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- From: eyc@acpub.duke.edu (EMIL CHUCK)
- Newsgroups: alt.rush-limbaugh,alt.politics.bush,alt.politics.clinton,talk.politics.misc
- Subject: Time to mix the pot: was it a mistake?
- Summary: Concerning the lifting of the banning of homosexuals
- Message-ID: <7073@news.duke.edu>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 18:56:30 GMT
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- My comments are surrounded by number/pound signs. Editing fillers are
- indicated by brackets or double carets.
-
- Thomas Friedman of the NYT News Service wrote (as printed in my school
- paper the _Chronicle_):
-
- ...After talks on Sunday night with Clinton and his wife Hillary,
- [Clinton and the Democrats] vowed to cooperate on a shared agenda of
- legislation to create jobs, affordable health care, middle-class tax
- relief and disciplined deficit reduction and to improve the long-term
- competitiveness of the American economy.
- As he has throughout the transition, Clinton made no attempt to
- disguise the fact that his wife is playing an advisory role. Although
- she was not present at the news conference, Hillary Clinton took part in
- Sunday night's dinner talks.
- Clinton said she sat in on all the discussions, adding that "she
- talked a lot," and "knew more than we did about some things -- I think
- they would agree with that."
- Clinton sounded conciliatory notes -- as on his campaign demands
- for a cut in the size of the congressional staff. After talking with his
- three guests <<VP-elect Al (Winkin) Gore, House Speak Tom (Blinkin)
- Foley, House Majority leader Dick (Nod) Gephardt, and Senate Majority
- leader George (hey, I thought there were three guests!) Mitchell>>, he
- said he no longer believed such a cut was needed and promised to slash
- the size of the White House staff. But the news conference was often
- diverted by questions about Clinton's plans for lifting the ban on
- homosexuals in the military. ...
-
- ### Kiss that ass, Bill. (Pun not intended originally.) ###
-
- Clinton spiced his boilerplate remarks about working closely
- with Congress with some pointed jabs at the Bush administration.
- He went out of his way, for example, to say he hoped the size of
- the budget deficit his administration will inherit from President Bush
- has not been "understated for next year and the year after," adding that
- he was now trying to "get to the botton of the figures." ...
-
- ### Rush is right again. The Democrats are going to blame the ghosts of
- Presidents Reagan and Bush for the deficits when they realize the
- deficit won't be reduced through their programs. ###
-
- The persistent discussion in recent days of the ban on
- homosexuals in the military appears to be more the result of a
- miscalculation by Clinton than a choice. Clinton aides acknowledge they
- have had a hard time adjusting from the campaign -- where the candidates
- shout as much as possible at the public and hope that something sticks
- -- to being president-elect, when every word is suddenly translatable
- into policies.
- The issue was raised last Wednesday when Clinton, answering a
- reporter's question after his Veteran's Day address, acknowledged that
- he intended to fulfill his campaign promise on this issue. In that the
- issue was the first policy pronouncement he had made, it dominated the
- headlines and made television news.
- Now the issue has taken on a life of its own. Various active and
- retired military officers, along with <<GA Sen. (D) who heads the Armed
- Services Committee, *breath* Sam>> Nunn, cautioned the president-elect
- that lifting the ban would be insensitive to military men and women who
- live at close quarters in barracks.
-
- ### Excuse me? In a campaign, you shout as much as possible and "hope
- that something sticks"? Hmmm.... ###
- --
- Emil Thomas Chuck eyc@acpub.duke.edu Biomedical Engineering 1993
- THANK GOD IT'S BASKETBALL SEASON!!!!!
- I don't have to have a 4.0 GPA to succeed in life because I'm
- good enough, I'm smart enough, and doggone it, people like me.
-