From: eyc@acpub.duke.edu (EMIL CHUCK)
Newsgroups: alt.politics.bush,alt.politics.clinton,alt.politics.elections,alt.rush-limbaugh,talk.politics.misc
Subject: Re: Them Democratic handlers sure are smart!
Keywords: class envy Clinton Bush poverty "in touch"
Date: 9 Oct 92 03:19:08 GMT
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Organization: Duke University; Durham, N.C.

skywalke@dino.qci.bioch.bcm.tmc.edu (Timothy B. Reynolds) writes:

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mulac@daystrom.lerc.nasa.gov (Richard Mulac)
jag@unislc.uucp (John Ganske)

=Bill Clinton now only makes 35,000 per year (source 10-8-92 USA today)
=He seems very in touch with the average person to me. He has been
=poor, no one will argue that. He worked and payed his own way through
=school. When he finished law school he went back home to Ark to practice
=instead of Wall St. 

Boy, this didn't explain Ross Perot's popularity back in the early
summer. 

=George and Babbs moved to texas and lived
=there until G Bush Sr. dropped by with a 300,000 gift so sonny boy 
=could start his own business. 
=
=Who is more in touch with the common person, you tell me....

I don't mean to flame you personally, but frankly I am sick and tired of
this class warfare. Bush isn't in touch with the American people because
he hasn't experienced poverty??? Does that mean that Clinton doesn't
understand foreign policy because he never served in the military???
I guess Bill wouldn't be qualified in understanding how the system of
American free enterprise works since he's never been financially
successful in maintaining a corporate business, right?
Does this mean I am not qualified to understand women's issues because I
am not a woman, or understand the problems of the inner city because I
never lived in a one-bedroom with 5 kids and a single parent??? Come
on.

Frankly, I commend Bill Clinton for his success in politics. I commend
George Bush for succeeding in his business and making a profit rather
than going bankrupt. I appreciate everyone who succeeds in whatever
endeavors they have, but I don't think that because someone hasn't
experienced "poverty" means he/she is unqualified to solve the problems
of poverty. I don't think that because since someone is not infected
with HIV that he/she won't understand the problems AIDS patients have. I
don't think that just because another student here at Duke has his/her
education funded completely by his/her parents without any financial aid
whatsoever means he/she is "out of touch" [I certainly do not qualify in
this description].

Compassion is not measured by the amount of grief one experiences.
No one has more compassion because he/she has more guilt or more
experiences of hardship. Compassion is pure community love.
Compassion is apolitical because we all have a heart and concern for our
fellow man. However the calling of class envy and hatred is no way to
determine that one man is more "fit" to be President just because he
was poorer or a minority or disadvantaged. You are describing your
support for a proverbial "underdog" (which Clinton is not according to
polls), not for a President.
-- 
Emil Thomas Chuck		eyc@acpub.duke.edu
Biomedical Engineer 1993	Never take me too seriously.
I don't have to have a 4.0 GPA to succeed in life because I'm 
good enough, I'm smart enough, and doggone it, people like me.
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