From: pjm@anegada.sps.mot.com (Patrick J. McGuinness)
Subject: Re: On the first debate among the presidential candidates
Organization: Motorola Inc., Austin TX
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 01:45:18 GMT

In article <1992Oct12.010800.4709@desire.wright.edu> demon@desire.wright.edu (Stupendous Man) writes:
>In article <29153@life.ai.mit.edu>, Clinton for President <75300.3115@compuserve.com> writes:
>...
>>                    Statement of SEN. AL GORE
>>         On the first debate among the presidential candidates
>
>>  With the attention of the nation focused on him, George Bush failed
>>  to provide the American people with a single reason to re- elect him
>>  or a single idea to get our economy moving again and create jobs.
>
>	Capital gains tax cuts, indexing them for inflation, reducing spending,
>NAFTA, ... He has offered ideas.  I'm sure you reject all of them, but that
>doesn't make it so.

Clinton is practicing the big lie technique. Keep repeating an untruth 
over and over again, and enough suckers will believe it. 
Now why is he so interested in saying this lie that "Bush has no plan,
no ideas " etc.?
 
CNN ran an interesting poll/study. They asked people whether they
thought Clinton's economic plans or Bush's economic plans were the
best. Clinton was favored on the economy (gee, no kidding).
*Then* they asked people to sit down and compare (sort of as a "blind
taste test") the actual content of the economic plans.

Lo and behold, Americans, in blind tests, chose Bush's Agenda for
American Renewal over Clinton's Put Government, er, People First plan.
They went for Bush's plan by a wide margin.

Clinton knows that if Americans compare the plans, he loses.
If he continues to convince Americans that he has the only plan
(an untruth(*)), and runs against the economic conditions (by
making things out to be worse than they are), he's in.

(*): I should note that last night Ron Brown - Dem. Chairman -  spewed
this lie about, not only Bush having no plan, but also Perot. Apparently
Ron Brown reads only Democrat documents and hasn't looked at either
"The Agenda for American renewal" or "United We stand."
Pity. They both have some good new ideas in them, something the
Deomcrats could use once in a while.

>>  George Bush offered more of the same: the same stale, tired policies
>>  that have brought us recession and cost us jobs.

Utter trash and nonsense. *AL GORE* and his tax raising, #1 spending in
the Senate, and pro-regulation attitude and votes has cost us countless
thousands of jobs by his actions. 

>	The #4 reason to no elect you two clowns: we are not in a recession. 
>If you can't tell the difference, then you don't deserve to be in the White
>House, much less the Senate.  And you ridicule Quayle for his spelling!

>>  George Bush kept the American people waiting for nothing. Anyone who
>>  hoped this debate would give them a reason to vote for Bush and
>>  Quayle is going to sleep tonight planning to vote for Bill Clinton
>>  and Al Gore. And, for good reason. Bill Clinton reached out to the
>>  American people with a plan for change and economic recovery, with a
>>  reason for hope and a genuine commitment to putting people first.
>
>	A plan?  Spenddddddddddd.   Taxxxxxxxxxx.  Been there, done that.  It
>doesn't work.

Egads, we may be there again .... :-(

>	Face it, Perot stomped you guys.  The media will say differently over
>the next couple of days, but the people aren't listening to the media.  (The
>media hasn't even figured out why it's polls aren't working.)

Maybe if the polls numbers change, they will.

Pat
		Bill Clinton, The Status-Quo Candidate