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Dukakis not fit to lead country
EDITOR:
In recent weeks, I have read numerous letters praising Gov. Michael
Dukakis and degrading Vice President George Bush. I would like to
express my views, just as these people have done.
First of all, how can anyone who grants hundreds of “weekend
passes” to criminals (in other words, murderers and rapists) who are not
even eligible for parole have the country’s best interest in hand. These
criminals were just let out of prison and they were free to do whatever
they pleased. While out, some of them committed other crimes against
innocent people. If they had not been granted their passes, these innocent
people would not have been victimized. So how in the world can Dukakis
say he is tough on crime?
Second, it is questionable that Dukakis has the ability to head this
nation. He is governor of a state which is the size of a fingernail on a
national map! Now the guy wants to be president!
Third, the guy is against capital punishment and for abortion. That
really makes sense to defend murderers and kill innocent, unborn
children. Why not execute the criminals who are killing people and let
the unborn have the right to live?
Fourth, Bush is catching flack over his vice-presidential choice, Dan
Quayle. Well, at least he did not choose Quayle just to win a state rich in
electoral votes. It appears to me that the only reason Lloyd Bentsen was
chosen as Dukakis’ vice president is to win Texas. We know it was not
because they see eye-to-eye on issues.
Dukakis is for abortion and Bentsen is against it. Dukakis is against
aid to the Contras and Bentsen is for it. Bentsen is for a strong defense
and Dukakis is not. How can this duo work together in the White House?
Dukakis should have picked someone a little more liberal for his running
mate.
It is clear the one right for the job is George Bush. It’s kind of hard to
vote for someone as incompetent as Michael Dukakis.
Michael Butler ’91
Accompanied by 2 signatures
Lip reader: ‘Vote Democratic’
EDITOR:
I’ve been reading Republican lips. I read George Bush’s lips when he
said he would not raise taxes. But the fact is, Bush supported three tax
increases since making that promise.
Mr. Bush says he lives in Texas, wants to be tough on drugs, thinks
there are exceptions which would permit abortion, wants a kinder,
gentler America and is an advocate for gun ownership.
The facts are this: Bush claimed Maine as his official home (for a tax
break) while residing in a hotel in Texas and he replaced Noreiga (an
indicted drug dealer) on the CIA paid list after one administration
removed him. The Republican platform does not allow for abortion
exceptions (is he paying lip service to the platform). In his kinder, gentler
America, the homeless would be warehoused in old army barracks and
more children would be victims of abuse or abandonment (there are still
unadopted children in a world where Bush favors adoption as an
alternative). Bush is on record as voting for one of the strictiest gun
control bills in Congress during his brief time in that body.
Gov. Bill Clements says he is not responsible for a furlough program
more liberal than the one Massachusetts has (started by a Republican),
but the fact is he refused to work with the legislature during his first term
to build more prisons and has signed two bills liberalizing the furlough
terms for prisoners which includes murders and rapists. I also read his
lips when he promised “not to raise taxes” and then signed the largest tax
bill Texas has ever had. It turned out that his secret plan was to turn out
more criminals and raise more taxes than Mark White.
Voters, stop reading lips and read records. Vote Democratic.
Elizabeth Speakerman ’91
Accompanied by 25 signatures
Media doesn’t vote; you do
EDITOR:
The media has recently declared George Bush the winner. But the
election isn’t until Nov. 8. If this is true, then the media is the one who
really votes and not the people.
Is this a democracy where the media decides who wins an election? I
personally have no business making such a statement and neither do they.
I support Mike Dukakis and will vote for him. 1 also encourage all
Democrats and Independents to do so if they really support him. But
don’t let the media decide this election for you.
Your vote counts, even though it is one vote. But my vote and every
vote for Mike Dukakis will prove the media wrong if all Democrats vote
for him and against George Bush and his truthbusters. As far as the
Republicans, listen to the media and be disillusioned like you are with
Bush.
I look forward to seeing the media eat crow, as Bush will, for his lies
and the garbage that his campaign has been putting out. If Bush wins, it
will set a precedent that you can win by lying about your opponent’s
record and distorting his positions. But that is typical with Republicans
and history proves it. As Nixon said, “I’m not a crook,” Bush can say,
“I’m not a liar!”
That’s right George — say nothing, do nothing, hear nothing. What a
great president the media has chosen. Too bad the voters couldn’t have
picked someone smart like Mike Dukakis who tells the truth. If you can’t
take the truth George, get out of the White House kitchen.
Michael Castillo ’92
Bush’s advertisements troubling
EDITOR:
I taught American history for 15 years. Like a doctor or nurse who
still feels wonder after delivering thousands of babies, I felt a swell of
pride, year after year, when we discussed certain aspects of the nation’s
heritage.
I always felt proud, for example, that the majority of Americans
resisted the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s, the fascist and communist
movements of the 1930s, and McCarthyism in the 1950s. It seemed to me
that Americans were able to resist such threats because a majority of them
shared a broadly literate, culture.
Although I have never regarded Mr. Bush as a dangerous threat, his
presidential campaign — and particularly his Texas campaign —is
deeply troubling. Whoever is writing Bush’s ads seems to have studied
the mass psychology of fascism. The Bush ads are designed to touch the
worst in human nature: fear, prejudice and hate. What is even more
troubling is that the ads are successfully manipulating voters. If a
majority of people in this country can be so easily fooled, then the nation
is in the kind of danger it has always resisted before.
I have some things in common with Mr. Bush. Like him, I grew up in
a Republican family in Greenwich, Conn. Like him, I believe in the
value of volunteer service. Like him, I moved to Texas as an adult and
was elected to office in my adopted state. But unlike Mr. Bush, my
experiences never taught me that liberals were un-American or that
leadership depended on manipulating the fears, prejudices and hatreds of
voters.
I hope that Texans are too smart to believe that Lloyd Bentsen would
be on a ticket that wants to destroy military jobs in Texas. I hope that
Texans are too smart to believe that Mr. Dukakis would let all the
criminals out of prison. I hope that Texans are too smart to believe that
the governor of Massachusetts is not patriotic.
Both Mr. Dukakis and Mr. Bentsen have proven themselves to be
hard-working, creative and effective leaders. They deserve the thoughtful
consideration of every Texas.
Wendy Costa
Bush nothing but a bad clog
EDITOR:
Recently, the Aggie GOP has been handing out “Get out of jail free”
cards “courtesy of Michael Dukakis” on campus. On the back of the card
it states “Michael Dukakis is the killer’s best friend.”
This is completely untrue.
Mike Dukakis is no friend of killers. Gov. Dukakis’ brother was
killed by a hit-and-run driver. To say that Dukakis is a friend of the
person who killed his brother is absolutely cruel and sleazy. But then
again, this is the kind of lowball politics that has come to be expected
from the deceitful, vindictive Bush campaign.
It is obvious why the Republicans are resorting to this kind of
demagoguery. It is because the facts show that Mike Dukakis is tough on
crime. Crime in Massachusetts is down 13 percent under Gov. Dukakis.
Also, the homicide rate in Massachusetts is the lowest of any
industrialized state.
By the way, two people were murdered in California by prisoners
furloughed by then-governor Ronald Reagan. Is Ronnie the “killer’s”
other best friend?
Also, a minister’s wife was raped and murdered by a killer staying in
a halfway house set up with George Bush’s help. By the Aggie OOP’s
demented logic, the “killer” has three best friends.
If the Aggie GOP has an ounce of decency and fair play, they will
stop handing out those cards. At least Mike Dukakis and Lloyd Bentsen
are trying to enter the White House through the front door. Bush and the
Republicans seem intent on entering through the plumbing.
Mark Artlip ’91
Move over, Tricky Dick!
EDITOR:
As Michael Dukakis begins to slip farther and farther behind George
Bush in the pre-election polls, the American people are being presented
the real Michael Dukakis.
Lately, Dukakis has been crying foul over the “dirty” campaign
tactics and “outright lies” he alleges are being used by the Bush
campaign.
He seems to have forgotten about the incredible amount of mud
thrown at the Democratic Convention. He seems to have forgotten about
the very personal attacks against Vice President Bush employed by Ann
“Spike” Richards and the other Democrats. He seems to have forgotten
that he himself took an active role in this filthfest by comparing President
Ronald Reagan with a rotting fish on four national networks. And now he
and his hypocritic turncoat tail-kissing running mate Lloyd Bentsen have
reached a new low by trying to inject racism into the campaign for their
own political benefit.
Does anyone remember Dukakis’ rebuttal of Bush’s claim that the
governor raided the Massachusetts pension fund? I quote from the last
presidential debate: “May I just go back and say . . . that I didn’t raid the
pension fund .... Ypu’re dead wrong, George. We didn’t do that.”
Well, it appears that Kevin Blanchette, the Democratic chairman of
the Pension Committee in the Massachusetts House, had a different story
to tell. In an article in the Oct. 24 edition of The Wall Street Journal tit\ed
“October Surprise,” Blanchette reveals that Gov. Dukakis moved $27
million out of the nation’s most underfunded state pension system, just so
he could say that he had balanced the budget. It was also revealed that,
since July, the Dukakis administration has raided the pension funds for an
additional $625 million.
Move over, Richard Nixon! Let a real crook show you how it’s done!
Roy Sikes
Bush is not our man
EDITOR:
I am getting sick and tired of this Dukakis-bashing. I think it is totally
unfounded and based on cheap shots.
Bush has successfully branded Dukakis a “liberal.” Half the people
who are opposed to liberals don’t even give their ideas a chance. Dukakis
merely believes that it should be the woman’s choice whether or not to
have an abortion rather than a government matter. Pretty liberal if you
ask me.
Let’s take a look at how liberal Dukakis is. He is accused of opposing
guns. All he wants is a seven-day waiting period before purchasing a gun
so the government can determine whether the purchaser is a felon or
mental case. Wow, that’s liberal. It seems the patriotic hunters could wait
a week in order to decrease crime.
About this accusation that he’s soft on crime: crime in Massachusetts
has declined 15 percent during the Dukakis administration while the
crime rate in the rest of the nation continues to rise.
The ads say 286 felons escaped while on furlough. Four felons
actually escaped while the rest were in for misdemeanor crimes. Never
mind that Ronald Reagan had the same furlough program in California
and Dukakis got rid of it in Massachusetts. That’s irrelevant, right?
The Reagan administration has been riddled with the most corruption
since the Grant administration, even reaching the attorney general. And
Bush wants to continue the administration.' THAT may be the only
campaign promise he keeps.
Dukakis is supposedly soft on defense. Who are we fighting now?
Two hundred billion dollars for defense and we aren’t fighting anyone?
Reagan has managed to turn us into the number one debtor nation with
little chance of our posterity ever paying off the debt because we are
afraid of the Soviets getting the edge on us. Where is the stopping point?
Bush doesn’t think there is one.
On top of that, Mr. Bush is a tax evader. He was quoted as saying
that he does not want an IRS agent in every garage. That’s because they
caught him trying to take a $123,000 deduction on his income taxes.
Trying to chqat the taxpayers out of $123,000. Pretty patriotic, huh?
Not to mention the coverup of George’s partnership with the totally
corrupt Jorge Diaz Serrano from 1960-1966 by the destructin of 1,000
boxes of SEC records shortly after he became vice-president . . .
Hmmmm.
Also, the Reagan administration has repeatedly cut education in order
to fund defense. Dukakis wouldn’t do that.
And now George runs on family and the American flag. Leave it to
the American people to fall for that one.
Do we really want a president with that many skeletons in his closet? I
think not. All of Bush’s slanderous attacks on Dukakis have been
unfounded. I pray that the American people can wake up and face the
facts before they put another Richard Nixon back in the White House,
and make the RIGHT decision.
Curtis Beitel ’90
Mudslinging coming to an end
EDITOR:
The candidates in this year’s presidential campaign have done more
mudslinging than any candidates in recent history. Neither Bush nor
Dukakis has faced the issues. Yet each has done his best to discredit the
other. So far this election reads like the hype for a Don King promoted
fight.
Round One: Dukakis attacks Quayle’s National Guard service.
Round Two: Bush attacks Dukakis’ patriotism.
Round Three: Dukakis questions Bush’s role in the Iran-Contra
affair.
Round Four: Bush points out Dukakis’ furloughing of murderers from
prison.
I can’t wait until the election day so I can cast my ballot and this
verbal war will come to an end with one a w'inner and the other a loser.
Whether my candidate wins or not, at least the campaigning will be over.
Troy Hibbits ’92
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