The same day that President Barack  Obama's (D) poorly written, contradictory editorial appeared in the Washington Post, the news section of the same paper reported how an action by an Obama appointee fulfilled this fuzzy, contradictory thinking. Obama prattles cliches about creating jobs, reducing dependency on foreign oil through green, green, green action to minimize the deep, deep recession.  In reality he kills programs that will do this.   In a clear signal that the Obama administration is shifting the government's approach to energy exploration on public lands, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar yesterday canceled oil and gas leases on 77 parcels of federal land after opponents said the drilling would blight Utah's scenic southeastern corner. Salazar's decision -- which reverses the Bush administration's move to allow drilling on about 130,000 acres near pristine areas such as Nine Mile Canyon, Arches National Park and Dinosaur National Monument -- is one...(Read Full Post)