Although I appreciate the even-handed temperament of Detroit News columnist George Weeks -- a calm voice in a shrill chorus of right-wing screamers in that paper -- his column today on the Bush and Kerry campaigns and the Great Lakes is frustrating. If you knew nothing about the issues, you'd read it and come out thinking that Bush may have a slight edge in terms of commitment. When in fact the choice on environmental issues is clearer than it's ever been -- in favor of Kerry. He actually has a detailed plan on the Great Lakes which Bush's people have been unsuccessful in mocking, especially given their nearly four years of abuse and neglect of the environment. If any environmental-loving voter can be bought off by a campaign-year announcement of a cleanup with which Bush had nothing to do, then we're in worse trouble than we think.
http://www.detnews.com/2004/editorial/0409/30/a15-288880.htm