(today's Jonathan Nicholas column in the "Living" section)
http://www.oregonlive.com/living/oregonian/jonathan_nicholas/index.ssf?/base/living/111278148614271.xml . . .
(Robert) Kennedy, son of Bobby, nephew of Jack, was the lure at Saturday night's bash for the conservation organization Oregon Trout.
He trod softly, like a fisherman finding his place in the shallows before casting his first fly. And then, slowly, his voice strengthening, his teeth flashing, those oh-so-Bobby blue eyes riveting the room, the environmental lawyer launched a searing assault on President Bush and his policies.
He lashed out at the "false choice" that poses good environmental policy against good economic policy. He denounced the "deficit spending of our children's inheritance." He assailed the money-grubbing polluters who ride on the backs of public subsidies. And he was just getting started.
The first outraged patron had already stormed from the hall before Kennedy got to the part where he insisted he's no namby-pamby liberal in love with shad and socialism. "We are not doing this for the fishes and the birds," he said. "We're doing it for ourselves: economically, aesthetically, spiritually."
Hailing wilderness as "the unfiltered work of the Creator," he reminded those of all faiths that getting close to nature is "how we get to know who we are, how we get to discover our own divinity."
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