From: mkahlke@snuffy.wa.atk.com (Mike Kahlke)
Subject: Re: Integrity
Organization: Alliant TechSystems Inc.
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 17:20:14 GMT

In article <carlson.721539119@cwis> carlson@cwis.unomaha.edu (Brian D. Carlson) writes:
>	Charles Dickens spelled potato with an 'e' on the end.

Charles Dickens didn't live in this century, but then neither did Dan Quayle:

  * "The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history.  I mean
    this century's history.  But we all lived in this century.  I didn't
    live in this century."
	-- Quayle discussing the Holocaust with reporters.  Spy, November
	   1988, p. 128

>	I guess people aren't ready for a man with integrity in public
>office. Dan Quayle will go down in history as a man who didn't sell out his
>convictions for special interest. It seems that people aren't ready for that,
>hence the election of Bill Clinton.

This is a matter of opinion: conservatives claim that Quayle didn't "sell out
to special interests," while liberals claim that he did.  Who's right?  Well,
I guess it depends on whose party line you currently espouse.  As for Clinton
selling out, I guess only time will tell.

>	When you think of all Dan has endured for the last four years, I
>don't know of many men (or women) who could have taken the useless abuse
>that Quayle has taken. When you think of Gore and Clinton being about the
>same age as Quayle, and I haven't heard pokes at them for not being over 
>fifty and in the Oval office.

You're right, I don't know of many people who've taken as much abuse either.
However, Dan isn't being needled because of his age, but mainly because of
his verbal slip-ups.  See the Quayle Quotes for further clarification.

>	When Clinton spelled Capital in an official government memo, where
>were the English teacher journalists to pounce on him for it?

As for spelling mistakes, everyone makes them, there is no doubt about that.
However, what Quayle did was "correct" a little boy who had spelled it right
during a spelling bee:

  * "Add one little bit on the end . . . Think of potato,' how's it spelled?
    You're right phonetically, but what else?  There ya go . . . all right!"
	-- Dan Quayle correcting a student's correct spelling of the word
	   "potato" during a spelling bee at an elementary school in Trenton

I would expect the "English teacher journalists" to pounce on anyone for this.

>	Gore thinks the internal combustion engine is public enemy number
>one (yet he rode the campain bus) and nobody barbs at him for his lunacy.

Practically speaking, given the fact that there just aren't that many non-
internal combustion engine cars out there, I don't think he had much choice.
Similarly, coal-fired power plants put out a lot of pollution which I am
adamantly against, but I'm not about to stop using their electricity.

>	Clinton made a lot of promises about what he'd do for us in the first
>hundred days of office, and now he's saying 'let's not get our hopes up,
>I can't perform miracles'

You're right.  Clinton, like any politician, made a lot of promises while
campaigning but is now toning down his message now that he's been elected.
Well, whether he succeeds or fails, there isn't a whole lot one can do
about that until Tuesday, November 5, 1996.

>	I guess I just wonder when the biased press is going to hold the
>same standards up against the people they set up in office.

The voters set people up in office, not the media.  Conservatives called the
press "biased" during this election year, but they didn't think the press
was biased while Clinton nearly floundered in the Democratic primaries, nor
when Dukakis took a beating from the press in 1988.  The media is "biased"
only when they publish information that makes ones' own candidate or
viewpoint look bad.

>brian d carlson

-- 
Mike Kahlke (mkahlke@atk.com), proud father of Seth,
born Wednesday, September 23, 1992 at 7:11 PM PDT
Male, weight 9 lb. 15.4 oz., length 21 1/2 in.

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