RFK Jr. rips President Bush for environmental policy

The Roanoke Times ^ | Tuesday, February 27, 2007 | Greg Esposito

[CedarDave]

Speaking at Virginia Tech, the son of a 1960s Democratic icon said the nation is living a "science-fiction nightmare."

BLACKSBURG -- The crowd that nearly filled Virginia Tech's 3,000-seat Burruss Hall Auditorium to hear environmentalist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speak probably had an idea about what he thought of the Bush administration before he took the podium.

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But early on in a rambling speech Monday night that lasted more than an hour, [Kennedy] made it clear that he wasn't critical of Bush because of his political affiliation.

He was critical of him, he said, because Bush has implemented policies and circumvented the law in order to enrich his donors at the expense of thousands of lives and America's environmental future.

"You can't talk honestly about the environment today ... without being critical of the president," he said.

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Kennedy, whose speech was titled "Our Environmental Destiny," is a member of several national environmental organizations.

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While he pointed out good work and sound perspectives from past Republican and Democratic presidents Monday, he labeled the Bush administration the worst in history when it comes to the environment. To make his point he outlined a litany of what he sees as Bush's offenses -- from rolling back environmental regulations to dropping lawsuits to naming lobbyists for oil, timber and utility companies to head federal organizations designed to curb environmental abuse.

But Kennedy's attacks weren't reserved for Bush. He criticized what he called a "negligent and indolent press" for perpetuating the idea that there's still a debate about global warming despite overwhelming scientific evidence that it is real. He went after scientists -- he called them "biostitutes" -- hired by big oil and big coal who churned out reports for pay after decades of not publishing anything.

[CedarDave]

He criticized what he called a "negligent and indolent press" for perpetuating the idea that there's still a debate about global warming despite overwhelming scientific evidence that it is real. He went after scientists -- he called them "biostitutes" -- hired by big oil and big coal who churned out reports for pay after decades of not publishing anything.

The press already buys the global-warming kool-aid. Kennedy's speech was just a reminder to them not to stray from the party line.

[theDentist]

RFK Jr. rips-

who?

[hophead]

As he litigates against a wind farm off the coast of the Kennedy compound. What an ass.

[CedarDave]

A humorous, but oh so true satire on global warming advocates and would be dictators can be found here:

Another empty symbolic gesture [Lileks on Gorbal Warming]

Thanks to Incorrigible.

[EagleUSA]

Amazing. The libs have little to cling on to, to justify their "existence". It is back to the playbook once again.

[P-40]

I don't think this pillhead knows anything about the environmental record of this administration beyond the fact that it is a Republican and not a Democratic one.

[LIConFem]

Another Kennedy takes time out from his busy drinking schedule to rant about some socialist cause or another.

I'm surprised they have the time. After all, drinking one's self into oblivion takes a lot of effort.

[darkwing104]

Anyone knows what kind of car he drives, what is his electric bill? Why didn't he opposed his uncle in getting the Wind generator built off of Martha's Vineyard?

RFK jr. is a partisan hypocrite!

[LZ_Bayonet]

He flies private jets - he therefore has no standing.

[VeniVidiVici]

Another brain-dead Kennedy speaks!

Which one is it that is profiting off the Oil for Poor program in Mass?

[auboy]

He can't help it. The bs gene runs in the family.

[traditional1]

[ZULU]

Al Gore - 200,000 sq. foot mansion - MUCH bigger than Bush's FAR more humble home.

Bush runs a truck on environmentally friendly compressed gas. Gore and his entourage consume fossil fuel like a German Panzer division in WW2.

DemocRats are such hypocrites. Maybe that's what DemocRat means in Ancient Greek.

[CedarDave]

That's Patrick Kennedy, son of the Cape Cod Orca, Teddy.

[Gay State Conservative]

Is this the same Bobby Kennedy Jr who would deny the people of southeastern Massachusetts and Rhode Island the benefit of pristine clean wind power?

[betsyross1776]

How good for the environment was it when his uncle left a poor defenseless girl to drown in a car. Oh that's right it was a Kennedy and they get away with anything. is he the one who had the affair with the nanny and ruined his bid to be a elected official, or was it one of his perverted relatives? I think it was him

[HarleyLady27]

Just another Kennedy spewing off steam...(yawn)....moving on....

[Piquaboy]

More trash talk out of the cheap seats.

[syriacus]

If Mother Nature hadn't thawed the ice shown on this map,
1. Al Gore's family in Tennessee would be hunting mastodons and living in a cave.
2. It's unclear where the Kennedys would be living.

*****Key: White=ice sheets*****

[Combat Override Button]

I can't believe that a school would pay $20k for this guy to speak. What a waste of money. I'd be pretty pissed if that were my school. From the sounds of the article it wasn't a very good speech anyhow.

I will be so glad when these guys finally die off in old age and we don't have to hear about the "wonderful" Kennedys ever again.