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- From: matt@cray.com (Matthew Marchese)
- Subject: Re: CLINTON: The Majority of Americans Didn't Vote for Me, Anyway.
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.031045.791@walter.cray.com>
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- References: <C13ACA.ED7@newsserver.technet.sg> <C13st9.14y@panix.com>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 03:10:45 CST
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- In article <C13st9.14y@panix.com> jak@panix.com (Jack Krueger) writes:
- >In <C13ACA.ED7@newsserver.technet.sg> ipser@solomon.technet.sg (Ed Ipser) writes:
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- >
- >>Having found that the "changing circumstances" excuse for a record-breaking
- >>breaking of campaign promises wasn't washing very well with the American
- >>voter, Slick Willie's apologists in the media are offering a new explanation:
- >>Namely, that a majority of Americans didn't vote for Slick Willie and his
- >>various campaign promises, anyway, so he should feel free to dispose of them
- >>as he pleases.
- >
- >>Is it any wonder Americans have become so cynical about politics?
- >
- >Any individual, no matter how obscure, who knows what being responsible
- >*is*, knows the distinction between a promise and a goal.
- >
- Trouble is, Clinton doesn't seem to know the difference and
- neither does his staff. They've been scrambling to redefine his
- promises as "goals" for a couple of weeks now. Where was this
- loving, forgiving attitude when George said, "Read my Lips"?
- This kind of mealy-mouthed grovelling to cynical politics
- doesn't play too well after 12 years of acknowledged masters
- of the art in the Oval Office.
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- >Clinton seems to know the distinction and there are many who have not
- >evolved, not even through the generous help of cyberspace.
- >
- Clinton seems to be willing to change his definition of promise at
- the drop of a hat. It's his disingenuous rationalizing of his
- backtracking that's so irksome, not the fact that he backs off
- of campaign promises.
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