Obama in Oklahoma: Make southern Keystone 'a priority'

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My knee-jerk reaction without reading much on the matter is that this is a reelection campaign stunt. The Congress did not wait until an environmental impact assessment was done before putting this up to vote so the President was backed into the position of having to oppose it when, in fact, he otherwise probably would have lent it his approval. This seems like a rather reckless ploy to make, considering that the President may later get stuck in a bind where he will need to oppose the completion of the pipeline and thus have wasted all the capital sunk into the project.