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- From: paul@hsh.com
- Newsgroups: alt.president.clinton
- Subject: Re: Clinton's flip-flop on Haitians!
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.115541.530@hsh.com>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 16:55:41 GMT
- References: <1j4g7oINN260@tortoise.cis.ohio-state.edu> <randall.727494120@seashore>
- Organization: HSH Associates
- Lines: 67
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- In article <randall.727494120@seashore>, randall@informix.com (Randall Rhea) writes:
- > casper@vxcrna.cern.ch (CASPER,DAVI./PPE) writes:
- >
- >
- >>2) Middle-class tax cut:
- >>Promised: Would bring tax relief to the middle class.
- >>What He Meant To Say: Will raise their taxes after he raises everyone else's.
- >>3) Gasoline tax:
- >>Promised: He was against it. Called it irresponsible.
- >>What He Meant To Say: There are plenty of good arguments for it.
- >
- > The government lied about the size of the deficit. It is much larger
- > than what we were told a few months ago. New numbers change things.
-
- Good, good. I was *hoping* someone would trot out this lame excuse. Let
- some truth air out this place:
-
- 1) Candidate Clinton used a _much larger_ deficit figure -- $400 Billion --
- than the figure released by the White House. *Clinton used that $400
- Billion figure* in his promise to cut the deficit in half.
-
- 2) Leon Panetta -- remember him? -- had complete access to the "real"
- budget figures, as well as to the $400 Billion OMB guesstimate.
-
- 3) Any competent citizen with a dime-store almanac could have known
- the actual deficit size. Competency, apparently, was lacking in
- liberal candidates (and most national media).
-
- So that's a reason to completely abandon his pledge to cut the deficit?
- We think not.
-
-
- > "slick Willie", but I call it pragmatic leadership. Bush probably
- > calls it that too ... look at the campaign promises he broke.
-
- So, in other words, Clinton is no better than Bush? It's OK to lie because
- Bush lied? So much for "change"! You're gonna LOVE reading Willie's lips.
-
-
- >>9) Iraq:
- >
- >>Promised: He would not 'coddle tyrants'.
- >>What He Meant To Say: 'A different relationship' with Saddam is possible.
- >> Would not 'rule in or out' any type of relationship.
- >
- > Clinton has made it clear that he will continue the current Bush
- > policy toward Saddam.
-
- ...But only after a Pulitzer-Prize-winning reporter from The New York Times
- got Clinton on the record, five times, about his "new" policy. Then, of
- course, he called the reporter a liar. Baaad mistake, calling the Times a
- liar.
-
-
- > I wish people would let him be President first. However, it is clear
- > that some people have written him off before he can do anything,
- > and that he can do nothing right.
-
- Fair is fair. Harken back to 1988: "The Son of Reagan will continue the same
- bankrupt policies that turned the US into a 3rd-world nation..."
-
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- Paul Havemann (Internet: paul@hsh.com)
-
- * They're not just opinions -- they're caffeine for the brain! *
- ** (Up to 50 milligrams per cynical observation.) **
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