Hugo Chavez was, according to the various news outlets, given a standing ovation for his Copenhagen diatribe in which he, 1) denounced (as usual) the US, 2) railed against the entire concept of capitalism, blaming it for murder, AIDS, and every other evil in the world, and 3) continued to smell the sulfurous aroma of the devil surrounding the POTUS, even though its now Obama instead of Bush. The COP15 summit also gave a platform to Zimbabwean dictator Robert Mugabe, a man universally reviled as one of the most evil national leaders in the world (you can read more about him and his demands that we open our “purses” to him here).

Given that the COP15 summit appears to have been a giant love-in for those that hate the US and our economic system, and who, as a group, would appear to welcome our downfall as a country, one has to ask…WHY THE HELL ARE WE EVEN TALKING TO THESE PEOPLE, MUCH LESS NEGOTIATING TO GIVE AWAY OUR COUNTRY’S WEALTH TO THIS GROUP?!?!

And now that it has apparently all wrapped up, after allowing the world to vent their spleens at the evil that is the US, we have this statement from our President, as picked up from National Review…

Obama on enforcement: “The way this agreement is structured, each nation will be putting concrete commitments into an appendix…specifically what each country’s intentions are. Those commitments will then be subject to an international consultation and analysis…similar to what takes place when the WTO is examining progress.” But, “it will not be legally binding.”

“The problem will not be verification…we can actually monitor what takes place through satellite imagery and so forth….I think we’ll have a pretty good sense on what countries are doing.”

On targets: “they will not be by themselves sufficient to get to where we need to get by 2050.”

Obama says “U.S. will not be legally bound by anything that occurred here today.”

On U.S. position at negotiations (and the Bush administration): “In some ways the United States was coming with a somewhat clean slate, because we had been on the sidelines in many of these negotiations over several years.” Europe “had a head start over the last few years in doing things like energy efficiency that we care about.”

On Chinese position: “For [China] to be bound by a set of legal obligations could potentially curtail [China’s] ability to develop and that’s not fair.” Chinese had a “legitimate point” but their position created a “fundamental deadlock in perspectives.”

On domestic work leading up to conference: “Quietly we did some pretty good groundwork during the course of this year so that when we got here our position was relatively clear….Whatever commitments we make I want to be sure they are actually commitments we can keep….We tried to be modest in what we could accomplish….”

In other words, here’s what was accomplished after all the hatin’ on the US was over with…

1) They’re going to make a list, or an appendix, of what each country is willing to do (even though there’s nothing legally binding about the list) and then they’ll talk about it some more…later…sometime. Oh yeah, and no matter whats in that appendix, it won’t be enough to stop the world from becoming an Easy Bake Oven if all the doom and gloom of AGW turns out to be right (count me as not worried about that one…) By the way, isn’t the appendix considered a worthless organ?

2) China might make some commitments, but nobody’s gonna hold them to it (because it might hurt THEIR economy) and don’t expect them to allow any of that pesky monitoring of what they’re doing…but that’s okay, because somebody is apparently going to deploy some CO2 sniffing satellites to watch them; and that’s sure to make them happy given the Chinese love of satellites…

and last, but clearly not least…

3) Its Bush’s fault.

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