Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, March 4, 1993 TAG: 9303040421
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SPECIAL-INTEREST PLEADERS SURROUND CLINTON
YOUR CONSISTENTLY ultraliberal, leftist-leaning newspaper contained a news item on Feb. 14 quoting newly elected President Clinton. It stated that the president told his inner-circle advisers the day before that he was ready to do battle on Feb. 17 with the "special-interest groups" concerning his bold taxing and spending policy.In the first place, every major interest group in America has representatives surrounding the president. They are his inner circle. His Cabinet and House Speaker Tom Foley, Majority Whip Richard Gephardt, Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell and several others who are making policy with him are representative of special interests. Remember the record of some of these "key people." Foley, Gephardt and Mitchell each voted against the United Nations, the United States, 30 coalition countries and against the will of about 90 percent of the citizens of this country when we entered the Persian Gulf War against Iraq and the radical tyrant Saddam Hussein. All three were completely out of step with the conscience of America and its responsibility. They still are.
Draft-dodger Clinton said if he had been there to vote, he likely would have voted with the majority but that his heart would have been with the minority. Spineless coward as he is, he is asking us to be patriotic and to sacrifice. His Americanism is about as weak as the three so-called leaders named above. Had we depended on people like them, we would be up the creek without a paddle. Clinton's very utterance of the word "patriotic" nauseates me.
Clinton speaks of a new generation with new boldness. It's easy to be radically bold with the lives of others and with their money as long as it costs the proponent nothing.
With his theory (all out of books) with no pragmatism to back it, along with his nationwide special-interest lobbyists and beggars, we need to boldly blow the entire plan out before it gets into a psychological orbit with no end in sight. ROBERT JONES ROANOKE