[at-l] Clinton to Unveil Road Ban in National

[kahley7@ptd.net (kahley7)]

At 05:14 PM 1/5/01 -0500, Slyatpct@aol.com wrote:
>In a message dated 1/5/2001 4:19:10 PM Eastern Standard Time, kahley7@ptd.net
>writes:
>
><< I knew Teddy Roosevelt.  Teddy Roosevelt was my friend.  Bill Clinton is
>no
>  Teddy Roosevelt! >>
>
>, the man is trying to save our natural wonders instead of
>exploiting them and is probably more like Teddy Roosevelt than any other
>President in our history, certainly more environmentally conscience than the
>newly elected George W.


also in all due respect to you Sly, but I was serious.  TR _was_ an 
outdoorsman,
He hiked, fished and hunted and from what I have read, when he looked at 
the grandeur
out west and said "this must be saved", I believed he was speaking from his 
heart.

Clintoon on the other hand, walked 1/4 mile of the AT and laid three rocks 
on a retaining wall.
Other than that, the only time I've seen him outdoors in on one of those 
toxic waste sites that some
people call golf coruses.  As an earlier poster said, I believe this is all 
about his legacy.  Trying to
erase the stain, he is seeking to be the most (fill in the blank) president 
ever.  Prolly had focus groups
tell him that an environmental-thrust polls well so that's the deal.  To do 
that, he cheated,
  BIG SURPRISE!!!
and subverted our constitution to do something that the people, through 
their representatives,
would not support.  The cynical side of me says he may just be doing this 
to lay a tar pit for Bush.
Daring him to undo these EOs and suffer the wrath of the greens.  I hate to 
be judgmental,
but it seems to me, it ain't about the land...it's all about politics with 
Willy Jeff.


>I'm trying to make this strictly trail related and believe that what's he's
>doing is a good thing.  Whether you dislike him for any other reason, well,
>that's cool too.


I despise him, but that isn't the point.  Beyond the land, for me, lays 
freedom.  The are entwined in
my mind.  A man who steals my freedom to protect the land is no hero in my 
book.



>Sly