From: dano@srl01.usl.edu (Dan Stephenson)
Subject: Re: Perot ?
Organization: Univ. of Southwestern Louisiana
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 21:31:28 GMT

jprad@faatcrl.UUCP (Jack Radigan) writes:

>mykes@amiga0.SF-Bay.ORG (Mike Schwartz) writes:

>  In case you haven't noticed, foreign policy is not what this country
>needs.  He's all but ignored the country, the environment and anything
>else that matters to his constituency.

Of course the US needs foreign policies.  Are you kidding?

>  The reduction of nuclear forces is a no-brainer.  With the collapse of
>the Soviet Union you're going to be in a position to tell them what to do and
>how to do it if they want to get aid from you.

This is very true.  Not that it diminishes the greatness of the
reduction in nuclear weapons, though.

>  And, although I'm not a fan of adultry, I do beleive in one's right to
>privacy and the right to handle their life as they see fit.  Declaring
>Clinton unfit based on his private life is a common tactic by the Republican
>party, it's repulsive and insulting.

Some people feel that a person's private life and personal, private
decision are made by the same mind that makes public policies.

>  Also, in what aspects is Clinton's record miserable?  Based on education
>and budget, he's light years ahead of Bush.  Granted, Arkansas is not a
>microcosm of the country, and yes, his record with the environment isn't
>so good.  But, neither is Bush's, or is the allowance of selling the right
>to pollute a Good Thing?

Well, Clinton does support a single-entity socialized education system.
George Bush, on the other hand, has for long advocated the 'voucher
system' in education.  This would allow the *natural* existence of 
competition in Education.  ObAdvocacy:  the lack of competition
leads to decline and low productivity/value, such as in the case
of a school system of C='s Amiga computers.

>>Clinton is also a big-time panderer - he just promises people what
>>they want to hear with no ability to execute those promises.  What
>>can you say about a guy who wants to claim the Perot vote and the
>>day after Perot "resigned" he was talking about Perot being a
>>cabinet member!

>  Bush did much the same thing the day after Perot quit as well which was
>even more repulsive considering the massive campaign they launched against
>Perot.

What campaign was that?  Would you care to back up the claim
of a MASSIVE CAMPAIGN against Ross Perot?

Of course it is important for the candidates to seek Perot's
supporters.

>  Also, if you look past the rhetoric for a second, the Democrats seem to
>be reorganizing their platform vastly.  I happen to like the idea of
>empowerment over entitlement.  


Yes, this surprised me, actually.  I couldn't believe it when I heard
Bill Clinton advocacting 'work for welfare'.  Isn't this Workfare,
something former president Ronald Reagan advocacted?


I welcome conservatism in Clinton's ideas.  I mean, he call himself a
Democrat all day long, and I would like him for any of his conservative
ideas _alone_.  Unfortunately, I don't think Clinton would live
up to the 'moderate' status he has donned for the campaign if he 
won the Presidency.
>>that Clinton is also running against congress.  Where was George
>>Mitchell, Dick Gephardt, Pat Moynahan, Teddy Kennedy, Tom Foley,

>  Not in the least.  Perot was a greater threat to Bush in the south which
>is predominately conservitive then he was to Clinton.  With Perot in the
>race, Clinton's chances were actually better.  If this wasn't the case, the
>Republican's would not have focused so much resource att neutralizing his
>campaign.

I do watch CNN a lot, and the only criticisms I have seen by Republican
types against Perot were reactions, not offenses.

Example Perot claiming over and over on Larry King Live that the
Republicans had a 'Dirty Tricks Committee' working agaist him,
but said absolutely NOTHING to back it up.  That is one of the things
that make him seem like a fascist to me.  Just relying on personal
charisma to promote himself by demogoguery and not doing a damn thing
to justify his claims.

>  -jack-
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Dan Stephenson|das9674@usl.edu masres10@ucs.usl.edu dano@srl01.cacs.usl.edu
Come all of you you/Who are not satisfied/As rulers in a lone wall/
papered room/Full of mute bird and flowers that /Falsely bloom/And
closets choked with dreams that long ago died,... --Judy Collins
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