Posted on Jun 9, 2016
The "environmentally friendly, climate change" Bernie Sanders took an SUV and a private jet to go visit the President. Hypocrisy or not?
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Not. While Sanders is right to be concerned about the environment... he has not called on all Americans to stop driving SUV's or flying private jets. He has called on us to move away from fossil fuels at a faster pace and would likely support regulations that required manufacturers to make SUVs and private jets more fuel efficient... that is a far cry from saying we all need to turn to bicycles as our primary means of transportation.
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CPT Jack Durish
I'll agree. He is a man of principles. Sadly, he doesn't have good ones when it comes to political ideology.
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The guy is 74 years old and has kept up an unbelievable pace for months. He does fly coach usually.
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CPT Jack Durish
I'm 73 and have always flown coach. Of course, I don't keep up Bernie's pace. I'm not running for anything.
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We are all hypocrites. But when someone is trying to force their ideas and concepts on others then don't practice what they preach, that is a real double standard. But his campaign is proof that socialism doesn't work... he's running out of other people's money.
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CPT Jack Durish
PO2 (Join to see) - I would love to see someone that savvy running the national budget, wouldn't you?
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CPT Jack Durish - absolutely, that's why I wanted the guy that was the chief architect of the budget for the 2 most recent periods of economic prosperity as the republican nominee. ill just have to be salty about it and figure out wtf to do now.
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SSG Pete Fleming
PO2 (Join to see) - He's a business man, it would be nice to have someone who actually understands money in charge of the federal checkbook.
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SP5 Christine Conley - that WAS John Kasich. A moderate republican that everyone is now wishing they had lol
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I understand the post, but have to challenge the premise: If CO2 represents no more than 25% of global greenhouse gasses (water vapor approximates 70%) and the burning of fossil fuels (planes, trains, trucks, cars, factories, etc.) contribute 4% of the annual CO2 released into the atmosphere (the other 96% is naturally occurring) how can we possibly control planet temperatures by focusing on 1% (4% x 25%) of the annual, global greenhouse gas production?
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PO3 John Clausen
It really is simple math, percentages and decimal points... I'm shocked so many Americans are falling for this obvious hoax and trusting the corrupt, power-hungry, career politicians to "save them"...
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It's not as bad as Al Gore riding in an air conditioned car on his way to talk about the dangers of Freon.
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What's the alternative? Commercial air and city bus? The logistics of it would cause tremendous inconvenience and long delays for all the other travelers on the plane as they would need to be individually screened and vetted before boarding. Sometimes you have to do things you'd prefer not to do in order to get your job done.
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CW5 Andrew J. Foreman
But is you tell the masses to do it and you don't, not matter the reason isn't that the textbook definition of hypocrisy?
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SGT Eliyahu Rooff
Not when the circumstances are different. Do you think that if he were elected president, people would expect him to fly economy on commercial air?And it's really not very different from a Division Commander using a staff car when the rest of us ride in the back of a deuce and a half, or whatever truck they use now.
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Not his call. The Secret Service controls his movements. He'd much rather have ridden a bicycle.
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Complete hipocrisy. This man supposedly wants to be the leader of the free will. Does he not have the intellect to figure out how to be true to his words by utilizing another mode? Does he not have the strength of character to take a stand and be true to his statements?
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CPT Jack Durish
"...free will..." instead of "...free world..."? Is Auto-Correct making Freudian Slips now?
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