Bush Plans Earth Day Appearance In Maine 4/22

[hatrack]

PORTLAND, Maine — President Bush plans to travel to Maine on Thursday to deliver an Earth Day speech about the environment.

Bush´s lunchtime appearance will be at Wells National Estuarine Research Reserve at Laudholm Farm, a center for the study of local ecosystems.

U.S. Sen. Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, said the visit was welcome news for Maine. "I´m thrilled that the president will have the opportunity to get to know the greater Wells community, so he better understands our plans and concerns . . .," she said.

But environmentalists said an Earth Day appearance by Bush does not erase a record that they said has not been beneficial to the environment. "My hope would be that the president would bring some good news about his administration´s intent to protect the environment for a change," said Brownie Carson, executive director of the Natural Resources Council of Maine."

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http://news.mainetoday.com/apwire/D820LCPO0-107.shtml

So, will he stand near some trees, or near some water? Will he say that trees are important, and that water is good? Will he pronounce that "If you're a landowner, every day is Earth Day"?

Inquiring minds can't wait for the jolly slapping sound of the greenwash brush!

[Bertha Venation]

1. Bush to deliver a speech about the environment -- what's he gonna say?

The sky is blue?

[displacedtexan]

2. Excuse me while I LMAO!

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

[madrchsod]

3. to waste a tree is a beautiful thing

in Texas i have no trees, i cut them all down,it`s so beautiful at my ranch,that`s why there are no trees

[Sandpiper]

4. Bush's should tell everyone his real views on the environoment

In his speech: There's no such thing as global warming. Corporations should write their own rules governing pollution, and National Parks need to be opened for logging and oil drilling.

[truthspeaker]

5. That's like a Nazi dedicating a Holocaust memorial

[argyl]

6. He's doing this at an environmental institute?Hope he's hooted off stage.

xx

[Kool Kitty]

7. This is the kind of bullshit photo-op

that makes me wish there really were Ents, and one of them would squash him flat. I think his Clear Skies initiative is just what Al Franken says-an initiative to clear the skies of birds.

[amandabeech]

8. It seems like every time *Bush does a photo-op

the subject of the 'op gets thoroughly ravaged. I wonder what *bush has up his sleeve now? Scrapping the EPA? Refusing to prosecute any wrong-doers under any environmental, claiming "prosecutorial discretion?"