Personal--Robert Kennedy, Jr.

[novak]

Well, despite having been behind and wiped out with the flu over the last week, I took time to go listen to Robert Kennedy, Jr. speak on some of the topics he covers in his new book Crimes Against NatureIt really was appalling, and probably the most concise litany that I've yet heard against the abuses and corruption of the Bush administration.

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[angevin2]

Fortunately, however, Mr. Bush is for "values." And he's wearing my cross and my flag when he tells me that, too.

Hear, hear.

[saralinda]

It's really just terrifying. I'm not sure Kerry will be any less beholden to special interests. Or really anyone who gets in the White House.

Did you know that the breast milk of Eskimo Indians is considered a hazardous waste because of all the toxic pollutants that accumulate in it? We are dooming ourselves in the name of capitalism and consumption for capitalism and consumption's sake. The ones who suffer the most are the poor, but eventually all will feel the effects--a Toxic Meg Ryan is a good example of this. But it's nothing that Rachel Carson didn't warn us about in "Silent Spring" 50 years ago.

[aristotle2002]

Remind me of the last president who did not install his major campaign contributors into major political offices. And, of course, my favourite example of such corruption has always been the fishy nature of the pardons made at the end of the Clinton administration.

Better oil company cronies in charge of the energy department than NARAL cronies in charge of reproductive rights. Dead babies are more important than dumber ones.

PGK

[novak]

Dead babies are more important than the dumber mercury-enriched babies? Why the either-or? A just administration can push for both. But since we lack administrations with that depth of vision, then what? With the destruction of the social services that gave women greater alternatives to abortion, Bush has increased the number of abortions in the States. Since the idea of actually managing to abolish abortion is at this point in our cultural history no more than a pipe-dream, I can't say that a president who only is going to be pro-life in the strongest rhetorical way--but in fact an unactualized way--isn't terribly pro-life in any way that has actually made a difference.

[aristotle2002]

There are thousands of babies today who are not dead because he cut off your tax dollars from going to fund their abortions. That seems to be a pretty practical pro-life action to me, stopping my hard-earned dollars from going to fund concentration camps.

I don't buy the argument much that cutting welfare has produced more abortions. That would have to be backed up by statistics, and statistics are not in your favour. The National Right to Life Committee website estimates the abortion trend to be flat to slightly lower since Bush took the White House.

A just administration can push for both. However, given the choice between two evils, I will take the one that does not involve piles of dead babies.

PGK

[bassmike]

Some links for you:

http://www.paxchristiusa.org/flyer.pdf

http://www.thousandreasons.org/the_top_ten.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/17/magazine/17BUSH.html?position=&oref=login&pagewanted=print&position=

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1241298/posts