The closing argument for Obama and against Bush III
Obama gave his "closing argument" speech yesterday, and it's powerful stuff:
Meanwhile, the Bush White House (which McCain has supported over 90 percent of the time) is hard at work, frantically trying to destroy the environment as quickly as possible. Here's the closing argument against four more years of the most destructive president in US history:
At the Bush administration's direction, the Environmental Protection Agency is working on a new rule that would weaken pollution regulations for power plants, allowing them to increase emissions without adding controls.
And this:
EPA was expected to decide in November on another eleventh-hour rule that would allow more power plants to be built near national parks and wilderness areas.
If this nation is to survive in any recognizable form, we must abandon the destructive policies of the GOP once and for all. That gang of thugs has nearly bankrupted our government, degraded our environment almost beyond repair, fundamentally betrayed our founding principles of liberty and the rule of law, destroyed our reputation among the nations of the world, accelerated the erosion of our standard of living, and brought our entire economic system to the brink of total collapse. We cannot afford another administration so keen on the sellout of this country to moneyed interests, and we must begin the long, slow, and arduous process of repair before it's too late. Obama represents the possibility of a new direction, while McCain represents a slavish, myopic, and destructive devotion to the malignant status quo.
Across history, empires have failed for reasons more trivial than the ones now facing our country. We simply must change course away from the party of Nero and Caligula before our own Rome crumbles into dust.