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- From: rjwill6@PacBell.COM (Rod Williams)
- Subject: Re: Clinton Gets Earful at Open House
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.214314.8181@PacBell.COM>
- Sender: news@PacBell.COM (Pacific Bell Netnews)
- Organization: Pacific * Bell, San Ramon, California
- References: <1993Jan22.163731.15843@PacBell.COM> <1993Jan22.200150.16444@netcom.com>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 21:43:14 GMT
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- > solovay@netcom.com (Andrew Solovay) writes:
- >> rjwill6@pbsdts.sdcrc.pacbell.com (Rod Williams) writes:
- >>
- >>Today's (1/22/93) New York Times reported on the 3,000
- >>people who showed up at the White House yesterday to greet
- >>the Clintons and Gores..
- >>
- >> "Mr. President, I wanted to tell you I was so excited
- >> when I received my call," said Chris Henry, who like
- >> most of the visitors sent postcards to Washington and
- >> were notified last week that they would get tickets to
- >> meet Mr. Clinton. "And I wanted to call my parents.
- >> But they aren't talking to me for the last 11 years
- >> because I'm a lesbian. I hope your Administration
- >> will change that."
- >
- >I'm missing something. Does she expect Clinton to call her parents and
- >talk to them? Maybe invite her parents to a party without telling them
- >that Ms. Henry would be coming as well, and force a confrontation? If
- >not, how does she expect a different president to change her parents's
- >minds?
- >
- >He's just a president, people. He's not Zeus.
-
- My, aren't we a teensy bit literal-minded? Other readers,
- I imagine, were easily able to fill in the blank, as in "I
- hope your Administration will [foster a climate of tolerance,
- respect, inclusion, understanding, healing and celebration of
- our glorious diversity in America so that one day we can]
- change that."
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