From: sichermn@beach.csulb.edu (Jeff Sicherman)
Newsgroups: alt.politics.elections,alt.politics.bush,alt.politics.clinton
Subject: Re: Bush is a chinese spy?
Date: 10 Oct 92 06:34:38 GMT
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Organization: Cal State Long Beach

In article <1b5gc1INNjgo@fido.asd.sgi.com> aschaffe@holodeck.csd.sgi.com (Allan Schaffer) writes:
>> westfgj@eng.auburn.edu (George J. Westfall) writes:
>>
>> the point of the clinton-moscow debate is why his 
>> memory of the events is so slective.
>
>Not really.  If you'd like a history of the events I can repost it.  
>The goal is, to use a well-known refrain, to "accuse him of
>fornicating with swine, and make the bastard deny it." 
>
>        LOS ANGELES (UPI) -- Rep. Robert Dornan, R-Calif., read 
>	to President Bush a transcript of a taped conversation 
>	allegedly between Democrat Bill Clinton and Gennifer Flowers 
>	``to annoy the hell'' out of the president before urging him 
>	to personally attack Clinton's Vietnam-era visit to Moscow, 
>	The Los Angeles Times reported Friday.
>
>        The newspaper said Dornan was part of a delegation of 
>	congressmen who urged Bush to attack Clinton's patriotism 
>	during a Tuesday breakfast meeting at the White House, 
>	which also included White House chief of staff James Baker.
>
>        The Times quoted Rep. Randy Cunningham, another GOP member 
>	of the delegation, as saying he told Bush, ``This is an 
>	issue that will kill Clinton when people realize what a 
>	traitor he is to this country. In some countries if 
>	something like this came out, he would be tried as a
>	traitor. Tokyo Rose had nothing over Clinton.''
>
>But that didn't work: 
>
>	HOUSTON (UPI) -- [...] Bush's initial comments generated 
>	charges of McCarthyism and red-baiting, and Clinton had 
>	characterized the comments as a ``sad'' and a ``desperate'' 
>	attempt by Bush to smear him.
>
>So now:
>
>        ``The issue isn't patriotism,'' Bush said. ``You can 
>	demonstrate all you want to...that is part of America.''
>
>And:
>
>        Bush denied published reports he was motivated in his 
>	latest blast against Clinton by a group of conservative 
>	Republican congressmen during a breakfast meeting with 
>	him at the White House last Tuesday. [...]
>
>        ``It didn't come out of that at all,'' Bush said. ``I'm not 
>	suggesting anything unpatriotic about him going to Moscow.''
>
>But wait, NOW he's really changed the story:
>
>        CINCINNATI (UPI) -- President Bush tried to revive the 
>	emotional wedge of the Vietnam War Friday, denouncing 
>	Democrat Bill Clinton and others for speaking out against 
>	the war at home or abroad.  ``It is wrong to demonstrate 
>	against your country when your country's at war,'' he said 
>	in remarks to police officers, apparently expanding his 
>	previous attacks in which he said Americans should not be 
>	involved in protests against their country overseas.
>
>Here is the full quote:
>
>	``I'm standing with American principle. It is wrong to 
>	demonstrate against your country when your country's at war. 
>	And I'm not going to back away from it one single bit.''
>

  This is unfair. George Bush is a man of firm, upright principles.

  These are just his principles de'jour.

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Jeff Sicherman
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