From: randall@informix.com (Randall Rhea)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.misc,alt.president.clinton
Subject: Re: Clinton's flip-flop on Haitians!
Date: 22 Jan 93 01:22:00 GMT
Organization: Informix Software, Inc.

casper@vxcrna.cern.ch (CASPER,DAVI./PPE) writes:

>Yep, Slickness may not have any campaign promises left to break by the time he
>is sworn in.  

>1) Homosexuals in the military:

>Promised: Would end ban immediately.
>What He Meant To Say:  Will form yet another commission to study the problem.
[etc...]


1) WHAT BUSH SAID: Read my lips, no new taxes.
   WHAT BUSH MEANT: I will raise taxes and create new taxes, then blame
            it on Congress.

2) SAID: I will be the "Environmental President." Look at Mike Dukakis and
         Boston Harbor. 
   MEANT:  I will pay some lip service to environmental issues, get
       a watered-down bill passed early in my administration, then
       do nothing.  I will allow various toxic polluters (including
       the U.S. military) to get away with murder.  I will then ridicule
       the Democratic VP candidate for his environmental views, hoping
       to steer the campaign away from the issue, so people will forget
       my promise.

3) SAID: I will be the "Education President."   
  MEANT: I will pay lip service to such sayings as "Premier Schools"
         and "America 2000" while promoting a scheme to privatize
         public schools.  I will be in the back-pocket of corporations
         who see a big profit potential in America's children.  I will
         watch as American public schools fall farther and farther
         behind the rest of the world.

4) SAID: The deficit is terrible and must be reduced.
  MEANT: I will do nothing while the deficit gets much worse, then
         blame it on Congress.  What I won't say is that neither I
         nor Reagan ever came close to proposing a balanced budget,
         and that the real "big spenders" were not Congress but us.

5) SAID: Keep Republicans in office.  We are the party of economic
           prosperity.
  MEANT: I will do nothing when a serious recession breaks out a year
         and a half after taking office.  I will hold to a 19th-century
         view that the economy will just take care of itself.  I will
         be the first President since Hoover to use no fiscal policy
         to combat a recession, and as a result, my Presidency will
         go the same way as Hoover. (no 2nd term)
         
6) SAID: The American Family is our highest priority.
  MEANT: I will veto the Family Leave bill because of opposition from
         big business.  I will veto extensions to unemployment
         benefits.  I will do nothing as families fall farther and
         farther behind economically.

7) SAID: I won't do very much in office on domestic matters.  You should
         vote for me primarily because Mike Dukakis is a BAAAAD man.
  MEANT: There is one promise he kept.  He tried to run the same non-issues,
         negative campaign in 1992, but it didn't work this time.

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Randall Rhea                                        Informix Software, Inc. 
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