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Date:         Tue, 10 Nov 1992 01:15:39 -0400
From:         MIKE <8612775@SSCVAX.CIS.MCMASTER.CA>
Subject:      Clintons Character fwd by --mike...
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Tue  10-27-1992  09:31:57

                         THE LATEST ENDORSEMENT
        -- While Clinton Tries to Lower Voters' Expectations --
        New Reports Confirm That to Know Him is to Mistrust Him

Washington, D.C. -- While Bill Clinton tries to his awkward best to
explain his plan to raise taxes on the American people, newspapers
are weighing in with another matter of concern to the candidate:
trust.

Some examples of what's being said about Clinton:

*   Is Bill Clinton the man he says he is or merely an Arkansas-
    accented member of the Walter Mondale-Ted Kennedy-Jesse Jackson
    faction?  Does he intend to steer in independent course, or dance
    to the tune of the interest groups who anticipate the Democrat's
    arrival in Washington as a groom awaits his bride on wedding night?"
    (Christopher Matthews, Washington Post, 10/25/92)

[Comment from the uploader:   This is a particularly interesting quote.
Matthews is a VERY liberal Democrat.  He was a speech writer for Jimmy
Carter.  There are two media people who are most likely to drift off into
orgasmic euphoria at the mere mention of Bill Clinton.  One is Chris
Matthews; the other is Eleanor Clift of NEWSWEEK. MMMMmmmmmm?]

*   "He is all things to all people."  (David Matthews, former Clinton
    aide, Washington Post,  10/25/92)

*   "He is, at any moment, what he thinks you want him to be . . He could
    look you in the eye and convince you he was going to do what he told
    and then do the exact opposite."  (Carolyn McGowan, former Arkansas
    higher education commissioner,  Washington Post,  10/25/92)

*   "The I-Didn't-Inhale Episode showed how he can carry evasiveness to
    silly lengths.  When he gets into a defensive mode, when he's not
    sure, that's when his slickness is most naked,"  (Paul Greenberg,
    Arkansas Democrat-Gazette columnist,  Washington Post,  10/25/92)

Unable to continue to ignore the trust issue, both the NEW YORK TIMES
and the WASHINGTON POST finally have taken up the issue of who is the
real Bill Clinton.  Their assessments:

*   "Others . . insist that Clinton became a soft-edged conciliator
    only out of political need.  He was tough and confrontational
    during his first term as governor -- known in Arkansas as Clinton I --
    but after his defeat in 1980 and comeback election in 1982, he
    returned for Clinton II as a wholly different politician,
    malleable and eager to please everyone, especially the big-money
    interests.  'The politics of ultra-consensus took shape after the
    first term,' said Paul Greenberg of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.
    'Never again would he offend a single voter or legislator,'"
    (Washington Post,  10/25/92)

*   "The campaign's nervousness was reflected in the attempts of
    aides to chastise and argue with reporters who wrote that Mr.
    Clinton still has problems on the trust issue, as reflected by
    the polls.  Because of the static about 'character' questions
    that has surrounded his campaign, the portrait of Mr. Clinton
    has been a caricature of labels like 'Slick Willie', 'draft-
    dodger', and 'ladies man'.  And because the candidate has been
    fashioning and refashioning his political image and message for
    so long, there is a packaged quality to his appearances that
    dims spontaneity and makes it difficult to discern the real
    Bill Clinton."  (New York Times,  10/25/92)

Comment from the Uploader:    All I can say is, "It's about time."

Uploaded by:  Vern Semrad   Tampa FL
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