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Obama visited MIT today and delivered a high powered speech:

Pushing for Energy Legislation, Obama Takes On Critics

It was fun to see him in Kresge Auditorium and Dave sent a film of his arrival in Cambridge. The fast cars and all.

He toured the school then made the speech. A few jokes about MIT being the most prestigious institution in that part of Cambridge. Traditional rival Harvard is the institution in the other part of Cambridge. Obama went to the Law School.

He said that some students were dismantling his motorcade to put on the top of the great dome. And someone gave him a card with the periodic table on it. "What's with that"? he said. Laughter at the cluelessness of arts guys generally.

But Obama is not clueless to the fact that technology is going to be the saving of the world from climate change. He knows that new energy sources rely on new technologies. MIT is a leader. He went to the right place.

I regard it as the same as going to visit the troops in a war. This is a war. Against ignorance first and the actual threat, second. Until we win the first, the second it up for grabs.

Incidentally, not one of the lefty blogs that I read covered this speech. So hard to listen to technical shit, huh? It pisses me off.

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