From: aschaffe@holodeck.csd.sgi.com (Allan Schaffer)
Newsgroups: alt.politics.elections,alt.politics.bush,alt.politics.clinton
Subject: Re: Bush is a chinese spy?
Date: 10 Oct 1992 02:49:37 GMT
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> westfgj@eng.auburn.edu (George J. Westfall) writes:
>
> the point of the clinton-moscow debate is why his 
> memory of the events is so slective.

Not really.  If you'd like a history of the events I can repost it.  
The goal is, to use a well-known refrain, to "accuse him of
fornicating with swine, and make the bastard deny it." 

        LOS ANGELES (UPI) -- Rep. Robert Dornan, R-Calif., read 
	to President Bush a transcript of a taped conversation 
	allegedly between Democrat Bill Clinton and Gennifer Flowers 
	``to annoy the hell'' out of the president before urging him 
	to personally attack Clinton's Vietnam-era visit to Moscow, 
	The Los Angeles Times reported Friday.

        The newspaper said Dornan was part of a delegation of 
	congressmen who urged Bush to attack Clinton's patriotism 
	during a Tuesday breakfast meeting at the White House, 
	which also included White House chief of staff James Baker.

        The Times quoted Rep. Randy Cunningham, another GOP member 
	of the delegation, as saying he told Bush, ``This is an 
	issue that will kill Clinton when people realize what a 
	traitor he is to this country. In some countries if 
	something like this came out, he would be tried as a
	traitor. Tokyo Rose had nothing over Clinton.''

But that didn't work: 

	HOUSTON (UPI) -- [...] Bush's initial comments generated 
	charges of McCarthyism and red-baiting, and Clinton had 
	characterized the comments as a ``sad'' and a ``desperate'' 
	attempt by Bush to smear him.

So now:

        ``The issue isn't patriotism,'' Bush said. ``You can 
	demonstrate all you want to...that is part of America.''

And:

        Bush denied published reports he was motivated in his 
	latest blast against Clinton by a group of conservative 
	Republican congressmen during a breakfast meeting with 
	him at the White House last Tuesday. [...]

        ``It didn't come out of that at all,'' Bush said. ``I'm not 
	suggesting anything unpatriotic about him going to Moscow.''

But wait, NOW he's really changed the story:

        CINCINNATI (UPI) -- President Bush tried to revive the 
	emotional wedge of the Vietnam War Friday, denouncing 
	Democrat Bill Clinton and others for speaking out against 
	the war at home or abroad.  ``It is wrong to demonstrate 
	against your country when your country's at war,'' he said 
	in remarks to police officers, apparently expanding his 
	previous attacks in which he said Americans should not be 
	involved in protests against their country overseas.

Here is the full quote:

	``I'm standing with American principle. It is wrong to 
	demonstrate against your country when your country's at war. 
	And I'm not going to back away from it one single bit.''


Allan
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