The End Of Civilization As We Know It:Bill Press

The End Of Civilization As We Know It
Bill Press

http://billpress.com/columns.html

May 25, 2006

I know it’s futile to dwell in the land of what-might-have-been. But these days we just can’t help it.

If only they’d counted all the votes in Florida in 2000. . . . If only we lived in a country where the person who got the most votes won the election. . . . If only the Supreme Court still respected states’ rights. . . . If only the man who deserves to be president were in the Oval Office, how much different — how much better — things would be.

We wouldn’t be locked in an endless, unwinnable war in Iraq; under President Al Gore, we wouldn’t have gone there in the first place. We wouldn’t be held hostage by big oil companies, with no alternative energy options on the table, when the price of oil topped $70 a barrel. We wouldn’t be saddled with a massive budget deficit. And, most of all, we wouldn’t be sitting on our hands and doing nothing about the most serious environmental crisis ever faced by humankind.

George W. Bush will go down in history as the worst American president ever. For things he’s done, yes: launching a pre-emptive war; presiding over the biggest spending and worst budget deficits ever; widening the gap between the rich and poor; destroying America’s standing in the world. But the most serious strike against Bush 43 will be what he hasn’t done: his total failure to act on global warming.

Failure to act? Actually, it’s worse than that. George W. Bush won’t even acknowledge that global warming exists — certainly not warming caused by human activity. How the leader of the Free World could remain so ignorant on so critical an issue boggles the mind. But then again, we are talking about Incurious George.

when they stopped the recount. How do they sleep at night? How will history view their repulsive, indefensible position?

argued about, but life will go on .

It always does.

What "life will go on" if we end up altering the climate? We have already ended many a life by altering local environments, now we are on course to altering the global environment.

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Anyway, glad to see someone pointing to the root cause of our problems. With Al Gore as president, our course would be a total 180.

People, the elections were stolen. We are on the wrong course by letting the matter stand. Fight it.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=203&topic_id=430061&mesg_id=430061

it is only fitting that their legacy will be as the WORSE Supreme Court in history. They have quite a few other decisions that qualify them for this in my opinion.

"Actually, Bush wouldn’t have to travel far if he really wanted to become informed. He could begin by watching Al Gore’s new movie, “An Inconvenient Truth,” which dramatically illustrates that global warming is real, is manmade, and — without a major shift in public policy and private behavior — will soon develop into a planetary threat of biblical proportions. Gore has said he hopes his documentary will prove to “an action movie in the truest sense”: motivating people to get off their butts. But Bush has already told reporters he doubts he’ll have time to catch Gore’s film. He’s too busy riding his bike."



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that an idiot like bush could attain the highest office in the country through WHATEVER means.

Thanks, Bill Press, for writing this down in your own inimitable way. Windows certainly opened for you when "crossfire" slammed that door in your face!