From: robart@agora.rain.com (Robert Barton)
Subject: Re: Coup de grace:CLINTON Cowardice
Organization: Organization
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 03:16:04 GMT

>*PROMISES NOT TO RUN FOR PRESIDENT
>"I told you when I announced for Governor... I'm gonna serve four years. I made
>that decision when I decided to run... I'm being considered a candidate for
>Governor.  That's the job I want-- that's the job I'll do for the next four
>years."
>KHOB/KHOG-TV Gubernatorial Debate 10/15/90
>
>*RUNS FOR PRESIDENT
>"Today I proudly announce my candidacy for President of the United States of
>America."
>Clinton Announcement Speech, Little Rock, Arkansas 10/3/91
>
>*PLEDGES TO BALANCE THE BUDGET
>"I would present a five-year plan to balance the budget."
>CNN's Larry King Live 6/4/92
>
>*ABANDONS BALANCED BUDGET
>"My plan will cut the deficit in half within four years."
>Putting People First 6/20/92
>
>*MIDDLE CLASS TAX CUT "CENTRAL"
>"I want to make it very clear that this middle-class tax cut, in my view, is
>central to any attempt we're going to make to have a short-term economic
>strategy and a long-term fairness strategy, which is part of getting this
>country going again."
>ABC News, Primary Debate, Manchester, 1/19/92
>
>*MIDDLE CLASS TAX CUT NOT "CENTRAL"
>"But to say that this middle class tax cut, ... is the center of anybody's
>econom[ic] package, is wrong."
>ABC News, Democratic Candidate's Debate, Dallas, 5/5/92
>
>"I would emphasize to you that the press and my opponents always made more of
>the middle-class tax cut than I did."
>ABC "Good Morning America", 6/6/92
>
>*EMBRACES PRIVATE SCHOOL CHOICE
>"I am fascinated by that proposal [allowing parents to choose a private school
>and receive financial assistance via tax credits or vouchers]... I'm concerned
>*OPPOSES PRIVATE SCHOOL CHOICic Party establishment has not given you more
>encouragement.  The visionary is rarely embraced by the status quo."
>Clinton Letter to Wisconsin State Representative Polly Williams, 10/18/90
>
>*OPPOSES PRIVATE SCHOOL CHOICE
>"We shouldn't give our money away to private schools in a system that will
>undermine the integrity of the public school system."
>Town Meeting wit hthe NEA, 7/7/92
>
>*OPPOSES GUN CONTROL
>"I'm not for gun control."
>Arkansas Gazette, 11/2/90
>
>*FAVORS GUN CONTROL
>"I was an early and strong supporter of the Brady Bill."
>NBC's "Today" Show, 10/17/91
>
>*OPPOSES TAX FOR HEALTH CARE
>"We don't need to lead with a tax increase that asks hard working people who
>already pay too much for health care to pay even more..."
>Bill Clinton for President Primary Committee, "American Health Care Plan,"
>Issue Paper
>
>*PROPOSES PAYROLL TAX FOR HEALTH CARE
>"There will be -- there will be a buy in tax, which they can call a payroll
>tax."
>USA Today editorial meeting, 8/12/92
>
>*COMMITTED TO FREE TRADE
>"...I think it is imperative that we make alliances with Mexico."
>Southwest Times Record, 6/2/91
>
>*FLIRTS WITH PROTECTIONISTS
>"I am reviewing it carefully and when I have a definite opinion I will say so."
>Speech to Detroit Economic Club 8/21/92
>
>*AGREES WITH OPPONENTS OF GULF WAR
>"I agree wit hthe arguments of the people in the minority on the
>resolution--that we should give sanctions more time and maybe even explore a
>full-scale embargo...before we go to war."
>AP story in the Pins Bluff Comercial 1/15/91
>
>*SUPPORTS GULF WAR
>"I supported the Persian Gulf War because I thought it was right and in our
>national interest..."
>U.S. News and World Report 8/23/92
>
>*OPPOSES TAXPAYER FUNDED ABORTIONS
>"I am opposed to abortion and to government funding of abortions.  We should
>not spend state funds on abortion because so many people believe abortion is
>wrong."
>Letter to Arkansas Rigth to Life, 9/26/86
>
>"There's a big difference between being pro-choice and being for spending tax
>dollars for any kind of abortion.  Idon't think that's appropriate."
>AP 10/11/91
>
>*SUPPORTS TAXPAYER FUNDED ABORTIONS
>"Clinton's innovation and comprehensive health care plan would cover
>pregnancy-related medical procedures, inclduing abortions."
>Bill Clinton for President Committee, Women's Issues Paper
>
>*SUPPORTS LITMUS TEST FOR JUDGES
>"It is [a litmus test], and it makes me uncomfortable, [but] I would want the
>first judge I appointed to believe in the right to privacy and the right to
>choose."
>Bill Moyers Interview, 7/9/92
>
>*OPPOSES LITMUS TEST FOR JUDGES
>"I have said that I would do my best, in the next appointment of the Supreme
>Court, to appoint someone who believes in the general rule of Roe vs. Wade. 
>That does not mean - I have no intention of giving somebody a test..."
>As reported on CBS 7/20/92 Wheeling WVa 7/19/92
>
>*OPEN ON TERM LIMITS
>"I think it's a decision that people ought to make...I wouldn't rule out term
>limits."
>Meet the Press 1/5/92
>
>*CLOSED TO TERM LIMITS
>"I'm against term limits because I think that it takes choices away from
>voters."
>Boston Globe 7/27/92
>
>*RESTRAIN SPENDING
>"We need to give the people a sense that there's some discipline and some
>restraint in spending."
>NBC Nightly News 3/18/92
>
>*SPEND
>Proposes $219.52 billion in new spending.
>Putting People First page 19, 6/20/92
>
>*WOULD NOT SIGN WELFARE WAIVER
>"'I would not sign that bill,' Clinton said referring to a New Jersey bill that
>prevents women from collecting extra benefits if they have additional
>children."
>New York Times 1/22/92
>
>*WOULD SIGN WELFARE WAIVER
>"Clinton said that, as president, he would sign a federal waiver allowing the
>state to impose the law...'My position is that no one knows whether it will
>work for sure...I would not deprive them of the right to try this...'"
>Philadephia Inquirer, 5/23/92
>
>*SUPPORTS 45 MPG CAFE
>"We'll accelerate our progress toward fuel-efficient cars and seek to raise the
>average goal for automakers to 40 miles per gallon by the year 2000, 45 miles
>per gallon by 2020."
>Drexel University Speech, 4/22/92
>
>*CAFE UNFAIR
>"...I think we should be very flexible about imposing standards on the overall
>fleet as opposed to different sized vehicles,...I don't think it's fair to
>impose a burden on an American fleet that has bigger cars in it that foreign
>competitors do...."
>Speech to Detroit Economic Club, 8/21/92
>
>*NEVER OPPOSED THE DRAFT SYSTEM
>"Clinton said that he never was opposed to the draft."
>Arkansas Democrat, 6/4/82
>
>*OPPOSED THE DRAFT
>Clinton: "From my work [at Georgetown] I came to believe that the draft system
>itself is illegitimate...."
>Letter to Col.Holmes 12/5/69
>
>*NOT DEFERRED
>"Clinton said the agreement [with the ROTC] was never sent to Washington and he
>was not deferred."
>Arkansas Gazette 10/28/78
>
>*DEFERRED
>Clinton: "I gave up the deferment."
>Nightline 2/12/92
>
>*NEVER DRAFTED
>Clinton: "As it happened, I told the [draft board] I expected to be called
>while was over there [in England] the first year, but they never did."
>Washington Post 4/6/92
>
>*DRAFTED
>Clinton: "In 1969 while studying at Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship, I received
>a draft notice which arrived late."
>Speech to American Legion 8/25/92
>
>*WILL RELEASE PERSONAL FILES
>Clinton : "I have found some things that I want to share with you... But I have
>asked for some more records because I don't want to get in a position of where
>somebody, says, 'you didn't give us everything you had."
>AP 4/17/92
>
>*WILL NOT RELEASE PERSONAL FILES
>"On Saturday, [Betsey Wright] of Clinton-Gore released correspondence between
>the campaign and public agencies in an attempt to show Clinton came up
>empty-handed in his effort to confirm his account of the events in 1969.  She
>did not release any documents found in his search of personal records, and
>refused Tuesday to comment about what Clinton had found, if anything."
>AP 9/2/92
>
>*GAVE UP DEFERMENT
>Clinton: "I gave back an ROTC student deferment and placed myself in the
>draft."
>Statement 2/12/92
>
>Clinton: "I gave up a deferment and put myself back in the draft."
>Nightline 2/12/92
>
>Clinton: "I asked to be put back into the draft because I did not think I
>should have a four-year deferment."
>ABC "This Week With David Brinkley," 2/25/92
>
>Clinton: "I decided I should put myself back in the draft."
>"The Brokaw Report: 58 days," 9/6/92
>
>*DEFERMENT WITHDRAWN
>Clinton: "I had lost my draft deferment several weeks before [December
>3,1969]."
>Nightline, 2/12/92
>
>Clinton: "[M]y deferment was withdrawn in October; I was put back in the draft
>pool."
>Nightline 2/12/92
>
>*DENOUNCES CLASS WARFARE
>"No more division by race, no more division by income, no more class warfare."
>NBC Nightly News 3/18/92
>
>*ENGAGES IN CLASS WARFARE
>"In making the rich pay their fair share.  Bill Clinton-he'll put people
>first."
>Clinton ad as aired on NBC Nightly News 3/18/92
>
>*ARGUES PRODUCTIVITY DECREASING
>"Every one of us would agree that America's productivity has been going
>downhill for well over a decade..."
>ABC News report as Democratic Presidential Candidate Debate, Dallas, 3/5/92
>
>*ARGUES PRODUCTIVITY INCREASING
>"If you look at our trade deficit, its been coming down steadily because
>manufacturing productivity has increased."
>Speech at Georgetown University 12/12/91


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