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The First Attack Dog
David Limbaugh August 2, 2000
With only a half year left in his reign, his legacy starving for
some substance, and Al and Hillary getting all the attention, it
must be awfully tough to be Bill Clinton right now.
Apparently overcome by the urge to recapture the spotlight, the
president threw a couple of tantrums over the last few days in
Boston and Chicago. His rhetoric was remarkably unpresidential -
or should I say "unremarkably?" Since his understudy is now
running for president instead of him, I suppose it's appropriate
that Clinton has donned the role of head attack dog, making his
role reversal with Gore complete.
Before launching into his diatribe against George Bush, Dick
Cheney, Senate and House Republicans and the GOP in general,
Clinton said there is no need for negative campaigning this year.
I guess he meant there is no need for negative campaigning other
than by him. In Boston, Clinton ridiculed Bush to an audience of
Democrats replete with Kennedys. Clinton said that Bush thinks
he ought to be president because "(his) daddy was president." He
then mocked Bush and Republicans for trying to appear
"compassionate and humane."
Anxious to demonstrate his point, Clinton railed against
Republicans for failing to act on his proposal to raise the
minimum wage by a dollar to $6.15 an hour. Republicans, he said
"were still working overtime to give tax breaks to the tiniest,
wealthiest fraction of America's families and still doing nothing
for the 10 million people who would benefit from a boost in the
minimum wage."
A few days later Clinton spoke to a group of trial lawyers, who
presumably were not among those ten million. Wisely, he chose
not to emphasize his patented class warfare themes before that
group, which collectively paid him a handsome quarter million at
their modest little luncheon. Instead, he focused on more
uplifting themes, such as racist Senate Republicans blocking his
judicial appointments of blacks and Hispanics. Before you assume
I'm exaggerating, take a look at the president's words. "I've
been trying for seven long years to fix that, and they've blocked
every one. They're so determined to keep an African-American off
that they have allowed a 25 percent vacancy rate." Nothing
negative about that, Mr. Clinton.
In a frenzy to outdo himself, Clinton topped it off with a swipe
at Dick Cheney. He reminded the group how Cheney had voted
against recommending freedom for Nelson Mandela, saying it "takes
your breath away." It didn't take Cheney's breath away. He had
plenty left to refute these bogus and incendiary charges on the
Sunday talk shows. Cheney explained that in 1986 he voted
against a nonbinding resolution calling for Mandela's release
because it was packaged with a resolution calling for U.S.
recognition of Mandela's African National Congress, "a terrorist
organization." Cheney said that while he had always supported
efforts to free Mandela, he could not in good conscience support
a "terrorist organization."
Clinton wasn't out of breath either because he went on to tie the
two issues (minority judicial appointments and Mandela) together.
He likened his failed African- American and Hispanic judicial
appointments to Mandela, saying they are "being held in a
political jail because they can't get a hearing from this
Republican Senate."
A somewhat loftier theme emerged in Clinton's speeches over the
weekend. He contended that Democrat ideas are so superior that
Republicans are now trying to blur the distinctions between the
parties. Clinton has it exactly wrong.
While Bush will bring a message of inclusion to the "Philadelphia
convention" - that has a nice ring to it - he is not recommending
that the party abandon its principles. A review of the platform,
which Bush endorsed, confirms a Republican Party that is quite
unashamed of its conservative positions. On all of the
substantive platform battles, including abortion, gays in the
military, promoting English as the nation's common language,
limiting the role of the federal government in education, and
even abstinence education, conservatives prevailed.
I wonder if Al Gore sometimes wishes his boss would be a little
less conspicuous on the campaign trial. For a study in
contrasts, look to the Republican convention for a glimpse at the
type of leadership timber George Bush wants to bring to this
country. Perhaps Dick Cheney said it best: "We want to make
Americans proud again by giving them a president they can
respect."
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