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...artificial pleasantness that pervades the debates is an attempt to respond to the American public's distaste for the partisan bickering that is so common in Washington. Also, both presidential candidates are concerned with overcoming the negative facets of their images. Bob Dole is trying to shed his reputation as a grouchy old hatchet man, and Bill Clinton is still seeking to appear statesmanlike and presidential, above the scandals of Paula Jones, Whitewater and Filegate...
...regards the two most recent foreign policy crises, Dole's performance has been uninspiring and, given his own record, even shameless. On Iraq, Dole blames Clinton for Saddam Hussein's harassment of the Kurds. What Dole avoids is his own history of placing parochial politics before the national interest. Consider only one example: in 1990, after Saddam had gassed 5,000 Kurds and was threatening his neighbors, Dole thought first and exclusively about his farmer constituents. He was one of the few Senators who urged that Baghdad not be punished with trade sanctions for its brutality, a stance that caused...
...last week, after Clinton valiantly tried to jump-start talks between Israel and the Palestinians, Dole rushed to denounce the President for the failure to reach any substantial agreement. From the sidelines Dole criticized Clinton's "photo-op foreign policy." And then (you guessed it) Dole jetted in from the campaign trail for a 15-minute photo-op of his own with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Afterward, Dole served up this not so penetrating insight: "The most important objective ... is to end the violence. We can stand clearly in support of [the] peaceful resolution of differences," but "the U.S. cannot...
...past, Dole has been eloquent about the need for a bipartisan foreign policy--and last fall told me that "sometimes the best thing to do if you have the nation's interests in mind is to shut up." Now that's advice worth considering...
...grain milling division, that they would face criminal indictments in the lysine case. No indictments have yet been handed down. Coming just two days before the second and final Presidential debates is scheduled to begin in San Diego, the news was particularly unwelcome for Republican presidential nominee Bob Dole, a longtime friend of Dwayne Andreas. Since 1979, Dole has received more than $475,000 from Andreas, his company and members of his family. In exchange, Dole is believed to have helped pass tax subsidies for ethanol, a corn-based fuel, and to have championed the sugar-price support program that...