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Dean Promises to be the Next Theodore Roosevelt for the Environment
Talon News ^ | 08/01/03 | Charles Mahaleris

Posted on 08/01/2003 7:26:28 AM PDT by bedolido

SAN FRANCISCO, CA (Talon News) -- The Democrat front-runner in the race for the nomination, Howard Dean, gave a major environmental policy address on Thursday in San Francisco during which he recalled the environmental vision of Republican President Theodore Roosevelt and pledged to provide a new, far-reaching vision in the Roosevelt mold if he is elected.

"One hundred years ago, Theodore Roosevelt saw conservation as not only central to the national social, economic and political health, but as a reflection of basic American values," former Vermont governor Dean said.

"In the century since he lived in the White House, America has forged a bipartisan consensus on the importance of conservation and the responsibility each of us has to pass along a safe, healthy environment to future generations," Dean added. "Today, we have a Republican president who seeks to destroy this consensus and reverse decades of responsible environmental policy. We have a president who seems to regard public resources as gifts to be handed out to special interests."

Dean explained his four key environmental positions to the audience.

* Promoting "livable communities." As president, Dean pledged to work to help strengthen urban areas. Dean asserted that this will help protect America's open spaces and will help reduce energy consumption.

* Establishing an Environmentally Sound Energy Policy. Dean's energy policy focuses on energy efficiency and renewable energy. Dean as president promised to require that 20 percent of the nation's electricity needs come from renewable energy sources by 2020.

* Putting the 'protection' back in Environmental Protection. Dean promised to roll back what he claims are the Bush administration's "anti-environmental actions," and he pledged to "work to reestablish important environmental protections, including the road-less rule put in place by President Clinton." Dean supports elevating EPA to cabinet status. He also stressed the need to improve the Superfund and Brownfields programs to clean up more sites more quickly.

* Reengaging with the international community and restoring our nation's role as a global leader on environmental issues. Dean believes America must work toward the adoption of the Kyoto Protocol. He called for adding to this international agreement by including carbon pollution reductions by developing nations as well as developed nations.

"Ask fishermen if they need a healthy ocean to survive. Ask loggers if they need healthy, vibrant forests. Ask CEOs if they need employees who go to work rather than to their doctors," Dean said. "How much productivity do we lose from preventable illnesses exacerbated by the pollutants spewing out of smokestacks and drainage pipes?"

"We can take America back from those who care more about returning a favor to a friend than about creating a sensible environmental or energy policy. And once we do, we can take America forward - and the world with us," Dean said.

Copyright © 2003 Talon News -- All rights reserved.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2004; dean; environment; promises; roosevelt; theodore; tr
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1 posted on 08/01/2003 7:26:28 AM PDT by bedolido
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To: bedolido
Teddy was a conservative. He supported protecting the environment and wildlife because America is a beautiful country... not because trees and antelope have god-given rights.

BTW, Teddy was a hunter. When was the last time Dean went hunting lions in Africa?

2 posted on 08/01/2003 7:30:58 AM PDT by Lunatic Fringe (When news breaks, we fix it.)
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To: farmfriend; countrydummy; KLT; hellinahandcart; Grampa Dave; madfly; redrock; SierraWasp; ...
Bad news.
3 posted on 08/01/2003 7:32:03 AM PDT by sauropod ("Come over here and make me. I dare you. You little fruitcake, you little fruitcake.")
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To: bedolido
Dean Promises to be the Next Theodore Roosevelt for the Environment

Gonna be difficult. Roosevelt was able to accomplish things because he was President of the United States.

Ex-governors of Vermont have considerably less clout.

4 posted on 08/01/2003 7:32:45 AM PDT by dead (Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead!)
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To: Lunatic Fringe
BTW, Teddy was a hunter.

He also was an abusive land grabber who opened a can or worms that has been enormously destructive to our country.

5 posted on 08/01/2003 7:35:10 AM PDT by AAABEST
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To: bedolido
... Reengaging with the international community and restoring our nation's role as a global leader on environmental issues. Dean believes America must work toward the adoption of the Kyoto Protocol. He called for adding to this international agreement by including carbon pollution reductions by developing nations as well as developed nations...

Finish the destruction of the nation, formerly the Republic of the United States of America.
6 posted on 08/01/2003 7:35:30 AM PDT by the gillman@blacklagoon.com
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To: bedolido
Dean as president promised to require that 20 percent of the nation's electricity needs come from renewable energy sources by 2020.

What a completely meaningless “promise.”

First, even if hell froze over, and Dean was elected, he couldn’t possibly still be president when his promise came due. So it’s meaningless.

Secondly, unless he’s personally going to go out and invent these technologies himself, he has absolutely no control over the issue.

Do his dumbass supporters really fall for these utterly meaningless, pie-in-the-sky promises? Are they really that friggin’ stupid?

7 posted on 08/01/2003 7:37:09 AM PDT by dead (Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead!)
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To: dead
Do his dumbass supporters really fall for these utterly meaningless, pie-in-the-sky promises? Are they really that friggin’ stupid?

In a nutshell: yes.
8 posted on 08/01/2003 7:38:51 AM PDT by GodBlessRonaldReagan (where is Count Petofi when we need him most?)
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To: bedolido
I wonder how many people who might vote for Dean even know who Teddy Roosevelt was?
9 posted on 08/01/2003 7:40:36 AM PDT by Prodigal Son
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To: bedolido
He's gonna bomb Europe and Japan?
10 posted on 08/01/2003 7:44:02 AM PDT by Sloth ("I feel like I'm taking crazy pills!" -- Jacobim Mugatu, 'Zoolander')
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To: Prodigal Son

Theodore Roosevelt --- "Speak softly and carry a big stick. . . . "

With the assassination of President McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, not quite 43, became the youngest President in the Nation's history. He brought new excitement and power to the Presidency, as he vigorously led Congress and the American public toward progressive reforms and a strong foreign policy.

He took the view that the President as a "steward of the people" should take whatever action necessary for the public good unless expressly forbidden by law or the Constitution." I did not usurp power," he wrote, "but I did greatly broaden the use of executive power."

Roosevelt's youth differed sharply from that of the log cabin Presidents. He was born in New York City in 1858 into a wealthy family, but he too struggled--against ill health--and in his triumph became an advocate of the strenuous life.

In 1884 his first wife, Alice Lee Roosevelt, and his mother died on the same day. Roosevelt spent much of the next two years on his ranch in the Badlands of Dakota Territory. There he mastered his sorrow as he lived in the saddle, driving cattle, hunting big game--he even captured an outlaw. On a visit to London, he married Edith Carow in December 1886.

During the Spanish-American War, Roosevelt was lieutenant colonel of the Rough Rider Regiment, which he led on a charge at the battle of San Juan. He was one of the most conspicuous heroes of the war.

Boss Tom Platt, needing a hero to draw attention away from scandals in New York State, accepted Roosevelt as the Republican candidate for Governor in 1898. Roosevelt won and served with distinction.

As President, Roosevelt held the ideal that the Government should be the great arbiter of the conflicting economic forces in the Nation, especially between capital and labor, guaranteeing justice to each and dispensing favors to none.

Roosevelt emerged spectacularly as a "trust buster" by forcing the dissolution of a great railroad combination in the Northwest. Other antitrust suits under the Sherman Act followed.

Roosevelt steered the United States more actively into world politics. He liked to quote a favorite proverb, "Speak softly and carry a big stick. . . . "

Aware of the strategic need for a shortcut between the Atlantic and Pacific, Roosevelt ensured the construction of the Panama Canal. His corollary to the Monroe Doctrine prevented the establishment of foreign bases in the Caribbean and arrogated the sole right of intervention in Latin America to the United States.

He won the Nobel Peace Prize for mediating the Russo-Japanese War, reached a Gentleman's Agreement on immigration with Japan, and sent the Great White Fleet on a goodwill tour of the world.

Some of Theodore Roosevelt's most effective achievements were in conservation. He added enormously to the national forests in the West, reserved lands for public use, and fostered great irrigation projects.

He crusaded endlessly on matters big and small, exciting audiences with his high-pitched voice, jutting jaw, and pounding fist. "The life of strenuous endeavor" was a must for those around him, as he romped with his five younger children and led ambassadors on hikes through Rock Creek Park in Washington, D.C.

Leaving the Presidency in 1909, Roosevelt went on an African safari, then jumped back into politics. In 1912 he ran for President on a Progressive ticket. To reporters he once remarked that he felt as fit as a bull moose, the name of his new party.

While campaigning in Milwaukee, he was shot in the chest by a fanatic. Roosevelt soon recovered, but his words at that time would have been applicable at the time of his death in 1919: "No man has had a happier life than I have led; a happier life in every way."

11 posted on 08/01/2003 7:47:36 AM PDT by bedolido (Quitters Never Win! Winners Never Quit! But those who never win and never quit are idiots!)
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To: Sloth
I wonder how many people who might vote for Dean even know who Teddy Roosevelt was? Post #9

He's gonna bomb Europe and Japan? Post #10

12 posted on 08/01/2003 7:48:51 AM PDT by Lunatic Fringe (When news breaks, we fix it.)
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To: Prodigal Son
I know who Teddy was......who's Dean? (Or should we better remember him as Dean the Green Socialist?):-)
13 posted on 08/01/2003 7:50:59 AM PDT by newriverSister
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To: bedolido
Dean: "I want to revisit the 1776 issue and act like King George III, sending out swarms of officials to eat out your sustenance and see what happens."
14 posted on 08/01/2003 7:53:45 AM PDT by sergeantdave
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To: Lunatic Fringe
LOL... I just saw the headline and my mind read it as FDR.
15 posted on 08/01/2003 8:04:11 AM PDT by Sloth ("I feel like I'm taking crazy pills!" -- Jacobim Mugatu, 'Zoolander')
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To: dead
Do his dumbass supporters really fall for these utterly meaningless, pie-in-the-sky promises? Are they really that friggin’ stupid?

Considering that most of his followers were educated in liberal arts colleges (if educated at all), I would say yes. I read the local lefty 'alternative' newsrag every once in a while (for its comedic value), and I find that there's a widespread acceptance amongst leftists of zero-point energy and other perpetual motion-inspired energy scams.

16 posted on 08/01/2003 8:09:47 AM PDT by randog (Everything works great 'til the current flows.)
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To: bedolido
Dean Promises to be the Next Theodore Roosevelt for the Environment

This should be interesting.
To see Dean follow in Teddy's footsteps in going on long hunting expeditions, killing
hundreds of examples of wildlife and posing for the camera with his prodigious
harvest.

And didn't the Panama Canal get finished on Teddy's watch? Maybe this
Dean guy has something going for him, after all (just joking).
17 posted on 08/01/2003 8:20:10 AM PDT by VOA
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To: AAABEST
He also was an abusive land grabber who opened a can or worms that has been enormously destructive to our country.

TR didn't know that it would become the nightmare that it is now.

With all due respects, this is similiar to FDR starting Social Security. Good intentions at first, but FDR also was worried that Social Security would someday become out of control.

18 posted on 08/01/2003 8:24:21 AM PDT by ServesURight (FReecerely Yours,)
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To: ServesURight
Good intentions at first, but FDR also was worried that Social Security would someday become out of control.

Is that why he packed his administration with Communists?

19 posted on 08/01/2003 8:40:43 AM PDT by Huck
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To: bedolido
Bully!
20 posted on 08/01/2003 11:09:57 AM PDT by huck von finn
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