Today’s Associated Press headline reads “Obama rejects Canada-Texas oil pipeline -for now.” It’s all about politics not about what is the right thing to do.

Barack Obama has made the environmentalists happy but not the country.  Those environmentalists are viewed as an important support group for re-election.  So the gamble is we will all forget about this issue by next November.

However, if the number of unemployed Americans is still high in November the GOP won’t let us forget.  Those supporting the pipeline are furious and they should be.

 A $7 billion pipeline from Canada to our gulf coast will result in thousands of jobs.  That pipeline will help reduce our dependency on Arab oil.  Concerns about water pollution can be over come with some re-routing of the pipe.

This project was originally proposed when George W. Bush was president.  To contend now that the government has not had sufficient time to review possible side effects is ludicrous. Barack Obama is on the wrong side of an important issue.  He deserves to be attacked for this decision.