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...bigots and the bullies. But this never, even in a rhetorical sense, became a consistent Clinton theme. He dropped the gays like a flaming potato, suggesting they might serve in special lavender units; he abandoned the Haitians on their leaky rafts; he snubbed the unions by sticking to NAFTA and forgetting to raise the minimum wage; he cowered before the mining and timber interests. He felt for the underdog, as he never tired of telling us, but whenever the overdogs began to howl, he obediently rushed back toward the right...
...know he doesn't like my state . . . but that doesn't have much to do with America." Three senior officials -- Trade Representative Mickey Kantor, Labor Secretary Robert Reich and Council of Economic Advisers chairwoman Laura Tyson -- appeared at a press briefing to answer in advance the attacks on NAFTA Perot was preparing to make in a TV speech Sunday night...
Administration officials are also trying to set up a special task force charged with further monitoring and answering Perot's assaults on NAFTA, but it is not staffed yet. Even so, the Administration seems stumped. Suffering in silence or making restrained replies when unavoidable plainly is not working. But trading raspberry for raspberry with Perot might only lower Clinton's presidential dignity without being very effective either; it is Perot's natural style but hardly Clinton's. The White House has not yet found a way out of that dilemma...
Clinton was at first reported to be "extremely upset," then avuncularly forgiving -- Panetta needed "bucking up." Next, denial set in: a nuanced refusal that NAFTA was in trouble and a loud rejection of further health-plan delay. To some it makes little sense to postpone the health plan if it is going to make up a large part of the budget. But many Democrats, even in the Administration, agree that Clinton is oversubscribed. And on Friday the President added one more brick to his load; a government takeover of the student-loan program, which will lower collegians' interest rate...
...speakers said the NAFTA plan will improve these conditions, while creating a more favorable image of Hispanics...