From: train@gvls2.gvl.unisys.com (Herbert Rutledge)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.dan-quayle
Subject: Re: Marilyn Quayle claims Clinton thinks unlike a southerner
Keywords: politics, usa federal, government
Date: 9 Oct 92 13:08:14 GMT
Organization: Paramax Systems Corporation, Paoli PA

In article <1992Oct8.232627.23788@u.washington.edu>, 
sieferme@carson.u.washington.edu (Eric Sieferman) writes:
|> News from Marilyn, via clarinet:
|> --------------------------------------------------------------
|> In article <marilynU2O6910pe@clarinet.com>
|> clarinews@clarinet.com (UPI) writes:
|> >	
      [Setup deleted]

|> >	Mrs. Quayle told a Republican group in Monroe, La., ``Clinton's Ivy
|> >League education is influencing his policies much more than his southern
|> >birth.''
   
    [More drivel from the lips of Marilyn Quayle, quite possibly flecked
     with foam, and certainly capable of convincing any blind person who
     might have been on hand that there was also a Shetland pony in the
     room deleted]

|> Any southerners out there care to explain how Arkansas native
|> Bill Clinton does not think like a southerner, whereas
|> GHWB (private school, Yale educated, long time Washington DC
|> insider) does? 
|> -- 
|> | Eric Sieferman            |    sieferme@u.washington.edu          |
|> | U. of W., M.C.I.S.        |    (206) 685-3104                     |
|> 

  Happy to oblige, Eric.  Clinton is, without any argument, a southerner.
  Not even a stint in Jolly Old as a Rhodes scolar could erase that.  I
  mean, his mother was married five times (twice to the same man).  He wants
  to be Elvis when he grows up.  What further proof do you need?

  The REAL southern attitude is voiced, perversely enough, by Marilyn.
  And by that I mean the unspoken envy and resentment felt by the unlettered
  towards the educated, especially if that education was obtained Up North.
  Many southerners feel resentment that Duke and Vanderbilt are not 
  considered in the popular mind to be the equals of Harvard and Yale.  This
  helps explain such phenomenon as the Mississippi sherriff who peed on the
  shoes of W. Averill Harriman (while they were still occupied by Harriman).
  Envy is at the heart of her remark:  SHE went to law school at De Pauw!
  NOT Harvard, or Stanford, or the University of Virginia. 

  A similar sense of inferiority to Yankees, compensated by bravado, can
  be found in Perot's ghost written autobiography, when the subject of his
  wife, Margot, is first broached.  "She could have married a Rockefeller
  or a Kennedy," the book enthuses.  This serves the purpose of making
  Margot sound positively glamorous while simultaneously placing Perot,
  from hard-scrabble West Texas, on the same plane as what passes for an
  aristocracy in this country.  If this was film instead of print, such a 
  device would be seen as "a cheap cinematic trick."  Much the same can be
  said of Marilyn's remark.


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