Morning Update: Cutting Carbon Emissions
Both presidential candidates spoke at the Clinton Global Initiative conference on Thursday. Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) stressed the need to limit carbon emissions. “To make the great turn away from carbon-emitting fuels, we will need all the inventive genius of which America is capable,” he said. “We will need as well an economy strong enough to support our nation’s great shift toward clean energy.”
Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) pledged to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 80 percent by 2050. He also emphasized the security threats posed by spreading poverty, saying it “leads to pockets of instability that provide fertile breeding grounds for threats like terror and the smuggling of deadly weapons that cannot be contained by the drawing of a border or the distance of an ocean.”
PALIN: In an interview with CBS Evening News on Thursday, McCain’s runningmate, Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK), said she does not believe Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari is protecting al-Qaeda. She added she believes the Pakistani people “want democratic values to be allowed in their country, also. They understand the dangers of terrorists having a stronghold in regions of their country.”
