re: Obama to create world's largest ocean preserve

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So the President can just claim a huge chunk of water?

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It's very similar to what Clinton did in the run-up to the 1996 election, declaring a national monument area in parts of Utah in an attempt to get Arizona to vote for him while screwing Utah, which wasn't going to do so.

The additional effect was to prevent companies from mining coal or some other resource in that area, IIRC, which was a big boon to his donors from China who got to cut out a lot of competition thanks to them getting blocked.