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- From: rja@mahogany126.cray.com (Russ Anderson)
- Subject: Re: "Trivial" Felonies (Was: Zoe Baird, Support Her !!!!!!!!!!)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.140055.15663@hemlock.cray.com>
- Originator: rja@mahogany126
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- Sender: rja@mahogany126 (Russ Anderson)
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- Organization: The 1991 World Champion Minnesota Twins!
- References: <1993Jan25.215040.1073@cbnews.cb.att.com>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 14:00:55 CST
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- In article <1993Jan25.215040.1073@cbnews.cb.att.com>, jmk@cbnews.cb.att.com (joseph.m.knapp) writes:
- > What I find interesting is that this appointment was supposed to be ground
- > breaking in that Baird would have been the first woman in the AG role. She
- > was a good example of a woman balancing her career and family life. So
- > what do they "get" her on? Her means of procuring child care so that she
- > could further her career.
-
- That is because her "means" were illegal (while working families strugle to
- find legal ways of procuring child care).
-
- > I don't consider this a coincidence. The so-called
- > family values types have always looked askance at daycare as an enabler of
- > "the breakup of the American family," i.e., it allows mothers to compete
- > in the workplace.
-
- Maybe so, by the "family values types" were not the ones that shot Zoe down.
- The Dems in the Senate rebelled when flooded with negative calls. After
- listening to her confirmation hearings, I, a self proclaimed liberal, was
- publicly calling for her to step down.
-
- Ironicly, Sen. Orin Hatch was one of the loudest Baird supporters.
-
- > I attribute the flap about her daycare to the same cause
- > as the railing about Clinton's "draft dodging," pot smoking, whatever: it's
- > the death rattle of the old order as it's fading from power.
-
- I attribue the flap to not taking enough time to look into and think about
- Zoe's background. Clinton was in a rush to name someone before Christmas
- (to quiet the critics that were saying he was taking to long) and made a
- bad choice. I'm glad that they were smart enought to admit the mistake
- rather than spend political capital trying to justify her actions (like
- Bush prolonged the Sununu embarasment).
-
- > The
- > hippie/yuppie/whatever-diminutive-you-like generation is here: get used
- > to it. :-)
-
- I'm looking forward to it.
-
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- Russ Anderson | Disclaimer: Any statements are my own and do not reflect
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