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A Small Piece of Revisionist History

Sun, 02/28/2010 - 15:22 — Dave Dempsey

David Lathrop: Lake Superior Overlook

David Lathrop: Lake Superior Overlook ~Enlarge

The Great Lakes got a little extra piece of national attention last week in a Washington Post column by veteran David Broder.  A summertime resident of Beaver Island in Lake Michigan, Broder praised the Obama Administration's Great Lakes restoration initiative.

But he said one thing that irked a lunchtime companion of mine.

It wasn't wrong, it was incomplete. And misleading.

Calling Great Lakes protection a "truly bipartisan initiative," he added, "Back in 2004, when President George W. Bush, campaigning for reelection, stopped in Traverse City, Mich., he vowed to save the Great Lakes, one of the Earth's largest repositories of fresh water."

He vowed, but he never delivered.  Not a new nickel or a new protection initiative. Now that Obama is in the Oval Office, there actually IS bipartisan support for the program, and that's welcome.

Broder also called the initiative "binational," and that's misleading too.  More on that another time.

 

 

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He meant well

Submitted by h2oyu on Mon, 03/01/2010 - 14:35.

 When Mr. Bush made his Great Lakes statement, I wondered to myself how long it would take for his neo-conservative friends to straiten out his thinking.

 The averege joe, at that time, believed that a conservative was someone who cared about conservation. Most did'nt understand the neo-conservative ideology and many still don't. 

  Lets' also not forget one of his first actions as President. He de-funded the Schools of Public Health, most of which were in study of toxics injury. A BIG win for the Chemical Mfg. Assoc.  A few years later the CDC wrote a report concluding the highest levels of toxics ever found in the human body, the CMA commented on the report and all but thanked God that their was no medical evidence that these levels possed any health risk.

  The revisionist culture is alive and well.  If you bought it then, you'll buy it now.   

  

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