7/31/00 7:30 p.m.
Clinton Campaigned for Mandela's Jailer On Mandela,
Cheney voted the same way as Clinton's pal.
By Stephen F. Hayes
National Review
Apparently forgetting that he's not running for anything this
cycle, President Bill Clinton let loose Sunday with an angry
attack on someone who is:
Republican vice-presidential candidate Dick Cheney. Clinton was
outraged (outraged!) about a much-discussed 1986 vote that Cheney
cast when he was the lone Representative from Wyoming
"Now, all the big publicity is about, in the last few days, an
amazing vote cast by their vice-presidential nominee when he was
in Congress against letting Nelson Mandela out of jail," the
president said. "That takes your breath away."
If the Cheney vote took his breath away, Clinton might well be on
his knees, red-faced, clutching his throat and gasping for air
when he learns that 32 of his fellow Democrats voted with Cheney,
against the resolution.
And he might be thoroughly asphyxiated if he knew he spent all
day Monday campaigning for someone who had cast the exact same
vote: Florida Insurance Commissioner Bill Nelson.
Nelson for Senate campaign spokesman Dan McLaughlin said, "Bottom
line is that Nelson strongly supported two components of the
measure, and he considers Mandela one of the century's great
leaders. He could not support the third [component], recognizing
ANC because it was dominated by the communist party. This vote
should be looked at in context."
McLaughlin added, "I don't think the president would question
Nelson's record."
Clinton attended three fundraisers today for Nelson, a Democrat
vying for the seat of retiring Republican Senator Connie Mack.
Estimates before these events, benefiting the Nelson campaign and
the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, put their
collective value at $1.15 million.
Clinton's comments were somewhat more charitable than those he
aimed at Cheney 24 hours earlier. "I want to say that I'm
honored to be here for Bill Nelson. I've known Bill for, I don't
know, years and years and years, a long time. And he and Grace
have been friends of Hillary and mine for years. They and their
children came over to the White House and stayed with us. And
we've had the opportunity over the years at various encounters to
get to know one another, and I think the world of both of them."
"I think we need more people like them in Washington, people who
are civil and decent and reasonable and caring, and not just in
election season, not just as a part of a marketing strategy, but
because they think it's the right thing to do
All of this comes only days after one "Democratic strategist"
told New York Times reporter David Rosenbaum that plans were
already underway to run radio ads highlighting the Cheney vote on
predominantly black radio stations throughout the country. And
it comes only one month after Al Gore appeared on stage with
Nelson as part of the vice president's ill-fated "prosperity and
progress" tour, netting a cool $1 million for the Democratic
Party.
The Nelson and Cheney votes are far from the radical position
Democrats and the media have suggested. On its face, a vote to
keep Nelson Mandela in jail is troubling, to say the least:
Who�as Cheney has asked repeatedly in interviews-would want to
keep Mandela imprisoned? As always, context is crucial in
understanding congressional votes. Republicans, then in the
minority, tried without success to attach conditions to Mandela's
release. Specifically, they wanted language requiring Mandela to
renounce violence by his party, the African National Congress,
and assuring that the Communist elements of the party, which were
significant, be ousted from leadership. In fact, so strong was
the Communist faction of the ANC that Democrats refused to
include the Republican language, arguing that that negotiation
with Communists was inevitable and necessary, given their power.
Democrats then put the resolution to a vote without the GOP
language, and it failed.
Nelson, who was unavailable for comment because he was at the
third of the three fundraisers with the president, may have been
concerned about the ANC's strong Marxist faction. It was a
judgment that some 145 Republicans and 31 other Democrats �
including current congressmen Charlie Stenholm, Ike Skelton, and
William Lipinski � made at the time.
And, as Clinton said today, Nelson has good judgment. "I know we
ought to have people in the Senate who have the values and the
judgment, and just the way of operating that Bill Nelson does."
Same true for vice president?
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