List of Clinton Campaign Promises
These were taken, by Rush, directly from Bill Clinton's campaign speeches - during both of his presidential campaigns. Now, after typing them, I remember why I voted Bush!
Count how many were fulfilled. I won't tell you how many I counted, but I have placed a few comments by several. Among other things, I colored each of the promises to CUT MILITARY SPENDING in red and I colored everything favorable to the military in green.
I also, just for giggles, colored everything that's helpful to our "enemies" in dark yellow and everything that might have helped our "friends" in black.
My comments are in gray, and everything that's simply politics or lying, outright, is in dark blue.
1. "Vote for me and we'll produce more natural gas in Texas" (What did he intend to do, drill wells himself? That certainly would have gone over well with the rest of the Democratic Party!)
2. "The West should establish a $6 billion fund to stabilize the Russian ruble"
3. "I will streamline the federal government and change the way it works, cut 100,000 bureaucrats and put 100,000 new police officers on your streets of American cities" (As I remember it, I think the 100,000 bureaucrats are now 1,000,000 and the 100,000 police officers are 10,000)
4. "I promise you I will never bash public employees" (No, if you believe some accounts, he simply "eliminated" them in one form or another)
5. "I would want the first judge I appointed to believe in the right to privacy and the right to choose"
6. "[What] would work is to raise the top tax rate on people with gross incomes above $200,000 to 35% or 36% and put a surtax on people with incomes of $1,000,000 or more a year" (Right! Punish everybody who works hard! That seems to be the Democrat way - take from the working to give to the lazy).
7. "We should pay up -- and pay now -- the past dues we owe to the U.N." (Why? So they can continue bashing us while they enjoy the hosting we extend them? Shoot! I think we should kick the UN out of the US!)
8. "If I become president, we will keep a kosher kitchen in the White House"
9. "Under our health care system, all Americans will have access to quality and affordable health care through coverage from their employer, or if they're unemployed, through the government" (Hm, I noticed the singular lack of reference to the self-employed. I also noticed my experience. I'm retired from the military and ONCE HAD medical coverage because of that. No longer! Thanks Bill!!)
10. "I want a leaner bureaucracy and more investment" (Right! Everybody goes on a diet and gives the Democratic Party the money they saved on food)
11. "A national apprenticeship program for non-college-bound young people so they can get good jobs, fully fund Head Start -- those things are not terribly expensive"
12. "To the fathers who have chosen to abandon their children by neglecting child support. Take responsibility for your children or we will force you to do so"
13. "U.S. troop levels can be safely reduced to a force in the range of 75,000 - 100,000"
14. "As soon as the Pentagon issued a study which said there was no basis in national security for discriminating based on sexual orientation of Americans who wish to serve in the military, I said I would act on the study" (Want a reason for "no gays in the military"? National Security! Personal security! I served 22 years in the military and would certainly NOT WANT to have to depend on a homosexual for my security. Sorry y'all, that's how it is)
15. "I am going to send Al Gore to Capitol Hill to take the lead in passing our program in the first 100 days of the new administration"
16. "I would bring in all the players within the first 60 days and tell them to develop a national health care plan"
17. "The Clinton-Gore Administration will view the support of generic industrial technologies as a priority mission" (Sure! So we can give everything we learn to the Chinese)
18. "My first priority would be to pass a jobs program to introduce it on the first day I was inaugurated"
19. "My plan offers $50 billion in new investments over the next four years -- new incentives for the private sector, and investment tax credit, urban enterprise zones, new business tax incentives, research and development incentives and others"
20. "At the very least, 10% of the $76 billion that the government now spends each year on research should be redirected from the Pentagon's research effort to civil efforts"
21. "We can give you a country again where we are pro-growth and pro-environment, where we are pro-business and pro-labor, where we are pro-civil rights and pro-civil order, where we are pro-family and pro-choice" (Yes, a politician can do that - also where we're each, all good and all bad, all white and all black, all male and all female)
22. "When it comes to AIDS, there should be a Manhattan Project" (After reading my comments a bit above this, I guess you don't want to know my views on "manhattaning")
23. "We can pledge right now that for every dollar we reduce the defense budget on research and development, we'll increase the civilian R&D budget by the same amount"
24. "I want to increase federal funding for research, prevention and treatment [for AIDS]"
25. "I support a strong American role in the UN and with the EC to end Serbian agression. I have supported the use of multilateral military force if necessary"
26. "My administration will stand up for democracy and buttress democratic forces in Haiti, Peru and throughout the Western Hemisphere"
27. "We need not just a new generation of leadership, but a new gender of leadership. This is the minority I enjoy being in" (Boy! He sure proved that last part!)
28. "Those who can [after two years on welfare] will have to go back to work, either by taking a job in the private sector or through community service"
29. "The United States should lead the fight to slow global warming, instead of dragging our feet and ignoring important scientific data"
30. "I want to appoint one person, man or woman, to oversee and coordinate all federal efforts related to this issue [AIDS]"
31. "A Clinton-Gore Administration will not permit American firms again to sell key technologies to outlaw states like Iraq" (!!!No, he simply GAVE those technologies away!!!)
32. "I certainly will give every consideration to Hispanic candidates for the Supreme Court"
33. "The old adage 'mi casa es su casa' will be true when my house is the White House"
34. "All the money by which we reduce defense research and development I would put immediately into domestic, commercial research and development"
35. "I will elevate economics; create an Economic Security Council similar to the National Security Council" (Well, he DID create the Clinton Defense Fund)
36. "My administration will reduce our forces, but maintain a credible presence in Europe and Asia"
37. "I want people like some of you in this audience to be a part of a Clinton Administration, not because of or in spite of your sexual orientation, but because America needs you"
38. "You live in a country that makes it harder to raise children than any other country in the world. You vote for me and I'll give you family values" (Yeah, all due to over 50 years of our illustrious Democrat leadership)
39. "If I become president, I will continue to reach out to the American people. I'll get back on a bus when I'm president. I'll go back and have town meetings and let ordinary people ask me questions. I will not hide behind the walls of the White House" (No, he simply closed off all access to the place)
40. "After this election is over, I will continue to reach out to the American (whoops)"
41. "If I become president, I will have a cabinet that looks like America" (yeah, he stole one as he was leaving the White House)
42. "My strategy puts people first by investing more than $50 billion each year for the next four years to put America back to work -- the most dramatic economic growth package since WWII"
43. "With the dwindling Soviet threat, we can cut defense spending by more than a third by 1997"
44. "I propose that the US must take the lead in putting together a bridge loan to help Russia make the transition from its old system to its new economy"
45. "Middle-class taxpayers will have the choice between a children's tax credit or a significant reduction in their income tax rate" (I must have missed this, going to have to go back and check my tax return records)
46. "Vote for me and we'll conserve more energy all over America"
47. "We'll restore the dignity of blue-collar work by guaranteeing an apprenticeship program to every non-college-bound student in the USA"
48. "We will link China's trading privileges to its human rights record and its conduct on trade and weapons sales"
49. "We'll seek to raise the average goal for automakers to 45 mpg"
50. "We'll pass a national bottle bill to encourage recycling by creating small deposits on all glass and plastic bottles" (Well, at least he created a small deposit on something)
51. "I will not raise taxes on the middle class to pay for these programs"
