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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 12:54:00 ET
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- From: "Ellen.Edgerton" <EBEDGERT@SUADMIN.BITNET>
- Subject: More cabinet appointments
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- Clinton is supposedly appointing Les Aspin (Defense) and Warren
- Christopher (Sec. of State) today.
-
- I thought it was interesting how he responded to the feminist groups
- yesterday. Look, I would love to see more women in the Cabinet. And I
- haven't been happy with all of Clinton's choices (Ron Brown especially).
-
- But I think it was >way off base< to accuse Clinton of reneging on his
- promise to make his cabinet look more like America. I get the impression
- that he is genuinely struggling to fulfill his promise and to also
- strike a balance between making the effort to appoint more women and
- minorities, and choosing people who are not only qualified, but are
- people he can work with. I think it's pretty obvious by now that
- Clinton's criteria for his cabinet selections involve a heck of a lot
- more than the way they used to be selected by previous administrations.
- In fact, I can't think of any >one< strategy he is using. He is not
- picking people by mere ideology alone. He is not making "token" racial
- and gender selections. He is not picking insiders over outsiders, or
- vice versa. He seems to be picking, for the most part, people whom he
- can personally work well with.
-
- I want to see more women in the cabinet, but it infuriates me to see
- a bunch of self-styled Watchdogs for Women swaggering around acting
- like they have a God-given right to demand quotas. Who the HELL do
- they think they are? I am probably going to get a backlash for this
- but they are acting like brats let loose in a candy store.
-
- I'm a woman and I voted for Clinton because I thought he would do more
- to put women in their rightful place as equals in the power structure.
- That wasn't the only reason, but that was part of it. I don't think
- three women in the Cabinet (which is how it looks to turn out right
- now) is enough.
-
- But I don't think Clinton hasn't been trying, and making a real
- effort, in good faith, to make things better.
-
- It is so ironic that women's groups are screaming, and maybe minority
- groups will start to scream, and the pundits will start to scream that
- Clinton is appointing unqualified people because he's bending to
- pressures from special interest groups...
-
- Don't these idiots all know that these "special interest groups"
- OVERLAP? Women and minorities? Insiders and outsiders?
-
- I wish Clinton the best of luck in maintaining his course. He's earned
- just a little more respect from me in handling this difficult process,
- and it's not over yet.
-
-
- Ellen
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