Barack Obama is a pragmatist.
His foreign policy approach wouldn't raise eyebrows in a Bush Senior administration up to a point (the point of greed for resources where the "fasciosphere" drools on its suit). Still, Bush Senior, you recall, didn't invade Iraq, rather, he contained Saddam in the ethos of "stability" that governed foreign policy during the Cold War.
In the energy squabble last summer, Obama relented on the offshore drilling ban, a sacred cow of the left. He saw the timelines involved and realized that in the race for developing renewables versus developing offshore drilling, given the considerable largess for renewables and electric transport that was built into the best proposals, and with that held up to the cost/benefits of offshore drilling, renewables won.
And now, public education.
