From: vsg001@acad.drake.edu
Subject: Re: Coup de grace:CLINTON Cowardice
Organization: Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa, USA
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 07:08:22 GMT

JUST WANTED TO GET THIS OUT MORE--Vince
In article <BvqEEt.8xn@agora.rain.com>, robart@agora.rain.com (Robert Barton) writes:
>>*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
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