From: darsie@eecs.ucdavis.edu (Richard Darsie)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.dan-quayle,alt.politics.clinton
Subject: Bush Remembered - Editorial
Date: 15 Oct 92 20:45:37 GMT
Followup-To: alt.fan.dan-quayle
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of California, Davis

This editorial from today's Sacramento News & Review, a weekly community
newspaper, is reprinted without permission.

BUSH REMEMBERED

We approach the Nov. 3 election with unease.  Over the past 12 years, those 
at the trough have drunk well from the ship of state. Wall Street had a great 
run. Scoundrels and criminals rooted and slurped shamelessly on the savings 
and loans. Deregulated industries polluted the environment, moved abroad, or 
"down-sized".  At a time when we should be enjoying peace, millions of 
Americans fear for their economic survival. The undereducated burger-flipper 
has replaced the prosperous factory worker as the international symbol of 
American commerce.

What about George Bush? It's not all his fault, for heaven's sake. Still, 
he is the one constant presence, the Ivy League insider at or near the helm 
for the last decade or two.  His protestations to the contrary aside, it's 
time for Mr. Bush to take a permanent vacation. 

Why? We made a list. These are our Bush memories, things that make us chant 
"No More Years!":

* Dan Quayle
* Clarence Thomas
* Lies about the economy
* Ditching the Global Warming Treaty
* Arguing "quotas" instead of civil rights
* His anti-abortion stance
* Turning the Republican Convention into a reactionary hate-fest
* Governing by veto
* The Gulf War as the greatest triumph ever, but nothing changed
* Irritating repetitive hand-slicing-in-the-air gesture
* Racist 1988 Willie Horton ad
* Knee-jerk anti-tax rhetoric actually favors the rich
* Red baits and questions Clinton's patriotism, tries to open old
  Vietnam wounds
* The "vision thing"
* Vetoes the Family Leave Bill
* Supports Saddam Hussein before the Gulf War, but doesn't own up to it
  later
* Takes sole credit for ending the Cold War, ignoring other leaders and 
  the will of the people
* Panama
* "Out of the loop" on Iran-Contra
* Grows up rich and privileged, then needles Clinton for attending
  Oxford
* Divorced from reality to the extent he didn't know about grocery store
  price scanners
* Uses Houston hotel room as his residence, avoids state income taxes
* Rewards China with favored trade status after Tienanmen massacre
* Says he'll do anything to get re-elected; means it
* Takes counsel from a madman like Bob Dornan
* Panders
* Hands out weapons contracts and emergency relief as campaign favors
* Praises his big victory: we outspent the Soviet Union on military and
  forced them to declare bankruptcy first
* This litany: "tax and spend, spend and tax"
* Promises that the next Congress will finally enact the REAL Bush
  program
* Fractured, imprecise, maddening syntax
* Emphasizes cynical, expensive, military-style drug war, ignores social
  reality
* Advisors set up drug buy across from the White House for TV speech
* Pretends the North American Free Trade Agreement will create jobs
* Doesn't come clean on relationship with Noriega
* Works with Quayle to short-circuit environmental regulations
* Says Gulf War wasn't about oil
* Pays lip service to AIDS research
* Wants to allow more mining in National Parks
* Spends way too much time on vacation
* Won't explain his role in the S&L mess
* "This country is not coming apart at the seams, for heaven's sake.
  We're the United States of America."
* Education president?

Whoever finally becomes president - and we dearly hope it's not George
Bush again - we desire a new administration that can erase these
memories and begin digging us out of this mess. We deserve better.
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