Politics | President Obama With Pipeline, Obama Puts Politics Over Nation He delays decision until after election only to win environmental vote: Charles Krauthammer By John Johnson Posted Nov 18, 2011 12:10 PM CST Copied US President Barack Obama waves to the public inside Parliament House in Canberra, Australia, Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2011. (AP Photo/Lukas Coch, Pool) Now that the White House has delayed a decision on the controversial Keystone pipeline from Canada until after the 2012 election, Charles Krauthammer wonders: Isn't this the same president saying, "We can't wait" to fix the US economy? Obama made the decision solely to "appease his environmentalists" and get them back on his side in the re-election campaign, writes Krauthammer in the Washington Post. What's worse, it's working. "It’s hard to think of a more clear-cut case of putting politics over nation," writes Krauthammer, who says the pipeline would have created thousands of jobs immediately and made us more energy independent. The State Department has vetted environmental concerns exhaustively, he adds, and now Canada will probably let China get all that oil. "This from a president whose central campaign theme is that Republicans put party over nation, sacrificing country to crass political ends." Read These Next ChatGPT is going to get sexy. Lots of people are worried. Andrew is still a prince, but he's no longer a duke. Author of bestselling memoir about depression dies at 35. English tests pull thousands of truckers off the road. Report an error