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RFK Jr. rips President Bush for environmental policy
The Roanoke Times ^ | Tuesday, February 27, 2007 | Greg Esposito

Posted on 02/28/2007 6:56:47 AM PST by 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.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: environment; globalwarming; junkiescience; rfkjr
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To: ZULU

"Al Gore - 200,000 sq. foot mansion"

20,000 not 200,000. Still larger by 10 of the average American home.


21 posted on 02/28/2007 7:21:08 AM PST by hophead ("Enjoy Every Sandwich")
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To: hophead

The true "Kennedy Curse" is the Kennedys themselves..


22 posted on 02/28/2007 7:21:11 AM PST by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: CedarDave

It's so great that the kennedys all live in tents to insure that they have no part in the faux demise.


23 posted on 02/28/2007 7:26:08 AM PST by bannie
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To: hophead

Heroine's a hell of a drug.


24 posted on 02/28/2007 7:44:31 AM PST by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: CedarDave
What don't they rip the man on! Come on, Dems...it's really getting old.
25 posted on 02/28/2007 7:49:47 AM PST by Miss Didi ("Good heavens, woman, this is a war not a garden party!" Dr. Meade, Gone with the Wind)
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To: CedarDave
Maybe this idiot should have this (Published on Sunday, April 29, 2001 in the Chicago Tribune) sent to him.

Bush Loves Ecology -- At Home

26 posted on 02/28/2007 7:51:12 AM PST by Arrowhead1952 (The dims and Ron Paul screwed our troops.)
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To: CedarDave

What a guy, denies his constituents tropical beach front property. OK, they will all be dead when it arrives. Then, he genuflects to a dictator to get them heating oil.


27 posted on 02/28/2007 7:51:52 AM PST by depressed in 06 (Bolshecrat, the party of what if and whine.)
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To: CedarDave

Who is RFK????


28 posted on 02/28/2007 8:02:15 AM PST by cubreporter (I trust Rush. He has done more for this country than we will ever know. Thanks, Rush!)
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To: hophead

I could swear Mark Levin said 200,000 sq. ft. last night.
But I could be wrong.

He also said Bush used "green technology" to weather proof his home while the Global Warming Freak continues to use fossil fuels.


29 posted on 02/28/2007 8:24:26 AM PST by ZULU (Non nobis, non nobis Domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam. God, guts and guns made America great.)
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To: ZULU

Bush has done rational things about the enviornment that libs stuck on page one are not even smart enough to think up.


30 posted on 02/28/2007 8:32:27 AM PST by ClaireSolt (Have you have gotten mixed up in a mish-masher?)
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To: Gay State Conservative

That's probably Patrick Kennedy, US Rep. from RI.


31 posted on 02/28/2007 8:51:58 AM PST by CedarDave (Vietnam Vet Remembers -- This Time ... SUPPORT the Troops, COMPLETE the Mission)
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To: ZULU
Maybe Levin was including other Gore residences that have not been tallied along with the recent exposure of his Tenn mansions huge footprint on the environment. I recall that Al Gore also had beach property in North Carolina that was being called into question because he hadn't listed it on some form or another during his presidential run. Politically, the RATS do not care about the hypocrisy of any of this as they have a serf mentality. As long as their masters take care of them even at minimal survival they are happy to let them enjoy their jets, mansions, gun toting body guards, etc. etc.
32 posted on 02/28/2007 8:53:57 AM PST by mountainfolk (God Bless President George Bush)
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To: cubreporter
Who is RFK????

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_F._Kennedy,_Jr.

33 posted on 02/28/2007 8:54:31 AM PST by CedarDave (Vietnam Vet Remembers -- This Time ... SUPPORT the Troops, COMPLETE the Mission)
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To: CedarDave

The air is cleaner than any time in American history. These people are just nuts.


34 posted on 02/28/2007 9:03:57 AM PST by montag813
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To: CedarDave
That's probably Patrick Kennedy, US Rep. from RI.

Although I have no personal recollection I'd be willing to bet that Patches Kennedy (that's what a Boston talk host and columnist calls him) is opposed to the wind farm in Nantucket Sound.

However,I clearly recall Bobby Kennedy Jr having spoken against it...just as his uncle,Kerry,Cronkite,Carly Simon and many other "beautiful people" who own property on Cape Cod,Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard have done.

35 posted on 02/28/2007 9:05:09 AM PST by Gay State Conservative ("The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism."-Karl Marx)
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To: CedarDave

My God, how long must we be subjected to the spawn of that evil Joe Kennedy. That family is EVIL personified.


36 posted on 02/28/2007 9:08:25 AM PST by hgro
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To: CedarDave
It must be nice to be a trust fund baby where you get up everyday and bad mouth republicans. When Bobby Jr was asked about the Cape Wind farm, he had an answer why the Cape Wind project was not a good idea. ESAD Bobby!
37 posted on 02/28/2007 9:09:30 AM PST by jackieaxe (Unsourced reporting is not reporting but a lie or a manipulation)
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To: CedarDave

"Hollywood had to wait until the day after handing Gore his Oscar to read about the hypocrisy of how the energy to run his 8-bedroom mansion costs 20 times the average American home. But Nine Facts About Climate Change author Ray Evans told The Age in an interview a month ago that Gore's film is "bullshit from beginning to end".

There is one key and very evil person behind the latest Global Warming BS.

That person is George $oreA$$!. He is betting on global warming legislation with his hedge funds, and he is probably financing Al Gore and the other Global Warming alarmists in the Congress and across this country.

Go to this search link on $oreA$$ and Global Warming to see the reality behind this latest big left wing scare tactic to weaken America.

http://search.yahoo.com/bin/search?fr=ybr_sbc&p=Soros%20and%20Global%20Warming


38 posted on 03/01/2007 11:32:56 AM PST by Grampa Dave (GW has more Honor and Integrity in his little finger than ALL of the losers on the "hate Bush" band)
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To: Grampa Dave

Thanks Dave. I'm not a bit surprised. We've got to get the word out and I'm trying to do so by contacting a local TV station regarding this five-state greenhouse emissions crap that the Gov's are BS'ing about.


39 posted on 03/01/2007 12:19:17 PM PST by CedarDave
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