Subject: ANWR



Dear Mr. President,

I hope you were watching the West Wing Live Debate episode tonight. Because the 60 minute campaign commercial for the DNC gave you a precious gift. A well reasoned and passionately delivered declaration on why we should drill in the Artic National Wildlife Reserve.

Alan Alda, who played liberal Republican Senator Arnold Vinnick, talked about how we see oil wells off the coast of the beaches of Santa Barbara and Texas, all over Los Angeles for all to see, and even in the parking lot of a McDonalds. He then asked anyone if they had been to ANWR. Nobody answered yes. And he then asked if anyone had been to the Grand Canyon? When everyone applauded he stated that if oil were found in the Grand Canyon, that would be a reason to say no, because of the majesty of the monument. ANWR is desolate and Vinnick wished he could put every oil well in ANWR where no one would see them.

Mr. President, Alan Alda and writer Lawrence O'Donnell were your best friend on that, IMHO. Sold it to me (and I was already sold).