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

[stringdm@yahoo.com (Dawn Stringer)]

but i rememember reading in a backpacker magazine one article about the 
grand canyon and how he signed some bills to protect it from more
development and yadda yadda yadda (the magazine was in an airport or in a
hostel or something, i don't remember where or when or how it came into my
posession).  anyway, he made a speech saying something to the effect that
"one hundred years from now, people won't know who kept this area pristine.
they will only know that it is."  so while i believe that politicians are
inherantly evil, there are some who, though they can't be in the woods all
the time (because, well, maybe they have a country to run), do give a shit.

my two cents are in.

belcher

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>From: kahley7 <kahley7@ptd.net>
>To: Slyatpct@aol.com, AT-L@mailman.backcountry.net
>Subject: Re: [at-l] Clinton to Unveil Road Ban in National
>Date: Fri, Jan 5, 2001, 5:42 PM
>

> 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
>
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