From: eyc@acpub.duke.edu (EMIL CHUCK)
Newsgroups: alt.rush-limbaugh,alt.politics.bush,alt.politics.clinton,talk.politics.misc
Subject: Time to mix the pot: was it a mistake?
Summary: Concerning the lifting of the banning of homosexuals
Date: 17 Nov 92 18:56:30 GMT
Followup-To: alt.rush-limbaugh
Organization: Duke University; Durham, N.C.

My comments are surrounded by number/pound signs. Editing fillers are
indicated by brackets or double carets.

Thomas Friedman of the NYT News Service wrote (as printed in my school
paper the _Chronicle_):

	...After talks on Sunday night with Clinton and his wife Hillary,
[Clinton and the Democrats] vowed to cooperate on a shared agenda of
legislation to create jobs, affordable health care, middle-class tax
relief and disciplined deficit reduction and to improve the long-term
competitiveness of the American economy.
	As he has throughout the transition, Clinton made no attempt to
disguise the fact that his wife is playing an advisory role. Although
she was not present at the news conference, Hillary Clinton took part in
Sunday night's dinner talks.
	Clinton said she sat in on all the discussions, adding that "she
talked a lot," and "knew more than we did about some things -- I think
they would agree with that."
	Clinton sounded conciliatory notes -- as on his campaign demands
for a cut in the size of the congressional staff. After talking with his
three guests <<VP-elect Al (Winkin) Gore, House Speak Tom (Blinkin)
Foley, House Majority leader Dick (Nod) Gephardt, and Senate Majority
leader George (hey, I thought there were three guests!) Mitchell>>, he
said he no longer believed such a cut was needed and promised to slash
the size of the White House staff. But the news conference was often
diverted by questions about Clinton's plans for lifting the ban on
homosexuals in the military. ...

### Kiss that ass, Bill. (Pun not intended originally.) ###

	Clinton spiced his boilerplate remarks about working closely
with Congress with some pointed jabs at the Bush administration.
	He went out of his way, for example, to say he hoped the size of
the budget deficit his administration will inherit from President Bush
has not been "understated for next year and the year after," adding that
he was now trying to "get to the botton of the figures." ...

### Rush is right again. The Democrats are going to blame the ghosts of
Presidents Reagan and Bush for the deficits when they realize the
deficit won't be reduced through their programs. ###

	The persistent discussion in recent days of the ban on
homosexuals in the military appears to be more the result of a
miscalculation by Clinton than a choice. Clinton aides acknowledge they
have had a hard time adjusting from the campaign -- where the candidates
shout as much as possible at the public and hope that something sticks
-- to being president-elect, when every word is suddenly translatable
into policies.
	The issue was raised last Wednesday when Clinton, answering a
reporter's question after his Veteran's Day address, acknowledged that
he intended to fulfill his campaign promise on this issue. In that the
issue was the first policy pronouncement he had made, it dominated the
headlines and made television news.
	Now the issue has taken on a life of its own. Various active and
retired military officers, along with <<GA Sen. (D) who heads the Armed
Services Committee, *breath* Sam>> Nunn, cautioned the president-elect
that lifting the ban would be insensitive to military men and women who
live at close quarters in barracks.

### Excuse me? In a campaign, you shout as much as possible and "hope
that something sticks"? Hmmm.... ###
-- 
Emil Thomas Chuck	eyc@acpub.duke.edu	Biomedical Engineering 1993
	THANK GOD IT'S BASKETBALL SEASON!!!!!
I don't have to have a 4.0 GPA to succeed in life because I'm 
good enough, I'm smart enough, and doggone it, people like me.
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