Dude – nearly everything you listed that requires an airplane could be accomplished without the person physically being there. If one thing pisses me off more than any other about dumbass environmentalists, it’s that they can figure out two million ways for ME to cut my ‘footprint’, but the word ‘teleconference’ has evaded their notice for a decade.

Why does a President who claims to support the environment need to fly all the way across the country to give a speech? They can’t roll a big screen out for everyone to watch his speech? With a $25 dollar webcam you could even let the people at the event ask questions and interact with him! It’s not like this technology is new, companies have been using it to cut travel costs for a while now.

And isn’t he supposed to be the ‘most tech-savy President in history’? Wasn’t it HIS campaign that pissed all over John McCain because he couldn’t ‘check his own E-mail’ (despite the fact they were wrong, he just can’t type because of his injuries as a POW)? But he (and most of the environmental lobby) can’t managed to figure out a simple teleconference? Give me a break.

I realize that flying around the world on a private jet to talk about conservation is a little hypocritical and “expensive” environmentally, but, until they find a different way for these people to travel, what do you expect them to do?

Not expect me to take them seriously when they preach about Global Warming. I’ll believe there’s a crisis when they start acting like it.

If you have better ideas, then maybe you should present them to the President, but, of course, you don’t have any solutions, just criticism.

Unlike you.

And I did offer him a solution: Make his speech from home. They have cameras and stuff there, pretty sure.

Many of the environmental suggestions for regular people are ridiculous and EXTREMELY INCONVENIENT but I supposed that, even though I do many things for the environment, the fact that I don’t unplug every appliance in my house every time I leave makes me a hypocrite too. I guess the 5 cents worth of energy per day I (and you) could save is going to be the tipping point to Global Warming. I also assume you will call me a hypocrite for trying to be environmentally friendly but still needing to use airplanes to travel long distances.

It seems like I am taking both sides but I am not. I am in favor of doing REASONABLE things for the environment, but there are a lot of issues are causing the problem — mostly industry — but we want to nit pick everyone for not being 100% environmentally pure. You must realize that some of the things we currently do have no alternatives yet you expect people who promote the environment to somehow figure out a way to do things without using a single atom of carbon. They are not magicians. They have to work with what we have now but are also striving to change the status quo so we all can use less carbon. If you have better ideas, then maybe you should present them to the President, but, of course, you don’t have any solutions, just criticism.

I think I just dated myself.

Agreed that he’s still in campaign mode, as is evident in stuff like this. Town hall meetings? Rallys? Is it really 2012 already, because that would make me happy — we’ve survived Obama and can elect someone else.