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These days washington seems to be filled with white men who make black people uneasy, like Newt the slasher, Bill the waffler and Jesse the crank -- Helms, that is, not Jackson. But the scariest of all the hobgoblins may well be a fellow African American, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. In the four years since George Bush chose him to fill the "black seat" vacated by Thurgood Marshall, Thomas has emerged as the high court's most aggressive advocate of rolling back the gains Marshall fought so hard for. The maddening irony is that Thomas owes his seat to precisely...
...seems a "no-brainer" to many foreign- policy experts. Clinton had only to order execution of a plan that sat in Pentagon computers -- and he could not decline without inviting devastating comparisons with George Bush. Nonetheless, he did it, so rapidly and decisively as to appear anything but the waffler of the political cartoons...
...even could, at long last, deny Clinton the White House. After getting nowhere with various other lines of attack, Bush has begun, though possibly too late, to score with a new charge: Clinton is a waffler who takes every side of every issue, a spendthrift liberal who will eventually tax the daylights out of the middle class because he cannot finance his ambitious * schemes any other way; altogether, a man who cannot be trusted in the White House. The attack is overstated, but Clinton has virtually invited it by putting forward plans whose numbers do not always...
...real waffler? First [Bush] was pro-choice, then he was anti-choice," Kim responded...
...Like every politician who comes out of nowhere to hit the big time, Clinton remains something of an enigma, the more so since he often seems a bundle of contradictions: a visionary leader and a poor manager; a propounder of bold programs and a waffler who talks on both sides of hot issues. All of which raises the insistent question: Is Clinton for real -- not only as front runner but as man, as Governor, as candidate? An attempt at some answers...