From: davidk@welch.jhu.edu (David Kitaguchi)
Subject: Re: Drinking Fountain Politics
Reply-To: davidk@welch.jhu.edu
Organization: Welch Medical Library
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 18:13:31 GMT

In article AA09314@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU, APUCORLE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU () writes:
>
>Drinking Fountain Politics:
>(copied w/o permission from the NY Times, Monday 8/31/92, p.A15)
>
>
>Imagine that a network morning show has assembled six political
>heavyweights for a call-in show.  A teacher phones to report that
>during a recent class tour of the White House, a student wanted a
>drink of water, only to discover that the fountain was out of order.
>The teacher asks the panel what message a broken fountain at the
>White House sends to the young people of America.  Let's listen to
>the answers.
>
>Ross Perot: The question here is simple: how do we fix it.  I say,
>let's bring together the finest plumbing talent in America -- from
>outside the system.  Let them look at the fountain.  Turn it on.
>Turn it off.  Measure the flow in it.  That sort of thing.  And you
>can be sure, the next time you take a White House tour, you're going
>to drink from a world-class fountain.
>
>Jesse Jackson: Let us not talk about this broken water fountain.
>Let us talk about the thousands of broken water fountains across
>America.  For they, too, are broken, like the broken dreams of
>America's forgotten children.  And whether you are black, white,
>brown or yellow, you cannot use them.  Why?  Because the Republican
>Party is more interested in Perrier water and Pellegrino water than
>it is in public water.
>
>Al Gore: I love my country.  And I love water.  And I love the
>children who drink from the water fountains in the country I love,
>and that my father loves.  And I believe in my heart that the time
>has come, now more than ever, for all of us to be inspired by the
>young people of America whose dreams for the future depend on our
>ability as a nation to provide them with the water that is the
>essence of their survival.
>
>Dan Quayle:  Water is very important.  Where there is water there
>is life.  Life is very important.  Abortion kills life dead and 
>where things are dead there is no life.  And life is important.
>Grass is green when it is alive with life.  A good green is alive
>with the grass on it being alive with life which is good, and this too
>is important.  Golf on good green made of good green grass is alive
>and important.
>
>Bill Clinton: I grew up in a home where public water fountains
>were very important to me and to my family.  And I have put forward
>a plan similar to the plan I introduced to Arkansas.  This plan is
>good for America.  It takes the $4.25 million savings we realize
>when we eliminate the 10 percent reduction on the capital gains
>that exceed $30,000 in any given one-year period for Americans
>under the age of 31 who graduated before 1984, and it allocates
>18.5 percent of that sum to paying for 80 percent of the new
>fountain construction.
>
>George Bush: O.K.  Sure.  Fine.  There's something wrong with a
>water fountain in the White House?  Not denying it.  Have to be a
>fool to deny it.  But make no mistake about it.  There is a lot
>that is right with it, too.  And that's one thing I want to focus
>on, you see, not what's bad about the water fountains in America
>by what's good about them.  And with the help of the American people
>and a Republican Congress I can work with, I can make the water
>flow again in the water fountains of America.

I couldn't help it but Quayle need something a little more coherent!

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