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To: iod_sherwood who wrote (79726)	7/8/2001 9:03:36 PM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 99985

And you may be too blase. (Yeah name-calling is a little beneath this thread.) You do understand some of my concerns though I hope? Maybe it's not black and white but it sure looks that way. And believe me I'm not some extremist. I'm a McCain supporter in lieu of anyone else to get behind now. Moderate environmentalist wanting more honesty and accountability in government. Wanting to hang onto our suplus and pay off our debts. Campaign finance reform has never been more critical. But who's going to make the new rules if too many of them are addicted to the troughs, especially with a role model like Bush/Cheney? That's why I think McCain has such courage. They want him dead but he hasn't flinched. Maybe he learned the hard way as a member of the Keating 5 or as a POW in Nam. He was almost ruined by soft money once. I believe people do learn from their mistakes, at least people who aren't self-destructive. Maybe we need Bush-Cheney and their soft money friends investigated by an Independent Prosecutor. Show them they work for us not themselves. Show them they can't just do anything they want with our trust, our money, our environment and our future. You may agree with some of B-C's policies but you have to admit that assuming the Energy Crisis was a manipulated sham they have just perpetrated a damaging ripoff of enormous proportions. Against their own countrymen, and even their own constinuents. And they're supposed to be our reprsentatives, the ones we're supposed to trust. I hope I am over-reacting and it isn't as bad as it looks, but if you read the recent statements of Cheney and Abraham (1700 new power plants for starters) and read behind the lines of Bush's damage control speeches (offering crumbs to the environment), then look at who he's staffed his administration with (mostly hawkish energy business lobbyists, CEO's and cronies) we may have just had our government taken over from the inside by the Texas energy cartel (with the backing of the Arabs thanks to our Gulf War "heros") and it is looking worse than anything even Ralph Nader would have ever predicted. Or maybe that's an over-statement. Ralph Nader did warn us. Unfortunately he failed to distinguish between the two major parties, as if they had the same agenda. Campaign finance reform, investigations and justice ASAP. That will make me feel better even if no solution is perfect. Has Bush done anything for any part of economy other than his own? Anything? tax cuts, yeah but look where most of the money is going, right back into their pockets to rimburse the rich and pay peoples higher energy bills when as it turns out thre never was a real supply problem. So the Arabs get a lot of our tax cut money too.