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- From: pajerek@telstar.kodak.com (Don Pajerek)
- Subject: Re: Affirmative action is dead
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.163555.29418@kadsma.kodak.com>
- Keywords: quotas
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- Reply-To: pajerek@telstar.kodak.com (Don Pajerek)
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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 16:35:55 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec21.025537.4756@leland.Stanford.EDU> jimbo@leland.Stanford.EDU (Godfather of Soul) writes:
- >
- >A Clinton quote after the "economic summit" was "We don't have all the
- >answers and we probably never will". I'm glad 43% of the American
- >electorate voted for someone who admits he doesn't have the answers.
- >I'm not sure he evens knows the question. What utter incompetence.
- >
- >James
- >
- >--
- >James W. Brown - I dream of the day when conservatives learn -
- > - the difference between a sin and a crime and -
- > - liberals learn the difference between a -
- > - virtue and a requirement. --William A. Niskanen -
-
-
- 'utter incompetence'? Compared to who? What would your reaction have been
- if Clinton had said something more like, 'Well, thanks for your time, now
- I have all the answers.'? Would 'insufferable arrogance' be about right?
-
- Anyone who claims to have all the answers, including yourself, Mr. Brown,
- is expressing nothing more than vast overconfidence in their own
- knowledge and competence.
-
- As for 'knowing the question', if you had heard Clinton's opening remarks
- it would have been eminently clear that Clinton has a rather clear grasp
- of the 'question'.
-
- And why stop at 43% ? Another 19% voted for someone who also admitted to
- not having the answers, and who said only that he would, after taking office,
- convene panels of experts to make recommendations.
-
- This leaves 38%, who presumably voted for someone who *did* have all the
- answers. :-)
-
-
- Don Pajerek
-
- Standard disclaimers apply.
-