From: garyb@gcm.com (Gary Blumenstein)
Subject: Re: Reality is a b!tch
Organization: Greenwich Capital Markets, Inc.
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Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 20:49:10 GMT

: > (Gary Blumenstein) writes:
: [...]
: >Bush was right, Clinton's character is personified by his draft dodging 
: >coverup.
:
: Steve Novak (steven@advtech.uswest.com) wrote:
: [..]
: After all, that's all Quayle (draft dodger) and Bush could talk about the 
: entire campaign, a big reason why they lost. 

I'll give you that.  Quayle avoided combat duty by taking advantage of his
connections to get him into the Nat'l Guard where he proudly served his
country.  Reprehensible isn't it?  We can't talk about Bush's service record,
even our worst enemies will agree it was beyond reproach (who knows though, 
maybe he participated in a few of those "tail hook" conventions?)

: I hated the goddam Vietnam war.  If people are already forgetting
: history, the U.S. government was so devious, so evil, and so STUPID in
: their conducting of the war that no intelligent individual who did
: anything to avoid it should be mocked, but rather PRAISED.

Steve, your arguments are all valid.  The war was a sham and all that.
But either I didn't make myself clear or you missed my point.  I
believe that Bush, and for that matter Quayle too, are fundamentally
honest men and thats what sets them apart from Clinton.  Bill Clinton is 
racking up a string of inconsitencies that range from hip shots to outright 
lies.  Where's the middle class tax cut?  Where's the jobs program?
Where's the REAL program to elimintate conflicts of interest in his cabinet?

Why did his campagne focus on doom and gloom statistics when our economy
was on an upswing, and doing consistently better than many other nations on 
a global scale?  The media silence of Gennifer Flowers?  The "I never smoked
smoked marijuana while in public office." claims.  And finally the draft.
Nit picking by the right wing flag wavers you might say?  Can't you see that
these all point to major character flaws in the man?  

Something is terribly wrong here.  Bill Clinton's campagne was in shambles 
before the primaries.  It wasn't until the Democrats realized he was their 
only shot at the ticket, and then it still took his friends in the MEDIA 
TO REVIVE HIS DEAD CAMPAGNE.  You my friend, were duped.  Blind-sacked by
the same powerful and cohesive bureaucracy of media and special interest
politicics who paint the false perception that this country is one step away
from becoming a facist police state.  This is the same corrupt bureaucracy
that refuses to accept congressional term limitations, line item vetos,
spending cuts, Etc.  He is not the agent of change that his campagne lead
his supporters to beleive.  Instead, he represents the worst of the status 
quo that liberals and conservatives alike are sick and tired of.  Bill
Clinton is the epitome of an inexperienced statesman.  A clever tactician 
as psychologically manipulative as the shrewdest attorney.

But I digress way too much and I apologize.  It's Bill Clinton's motives that 
I question.  Does the man truly have this country's best interests at heart?  
Perhaps to some extent.  After all, he *is* the friggin' president!  But once 
again, I believe Bill Clinton's first priority is and always will be, his 
own damned political career above and beyond ANYTHING else. 

: It's about time we have a president that doesn't blindly genuflect to
: the American flag.

Maybe you would feel better if he advocated the Communist Manifesto instead?

If you think the above statement is mere inflammatory "right-wing" rhetoric, 
heres my point;  In my book, pork barrel spending, trends towards 
multiculturalism, history revisionism, gay rights, insect rights.  
Biligualism.  Taking yours and my hard earned money to fund give-away programs
for the jobless (read my lips: more new taxes).  Requiring companies to 
allocate their profits towards mandatory programs (training, safety, I don't
care).  The refusal to recognize AIDS as a pandemic disease and fight it 
properly (can you say MANDATORY HIV screening).  - all these things constitute
the same thing.  A breakdown in societal values which can only reduce our 
economic growth, family structure, and opportunities for individual and
national success.

Look, Bill Clinton's first week in office should be a clear enough indication
of what we have in store for us.  Look at the complete focus this past week 
on ending the ban on gays in the military.  Of all things!  Is this not 
payback time for the gay money that went into the campagne?  That's right 
Bill, lets set the tone by alienating the joint chiefs and your own congress 
in the first week in office!  That ridiculous prime-time TV generation 
innaguration party with Gore dancing around like a goon and Clinton blowing
his horn.  Yikes, I'm doing it again.  I've got to lighten up here!

: >God help us.
: 
: If there is a god, which I doubt, he just did.  See January 20th.

I see your point, but I look at it another way.  God, which I know
exists, will help us learn from our mistakes.  I'll wait `till January
`97 thanks.  


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