Clinton: A 'New Beginning' for the New World Order?
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ACTiON Vol. 10, No. 11 NOVEMBER 1992 50 CENTS Eyewitness: See page 10.
A different kind of Columbus Day this year Native Americans lead a march of 3000 on Oct. 11 during the Columbus Day protest activities in San Francisco. Throughout the Americas, thousands commemorated "500 years of resistance."
President-elect Bill Clinton told "Even as America's administrations change, America's interests do not."
These were the words of Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton on the day following his election as the 42nd president of the United States. The Democratic Party candidate, who defeated George Bush because he tapped into the electorate's disgust with the status quo, made it crystal clear, however, that he is definitely committed to the preservation of the international status quo.
"Today, I want to reaffirm the essential continuity in American foreign policy," he stated. Clinton has expressed his solidarity with the previous administration's wars in the Persian Gulf and Panama. And he has given warning to Saddam Hussein, Fidel Castro, and other opponents of the New World Order.
Clinton's election campaign was based on opportunism-pure and simple. He promised something for everyone. When he spoke to workers, he promised jobs. When he spoke to Blacks, Hispanics, and other minorities, he pledged social programs. When he spoke to women, he defended abortion rights. When he spoke to the elderly, he guaranteed healthcare.
Yet Clinton never explained where he was going to get the money to pay for all these promises. While Clinton was put in office by a tidal wave of anger and frustration created by this country's decaying economic conditions, he will soon find himself in a dilemma: He can't put people to work and improve the standard of living everyone what they of American working people while at the same time defending the interests of an economic system that is responsible for the recession.
And despite Clinton's "progressive" rhetoric, he was chosen as the candidate of the Democratic Party precisely because he wanted to hear. But as the economy worsens best represented capitalist partysocial justice, wi Clinton's rea executive of the GREYSPAPER AND A the rightward shift of this —not its commitment to lich was always illusory.
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