Widely reported in the news today is the fact that Hilary Clinton’s campaign “planted” a question in the audience. What was the question the Clinton campaign was so eager to have asked?
“As a young person, I’m worried about the long-term effects of global warming. How does your plan combat climate change?”
Tuesday, November 6th, 2007. The DAY AFTER POWER SHIFT. The day after we take to the nation’s capital to demand action on climate change, the leading democratic candidate for president has a question about youth and climate change planted at her Iowa rally.
The coverage of Presidential elections in the American media is sadly more about appearance than substance. I’ve scoured the web looking for her answer to this question. All I can find is this:
“ Well, you should be worried. You know, I find as I travel around Iowa that it’s usually young people that ask me about global warming.”
NONE of the sources I find actually go into her plan to combat climate change. NONE. OK. A question was planted. Clearly she had something she wanted the people to hear. What was it? The press didn’t seem to think that was important.
It seems like this might be a solid opportunity for some Letters to the Editor.
The press missed the real story: youth are demanding climate solutions, and politicians are paying attention. Let’s help them see that.
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Quick correction – the first article I found on this, in the NYTimes today, does make mention of part of her plan:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/12/us/politics/12clinton.html?ref=politics
“The request came during an event Tuesday in Newton, Iowa, where Mrs. Clinton outlined her plan to create five million jobs in renewable energy sectors.”
Sounds familiar, no?
This is sad, I will write a letter to the editor at the NY Times. I’m not sure which one yet, but I’ll keep you posted.
Powershift is beside the point in this issue.
I personally don’t think it’s necessary for ANY campaign to tell us what questions we should ask. It doesn’t matter what the content is.
Clinton’s energy plan has been given plenty of press, and I don’t think she’s sincere about implementing it. Hillary’s campaign is just using it as a talking point to help win the primary, and sadly, they had to plant questions in the audience so that she could appeal more to the youth, which they have since dismissed as “not looking like caucus-goers, but….. like Facebook.”
If you don’t think this policy is just catering to green groups and progress for primary votes then why will she not be showing up at the Lieberman-Warner hearings?
Hillary outlined her energy plan recently. It’s pretty good. I worry it’s a little to aggressive (ie not implementable,) but it’s still the most aggressive out there among the Dems. A link is here with a link available to her full plan:
http://hillaryclinton.com/issues/energy/
Another summary of Clinton’s proposals -
http://climateprogress.org/2007/11/05/clinton’s-outstanding-energy-and-climate-plan/
Carl,
What do you mean by most aggressive?
The student wanted to ask “How her energy plan compares to the other candidates’ energy plans?”
Is that so wrong?