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Scrapbook HEROES & VILLAINS OF THE PARTIAL-BIRTH BATTLE The Senate may have failed to override President Clinton’s veto of the partialbirthabortion ban last week, but the total and...
...Junior Grade Ross Perot began a failed effort to get out of the Navy after two years of service rather than the four required for Annapolis graduates...
...As Dole biographer Richard Ben Cramer describes it, steel fragments shattered his shoulder and collarbone and “smashed into his vertebrae, crushed a piece of his spine, it was broken, the spinal cord was knocked out...
...Turns out, Cohen says, he really didn’t do any research before opining in favor of the procedure...
...Cicconi was using numbers from the Joint Economic Committee—numbers that did not take into account, as the Dole campaign previously had, Clinton’s proposed targeted tax cuts, which reduce the size of his tax increase from $188 billion to $63 billion...
...She talked on and on...
...Rick Santorum, a Pennsylvania Republican, posed a hypothetical question to Sen...
...but once he did, he came to see it as indistinguishable from infanticide...
...What if, after delivering everything but the baby’s head (at which point partial-birth “abortions” are performed), the doctor accidentally allowed the baby’s head to slip out...
...TURMOIL ON THE DOLE PLANE Taxes were the Dole message last week, and Bob Dole began with a speech about his tax plan, a speech he had carefully vetted in the days before he flew to Detroit to deliver it...
...writes a disgusted Katha Pollitt in the October 7 issue of the Nation...
...By the way, it would have been nice if the words “partial-birth abortion” had escaped Bob Dole’s lips last week...
...THE HERO The pernicious dwarf has gone too far this time...
...While we’re on the subject, we would like to offer a tribute to the Washington Post’s Richard Cohen, who wrote a remarkable column last week reversing himself on partialbirth abortion...
...one that is of particular importance to swing Catholic voters...
...He advised that Perot be given a “purely administrative” assignment on land away from the Navy’s ships...
...It’s hard to tell, because Boxer refused to answer Santorum’s query...
...Exactly ten years later, in April 1955, Lt...
...A supposed war hero...
...But the one thing she never did was declare her opposition to killing a fully delivered baby...
...Frantic phone calls from the plane to Dole HQ in Washington ensued...
...LEFTIE OP-ED OF THEWEEK “Vote for Clinton again...
...Cohen’s mea culpa was an impressive and large-spirited gesture and an example of genuine intellectual honesty...
...It is, after all, an issue on which over 75 percent of Americans are on his side...
...As were the two Washington Post articles the week before that helped change Cohen’s mind, by reporters David Brown and Barbara Vobejda...
...In other words, does Barbara Boxer think infanticide should be legal...
...When his radio man was hit, Dole, then 21 years old, crawled out from the cover of a bomb crater to drag his fellow soldier to safety...
...He couldn’t feel anything below his neck...
...He hated the Navy and pestered his superiors for an early discharge...
...She began with a discussion of her support for Roe v. Wade— which says nothing about partialbirth abortion—and then wandered off into a discussion of how “this entire subject should be left to the privacy of families, to the religious convictions of our people...
...Here’s an illustration of how badly they did: On September 24, Sen...
...Also in July 1955, Perot’s destroyer division commander, Captain G.H...
...Unbelievable...
...But he can’t...
...Now, here’s a guy that’s supposed to be a war hero,” said Ross Perot of Bob Dole...
...Dole was irritated, and nervous...
...The factoid claimed that the new taxes Bill Clinton has been advocating would cost the treasury $188 billion...
...On April 14, 1945, the 85th Mountain Regiment, Third Battalion, advanced on Hill 913 in Italy’s Po Valley...
...and one that proves Dole’s contention that Clinton is beholden to the extreme left of his party...
...Boxer: Maybe we’re now beginning to see the logic of your position...
...THE DWARF VS...
...Bob Dole, came under a torrent of steel as Germans fired everything they had—machine guns, mortars, and grenades—to halt their advance...
...Miller, sent an official letter to the chief of naval personnel advising that Perot was “emotionally maladjusted for a regular Navy career...
...the author of the new factoid turned out to be James Cicconi, a James Baker prot?g...
...As Voltaire is said to have replied when the Marquis de Sade invited him to a second orgy, since he’d enjoyed the first one so much: ‘No thanks...
...The 2nd Platoon of I Company, led by Lt...
...Would the doctor and the mother, asked Santorum, still have the right to kill the fully delivered baby...
...He couldn’t move...
...The Germans then fired on Dole and wounded him from behind...
...Previously, the Dole campaign had been saying that the tax hikes would total some $63 billion...
...Once is philosophy, twice is perversion.’” Wow...
...The final draft was handed to him on the plane Monday morning, and Dole—who is very concerned that the numbers he uses in his speeches be sound and immune to cheap attack— immediately spotted a factoid in the speech he had never seen before...
...Congratulations, Mrs...
...and Bush White House aide, who stuck it in at the last minute without telling anyone...
...That emotional maladjustment continues to this day...
...Scrapbook HEROES & VILLAINS OF THE PARTIAL-BIRTH BATTLE The Senate may have failed to override President Clinton’s veto of the partialbirthabortion ban last week, but the total and staggering inability of the pro-Clinton forces to make anything resembling a coherent argument was testimony to the fact that a) the procedure is indefensible and b) abortion backers feel, nonetheless, they have to fight for every form of abortion with absolutist fervor...
...he wanted to know who was responsible for fiddling with a text he had approved and changing numbers he had understood...
...Perot’s requests resulted in the following evaluations from his superiors: Rear Admiral J.C...
...The fact that the plane went into a frenzy and that the speech reverted to the more scrupulously fair number stands in staggering contrast to the Clinton campaign, which is still throwing around fake numbers like “100,000 new cops on the street” and “12 million people have used the Family and Medical Leave Act” even though they have been proved false time and again...
...But Dole’s friend was dead...
...Barbara Boxer, a California Democrat...
...You’d think he’d be willing to stand up and talk to another person, wouldn’t you...
...But no, addressing this issue that actually does shed light on the moral bankruptcy of the Clinton administration would have taken the Dole campaign “off message...
...Daniel, then head of destroyer forces in the Atlantic, wrote to the secretary of the Navy and the chief of naval personnel in July 1955 that this behavior “indicates that Perot is too immature to be entrusted with the leadership responsibilities inherent in sea duty...
Vol. 2 • October 1996 • No. 4
