With politicians now it doesn't matter so much what they say, its how it's sliced and diced into soundbites. An articulate explanation of anything will be butchered to a five-second snip. To quote Bill Moyers the other day, "Beware the terrible simplifiers!".

Still, he's basically saying the the US way of life is out of its own hands or indeed "negotiable", the complete opposite of what Cheney said. It's refreshing, but Obama simply remains the lesser of two (or three) evils. I doubt an Obama administration would do anything radically different on the energy issue.