Newsgroups: talk.politics.misc,alt.politics.elections,alt.politics.clinton,alt.politics.bush
From: liuyh@vis.toronto.edu (Yuanhui Liu)
Subject: Re: Fonts of Wisdom
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
Date: 1 Sep 92 16:04:27 GMT

In article <1992Aug31.193504.28134@news.columbia.edu> egl1@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Elizabeth G. Levy) writes:
>FONTS OF WISDOM
>
>by Barry Tarshis
>
>copied w/o permission from the NY Times, Monday 8/31/92, p.A15
>
>Imagine that a network morning show has assembled six political
>heavyweights for a call-in show.  A teacher phones to report that during
>a recent class tour of the White House, a student wanted a drink of
>water, only to discover that the fountain was out of order.  The teacher
>asks the panel what message a broken fountain at the White House sends
>to the young people of America.  Let's listen to the answers.
>
>Ross Perot: The question here is simple: how do we fix it.  I say, let's
>bring together the finest plumbing talent in America -- from outside the
>system.  Let them look at the fountain.  Turn it on.  Turn it off.
>Measure the flow in it.  That sort of thing.  And you can be sure, the
>next time you take a White House tour, you're going to drink from a
>world-class fountain.
>
>Jesse Jackson: Let us not talk about this broken water fountain.  Let us
>talk about the thousands of broken water fountains across America.  For
>they, too, are broken, like the broken dreams of America's forgotten
>children.  And whether you are black, white, brown or yellow, you cannot
>use them.  Why?  Because the Republican Party is more interested in
>_Perrier_ water and _Pellegrino_ water than it is in _public_ water.
>
>Al Gore: I love my country.  And I love water.  And I love the children
>who drink from the water fountains in the country I love, and that my
>father loves.  And I believe in my heart that the time has come, now
>more than ever, for all of us to be inspired by the young people of
>America whose dreams for the future depend on our ability as a nation to
>provide them with the water that is the essence of their survival.
>
>Dan Quayle: I am very, very sympathetic to the disappointment young
>people in America feel when they go to a water fountain in the single
>most important building in America and cannot drink from it.  Because I,
>too, would be very, very disappointed if I were to go to get a drink
>from a water fountain and discover that, because of the Democrats, the
>water does not come up.  Water is a terrible thing to waste, when there
>is thirst but no water, that is a terrible thing.
>
>Bill Clinton: I grew up in a home where public water fountains were very
>important to me and to my family.  And I have put forward a plan similar
>to the plan I introduced to Arkansas.  This plan is good for America. It
>takes the $4.25 million savings we ralize when we eliminate the 10
>percent reduction on the capital gains that exceed $30,000 in any given
>one-year period for Americans under the age of 31 who graduated before
>1984, and it allocates 18.5 percent of that sum to paying for 80 percent
>of the new fountain construction.
>
>George Bush: O.K.  Sure.  Fine.  There's something wrong with a water
>fountain in the White House?  Not denying it.  Have to be a fool to deny
>it.  But make no mistake about it.  There is a lot that is _right_ with
>it, too.  And that's one thing I want to focus on, you see, not what's
>bad about the water fountains in America by what's _good_ about them.
>And with the help of the American people and a Republican Congress I can
>work with, I can make the water flow again in the water fountains of
>America.
>
>[anyone want to do, say, Buchanan, Pat Robertson or Mr. Marrou? :-)]
>
Pat Buchanan:  a broken water fountain?  This tells us there is a
war of water fountain going on in this country!  Let's deny access
to public water fountains to the gays, the lesbians, the pro-choicers,
the non-Judeo-Christians, then we will plenty of water fountains
for the American Family.  We will help the Churches to build water
fountains, your kids will have plenty of water from the fountains,
but they have to say a prayer to thank the lord for the water.  
Let's dispatch the V Corp to take back the polluted water fountains
from the infidels in the inner city, M-16 at hand, backed by apache-64
and M-1B Abrams, we will take the fountains back one by one, block
by block, city by city.  
>
>
Pat Robertson:  This is the work of the witchcraft, the water
fountains are poisoned by the feminists to kill our kids.  Arrest
all the feminists, pro-choicers and burn the witches at the stake
so that the curses will be lifted, and we can drink from our
water fountains once again.  

>
>--
>Sweet Thames, run softly till I end my song
>Sweet Thames, run softly, for I speak not loud or long.
>			-- T.S. Eliot, "The Wasteland"


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