From: eisimps@cie.uoregon.edu (Eileen Simpson)
Subject: Re: Bush is a chinese spy?
Organization: University of Oregon Campus Information Exchange
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Date: Sat, 10 Oct 92 18:11:08 GMT

The latest round in the on-going rightwing drama to slime Clinton is in
toady's paper.  First, the latest word on Clinton's passport file's alleged
alteration.  This made Newsweek because of the right's efforts to plant a
story that Clinton had tried to renounce his citizenship and then tried to
remove the evidence.  Well, the FBI has finished its investigation folks,
and the sinister facts are:

"The FBI said Friday that it had found "no evidence" that Arkansas Gov.
Bill Clinton's  passport files had been  tampered with, ending an
investigation that had fueled Republican attacks on the patriotism and
credibility of the Democratic presidential nominee.

"It has been demonstrated that there is no evidence that tampering
occurred," the statement said.

"Sources said the bureau believes that the items missing from the file that
caused a State Department official to become suspicious were a bank check
that paid the passport fee, a copy of a birth certificate and a passport
photograph--all routine items that are part of the passport application
process.   ***

"An employee looking at the file spotted staple holes in Clinton's passport
application suggesting that something had once been attached to the document 
and had subsequently been removed.   ***

"In the end, the staple holes were determined to have been left by the
removal of the bank check, birth certificate and the extra photograph,
according to sources (close to the FBI investigation)."

Now that we have that little slime effort revealed, let's remember to look at 
the Patriotism issue in full context--Bush's surrogates have been trying to use
the "altered passport file" to plant stories about Clinton selling out the
US.  These are desperate and evil men who will sink to new depths to keep
their grip on power.  Let's look at the Moscow trip again with the latest
on that...

>In article <1b5gc1INNjgo@fido.asd.sgi.com> aschaffe@holodeck.csd.sgi.com (Allan Schaffer) writes:
>>> 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." 
>>   **excellent history of the charges deleted.**

The latest round in Bush's *Moral Principle* issue with Clinton's anti-war
efforts:

By the New York Times, 10/10/92:

"Fearful that his latest effort to raise doubts about Arkansas Gov. Bill
Clinton's character has only served to make him look desperate and
spiteful, President Bush rushed Friday to mute an accusation that Clinton
was hiding details of a trip he took to Moscow at the height of the Vietnam
war.

"An aide to Bush said Friday that Bush's attempt to use the Moscow trip as
another lever to pry voters away from Clinton had come across as too
strident, and had only damaged the Bush campaign.

""It backfired," said the aide, who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
"The intent was to suggest that this was part of Clinton's efforts to
mislead about his past, not that something clandestine occurred in Moscow.
But that's the way it came off.  The interpretation, frankly, bombed."

"...responding to a question on a CNN interview program, Bush (had) called
on Clinton to "level with the American people" about the trip, adding:
"You can remeber who you saw in an airport in Oslo, but you can't remember
who you saw in Moscow?"

"Asked for his opinion of the trip then, Bush had said: "I don't want to
tell you what I really think.  To go to Moscow, one year after Russia
crushed Czechoslavakia, not remember who you saw there--"

"Aides said Friday and Thursday that Bush made the remarks because he had
been "pumped up" on Clinton's trip during a Tuesday breakfast with four
Republican congressmen."

The full text of Bush's remarks show that he was the one who suggested
something clandestine had occurred in Moscow, and he has been justly
condemned by the public for resorting to such low tactics.  Limbo
George got his script wrong for how to play this scene, but it still shows
he will resort to Red-Baiting and McCarthyism.

Limbo George:  It describes the economy, the state of the nation, and how
he campaigns--how *low* can *you* go?


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