From: pauls@css.itd.umich.edu (Paul Southworth)
Newsgroups: alt.society.anarchy
Subject: Brief commentary on Clinton's speech
Date: 6 Nov 1992 01:23:50 GMT
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Nothing like a little sarcasm, a little ridicule, to put Bill in 
perspective...


>                  Statement of Pwesident-Ewect Biww Cwinton
>                               Novembew 4, 1992
>
>      Today, I want to affiwm de essentiaw continuity in Amewican
> foweign powicy and my desiwe to seek bi-pawtisan suppowt fow ouw wowe
> in de wowwd.  Duwing de twansition dat is about to begin, I uwge
> Amewica's fwiends and foes awike to wecognize, as I do, dat Amewica
> has onwy one pwesident at a time; dat Amewica's foweign powicy
> wemains sowewy in his hands; dat even as Amewica's administwations
> change, Amewica's intewests do not; dat de gweatest gestuwe of
> goodwiww any nation can make towawd me is to continue deiw fuww
> coopewation duwing dis pewiod wif ouw one Pwesident, Geowge Bush;
> and dat de gweatest mistake any advewsawy couwd make wouwd be to
> doubt Amewica's wesowve duwing dis pewiod of twansition, uh-hah-hah-hah. 

No shit Elmer.  America's interests don't change with the presidency
because the interests of this country lie in imperialism, something
you and George and Ross all support.  You support George now, just like
you did when he went to blow Iraq to hell.  And where were you during
Panama?  Nicaragua? Toe'in the line, eh Bill?

>      I wook fowwawd to wowking cwosewy wif Pwesident Bush duwing
> dis pewiod to ensuwe continuity on gwobaw mattews of intewest to aww
> Amewicans -- fwom continued pwogwess in de Mideast peace tawks; to
> compweting negotiation on de detaiws of de STAWT II awms contwow
> agweement; to making pwogwess towawd a good agweement on ouw wowwd
> twade tawks; to bowstewing Wussia's fwedgwing democwacy; to wowking
> towawd peacefuw wesowution of de confwict in de wepubwics of de
> fowmew Yugoswavia; to assisting de victims of famine in Somawia.

Russia's "fledgling democracy"?!  What kind of idiot do you take me for?
You need to maintain the public legitimacy of Boris Yeltsin, a bootlicking
fuck who wants another mercedes.  As long as those loans get repaid,
you won't give a flying fuck whether Russia is a democracy or not.
The fact that they're selling off the state enterprises through a system
of bald-faced nepotism and privilege based on rank in the Ancien Regime
doesn't seem to bother you either.

>      I awso wook fowwawd to getting to wowk on de hawd and vitaw
> task of westowing ouw nation's economic stwengd.  Today I say to ouw
> financiaw and business weadews dat, awdough change is on de
> howizon, we undewstand de need fow stabiwity as we puwsue new
> gwowd.  De changes I seek wiww stwengden Amewican's mawket
> systems, not weaken dem.  And to de peopwe of ouw gweat nation fow
> whom we pwedged to get up evewy mowning and wowk hawd to bwing
> economic oppowtunity dat was at de cowe of de Cwinton-Gowe
> campaign I say: dat task has awweady begun.   It wiww not be easy but
> we wiww spawe no effowt to westowe gwowd, jobs and income to de
> Amewican peopwe.

And I know just how you're going to do it too.  The same way it's always
been done.  A mixture of appropriation from the third world and smoke and
mirrors.

>      Wet me awso stwess de stakes and oppowtunities in de monds
> and yeaws dat wie ahead.  We have won de Cowd Waw; now we have de
> oppowtunity to buiwd a new peace.  We have entewed a gwobaw economy;
> now we have de oppowtunity to mastew its competitive chawwenges
> wadew dan wet dese changes undewmine dese stwengds.  We have
> become a divewse peopwe of many cowows, wanguages, and bewiefs; now
> we have de oppowtunity to ensuwe dat divewsity is a souwce of gweat
> stwengf and pwide awound de wowwd.  We have become a nation of 250
> miwwion Amewicans; now we have de oppowtunity, de duty, and de
> impewative, to see dat we do not weave even one of dose 250 miwwion
> behind as we pwepawe fow de next centuwy.

integration (n.) The process of destroying national self-determination
of internal colonies.

>
>            We have entewed a pewiod of gweat chawwenge and
> extwaowdinawy oppowtunity fow ouw nation.   I am confident we can make
> it a pwoud pwace in ouw histowy: pwoud fow de famiwies who awe
> waising dis nation's next genewation; pwoud fow de wowkews and
> businesses who awe Amewica's wifebwood; pwoud fow de men and women
> who weaw Amewica's unifowm; and pwoud fow de peopwes of odew
> nations, wiving in fweedom ow in feaw, who dwaw stwengf fwom
> Amewica's ideaws, and shawe ouw vision of a peacefuw and mowe
> pwospewous wowwd.

I'm not enough of an idealist sap to believe a word of that.  Our "proud
people in uniform" are the precise reason why "peoples of other nations
live in fear."  Nice little justification of cultural imperialism at the
end there too.

>      Amewica has cawwed on me to be ouw next pwesident.  But ouw
> fowebeaws caww on us aww at dis moment to honow deiw effowt, deiw
> sacwifice, deiw ideaws, and deiw wives -- by wowking hawd and
> wowking togedew, to impwove dis good and gweat nation as much fow
> ouw chiwdwen and ouw chiwdwen's chiwdwen as dose who pwoceeded us
> did fow us.  Dey caww on us to take ouw dweams and ouw hopes and
> make dem weaw.

Yes, I suppose you, like George Bush, will always seek to make the dream
of international hegemony a reality.


>                   Dank you, and God bwess Amewica.

Screw you, screw god, and screw america.


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