Barack Obama actually said...

In January 2008, then-Senator Barack Obama told the San Francisco Chronicle, 'So if somebody wants to build a coal power plant, they can. It is just that we will bankrupt them because they're going to charge a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that's being emitted.'

12/31/2007

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