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- Path: sparky!uunet!nwnexus!snuffy!mkahlke
- From: mkahlke@snuffy.wa.atk.com (Mike Kahlke)
- Subject: Re: Integrity
- Message-ID: <BxvEtr.12p@snuffy.wa.atk.com>
- Sender: mkahlke@atk.com (Mike Kahlke)
- Organization: Alliant TechSystems Inc.
- References: <carlson.721539119@cwis>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 17:20:14 GMT
- Lines: 79
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- In article <carlson.721539119@cwis> carlson@cwis.unomaha.edu (Brian D. Carlson) writes:
- > Charles Dickens spelled potato with an 'e' on the end.
-
- Charles Dickens didn't live in this century, but then neither did Dan Quayle:
-
- * "The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean
- this century's history. But we all lived in this century. I didn't
- live in this century."
- -- Quayle discussing the Holocaust with reporters. Spy, November
- 1988, p. 128
-
- > I guess people aren't ready for a man with integrity in public
- >office. Dan Quayle will go down in history as a man who didn't sell out his
- >convictions for special interest. It seems that people aren't ready for that,
- >hence the election of Bill Clinton.
-
- This is a matter of opinion: conservatives claim that Quayle didn't "sell out
- to special interests," while liberals claim that he did. Who's right? Well,
- I guess it depends on whose party line you currently espouse. As for Clinton
- selling out, I guess only time will tell.
-
- > When you think of all Dan has endured for the last four years, I
- >don't know of many men (or women) who could have taken the useless abuse
- >that Quayle has taken. When you think of Gore and Clinton being about the
- >same age as Quayle, and I haven't heard pokes at them for not being over
- >fifty and in the Oval office.
-
- You're right, I don't know of many people who've taken as much abuse either.
- However, Dan isn't being needled because of his age, but mainly because of
- his verbal slip-ups. See the Quayle Quotes for further clarification.
-
- > When Clinton spelled Capital in an official government memo, where
- >were the English teacher journalists to pounce on him for it?
-
- As for spelling mistakes, everyone makes them, there is no doubt about that.
- However, what Quayle did was "correct" a little boy who had spelled it right
- during a spelling bee:
-
- * "Add one little bit on the end . . . Think of potato,' how's it spelled?
- You're right phonetically, but what else? There ya go . . . all right!"
- -- Dan Quayle correcting a student's correct spelling of the word
- "potato" during a spelling bee at an elementary school in Trenton
-
- I would expect the "English teacher journalists" to pounce on anyone for this.
-
- > Gore thinks the internal combustion engine is public enemy number
- >one (yet he rode the campain bus) and nobody barbs at him for his lunacy.
-
- Practically speaking, given the fact that there just aren't that many non-
- internal combustion engine cars out there, I don't think he had much choice.
- Similarly, coal-fired power plants put out a lot of pollution which I am
- adamantly against, but I'm not about to stop using their electricity.
-
- > Clinton made a lot of promises about what he'd do for us in the first
- >hundred days of office, and now he's saying 'let's not get our hopes up,
- >I can't perform miracles'
-
- You're right. Clinton, like any politician, made a lot of promises while
- campaigning but is now toning down his message now that he's been elected.
- Well, whether he succeeds or fails, there isn't a whole lot one can do
- about that until Tuesday, November 5, 1996.
-
- > I guess I just wonder when the biased press is going to hold the
- >same standards up against the people they set up in office.
-
- The voters set people up in office, not the media. Conservatives called the
- press "biased" during this election year, but they didn't think the press
- was biased while Clinton nearly floundered in the Democratic primaries, nor
- when Dukakis took a beating from the press in 1988. The media is "biased"
- only when they publish information that makes ones' own candidate or
- viewpoint look bad.
-
- >brian d carlson
-
- --
- Mike Kahlke (mkahlke@atk.com), proud father of Seth,
- born Wednesday, September 23, 1992 at 7:11 PM PDT
- Male, weight 9 lb. 15.4 oz., length 21 1/2 in.
-
-