From: jj@alice.att.com (jj, curmudgeon and all-around grouch)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.misc
Subject: Re: That Legal right over Gambit...
Date: 14 Oct 92 14:58:19 GMT
Article-I.D.: alice.23886
Reply-To: jj@alice.UUCP (jj, curmudgeon and all-around grouch)
Organization: NJ State Home for Bewildered Terminals

In article <Bw3D3C.1u4@eis.calstate.edu> kmitche@eis.calstate.edu (Kenneth Mitchell) writes:

>Figure it out, folks. Here's a man who DESPERATELY wants to not be
>drafted, at ANY price. He'll agree to ANYTHING even to delay the
>inevitable. If it hadn't been the high lottery number, he'd have thought
>of something else the following year why he couldn't attend ROTC, or, if
>he couldn't get out of that, why he couldn't be commissioned. 
Thank you for stipulating that Bill Clinton has far more intellegence
than either George Bush or Dan Quayle. Speaking of Dan Quayle,
why was it HE wasn't drafted?  REMEMBER, FOLKS?  His performance
from a point of political patronage makes Clinton look like a piker
in the political-draft-evasion race.

>But as bad as Bush is, he's clearly the lesser of two evils.

I can't believe you've said that.  Bush has deliberately lied
about both his own accomplishments and those of his opponenent,
he has resorted STRICTLY to negative campaigning of the sort you
echo for the simple reason he has NOTHING WHATSOEVER to offer
the country except to pack the Court with people who will
willfully avoid the "establishment of religion" clause,
not only in abortion matters but also wherever else they
can.  He's submitted a sex-harrasser for the Court, and 
ordered his staff to smear the victims of that harrassment.
He's lied repeatedly about what "Clinton will do", and
he's ignored Perot completely because he can't possibly
even approach Perot's record on anything.  The Bush-Perot
feud in Texas needs more reporting, I think.  Clinton is
too jingoistic to do something as stupid as contra, and
Perot far to smart. 

Given all that, how can anyone possibly trust the character
of George Bush? He's assassinated his own character publically
and repeatedly.  Unlike Clinton, he's repeatedly lied about
what happened.  Clinton makes me a bit nervious because he
seems unwilling to meet accusations head-on (Gore seems
more willing, and perhaps should be the Presidential candidate,
I think), I fear that's the reaction of any experienced 
politician, i.e. evade.  Of course, 20 years of evading
the issue is why our economy has been bankrupted by the
federal deficit, and why research and development in the
US is on the "out", as the MBA's try to maximize the next
month for the arbitrageurs, rather than the next 10 years
for the real stockholders.  The new way to get promoted,
as any MBA will tell you, is to negatively campaign
against your peers, and tear what they do down, ignoring
the company performance.  Bush has learned this, and
has allowed to to dominate his campaign despite the
deliberate and lasting damage he will do to the country
as a result. You can TRUST this man for that?

GOLDWATER/TSONGAS in 1992!

(It used to read Goldwater/Fenwick. She died a few weeks ago. Sob, sniff.)
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