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- From: bjmccall@cco.caltech.edu (Benjamin John McCall)
- Newsgroups: alt.overlords
- Subject: Re: THE SADDEST DAY IN U.S. HISTORY
- Date: 8 Nov 1992 08:50:12 GMT
- Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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- erwinaw@NeXTwork.Rose-Hulman.Edu (Anthony W Erwin) writes:
-
- > I believe that Tuesday, November 3, 1992, may go down as the saddest
- >day in U.S. history. We,as a nation, had a chance to turn the country around,
- >but we elected Bill Clinton. That's all we need.
-
-
- >PEROT '96 (If we make it that long)
-
- You seem to have missed the whole point of the Perot candidacy.
-
- As you may recall, I once supported Perot, because I share a lot of his
- beliefs.
-
- Paramount among them is that WE MUST CHANGE THINGS in this country. He
- didn't want to become a partisan object of politics, which you have
- turned him into by proclaiming "PEROT '96".
-
- He wanted to change the way things happen in this country. And he still
- does. And you should, too.
-
- It is pitiful and disgraceful to all that Perot stood for for you to be
- speaking like this.
-
- Perot lost. Get a grip on that. Then think about what YOU can do to
- help effect change in this country.
-
- Will you get anything changed by decrying how awful Bill Clinton is?
-
- Certainly not. The only way to change things is to work WITH Bill Clinton
- instead of against him, as Perot ably pointed out. We will soon have
- a man in the White House who will be receptive to new ideas. Please don't
- squander that opportunity with your disappointment that Perot did not win.
-
- Perot may well run in 96, and he may well be the right choice.
-
- But to write off Clinton from the very start is counter-productive to all
- of Perot's own aims, and what should be your own aims.
-
- You should be working with us to ensure that the Internet has a direct link
- to the Clinton administration, not using the Internet to mourn for your lost
- candidate.
-
- You should be ashamed. And you have no right to associate yourself with
- Perot until you understand what he stood for.
-
- Ben
-
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