From: "James F. Tims" <p00168@psilink.com>
Subject: Re: Bush slips up on Today show
Organization: Semper Excelsior
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 16:32:16 GMT
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>DATE:   Wed, 14 Oct 1992 16:21:21 GMT
>FROM:   Jeff Davis <fehr@ms.uky.edu>
>
>JFL4@psuvm.psu.edu writes:
>>Charles L Isbell) says:
>>>
>>>BUSH ADMITS KNOWLEDGE OF SWAP:
>>>   President Bush Tuesday admitted knowing that arms were being
>>>swapped for hostages in the Iran-contra affair, contradicting what
>>>observers say is a long history of denials.
>>>
>>
>>George Bush needs to come clean on Iran-Contra.  The voters can't
>>trust a man to be President that can't tell the truth, and George
>>Bush hasn't told the truth.  The country needs to have a President that
>>it can trust - you can't trust George Bush.
>>
>Iran-Contra is, unfortunately, beans. It is PR. There's never been
>an indication that Bush broke a law. It is an indication, though,

As I understand it, if GB was a participant, especially as a proponent
of the misappropriation of government property, he is guilty of the
same sort of offenses that led to the conviction of Secord, North,
et al.  There seems ample and reliable testimony that he conspired
with individuals now convicted of crimes.


>that the "untrustworthy" mantra regarding Clinton is more than
>a little hypocritical. The goods, the real thing, the big kabloona,
>is Iraqgate and Obstruction of Justice. It is to swoon. The judge
>in Atlanta who threw out the plea bargain ought to get his head on
>Mt Rushmore. (Of course, there are probably more than a few White
>House types who wouldn't mind putting it there a little pre-
>maturely.)
>
>              [ridiculous tangent ahead]
>
>For those of you too young to remember Watergate let me tell you
>straight up: yes, it was terrible yak-yak-yak. But it was
>also (in our shallow era) wonderfully dramatic and exciting. I
>don't think I watched a sporting event for 2 years. Just as 
>spectacle, nothing beats bringing charges against a sitting
>president. Electing Clinton may be great stuff, but let's
>talk about another thing: the Carter Era was deadly dull
>for humour.
>-- 
>Jeff Davis <davis@keats.ca.uky.edu>
>Nobody knows, from sea to shining sea, why we are having all this trouble
>with our republic.

And let us not forget this very newsgroup.  We have self-preservation
to consider!  I do remember all those government employees, pumping
beers all afternoon at the local saloon, listening to Barbara Jordan's
majesterial droning, waiting on pins and needles for the next newsbreak
full of fresh dirt, calling in sick, filling out phoney timecards.  
And Ollie North, and Poindexter, and Anita Hill, and even Bork.  
Nothing nearly as interesting ever happens during Democratic terms.
I mean, everybody really gets sick of things like hostage crises, 
Viet Nams...they get all the bad acts.

I've changed my mind.  I'm going Bush on the bet they can impeach him!
I don't want to just roll him up in an election and let him slide
into oblivion.  I want months of good TV.  Bush offers the best hope
of really interesting, government sponsored entertainment -- now that's
a domestic program worth pursuing.  Impeachment proceedings could go
on until he dies in office and Quayle takes over!  Actuarial tables
would indicate the likelihood of Bush making it through another four
years is at least less than last time.  The odds are ever more
in our favor to make this THE ORIGINAL newsgroup of Pres Qayle!
The bumbling, funny, stupid newsgroup makes good!  Vote in enough
Democrats to Congress and we can blow his vetoes all to hell and get
everything we want anyway, including a piece of his hide.




-- 
jim tims 
"And if you're a miner, when you're too tired and old and sick and stupid
to do your job properly, you have to go, whereas just the opposite applies
with the judges."  Beyond the Fringe

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