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...there has been a sign that the 1992 presidential campaign will find relevance after all. Between the Republican Convention and Labor Day, the traditional start of the general election contest, odds of that happening seemed slight. George Bush and his minions seemed fixated on "family values," Bill Clinton's draft record and a deceptive numbers game over tax increases in Arkansas. The Democrats sounded on the verge of declaring class warfare -- trying to scare the elderly, veterans and students with unfounded charges that Bush would savage programs on which they depend. But suddenly last Thursday, Bush jerked attention away from...
...attorney in Baker that told Teeter two weeks ago to take another look -- "the way a trial lawyer would" -- at Clinton's contradictory descriptions of his draft record. Baker felt that the real value of the draft issue was not so much Clinton's behavior as a 23-year-old but his waffling and incomplete accounts of his actions and motives, and the questions they raised about his trustworthiness...
...past the Bush team had undercut its attacks on Clinton's draft record by couching them in ridicule and bombast. Under Baker's orders, Teeter asked campaign counsel Bobby Burchfield to pull together the record in a clear, undramatic fashion and let the public judge. Burchfield turned out a lengthy, side-by-side comparison of Clinton's comments over the past year that fueled numerous news reports. "Basically," says Burchfield, "this is a situation where the histrionics could very easily get in the way of the message we're trying to put out, which is look at what...
...draft was not the only cudgel the Baker forces were wielding against Clinton's integrity. Bush has begun to assert with increasing intensity that Clinton's record on the Gulf War, the North American Free Trade Agreement and even fuel economy standards for new automobiles is riddled with inconsistencies...
BILL CLINTON DID EVERYTHING HE COULD TO DODGE the draft, and George Bush was up to his neck in the Iran-contra affair. Assume these conclusions (as most people do) because available evidence and common sense effectively refute the candidates' denials. Now what? Leave aside the actions themselves; they are less troublesome than the dissembling designed to conceal them. Is one lie somehow worse than the other? Does one reflect more negatively than the other on a politician's fitness to serve as President...