained to speak to the poor sector of society, the ones who seem to have the greatest struggles in life with jobs, family, etc, at a grade 5 elementary level. He said the Canadian Liberal Party and NDP are also trained to do this. He said they do it because most people only ever operate at that level of comprehension. In other words, people are stupid. At least the greater percentage of them. And that is where the votes are. Like Mancow said following the re-election of Barack Obama, the worst president in US history, "the stupid people have won." 

Are you a stupid person? Are you the one to whom this email is directed?

Below is the actual email.

Friend -- Break out the tin foil hats, folks. House Speaker John Boehner and the chairman of the House Science Committee are both unsure whether the science behind climate change -- the stuff that shows pretty clearly that carbon pollution produced by humans is damaging our environment -- is real. Instead, they're on the record saying things like this: "The idea that carbon dioxide is a carcinogen that is harmful to our environment is almost comical. Every time we exhale, we exhale carbon dioxide. Every cow in the world, you know, when they do what they do, you've got more carbon dioxide." - John Boehner, April 2009 As long as our members of Congress continue to develop their own theories behind climate change, we will fall further and further behind in our ability to make actual progress on this issue. Make them do better. Add your name to join OFA's team that will hold climate deniers in Congress accountable:http://my.barackobama.com/Hold-Climate-Deniers-AccountableWe owe it to our environment and our economy to start having real talk on climate change. Join us -- and we'll be in touch with next steps soon. Thanks, Messina Jim Messina Chair Organizing for Action ---------------- A movement of millions elected President Obama. Let's keep fighting for change. Chip in $5 or more to support Organizing for Action today.

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