From: ck347@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Richard A. Mulac)
Newsgroups: alt.politics.clinton,alt.politics.elections,talk.politics.misc
Subject: Re: WELLLLL! IT'S DAY ONE. WHERE'S THE PLAN???
Date: 27 Jan 1993 22:51:09 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: ck347@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Richard A. Mulac)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


In a previous article, lafave@ial4.jsc.nasa.gov (Dr. Norman J. LaFave) says:

>In article <1k6jrsINNav9@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> Richard A. Mulac,
>ck347@cleveland.Freenet.Edu writes:
>> Even if I follow your guide of voting for a candidate based soley on
>> his record and not on campaign rhetoric (following up on campaign
>> promises is a good indication of character, so I assume you don't
>> care about the character of the person you vote for.
>
>BZZZZT! Read what I said again Mulac. Since I don't believe that
>campaign promises are anything but voter-induced ear candy,
>whether the candidate makes good on them is irrelevant to their
>character.

So, making promises to people which you have no intention of keeping
is not a reflection of character?  Hmmm, you and I must have grown up
differently.

> ...
>FACT: Arkansas students went from 50th to 20th in standardized test
>scores under Clinton's education reforms.

Now this would interest me.  What tests are you talking about?

>FACT: Arkansas went from 50th to 47th in manufacturing.

Ooooh!  This I don't consider worth bragging about.

>FACT: Arkansas has made modest to great strides in several catagories
>despite having little in natural resources or state revenue.

Great strides in polluting the state and attracting low wage jobs.

>FACT: The governors (Repub and Demo) voted Clinton to be the MOST
>EFFECTIVE GOVERNOR in the country.

This is meaningless.

>...
>> I would really like to hear from Clinton supporters on which Clinton
>> policies were responsible for attracting their votes.  I would
>> expect most of them to deal with THE ECONOMY (STUPID!), since Clinton
>> himself said he would exert 'laser-like' focus on that issue.
>
>And it is the subject he has spent the most time on since election day.

Huh?  He's spent the majority of his time on social tinkering.

>At least wait until the program is unveiled before criticizing it....
>You guys were screaming for deficit reduction and he has been adjusting
>his program toward increased deficit reduction. I would think you would
>be happy......unless all your complaining was just partisan belly-aching.
>No....that couldn't possibly be it.  :-/

In fact, last week he relaxed budget restraints designed to reduce the
deficit (11% across the board cuts).
 
>> Now, how many of those policies has he abandonded or shows signs
>> of abandoning?  You know, I never thought the day would come when I
>> would cheer for the Congress (both Democrats and Republicans), but in
>> recent days I have been.
>
>What are you talking about????

Don't you watch the news?

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Richard Mulac                                       ck347@cleveland.freenet.edu
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