From: eyc@acpub.duke.edu (EMIL CHUCK)
Newsgroups: alt.politics.bush,alt.politics.elections,alt.fan.dan-quayle
Subject: Call for transcripts Re: DATELINE: Bush fucks up!
Date: 12 Aug 92 17:04:49 GMT
Followup-To: alt.politics.bush
Organization: Duke University; Durham, N.C.

Corby.E.Page@dartmouth.edu (Corby E. Page) writes:
:Three friends and I started a betting pool two months ago on the
:outcome of the Presidential election (at that time, the likely options
:were Perot, Clinton, and Bush). Up until today, I was still looking
:forward to $20 and a dinner (the combined reward of the pool), but
:after tonight I'm willing to concede defeat. Here are highlights from
:what promised to be an exceedingly boring interview with the Dateline
:news show.
	Oh come on. Don't give up now! There's less than 100 days before
you have to pay up. :)

Someone please print the transcript for the interview; I will be most
appreciative.

#Q: [Same question that was asked Quayle -- if you're granddaughter had
#an abortion, what would you do?]
#
#Bush: [Same Response -- I'd disapprove of the decision, but I'd still
#love her, etc, etc]
	More specifically, via the Washington Post:
"Would I support my child? I'd put my arm around her and say, if she
were trying to make that decision, encourage her not to do that, but of
course, I'd stand by my child. I'd love her and help her, lift her up,
wipe the tears away, and we'd get back into the game."

#Q: It sounds like you're saying that in the end it's her choice.
"So in the end, the decision would be hers?"

Bush: Well, who else's [choice] would it be?

He continued saying he was "offended" by the number of abortions
performed yearly and that "lack of respect for life," but that if his
granddaughter were to go ahead anyway, "I'd hold out my hand to her, put
my arm around her."
	"If my granddaughter said I've done something terrible, I've
robbed, I've stolen something, I'd stand by her. I think that's what the
Vice President was saying, didn't mean he condoned [I think he meant
"approved of"] the act. But he said he'd stand by his child. Of course,
I'd do that. My granddaughter, my son, my daughter, whoever it is."

Re: what would Bush do if one of his grandchildren announced that he/she
was gay. Bush's response is that although he does not believe
homosexuality is a "normal lifestyle," he would still "love that
person."
	"I would put my arm around him and I would hope he wouldn't go
out and try to convince people that this was the normal lifestyle, that
this is the way it ought to be. ... But I would say I hope you wouldn't
become an advocate for a lifestyle that in my view in not normal and
propose marriages -- same-sex marriages -- [as] a normal way of life."

#Bush also refused to deny that he ever cheated on Barbie. Incidentally,
#this puts him in the same position as Clinton. He has been willing to
#deny having an affair with a specific individual, but has been
#unwilling to make the blanket statement that he has always been
#faithful to his wife.
	Not exactly accurate. He refused to answer the question because
these allegations have never been proven and were brought up by some
DEAD guy whose book is about to be published. The excerpts of this book
were printed in the New York Post. If anyone has any recent response by
Jennifer Fitzgerald, please let us all know before the media get to her.
:) Ms. Fitzgerald, however, unlike Gennifer Flowers, did not bring these
charges up herself to the press. I'll admit that all this is very sleazy
and will repulse even more people from participating in the electoral
process. (By the way, some of the Clinton staff hired private
investigators concerning some of the lesser known stories about Bill and
other women with whom he allegedly had an affair while married.)


-- 
Emil Thomas Chuck		DUKE BLUE DEVILS: 1992 ACC CHAMPIONS!
Biomedical Engineer 1993	1992 EAST REGIONAL CHAMPIONS!!
Duke University, Durham, NC	AND 1992 NCAA NATIONAL CHAMPIONS!!!
August 31, 1992 - May 16, 1993	Duke football? What's that?
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