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AFTER Bill Clinton lost the governor's race in 1980 (and before coming back in '82), he told the Florida democratic convention how to win an election: "If your opponent picks up a hammer at you," he said, "you need to pick up a meat ax...
...this election, Bush should get ready for the meat ax...
Republicans lavished 37% on the upstart Pat Buchanan, an intensely focused right-wing commentator and old Nixon-Reagan speechwriter who uses ideas like ax handles. Those votes were less an expression of faith in Buchanan than an angry gesture directed at Bush, at his broken promises ("Read my lips: no new taxes") and at what many saw as his almost bizarre disconnection from the realities of American life, especially life in New Hampshire, which has been in an economic slump since 1989. At the end of the primary campaign, Bush showed up at a "town meeting" in Goffstown...
...downstairs we have scheduling and constituencies."This is Lois, who does Central America and Peaceand I don't know what-all. This is Carol, who doeswomen's issues, and Barbara, who handles unions."Two aides sit studying an architectural drawing;one is saying "And he doesn't want co-ax drapedall through the fucking house either. This guy isa giver, and the boss says the job has to betight...
...Kuwaitis died during their imprisonment, usually after gruesome torture. Limbs were broken, eyes gouged out, ears and genitals cut off. In one case, a man was half immersed in a vat of acid. Men were killed by bullets, women by hanging, and victims of both sexes were executed by ax...