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...most desperate use of Kissinger like logic, he implies that Gov. Bill Clinton is a draft-dodging hippie America-hater, even though people like John Kerry have dispelled that image forever...
Bush-Quayle campaign officials, led by Chief of Staff James A. Baker III, are in the process of tenderizing Gov. Bill Clinton over the draft and tax-and-spend issues. The plan, it seems, is to muck him up so much that some reporter--rather than a more professorial, single moderator--will cut him to the quick, either with some alleged new information or stylistically, as was done with Dukakis...
...before the National Guard convention in Salt Lake City. Even the Clinton team admits that Bush played like an international grand master. The first move belonged to the President, who announced at the last minute that he would speak to the National Guard, presumably to attack Clinton on the draft. Clinton responded by scrambling his schedule and racing to Salt Lake City...
Bush, speaking first, surprised Clinton by taking the high road, skirting the draft issue while making an eloquent case that combat experience helps forge a better President. In what Clinton aide Paul Begala calls a rush "cut- and-paste job," the Democratic nominee then deleted an elaborate defense of his draft record from his own speech to change its emphasis to (surprise!) the economy. The result: a drawn game...
Still 10 to 12 points ahead in most polls, Clinton can better afford to hang tough. Aside from differences on format, Bush is delaying in part to give his attacks on Clinton's draft record time to sink in with the public, putting Clinton on the defensive in the first debate while taking some pressure off the incumbent. But if Bush can narrow Clinton's edge in the polls quickly, officials say, he may not need to debate at all. Said a White House official last week: "If we were within 5 points, I'd say we shouldn't debate...