From: athos@apple.com (Rick Eames)
Subject: Re: GEORGE BUSH, STOP THE RED-BAITING
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 22:23:21 GMT
Organization: Apple Computer, Inc.
Followup-To: alt.politics.elections

In article <1992Oct8.202316.4532@u.washington.edu>,
sieferme@milton.u.washington.edu (Eric Sieferman) wrote:

> What really saddened me about GHWB's performance last night
> was the implications of his remarks.  He criticized Clinton
> for organizing anit-war rallies overseas, and attacking and
> protesting against his country while living in Europe.

I want you to remember something: he was asked a question about it; he
didn't bring it up.  To 'ATTACK' one must initiate.  Here's the exact
quote:

    KING: What do you make of the Clinton Moscow trip thing?
 Do you think that--
    BUSH: Moscow?
    KING: He says it was just a student trip.
    BUSH: Larry, I don't want to tell you what I really think
 'cause I don't have the facts. I don't have the facts. But
 to go to Moscow 1 year after Russia crushed Czechoslovakia,
 not remember who you saw--I think, I really think the answer
 is level with the American people. I've made a mistake. I've 
 said I've made mistakes. But don't try to--you can remember
 who you saw in the airport in Oslo but you can't remember
 who you saw in Moscow.
    KING: So in other words, you're saying--
    BUSH: I'm just saying level with the American people on
 the draft, on whether he went to Moscow, how many
 demonstrations he led against his own country from a foreign
 soil. Level. Tell us the truth and let the voters then
 decide who to trust in that.
    KING: How about the missing pages in the State Dept 
 records? He implied the other night that that may have been
 Republican hanky-panky. He didn't even know there were State
 Dept papers.
    BUSH: Well, I'm sure there are passport files but why in
 the world would anybody want to tamper with his files, you
 know, to support the man? I mean, I don't understand that.
 What would exonerate him--put it that way--in the files.
    KING: Do you really have deep down suspicions about the
 Moscow thing?
    BUSH: I'm concerned about it. No, I don't have it as a 
 federal case. I'm just concerned about it because it's a
 pattern here.
    KING: Judgment-wise.
    BUSH: Yeah. I'll tell you what concerns me, and I really
 feel viscerally about this. Demonstrating against your own
 country in a foreign land. I have demonstrators in front of
 the White House every single day. You go up there right now,
 there are probably some sitting out there.
    KING: And that's fine.
    BUSH: In the war, when I was trying to mobilize world 
 opinion and US opinion, we had a lot of people marching and
 demonstrating in front of the White House--ministers and
 guys like that opposed the war. And I understand that. But I
 cannot for the life of me understand mobilizing
 demonstrations and demonstrating against your own country,
 no matter how strongly you feel, when you're in a foreign
 land. I just don't believe it. I don't think you should do
 that. That's what gets me. Moscow--I don't know what he did
 in Moscow.
    KING: But what you're saying is do it at home, okay. Over 
 there, no.
    BUSH: Sure. But maybe I'm old-fashioned, Larry, but to go
 to a foreign country and demonstrate against your own
 country when your sons and daughters are dying halfway
 around the world--I'm sorry, I just don't like it. I think
 it is wrong. I think it is wrong to do that.
--
Rick Eames                               My Opinions Are My Own (not
Apple's)
athos@apple.com

HERSCHENSOHN for US Senate.  Just say "No" to Barbara Boxer.