Reply #6: Here is an example: [View All]

[The Straight Story]

http://www-tech.mit.edu/V117/N28/hove.28o.html

excerpt:

Five months after his reinauguration, President Bill Clinton has come under sharp criticism from environmentalists and conservation groups. Because the president relies on Al Gore for advise on environmental matters, the Vice President has come under fire as well. Some environmentalists have even gone so far as to suggest that, unless something changes soon, they will throw their support in 2000 behind Richard A. Gephardt, current House minority leader and long-suffering presidential hopeful.

How did it come to this? After all, Gore was every environmentalist's poster child just a few years ago, and Clinton used the environment as a key plank in his 1996 campaign against Bob Dole.

However, even in last year's election, the president's record on the environment wasn't based on a record of positive achievement but instead on his attacks on Congress. The president had prevented deep cuts in spending on the Environmental Protection Agency and he claimed credit for stopping the most egregious attempts to revise regulations such as those regarding endangered species and water quality standards. But the real Clinton environmental record centers not on the salvation of Nixon-era regulations and agencies, but on what has been left undone.

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Now my thoughts - those true to the cause kept true in calling out their candidate, and they were not labeled as right wingers for doing so. It is my HOPE that the same will be true in the future here on DU and elsewhere when we call kerry on things in hopes of getting him to correct problems.

I am a realistic person - kerry can not save the world all on his own. Indian affairs, environment, terrorism, hunger, aids, jobs, homelessness, crime, and on and on the list goes. How can one person in office fix all those things????

The problems are bigger - we cannot rely on kerry to fix them, and I hope we don't. We all need to do more. A lot hinges on this election - but a lot also hinges on us doing our part after the election.

Again - an excellent post on your part, please keep on top of this issue over the kerry term(s). It takes us all to keep things on track, it helps us all by having a good engineer driving the train. Right now that engineer is way out in freak land. Kerry will help us - and we need to help things too.