by Waldo News

Created on: July 03, 2008   Last Updated: July 04, 2008

The blogosphere is abuzz with many theories about Barack Obama. In any other election cycle these could be easily played off as xenophobic and neophobic rants, but with our country at a crossroads, the question must be asked: What are Obama's motivations for seeking the Presidency?

In order to answer this question, we would like to focus on two of the hot button issues facing American voters: climate change, and the role of race in voting patterns. While these two topics are seemingly independent, we believe there is a startling link between them.

The climate change debate is certainly a heated one, with economic and climate science seemingly at an insolvable impasse. Will Obama, as many have posited, cause irreparable harm to the competitive advantage of our economy by trying to enact pollution and conservation policies aimed at lessening our role in climate change? This is a serious question that only time will answer. A more dire question; however, that we can examine in the present-tense is this: Why does Obama care so much about addressing the issue of climate change? The answer to this question is, frankly, chilling.

One of the pillars of the climate change community is that our warming climate is causing increased melting and shattering of ice floes near the North and South Poles. This degradation of the ice, so say climate change advocates, is causing communal stress on polar bear populations, which is pushing the polar bear closer to extinction.

But is this really the case?

"Of the 13 separate polar bear populations in Canada, 11 are stable or increasing in number," says Tom Deweese commentator for the Canada Free Press, "More over, according to a just-issued report by climate data analyst Stephen McIntyre, the world's sea ice is at a 25 year high in April. In short, the polar ice cap is not melting."

Curious.

In fact, many scientists have backed up this claim, so many, in fact, that one has to wonder, why hinge so much of the debate on this one topic? After all, isn't science infallible? Why would science lie?

We will return to this in a moment. But first, Mr. Obama.

It is no secret that Mr. Obama draws a lot of his support from the disenfranchised minority population of the US, and, indeed, the world at large. So much so that many are wondering if we could be headed for a replay of the 2006 Tennessee Midterm Election, when Harold Ford Jr was unfair slandered racially by his opponent. However, let's look at the other side of that equation. From where does

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