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On Wed, 24 Jan 1996, fathers wrote:

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> Date: Wed, 24 Jan 1996 17:40:38 -0500
> From: jmerwin@mem.po.com
> To: fathers9@idt.liberty.com
> Subject: Re: (Part) 1996-01-23 President State of the Union Address (as delivered)
> 
> If anyone can verify which version is correct, please advise:
> 
> 1) A check will substitute for a parent's love and guidance. 
> This is what he actually said as referenced from the Office of the Press
> Secretary from http://www.whitehouse.gov
> 
> 2) A check will never substitute for a parent's love and guidance. 
> This is what he meant to say as recorded in the prepared speech as given
> to the New York Times.
> 
> I do not like who is in the White House.  But, I think he made a slip of
> the tongue and should not be buried for it.  He has done enough other
> things which  will cause his downfall.

I tend to think this was MORE than a fruedian slip.  Bill Clinton was the 
man who hired Bounty hunters in Arkansas because they weren't constrained 
the way police were (they could use deadly force, torture, or illegal 
tactics such as drugs and prostitutes to get their man).

Bill Clinton also supported initiatives for "Premptory Intervention" 
which enabled social workers to revoke visitation rights based on verbal 
statements of the mother and requiring extensive councelling, evaluation, 
and tharapy before the father was considered to have proven himself 
"worthy" to see his children under the supervision of a LSW.  The AMA and 
Social Worker community ate it up.

This is the issue Bill Clinton used when he was up against it in his 
early terms as governer.

By publishing the second version as the "pre-release", he prevented the 
press from toasting him seconds after the speech was made and left the 
public assuming that he meant to say what was in the pre-release.

The SLIP represents sentiments which are more consistent with his actions 
as a Governer and as President.  Mr Clinton's constituency is heavily 
vested in the "guilty until you've paid us enough to prove your innocent" 
mentality.

If he doesn't get out there and make some very public and frequent 
retractions, you should take it that he said what he actually intended to 
say.

> John Merwin
>
> [editor's note] One little slip of the tongue and you are in deep s...,
> just like dealing with the Mafia and ...... p....! 
> 
> 

	Rex Ballard - Director of Electronic Distribution
	http://cnj.digex.net/~rballard



From rballard@cnj.digex.net Thu Feb  8 01:27:36 1996