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- From: mpolen@suntory.mti.sgi.com (Mike Polen)
- Newsgroups: alt.discrimination,alt.politics.correct,alt.president.clinton,talk.politics.misc
- Subject: Re: Affirmative action is dead
- Date: 21 Dec 1992 19:07:03 GMT
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- Dr. Norman J. LaFave) writes:
- |> jimbo@leland.Stanford.EDU 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.
- |>
- |> I'm sorry, but this is the most idiotic statement made on the net in
- |> weeks. The author even has the operative word to shoot himself in
- |> the foot with in his posting! The operative word is "all"---we don't have
- |> "all" the answers. Anybody who tells you that they HAVE all the answers
- |> for our complicated economic and social ills is more than incompetant
- |> ---they are lying or stupid.
- |>
- |> Get a clue before you post.
- |>
- But jimbo is at Stanford. He has the luxury of having "all" the
- answers. Must be nice.
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