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Saturday, February 05, 2000 Page: 8A
Anyone who likes grossly offensive and highly obscene jokes should have
been listening at 9 o’clock Thursday, Jan. 27. This particular dirty joke
lasted for 89 minutes, and it was a fitting culmination of the seven-year
stain on our country’s presidency.
William Jefferson Clinton called for national licensing for gun purchasers,
“just as drivers are licensed throughout the country.” He didn’t remind his
audience that a driver’s license from one state is good in every state. If gun
purchasers were really licensed like drivers, citizens could buy guns outside
their home states – a concept that would make his friends in Handgun Control
Inc. squeal like stuck pigs. In Clintonese, I guess it depends on what you
mean by “like a driver’s license.”
Clinton and Al Gore should have been in Northeast Pennsylvania this week to
experience the global warming issue. The Kyoto Global Warming Treaty would
require the United States to cut its energy use by, for example, raising
energy taxes. This would make American goods more expensive and export U.S.
jobs to the Clinton-Gore campaign donors in mainland China. Mr. Clinton also
talked about cars that could get 70 or more miles per gallon: tiny econoboxes
that give their passengers almost no impact protection and that could never
handle a snowstorm like the two we’ve just experienced.
Benjamin Franklin promised us “a republic, if you can keep it.” The
American people have already been fooled twice, in 1992 and 1996, so shame on
us.
The election of Clinton protege Albert “I Invented the Internet” Gore in
2000 would be prima facie evidence that the American people are no longer fit
to enjoy the republic that our Founding Fathers created for us 224 years ago,
and that generations of American veterans have preserved for us at a high cost
in blood and treasure.
William A. Levinson
Wilkes-Barre