Where is the Obama I voted for? Where is the Obama I campaigned for? Where is the Obama who brought tears of relief to the eyes of my 82-year-old father on election night, 2008? This latest decision to disregard the EPA’s air quality rules leaves Bush’s smog standards in place. His false rhetoric that safeguarding the environment will slow job growth is straight out of the Tea Party playbook.
Obama is becoming indistinguishable from the Republicans he will seek to defeat next year. He has lost his compass. Where’s my inhaler?
This article appears in Sep 15-22, 2011.