Al Gore -presidente electo de EU para muchos- habla de la Adm. Bush

Bob Herbert, columnista del New York Times nos lleva a un teatro de Manhattan, donde el ex vicepresidente Al Gore fue recibido con un aplauso de pie. En una conferencia sobre el impacto ambiental de las políticas de la administración Bush, Gore fue más que directo.

"Amid cheers, he made it clear that the broad interests of the American public are consistently betrayed by the policies and practices of President Bush and his administration. "They devise their policies with as much secrecy as possible," he said, "and in close cooperation with the most powerful special interests that have a monetary stake in what happens. In each case, the public interest is not only ignored, but actively undermined. In each case, they devote considerable attention to a clever strategy of deception that appears designed to prevent the American people from discerning what it is they are actually doing.

"Indeed, they often use Orwellian language to disguise their true purposes. For example, a policy that opens national forests to destructive logging of old-growth trees is labeled Healthy Forest Initiative. A policy that vastly increases the amount of pollution that can be dumped into the air is called the Clear Skies Initiative."