THE ULTIMATE HYPOCRISY – AT 7:39 P.M. ET:  Is nothing sacred?  Even a memorial for the coal miners killed in that recent West Virginia accident becomes an exhibit for the phoniness of this administration.  Jim Hoft at Gateway Pundit reports the vulgarity:

During the 2008 election Barack Obama admitted that the Democrats' cap and trade energy plan would cause electricity rates to necessarily skyrocket and would kill the coal industry.

Today Democrats Barack Obama and Joe Biden, along with Democratic Senators Jay Rockefeller and Robert Byrd, and Democratic Governor Joe Manchin III held a memorial/rally for the 29 miners who perished in the nation’s worst mining disaster in 25 years earlier this month.

During the 2008 election Barack Obama admitted that his cap and trade bill would kill the coal industry. Today at the coal miners memorial in West Virginia he praised the coal miners for the energy they bring to America.

COMMENT:  It would have been more dignified for the president and vice president to stay away.  But dignity isn't their game. 

We may not always realize it, but events like this are studied at foreign embassies, analyzed, and the analyses flashed to home governments.  That's partly how, over time, a foreign nation gets a picture of the kind of people running things in America.  What a picture we now present.

April 25, 2010