Oh the irony. Despite claims of a deal, the inexperienced orator in chief cost himself a grand announcement with his ... speech. Obama quickly scurried behind the scenes to inform China he had not actually forgotten how to bow. However, the announced deal is still light on details, sacrifices safeguards, and some nations have left, meaning the deal is only among a smaller group. Heckuva job, Obambi. One can just imagine him now furiously working and giving in just so he can come away looking as though he achieved something. How profanely weak.
Hail to the obsequious one.
Key safeguards on climate change were sacrificed today in a desperate attempt by world leaders to achieve a compromise at the Copenhagen summit.
Gordon Brown and some other leaders prepared to stay overnight as the final stages of the negotiations were prolonged by a dispute between the US and China over remarks made by President Obama.
But reports this evening that President Medvedev of Russia had already left the talks while Japan’s Prime Minister, Yukio Hatoyama, was planning to leave later last night heightened the feeling that time was running out for a deal.
A commitment to turning the “Copenhagen Accord” into a legally binding treaty within a year was deleted from a draft of the text leaked tonight. The draft also contained only vague language on the key issues of limiting the temperature increase to 2C and cutting global emissions by 50 per cent by 2050.
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