Reply #57: If Obama signs any plan without a strong public option, I will work hard

[MasonJar]

to see he is not re-elected. If he stands tall for a public option that has substance and vitality, I will work just as hard for his re-election, assuming of course that he does not screw us over on the environment, which is and has been for many years my most important issue. (I was for Al Gore back when he first ran against Clinton, before he became VP.) I have no reason to believe that Obama will not eventually become a sound environmental president, even though I do not like his selection of Vilsak and Salazaar nor their actions so far (as with the Yellowstone wolves and the Tongass and mountaintop removal coal mining.) These atrocious decisions are adding up fast in my black book, and it has only been a few months. I am assuming that some essential GOOD environmental policies are just around the corner, not that these subsequent programs will help the wolves that die due to the change brought about by the Obama administration's unbelievable dismantling of protections left in place by GWB, the worst environmental president in history, or the citizens whose lands and streams are filled with sludge thrown over the hillside by coal mine owners, whose number one agenda is saving themselves money, or the many species which exist in the Tongass National Forest, and I do stress NATIONAL, because it has not yet spoiled by the American government. These are not changes I can believe in. So I do put a plus by Obama's name for today's address on health care, and I await further decisions of merit with anticipation so that I may place more pluses in my little book in the future, especially in the sections set aside for global warming and the environment.