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- From: niepornt@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (David Marc Nieporent)
- Subject: Re: Weinberger's Pardon
- Message-ID: <1993Jan3.123939.18521@Princeton.EDU>
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- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 12:39:39 GMT
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- In <1992Dec30.100400.6809@pegasus.com> tleylan@pegasus.com (Tom Leylan) writes:
- >mpolen@suntory.mti.sgi.com (Mike Polen) writes:
-
- >>So far, it is only Republican adminstrations that show a disdain
- >>for the law and a contempt for the public. If Clinton acts the same
- >>way, I will work to get him out as soon as possible.
-
- >Well if we're willing to close our eyes then "so far only Mike Polen has
- >demonstrated a disdain for the law and a contempt for the public".
-
- >Don't you at least recognize that you're making this "only Republican"
- >stuff up ? We all realize it... maybe you're only 12 - 16 years old
- >and only remember the last few adminstrations.
-
- >Perhaps you only think disdain exists at the Presidential level.
-
- Well, only the president and his subordinates really make up
- "administrations." By no stretch of the imagination is Marion Barry
- part of any administration.
-
- >Would you be happier if George Bush smoked crack like the last Mayor
- >of D.C. ? Oh that wasn't contempt for the law, the hooker he had in
- >the motel made him do it.
-
- Well, I *do* have contempt for that law. Plus contempt for entrapment.
-
- >Am I mistaken in recalling that the Kennedy administration admitted to
- >planning an assassination attempt on Castro ?
-
- Huh? Relevance? Congress hadn't forbidden this, unlike, say, sending
- money to the contras or arms to Iran.
-
- >I'm not asking you to kiss Bush's feet but raise your eyes and look
- >out over the horizon.
-
- --
- David M. Nieporent | Is it too early to start making predictions for 1993?
- niepornt@phoenix. | Probably, but that never stopped me before.
- princeton.edu | ALE: Baltimore ALW: Chicago NLE: Montreal NLW: Atlanta
- Baltimore Orioles 93 | AL MVP: Cal Ripken AL Cy Young: Mike Mussina
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