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- From: payner@netcom.com (Rich Payne)
- Subject: Re: Hillary's Role in the White House
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.192544.8688@netcom.com>
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- References: <1993Jan25.162035.17116@dg-rtp.dg.com> <1993Jan25.184236.12490@midway.uchicago.edu> <2553@blue.cis.pitt.edu>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 19:25:44 GMT
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- In article <2553@blue.cis.pitt.edu> psg+@pitt.edu (Paul S Galvanek) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan25.184236.12490@midway.uchicago.edu> thf2@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
- >>
- >>I see no qualitative difference. Other than that the former was behind
- >>the scenes, while the latter is open.
- >
- >Well here's one big difference to consider...
- >
- >During the campaign, when Clinton's opponents were attacking Hillary's views
- >the response we heard was - Oh that's not fair, you're just hillary bashing,
- >she's not running for office Bill is. When it was pointed out that Bill
- >had made the now infamous "get two for the price of one" statement and that
- >his plans for her in the White House made her fair game the response was -
- >oh that was just an off the cuff remark, Hillary won't have anymore power
- >or influence than any other wife has on her husband.
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- In case anyone is interested, Bill Clinton has just appointed Hillary
- Clinton to a cabinet post, her responsibility will be health-care reform.
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- And has been pointed out, if there are problems with any other cabinet
- member, Bill -can- fire them. But the first-lady cannot be fired.
-
- >Call it a promise, a goal, a duck or your aunt Tilly, Bill insisted that
- >this wouldn't happen and assured us we had nothing to worry about concerning
- >Hillary's role in his administration
- >
- >The appointment of Hillary to head up anything, regardless of her
- >qualifications, views of the degree of power is just one more of what is
- >fast becoming a - growing larger by the day list - of lies, broken promises
- >and outright deception that Bill Clinton used to get elected. And even
- >if by some miracle Hillary figures a way to get every American the best
- >Health Care, for free and paves the streets with gold in the process, it
- >still won't change the fact of the lies nor make Bill Clinton any less the
- >lair for telling them.
-
- In other areas this would be called nepotism. Is nepotism legal? Wait,
- since the first-lady is female, this is AA. Obviously, by definition,
- acceptable.
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- >Every administration that I know of had a nickname, Camelot, the shining
- >city on the hill, a thousand points of lights etc., the Clinton administration
- >seems to be shooting the label of, the ends justify the means bunch OR perhaps
- >the do as we say not as we do government.
- >
- >PSG
- >
- >--
- >Looking at the condition and politics of the public
- >school systems and Hollywood in the 90's, it seems in
- >retrospect that the only mistakes Joseph McCarthy made
- >were; not uncovering the right people and not finishing the job.
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- Rich
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- payner@netcom.com
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