From: eyc@acpub.duke.edu (EMIL CHUCK)
Newsgroups: alt.politics.elections,alt.politics.bush,alt.politics.clinton
Subject: Re: 1992 REPUBLICAN PLATFORM (1/5)
Keywords: significant words from a document used as an index to content
Date: 6 Oct 92 18:09:34 GMT
Followup-To: alt.politics.elections
Distribution: usa
Organization: Duke University; Durham, N.C.

StarOwl@uiuc.edu writes:
-General comment on the platform: Why do I get the impression that this
-is a document glorifying the Bushwacker and Danny Boy, attacking
-the party of Slick Willie, with a few issues thrown in for good
-measure?
-
-At least the Democrats' and Libertarians' platforms stuck pretty much
-to the issues.  You didn't have to slog through a bunch of BS to find
-out what the official position on issue X is.

Excuse me, but this is what happens when your opposition posts
something. It happens all the time on this network. I joyfully post an
article, then get blasted to Kingdom Come!

I held back from criticizing the Democratic Platform because I thought
it more important to get the document out there for me to read at my
leisure than have to go off and debating every single line and word
choice. I will only respond to the statements above for now (since I
have a music test in an hour to study for).

I don't know about you, but the following statements in the preamble of
the Dem Platform gives me the impression that the Democrats are blaming
President Reagan and President Bush for everything. That's called spin,
on both the Democratic and Republican platforms.

Preamble:
"          The last 12 years have been a nightmare of Republican
irresponsibility and neglect.  America's leadership is
indifferent at home and uncertain in the world.  Republican
mismanagement has disarmed government as an instrument to make
our economy work and support the people's most basic values,
needs and hopes.  The Republicans brought America a false and
fragile prosperity based on borrowing, not income, and so will
leave behind a mountain of public debt and a backbreaking annual
burden in interest.  It is wrong to borrow to spend on ourselves,
leaving our children to pay our debts."
	Does this sound like attacking George Bush and Ronald Reagan?

Opportunity section
"          President Bush, with no interest in domestic policy,
has given America the slowest economic growth, the slowest income
growth, and the slowest jobs growth since the Great Depression.
And the American people know the long Bush recession reflects not
just a business cycle, but a long-term slide, so that even in a
fragile recovery we're sinking.  The ballooning Bush deficits
hijacked capital from productive investments.  Savings and loan
sharks enriched themselves at their country's expense. The stock
market tripled, but average incomes stalled, and poverty claimed
more of our children."
	Does this paragraph attack George Bush?

Also recall that the Democratic Platform was written while Ross Perot
was still a very popular candidate. The Republican Platform was drafted
when the election was a two-person race. This makes a difference in the
presentation of points and the characterization of the opposing
viewpoints in a draft. That's the main reason why the platforms are so
different.
-- 
Emil Thomas Chuck		eyc@acpub.duke.edu
Biomedical Engineer 1993	Never take me too seriously.
I don't have to have a 4.0 GPA to succeed in life because I'm 
good enough, I'm smart enough, and doggone it, people like me.
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