The point is that neither of those candidates are going to tackle the major issue of sustainability, that being that Americans really do not have a god given right to squander a disproportionate slice of world resources.
For most Americans to believe this it would take something of the magnitude of Jesus Christ himself walking up the Potomac to the White house, and sitting in the oval office declaring it, as to the utterances of some uppity nigger.......
The fact is that the Chinese and Indians want theirs, and are going to get it, and for this to happen Americans have to have less.
To get this through to a population that seems to have a genuine belief that what they have is given to them as their right by god is virtually impossible, any mention of such a thing is by definition sacrelige, and any politician doing so immediately illicites the shoot the messenger reaction, so in the interests of self preservation they don't, and of course most of them are convinced that God is on their side and the Lions share really is their God given right.
In the end thinking that Obama can by means of overblown rhetoric do anything meaningful is pining false hope upon him, and in reality he has little else but a rhetoric of change with no substance.
Let us not also forget that early in his campaign he was talking about going into North Pakistan to "kick ass", every body on the planet should shudder at the potential ramifications of this.
I hope that it was just a rhetorical device to tell people that they should vote for him because he is a real man with big hairy balls and Hilary isn't, unfortunately American presidents have a tendency to want to prove the magnitude of their cojones, and this would potentially unleash a catastrophe of "Rumsfeldian" proportions.
As they say remember you heard it here first folks.............
rcw
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