From: vsg001@acad.drake.edu
Subject: Coup de grace:CLINTON Cowardice
Organization: Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa, USA
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 1992 07:01:25 GMT

*PROMISES NOT TO RUN FOR PRESIDENT
"I told you when I announced for Governor... I'm gonna serve four years. I made
that decision when I decided to run... I'm being considered a candidate for
Governor.  That's the job I want-- that's the job I'll do for the next four
years."
KHOB/KHOG-TV Gubernatorial Debate 10/15/90

*RUNS FOR PRESIDENT
"Today I proudly announce my candidacy for President of the United States of
America."
Clinton Announcement Speech, Little Rock, Arkansas 10/3/91

*PLEDGES TO BALANCE THE BUDGET
"I would present a five-year plan to balance the budget."
CNN's Larry King Live 6/4/92

*ABANDONS BALANCED BUDGET
"My plan will cut the deficit in half within four years."
Putting People First 6/20/92

*MIDDLE CLASS TAX CUT "CENTRAL"
"I want to make it very clear that this middle-class tax cut, in my view, is
central to any attempt we're going to make to have a short-term economic
strategy and a long-term fairness strategy, which is part of getting this
country going again."
ABC News, Primary Debate, Manchester, 1/19/92

*MIDDLE CLASS TAX CUT NOT "CENTRAL"
"But to say that this middle class tax cut, ... is the center of anybody's
econom[ic] package, is wrong."
ABC News, Democratic Candidate's Debate, Dallas, 5/5/92

"I would emphasize to you that the press and my opponents always made more of
the middle-class tax cut than I did."
ABC "Good Morning America", 6/6/92

*EMBRACES PRIVATE SCHOOL CHOICE
"I am fascinated by that proposal [allowing parents to choose a private school
and receive financial assistance via tax credits or vouchers]... I'm concerned
*OPPOSES PRIVATE SCHOOL CHOICic Party establishment has not given you more
encouragement.  The visionary is rarely embraced by the status quo."
Clinton Letter to Wisconsin State Representative Polly Williams, 10/18/90

*OPPOSES PRIVATE SCHOOL CHOICE
"We shouldn't give our money away to private schools in a system that will
undermine the integrity of the public school system."
Town Meeting wit hthe NEA, 7/7/92

*OPPOSES GUN CONTROL
"I'm not for gun control."
Arkansas Gazette, 11/2/90

*FAVORS GUN CONTROL
"I was an early and strong supporter of the Brady Bill."
NBC's "Today" Show, 10/17/91

*OPPOSES TAX FOR HEALTH CARE
"We don't need to lead with a tax increase that asks hard working people who
already pay too much for health care to pay even more..."
Bill Clinton for President Primary Committee, "American Health Care Plan,"
Issue Paper

*PROPOSES PAYROLL TAX FOR HEALTH CARE
"There will be -- there will be a buy in tax, which they can call a payroll
tax."
USA Today editorial meeting, 8/12/92

*COMMITTED TO FREE TRADE
"...I think it is imperative that we make alliances with Mexico."
Southwest Times Record, 6/2/91

*FLIRTS WITH PROTECTIONISTS
"I am reviewing it carefully and when I have a definite opinion I will say so."
Speech to Detroit Economic Club 8/21/92

*AGREES WITH OPPONENTS OF GULF WAR
"I agree wit hthe arguments of the people in the minority on the
resolution--that we should give sanctions more time and maybe even explore a
full-scale embargo...before we go to war."
AP story in the Pins Bluff Comercial 1/15/91

*SUPPORTS GULF WAR
"I supported the Persian Gulf War because I thought it was right and in our
national interest..."
U.S. News and World Report 8/23/92

*OPPOSES TAXPAYER FUNDED ABORTIONS
"I am opposed to abortion and to government funding of abortions.  We should
not spend state funds on abortion because so many people believe abortion is
wrong."
Letter to Arkansas Rigth to Life, 9/26/86

"There's a big difference between being pro-choice and being for spending tax
dollars for any kind of abortion.  Idon't think that's appropriate."
AP 10/11/91

*SUPPORTS TAXPAYER FUNDED ABORTIONS
"Clinton's innovation and comprehensive health care plan would cover
pregnancy-related medical procedures, inclduing abortions."
Bill Clinton for President Committee, Women's Issues Paper

*SUPPORTS LITMUS TEST FOR JUDGES
"It is [a litmus test], and it makes me uncomfortable, [but] I would want the
first judge I appointed to believe in the right to privacy and the right to
choose."
Bill Moyers Interview, 7/9/92

*OPPOSES LITMUS TEST FOR JUDGES
"I have said that I would do my best, in the next appointment of the Supreme
Court, to appoint someone who believes in the general rule of Roe vs. Wade. 
That does not mean - I have no intention of giving somebody a test..."
As reported on CBS 7/20/92 Wheeling WVa 7/19/92

*OPEN ON TERM LIMITS
"I think it's a decision that people ought to make...I wouldn't rule out term
limits."
Meet the Press 1/5/92

*CLOSED TO TERM LIMITS
"I'm against term limits because I think that it takes choices away from
voters."
Boston Globe 7/27/92

*RESTRAIN SPENDING
"We need to give the people a sense that there's some discipline and some
restraint in spending."
NBC Nightly News 3/18/92

*SPEND
Proposes $219.52 billion in new spending.
Putting People First page 19, 6/20/92

*WOULD NOT SIGN WELFARE WAIVER
"'I would not sign that bill,' Clinton said referring to a New Jersey bill that
prevents women from collecting extra benefits if they have additional
children."
New York Times 1/22/92

*WOULD SIGN WELFARE WAIVER
"Clinton said that, as president, he would sign a federal waiver allowing the
state to impose the law...'My position is that no one knows whether it will
work for sure...I would not deprive them of the right to try this...'"
Philadephia Inquirer, 5/23/92

*SUPPORTS 45 MPG CAFE
"We'll accelerate our progress toward fuel-efficient cars and seek to raise the
average goal for automakers to 40 miles per gallon by the year 2000, 45 miles
per gallon by 2020."
Drexel University Speech, 4/22/92

*CAFE UNFAIR
"...I think we should be very flexible about imposing standards on the overall
fleet as opposed to different sized vehicles,...I don't think it's fair to
impose a burden on an American fleet that has bigger cars in it that foreign
competitors do...."
Speech to Detroit Economic Club, 8/21/92

*NEVER OPPOSED THE DRAFT SYSTEM
"Clinton said that he never was opposed to the draft."
Arkansas Democrat, 6/4/82

*OPPOSED THE DRAFT
Clinton: "From my work [at Georgetown] I came to believe that the draft system
itself is illegitimate...."
Letter to Col.Holmes 12/5/69

*NOT DEFERRED
"Clinton said the agreement [with the ROTC] was never sent to Washington and he
was not deferred."
Arkansas Gazette 10/28/78

*DEFERRED
Clinton: "I gave up the deferment."
Nightline 2/12/92

*NEVER DRAFTED
Clinton: "As it happened, I told the [draft board] I expected to be called
while was over there [in England] the first year, but they never did."
Washington Post 4/6/92

*DRAFTED
Clinton: "In 1969 while studying at Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship, I received
a draft notice which arrived late."
Speech to American Legion 8/25/92

*WILL RELEASE PERSONAL FILES
Clinton : "I have found some things that I want to share with you... But I have
asked for some more records because I don't want to get in a position of where
somebody, says, 'you didn't give us everything you had."
AP 4/17/92

*WILL NOT RELEASE PERSONAL FILES
"On Saturday, [Betsey Wright] of Clinton-Gore released correspondence between
the campaign and public agencies in an attempt to show Clinton came up
empty-handed in his effort to confirm his account of the events in 1969.  She
did not release any documents found in his search of personal records, and
refused Tuesday to comment about what Clinton had found, if anything."
AP 9/2/92

*GAVE UP DEFERMENT
Clinton: "I gave back an ROTC student deferment and placed myself in the
draft."
Statement 2/12/92

Clinton: "I gave up a deferment and put myself back in the draft."
Nightline 2/12/92

Clinton: "I asked to be put back into the draft because I did not think I
should have a four-year deferment."
ABC "This Week With David Brinkley," 2/25/92

Clinton: "I decided I should put myself back in the draft."
"The Brokaw Report: 58 days," 9/6/92

*DEFERMENT WITHDRAWN
Clinton: "I had lost my draft deferment several weeks before [December
3,1969]."
Nightline, 2/12/92

Clinton: "[M]y deferment was withdrawn in October; I was put back in the draft
pool."
Nightline 2/12/92

*DENOUNCES CLASS WARFARE
"No more division by race, no more division by income, no more class warfare."
NBC Nightly News 3/18/92

*ENGAGES IN CLASS WARFARE
"In making the rich pay their fair share.  Bill Clinton-he'll put people
first."
Clinton ad as aired on NBC Nightly News 3/18/92

*ARGUES PRODUCTIVITY DECREASING
"Every one of us would agree that America's productivity has been going
downhill for well over a decade..."
ABC News report as Democratic Presidential Candidate Debate, Dallas, 3/5/92

*ARGUES PRODUCTIVITY INCREASING
"If you look at our trade deficit, its been coming down steadily because
manufacturing productivity has increased."
Speech at Georgetown University 12/12/91

There you are... and as someone has wisely pointed out, the facts are the
facts, regardless if you like them or not. Bill Clinton is dangerous, period.
He has proven that he will do anything to get elected. "Atrophic"? Ha! I spit
in your face!
Here endith the lesson.
		--VSG001@acad.drake.edu (Vince Goddard-ARCH Conservative)  


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