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Your attempt to portray Reagan as a bumbling, inept "twinkly uncle" insults our intelligence...
...strict legal sense, Stein's 200-page report will clear Meese: the grand jury involved returned no indictments. But Stein will also report that Meese had received personal loans from friends and, despite his denials, had later helped some of them land federal jobs. The report will portray him as being insensitive to the ethics expected of the nation's highest law-enforcement officer...
Meese may say that the investigation has cleared a him of wrongdoing. "You'd really have to have it in−for him to translate this stuff into criminal behavior," Stein has told others close to the investigation. Stein's report, however, is expected to portray Meese as an incompetent administrator who has been unable to select high-caliber aides or to keep his personal finances straight. Stein is known to believe that his report will make it even more difficult for Meese to win Senate confirmation. Republican Strom Thurmond, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said...
Mondale will portray Ronald Reagan as an extremist and a flaky showman while casting himself as a seasoned, responsible realist. He accuses the President of trying to "flim-flam the American people" and "skate by the election" without confronting hard questions like the federal deficit. Mondale expects to introduce part of his own budget plan this month, possibly including a pledge that new tax revenues would be used to reduce the deficit, not fund social programs...
...terms of the unratified SALT II nuclear arms treaty that he condemned as a candidate four years ago. Lately he has offered to meet with the Soviets. He has not abolished the Departments of Energy and Education, as promised. In all, the Democrats will find it harder to portray Reagan as a radical. Indeed, the G.O.P. platform, its language on taxes and classroom prayer sessions toughened up last week by the party's dominant right wing, puts Reagan in the remarkable position of running a bit to the left of his party's positions...