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Imagine if Rush Had Said This

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. calls Obama “An ‘Indentured Servant’ of the Coal Industry.”

I have long wondered whether little Bobby actually kicked his youthful drug addiction. I’ll look forward to other environmentalists disavowing him.
EDITOR’S NOTE: The ABC News headline that prompted this post was a misleading conflation of Robert F. Kennedy quotes.
Kennedy called politicians who support coal “indentured servants of the coal industry” on September 10, 2005; July 7, 2007; December 12, 2008; and January 30, 2009.
Kennedy called Obama “a very sensible [politician]” and a “great [man],” who nonetheless “[feels] the need to parrot the talking points of this industry that is so destructive to our country.”
We regret the repetition of ABC’s error.

Steven F. Hayward is senior resident scholar at the Institute of Governmental Studies, and a lecturer in both the law school and the political science department, at the University of California at Berkeley.
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