From: ck347@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Richard A. Mulac)
Newsgroups: alt.politics.clinton,alt.politics.elections,talk.politics.misc
Subject: Re: WELLLLL! IT'S DAY ONE. WHERE'S THE PLAN???
Date: 27 Jan 1993 18:21:48 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: ck347@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Richard A. Mulac)
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In a previous article, lafave@ial4.jsc.nasa.gov (Dr. Norman J. LaFave) says:

>Let me let you in on a little secret.... all politicians make lots
>of outrageous promises during a campaign. If you voted based
>on the promises of your candidate you are being naive. We, the
>electorate, are to blame for this phenomenon. Politicians have
>found, for instance, that making promises of tax cuts are
>mandatory to their chances of being elected. Therefore, they
>make such promises knowing full well that the dynamics of the
>economy may make such promises impossible to keep. The same
>could be said for the promise to present the plan to the hill the
>day after inauguration.
>
>Fact: Clinton made impossible promises, as did Bush, as did Perot....
>
>At this point some of you may ask, "So, how can you decide who to
>vote for if they are all telling us what we want to hear?". The answer
>is to examine the one piece of information which displays the real
>competancy and heart of the candidate---their public record. Voting
>records, bill signings, program implementations, and results,
                                                      ^^^^^^^
>experience, are all public record.  These cannot be fudged. Clinton's
>record as governor is excellent, Bush's record as president is not.
                       ?????????

Even if I follow your guide of voting for a candidate based soley on
his record and not on campaign rhetoric (following up on campaign
promises is a good indication of character, so I assume you don't
care about the character of the person you vote for.  Also, Bush
was ROUNDLY criticized for not believing in anything.  Based on the
enormous amount of Clinton flip-flops, who knows what he believes
in), Clinton had a DISASTEROUS record in Arkansas.  Bush pointed
it out, Perot pointed it out, but the media did a cakewalk on it.
I think you'd be hard pressed to find someone who voted for Clinton
because of his record in Arkansas.  Clinton is the luckiest man
alive, having fallen into the office of President by pure chance.
Clinton happened to be in a pack of token Democrats who were being
thrown at Bush in a race they expected to lose.  Elder Democrats
are kicking themselves now because they didn't take a chance and
enter the race.  George Bush ran the WORST campaign in american 
history and deserved to lose.  But the point is that Clinton
didn't win the election, Bush lost it.

Like I stated in another post, I don't think Clinton has a shred
of character, but I consoled myself after the election in the
thought that most of Clinton's campaign promises would be good
for the country and maybe he would do a fine job.  Now after
his blatant abandonment of those promises, he appears to be just
another old guard Democrat who is placing top priority on implementing
left-wing, liberal social policy and further addicting the public
to the nipple of big government through increased spending.
I would really like to hear from Clinton supporters on which Clinton
policies were responsible for attracting their votes.  I would
expect most of them to deal with THE ECONOMY (STUPID!), since Clinton
himself said he would exert 'laser-like' focus on that issue.
Now, how many of those policies has he abandonded or shows signs
of abandoning?  You know, I never thought the day would come when I
would cheer for the Congress (both Democrats and Republicans), but in
recent days I have been.

-- 
Richard Mulac                                       ck347@cleveland.freenet.edu
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