Gordon Brown basks in limelight of Copenhagen climate change [scam] summit | Environment | The Guardian

"I know you guys have an election coming up and that the other guys have some responsible policies," Gore said, patting Brown's back. "But he has done more than any other world leader to bring momentum to this process."

It was an endorsement Brown needed people to hear, possibly five months from an election which the opinion polls suggest he will lose and the "other guys" win.
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Tweets by the prime minister showed at one stage he had "5 minutes to grab a steak" and printed on his Wednesday schedule was the equally brief "brush-by with Hillary Clinton".

In Copenhagen, greens' love lost for Obama

"I was frankly surprised. I didn't think it was his strongest performance," said US Representative Earl Blumenauer, a staunch environmentalist in Obama's Democratic Party who came to Copenhagen with a congressional delegation.

"The fact is there was nothing new and maybe a little of a harsher tone," he told AFP.

"Maybe Copenhagen isn't his city," he said, referring to Obama's failed mission here to bring the Olympics to Chicago.
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But Kassie Siegel of the Center for Biological Diversity, a US group fighting for endangered species, voiced shock at Obama's "take-it-or-leave-it" approach in Copenhagen compared with his stand a year ago.

"Obama the president is, when it comes to actual actions on climate, far closer to president Bush than Candidate Obama. The US and the world need Candidate Obama to re-emerge," she charged.

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