From: larry@peak.psl.nmsu.edu (Evil Engineer doin' it the Cowboy Way)
Subject: Re: Slick Willie strikes again
Organization: New Mexico State University, MetaPhysical Science Laboratory
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 02:28:01 GMT

In article <1992Sep12.142314.26388@news.unomaha.edu> kkrueger@cwis.unomaha.edu (Kurt Krueger) writes:

   I normally avoid pejoratives, and it once was that I always spoke of "Gov.
   Clinton" not just "Clinton," but after seeing the Artful Dodger take his
   own quotes and those of others and carefully replace key words to change
   the meanings, I have come to the conclusion "Slick Willie" is accurate.
   Yesterday I heard him say, almost verbatim, "Someone even said we need a
   religious war.  We don't need a religious war..."  Obviously he was refer-
   ring to Pat Buchanan because Mr. Buchanan was maligned for these lines in
   his convention speech:

	My friends, this election is about much more than who gets what. It is
     about who we are. It is about what we believe, it is about what we stand
     for as Americans. There is a religious war going on in our country for the
     soul of America. It is a cultural war, as critical to the kind of nation
     we will one day be -- as was the Cold War itself.

   Clearly Mr. Buchanan never said "we need a religious war."  He said "there
   is a religious war."  No matter what you think about the fact that there
   is or is not such a war, you must admit it's pretty slick of Clinton to
   twist Mr. Buchanan's words as he did.

   Kurt R. Krueger
   kkrueger@unomaha.edu

Slick Willie indeed, Kurt! Your "almost verbatim" quote and assertion that
it was "obviously" referring to Mr. Buchanan do not constitute much of a
proof of anything. 

Now, if you had him cold, saying something about Patriot missiles going
through doors and chimneys, for example, you'd have something! (No doubt
the press would tear him apart!)

But, he could have been referring to something that Ben said on the 
700 Club (where, apparently, much of the official Republican platform 
originated). No one can prove anything, unfortunately.

You're right, though. We really do need to be exactly sure what Mr.
Buchanan said. Precisely.

And I'd like to know precisely what Hillary Clinton said about children
suing their parents (to avoid doing the dishes?), or equating marriage to
life on an Indian reservation, [in context, perhaps?] as your sainted
Mr. Buchanan alleged in the very same speech.

I think a better example of slickness was the way BC and JJ had a little
public spat and then apparently kissed and made up so completely. Now I
see BC publicly praising JJ for "registering the most voters of anyone"
[approximately, from my memory], or some similar nugatory gesture. 
I submit this to you as Slick genius.

L.
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