Newsgroups: talk.politics.misc,alt.president.clinton
From: mfriedma@uucp (Michael Friedman)
Subject: Re: Clinton's flip-flop on Haitians!
Organization: Oracle Corporation
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 00:00:15 GMT
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In article <randall.727665720@seashore> randall@informix.com (Randall Rhea) writes:
>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...]

Randall, you really need to take a break from Slick - his habits with
the truth are rubbing off on you.

Folks, please note that, except for point 1, nothing that Randall
mentions is a specific lie.  Most of it is disagreements over policy -
for example, many of us do not believe that you need to support a
family leave bill to be pro-family.

Clinton, on the other hand, has been blatantly lying.  Clear specific
promises are now "I never said that!!".

>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. 
>Project Manager, MIS Sales/Marketing Systems    uunet!pyramid!infmx!randall


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