JUST INSIDE THE DOOR
Jordan, June
JUST INSIDE THE DOOR June Jordan For Clinton, With Disgust Bill Clinton is not a pretty man. He's a liar. He's a coward. He's a killer bully clown. He drivels. He swivels. He's the man I'm...
...Five or six beats zero...
...And I was wrong...
...But not because I believe anything he says is true, or principled, or trustworthy, or deep, or merciful...
...And I'm voting for him...
...Because Clinton knows whatever he knows, but he doesn't give a damn about anything besides percentage points...
...Not nothing" is the best that anyone can say...
...I figure maybe five or six people's lives depend on the difference between Clinton and Dole...
...Because Clinton in 1992 described a democratic state as somewhere with "no life to waste," and I thought he was serious...
...Not stupid, ignorant, or senile, and he's just about indistinguishable from Pat Robertson on prisoner rights...
...I detest Bill Clinton: what he's not done and what he's done...
...He fired Joycelyn Elders...
...He humiliated Lani Guinier...
...And when did official/photo-op visits to burned church rubble become acceptable June Jordan, the poet, is professor of African-American Studies at the University of California-Berkeley...
...Not stupid, ignorant, or senile, and he signs that legal assault upon the welfare of the poor, and then he goes to war against the country of Iraq...
...And, so far, he hasn't attacked (the concept of) public education...
...I celebrated his election...
...I'm voting for that differential...
...Hypocritical rather than "Just Don't Do It...
...And I do not appreciate this set-up...
...So far, he appears certain that the L.A...
...And, excuse me: What's up about black women...
...And here we go again...
...I was wrong...
...And that's about it...
...All of this insults the lowest-common-denominator intelligence of the lowest level of low-life out here...
...He's the man I'm voting for...
...And who in the world cares about what Bill Clinton thinks about marriage, let alone same-sex marriages...
...It's beneath the bottom of the barrel...
...And he has made me feel worse than a fool...
...So far, he hasn't trashed (the concept of) universal health care...
...So far, he doesn't play ping-pong with Patrick Buchanan...
...And that's the choice...
...At the moment, that's the sum total to his credit...
...He "disappeared" Jonetta Cole...
...Clinton versus certifiable crazies...
...It's disgusting...
...I will vote for Clinton because I still believe there is "no life to waste...
...alternatives to anti-discrimination affirmative policies...
...And, so far, he hasn't bailed on abortion rights...
...Reliably turncoat versus reliably mean...
...Spineless as against insensible...
...Or serious...
...In 1992,1 voted for Bill Clinton because I guess I believed that to know the good is to choose the good...
...And if there's no money to feed and house and day-care and job-train needy children and their mothers, how come there's no problem paying for a war against Iraq—or any other convenient straw-man target in the Third World...
...It's a fact...
...He's the man I'm voting for...
...And, for the sake of the five or six people's lives potentially protected by the evanescent difference between Clinton and Dole, I will vote Democratic on the Presidential line.0...
...Dodgers do not belong in Brooklyn...
...And how does he get his mouth around rhetorical garbage blaming legal and illegal immigrants for our collapsing post-industrial economy of, for, and by the fewer and fewer of the few...
...And I was wrong...
...And I hate it...
...Not stupid, ignorant, or senile, and he did what to stop "ethnic cleansing" in Bosnia...
...It's disgusting...
...I will vote for him, again...
Vol. 60 • November 1996 • No. 11
