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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 11:58:00 CDT
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- From: "John O. Wong" <JOHNWONG@MACC.WISC.EDU>
- Subject: Re: school choice and clinton
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- Covaleski,
-
- >On this reasoning, if Bill Clinton chooses to advocate policies to improve
- >the lot of the homeless, I assume that he will again be charged with hypocrisy
- >unless the family spends the rest of his term living in a cardboard box outside
- >Union Station.
-
- Only if he claims he actually lived in a cardboard box while at Little Rock and
- chided his opponent in choosing to stay in the White House, but later on
- decides to move into the White House with the full complement of domestic help,
- claiming it is a "private" decision (as citizens) to do the best for the
- family.
-
- The issue is not "private schooling," but honesty as we wish we could expect
- from one who has prepared himself all his life to be, and is now out leader.
- This is no attempt to compare which is the lesser of two evils. As Peter had
- so aptly stated earlier, some of us are disappointed because this looks like
- more of the same...
-
- Indeed if Bill opts to stage a cardbox weekend under some freeway in D.C. or
- NYC, it may do a tremendous amount of good in highlighting the plight of the
- homeless. A night at some welfare motel of debilitated public housing might
- work too, tho less dramatic. I am still surprised by your reluctance to see
- this point. Perhaps you are much more in tune with the Clinton brand of
- morality (whatever that is), that you can more easily empathize with his
- personal plight and predicament, that lowly souls like yours truly have trouble
- understanding its complexity??
-
-
-
-
- # John Wong (608)263-3025
- # johnwong@wiscmacc.bitnet
- # johnwong@macc.wisc.edu
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