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Monday, November 09, 2009
Obama willing to go to Copenhagen for climate deal
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President Barack Obama said Monday that he'd be willing to attend an international climate summit in Copenhagen next month if it appears a deal is in the offing and his presence there would help clinch it.

Nations are preparing to meet in Denmark to hammer out a new international treaty to slow climate change, but the talks have been hampered by disputes between rich countries and developing ones.

"If I am confident that all of the countries involved are bargaining in good faith and we are on the brink of a meaningful agreement and my presence in Copenhagen will make a difference in tipping us over the edge, then certainly that's something that I will do," Obama said in an interview with Reuters.

It was Obama's strongest statement to date that he may attend the Dec. 7-18 U.N. conference. White House officials previously have declined to say whether Obama would attend the summit.

In the interview, previewing his trip to Asia that begins Thursday, the president said he expected to sign a new nuclear arms reduction pact with Russia by December. He also rejected criticism that he's too soft on human rights issues in his dealings with China.

"I don't find the critics credible," Obama said. "If you look at my statements, they have been entirely consistent. We believe in the values of freedom of speech, freedom of press, freedom of religion that are not just core America values but we believe are universal values."

Obama has been criticized for delaying a meeting with the Dalai Lama, the exiled Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader, until after he meets with Chinese President Hu Jintao during the Asia trip. China views the Dalai Lama as anti-China and pressures foreign governments not to meet with him. The Obama administration needs China's support for its top foreign policy, economic and environmental goals.

Obama also said he expected the U.S. and Russia would sign a new nuclear arms reduction treaty by December.

Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev agreed this year to reach a new nuclear arms reduction treaty to replace the 1991 Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, or START, that expires Dec. 5. Continued...
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Reply # 1
Date: Nov 10, 2009 - 1:31 PM EST
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Signing the treaty will null and void our constitution as the law of our land. Do our elected officials who have sworn to uphold, preserve and protect the constitution have the authority to do that - Does the President and Senate have the power to nullify the constituion by signing a "treaty"? it would seem we would need to hold a constitutional convention to give up the constitution as the law of the land -- and that the President, nor Senate is empowered to sign away that consitution and the protections that that consitution protects. SRN NEWS; Perhaps you can provide an opion peice on the need for a constitutional convention if we are indeed giving up our sovereignty. Thank you.
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Date: Nov 10, 2009 - 1:23 PM EST
constitution and copenhagen
Question to SRN NEWS: Our elected officials take an oath to preserve and protect the constitution. Does signing a document described as a "treaty" authorize and empower those government officials to in effect null and void the constituion by subjecting us as a nation to a world government, a government that has the power of taxation and "enforcement" of its proclaimations and is in effect government without representation --nullifying something our founders fought so hard for? And if the president does sign the Copenhagen treaty and gets the senate to ratify it, if it violates the basic principles of the constitution, what happens next?
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