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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Krowbar who wrote (248040)	4/15/2002 4:09:53 PM
From: jlallen	Respond to of 769670

No, on second thought it isn't funny. That's right. Our dependence on foreign oil in these uncertain times is no joke. We should develop and exploit all our possible reserves. And you'll find the Mr. Kerry is far from squeaky clean. He also needs a personality trasnplant just to be boring.... JLA

To: Krowbar who wrote (248040)	4/15/2002 4:19:57 PM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

Right on Del. Just watched Bush's speech where he revealed his flaws by trying to pump up support. These flaws are: 1) Tax cuts not helping - he pumped that they were helping Americans but said we need more jobs. Because of high unemployment. Who cares about taxes if you haven't got a job? So his idea for jobs - everyone go work for the oil companies drilling in ANWAR. What an A-hole. The economy sucks and he should tell us the truth. Tax cuts have not and will not help. They create huge deficits we will just have to pay for later. Credit card mentality especially with our much-increased war expenditures. 2) Environment - he claims new technology allows us to drill without leaving a footprint. Total BS. Remember the Exxon Valdez? Accident happen and will happen. already there are lakes of oil spilled from existing pipelines on the tundra which can never be cleaned up. The Exxon Valdez killed off hundreds of salmons streams which are the cradle of life. Salmon runs are at historic lows now. The damage has been done and if Bush has his way, will continue to be done. 3) Fuel efficiency and clean fuels. Bush actually co-opted "my" big idea for hydrogen cars in the future. Well at least Bush supporters can't poo-poo my ideas now. Hydrogen can and should replace gas. It's clean and "free". cars can literally run on water and the exhaust is water. We already use hydrogen for our rocket-ships so why not a Marshall Plan to develop this the way germany is doing? Bush lies when he says there are incentives for this in his energy bill. There are tiny crumbs at best. Most of the money goes for big-big tax breaks to Big Oil for drilling and buyilding polluting power plants, in other words tax-payers indirectly pay for them to despoil our wilds and pollute our air. And the companies get off tax-free. What a giveaway to the rich. And don't forget higher gasoline prices are necessary to make ANWAR profitable so Bush will do things to keep oil prices high. He can and he will with his connections. 4) Saddam - he used the word "evil" and put out the scare tactic what if bogey-man Saddam cuts off our supply? A serious issue but would Saddam be threatening us if Bush hadn't pre-announced his intention of invading Iraq? 5) Education - boasted he'd worked with Democrats on this. No child left behind. We'll see. Co-opted a Dem issue but Clinton did some of that too. Smart politics. But has Bush allocated enough money for this to really work? All in all, smart politics, transparent lies, covering his ass and camouflaging the real agenda which is mainly to promote the long-term profits of Big Oil. By the way he never uses the word "oil", only "energy". And the word Enron will never be spoken again in public. He also called for conservation but doesn't mention he just sqaashed the crucial modest fuel efficiency bill John Kerry put forth. That alone would save much more oil that ten ANWARS could possibly produce. Also, on ANWAR, the oil biz lies when they say it's a big supply. Actually they have no idea. The one test well's results are top secret. So they can say anything they want but no one knows the facts. And there is a big difference between easily recoverable oil and difficult to tap oil. They never make that distinction. Time to wean ourselves off oil, people. But we need a new president who's not in bed with the very expooiters who work against us on these issues. At the very least they don't need our money in the form of tax-breaks to industrialize our last great wild-life refuge.

To: Krowbar who wrote (248040)	4/15/2002 4:28:14 PM
From: CYBERKEN	Respond to of 769670

<<John Kerry is the Democrat's perfect candidate.>> Agreed. They will be paying off old debts to the American left against an unbeatable Bush team in 2004. They'll need a guy who can run strong in New England and make everybody feel good up there as they waive off the next four years. That will have to do it. Put the poor guy on TV and he exhibits all the bad features of Algore, but with a more condescending style. I don't, however, think he'll get the nomination. The left wing media will have a lot of influence on the race, and they won't pick a regional guy from a region that the Dems are likely to carry anyway. They could settle it during the primaries. If not, the Dems would have a donnybrooke in the primaries-leading to an open convention. The last time that happened was 1968, and it almost destroyed the party. Bottom line: 2004 will be the debacle that all the lefty whackos will remember nostalgically as 'what could have been'. There's nothing new under the sun...