From: pkust@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Paul R Kust)
Subject: Re: No looking at your neighbors' papers....
Followup-To: alt.politics.clinton
Organization: The Ohio State University
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 14:11:47 GMT

In article <1992Oct6.000021.14558@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu> shackeld@helium.ga
s.uug.arizona.edu (david m shackelford ) writes:
>In article <1akhv8INN1bv@uwm.edu  > terri@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Theresa J Flynn) w
rites:
> >
> >PENCILS UP, YOU MAY BEGIN
> >
> >Joel McNally, the Innocent Bystander -- The Milwaukee Journal 10/1/92
> >
> >A midterm campaign examination on everything we have learned so far:
> >
> > [questions deleted .. we've seen them]
>    Both.  Bush didn't raise taxes, Congress did.
>
Yep.  Bush had _nothing_ to do with it.

>    a.  Clinton is running for President, Quayle for V.P.  Additionally,
>        Quayle didn't "avoid" getting drafted, he VOLUNTEERED for the
>        guard.
>
They are both running for offices of public trust.  And Quayle VOLUNTEERED so 
that he wouldn't get DRAFTED.

>     A.  Man does not have the capacity to destroy the planet.
>
No, probably not.  Man so far can only turn it into a lifeless hunk of rock 
travelling through space.

>     d.  None of the above, I don't bet.  (spelling is not that
>         important anyway :-)
>
Aftr al, dats y wee hav spel chekkers on r cumpyooters.

>     d.  The right to teach your children your personal moral values.
>         The right to expect the government won't teach your children
>         the *wrong* morals.
>
With people like Ed Meese, Clarence Thomas, etc., I don't want the government 
teaching ANY morals.

>     What does this question mean?  I'm confused as to how this matters...
>           Bush : He's trying to see that young voters don't go
>           broke paying for all those old people's health care.
>
So who will Bush decide goes broke paying for all those old people's health
care?

>     a.  Presidents don't raise taxes, Congress does.  Bush was
>         forced to sign or let the government run out of money.
>
>     b.  Bush has selected only qualified Americans for important jobs.
>         All of his nominees meet the legal qualifications for the office
>         they were nominated for.  Most were confirmed by either the
>         voters or the Senate.
>     c.  Try getting the flu yourself and then hold it in when you
>         vomit.   Not an issue...
>
For all his posturing, maybe he should have let the government run out of
money.  At least he might have been able to claim some sort of moral high
ground, like Pete Wilson in CA.  Also, if you have a bad case of the flu and go
on international TV, you're asking for trouble.  Call it poor judgement.

> >8. During the sale of US missiles to Iran, the late Ronald Reagan was
> >   napping through the presidency and Vice President Bush was "out of the
> >   loop."  Write down your best guess as to who was running the United
> >   States.
>
>     What sale of missiles is that?
>
>     Ever hear of embezzlement?  Is the president of a corporation
>     responsible if someone embezzles without his/her knowledge?
>     Have you ever sat through a day in the Oval Office?  Any idea
>     how many millions of details a President faces during his term?
>
What sale? Read the papers.  Is or is not the President ultimately responsible
for the workings of his corporation?  If he can't handle the details, then he
shouldn't be President.  Also, there is an integrity issue here since he
appears to have know more about it than he has admitted to.  See "Watergate"

> >9. What is your primary concern about the US economy?
> >
> >   a.  How to spend the big bonanza if Bush finally succeeds in cutting
> >       capital gains taxes.
> >   b.  Whether US jobs are on a fast track or a slow track to Mexico.
> >   c.  That there be one again.
>
>     That less money is taken away from the middle class and
>     given to people who have never earned anything in their
>     life and don't deserve it now.
>
Are those the people who gave up looking for jobs they couldn't find, or the
ones who never could get them because the only ones left were ones they weren't
educated for?

> >10. What about Bush reminds you most of Harry Truman?
> >
> >   a.  Nobody thinks he's going to win.
> >   b.  He likes to fish and recently rode on a train.
> >   c.  He's a dead man.
>
>     That he's trying to fight people who won't follow his
>     orders (primarily Democrats [socialists] in Congress)
>
That's news to me, that my elected representatives _must_ follow the orders of
the President.  Was martial law declared when I wasn't looking?

>David Shackelford
-- 
*** Paul R. Kust "Banjoman" *** Kust.1@osu.edu / kust@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu
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