From: mulac@daystrom.lerc.nasa.gov (Richard Mulac)
Subject: Re: Missed opportunities
Organization: NASA Lewis Research Center [Cleveland, Ohio]
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 16:57:29 GMT

In article <1992Oct13.164420.28118@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov> mulac@daystrom.lerc.nasa.gov (Richard Mulac) writes:
>Just a few thoughts on some of the opportunities missed by the candidates
>during Sunday nights debates:
>
>Clinton
>
>  Had his chance to give a definitive "People making under $200,000 WILL
>NOT pay more in taxes under a Clinton administration".  His campaign is
>getting closer though, as Ron Brown, not a direct spokesman for Clinton, 
>said in effect this statement after the debate.
>
>  Could have sewn up the election by stating that he had made some mistakes
>in the past, learned from them, and will be a better President for it.  To
>date Clinton has never admitted to doing anything wrong (and I don't mean
>illegal or even immoral, just using bad judgement).  It seems his advisors
>have him on auto-pilot, refusing to change anything in the way he is
>running his campaign unless he takes a big plummet in the polls.
>
>Bush
>
>  Should have compared Clinton to Clarence Thomas with something like "When
>Clarence Thomas was seeking the highest position in one of our three 
>branches of government (a position which in a lot of ways is more powerful 
>than the President's), the Democrats screamed for an investigation of
>activities which were not illegal and occurred over ten years ago when
>Thomas was a young man.  We held an inquisition which sorted through the
>evidence and even had Thomas having to explain that period in his life.
>Why is it that when their candidate is involved in a similiar scenario, all
>the public is given is silence?"
>
>  Missed a great opportunity when Clinton talked about having a brother in
>drug rehab to say "Well, Mr. Clinton - Maybe your brother would not have
>had to go through the hell of drug addiction if people like you wouldn't
>have advocated the casual use of illegal drugs in our society!"
>
>  Get aggressive!  Forget this Presidential ****.  I get the feeling that
>Bush still thinks he can win by being a nice guy.  This is probably the
>biggest mistake his campaign has made, causing him to change his strategy
>after it's too late.
>
>  Could have shown that he's a take charge President.  Obviously blew it by
>bringing up this "I'll make Jim Baker economic Czar".  This was probably
>his worst point during the debate, giving the public the impression 
>that the economy is too big of a problem for him to handle.  Why
>does he think the voters have this great love of Jim Baker?

Forgot one:

  About Clinton's trips abroad he should have said "I wonder what the
Democrats would have said if Clinton had decided to take advantage of
advice given to him as a student to "see the world" and had gone to South
Africa for vacation?  I'll bet they'd want some answers if that had
occurred."

>Perot
>
>  Didn't miss many opportunities.  The only advice I'd give in the future
>is to concentrate more on Clinton.  He's the one he's going to have to beat
>if he's really serious about winning.

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Richard Mulac                                     mulac@daystrom.lerc.nasa.gov
NASA Lewis Research Center, 21000 Brookpark Road, MS 5-9, Cleveland, OH  44135
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