Bush, Kerry vie for environmental spotlight

[hedgetrimmer]

~SNIP~

President Bush, left, and Sen. John Kerry focused on the environment in speeches marking EarthDay.


Earth Day draws speeches, promises
Thursday, April 22, 2004 Posted: 6:02 PM EDT (2202 GMT)

(CNN) -- Marking Earth Day, President Bush unveiled a wetlands protection plan on Thursday, but Democratic rival John Kerry questioned Bush's environmental credentials.

"Once again, my friends, this administration is playing the smoke- and-mirrors game," Kerry charged at a Houston rally in Texas, the president's home state.

Kerry said Bush has shown little interest in the environment until "election time" and said his policies for the first three years had threatened wetlands.

"He's actually proven himself very good at recycling," Kerry said of Bush. "He has recycled the deficit, the bad economic policies, the bad environment policies, the bad foreign policy. And that's why I hate to say this to Texas, but that's why he's got to be recycled back to Crawford."

With his stop in Texas, Kerry wrapped up a three-day tour in which he focused on the environment.

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link: http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/04/22/campaign.earthday/index.html

[OregonHippie]

1. Honestly...

I don't know why Kerry even addresses the issue...I mean, we all know Bush is the far better candidate as far as protecting our environment is concerned.

Just look at the 'Clear Skies' Initiative; it's working! I haven't seen a bird in the sky in the past month.*

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*I apologize, joke was taken from Al Franken, and I'm sure many of you have heard it before :P

[newyawker99]

7. Hi OregonHippie!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[RoyGBiv]

2. Kick

I really like this line...

"He's actually proven himself very good at recycling," Kerry said of Bush. "He has recycled the deficit, the bad economic policies, the bad environment policies, the bad foreign policy. And that's why I hate to say this to Texas, but that's why he's got to be recycled back to Crawford."


:kick:

[GaryL]

3. Is this a joke?

What next. Dubya goes out extolling his record on race relations? Jeesh!

[cdeca]

4. ummmmm.....

I still have to ask..... is this a joke?

[bacchant]

5. The world according to Rove

It doesn't matter what you do, just what you say... over and over and over...

[dusty64]

6. I'm surprised the

rethugs would even try to bring light onto their horrendous rape of the Earth.