Path: bloom-picayune.mit.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!americast.com!americast.com!americast-post Newsgroups: americast.twt.news From: americast-post@AmeriCast.Com Organization: American Cybercasting Approved: americast-post@AmeriCast.com Subject: Clinton slams Bush on truth Date: Thu, 29 Oct 92 14:38:17 EST Message-ID: \SE A;NATION \HD Clinton slams Bush on truth \BY Ronald A. Taylor \CR THE WASHINGTON TIMES \DT LOUISVILLE, Ky. LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Bill Clinton, who has usually been at the center of questions about trust and truth, thrust the issue at President Bush yesterday by calling him a liar. "The very idea that the word 'trust' could ever come out of Bush's mouth after what he has done to this country and the way he has trampled the truth is a travesty to the American political system," the Democratic nominee told a crowd of nearly 10,000 in Freedom Hall. Mr. Clinton spent most of his day hammering at Mr. Bush in stops here, in Houston and in front of the Old State Capitol in Jackson, Miss., for trying to plant false ideas in the minds of voters. But the Arkansas governor headed into the final week of the campaign by also getting ambushed on the character question himself on a call-in television show. On NBC's "Today," Mr. Clinton got three character-related questions in nine calls from listeners. Two touched on his draft history and one dealt with charges of an extramarital sexual liaison with cabaret singer Gennifer Flowers. Speaking later to a crowd of 8,000 people in Jackson, the presidential nominee said Mr. Bush is a liar and hammered the president for what he called misleading radio ads in the South. "He just makes it up," Mr. Clinton said. He complained about Bush commercials asserting that Mr. Clinton would close military bases in Georgia, cut natural gas and oil production in Texas, and remove North Carolina farmland from production for environmental reasons. The Arkansas governor also criticized Mr. Bush for telling former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev to ignore the president's campaign-year rhetoric and for "trying to dig up some dirt on my mama." This was a reference to the State Department's search of his mother's passport files and Mr. Gorbachev's report in the New Yorker magazine that Mr. Bush warned that his electioneering discourse should be discounted. "If Gorbachev shouldn't pay any attention to him, you sure shouldn't pay any attention to him," Mr. Clinton told the crowd. He mentioned the Gorbachev statement for the first time yesterday on "Today." "There's no such thing as truth when it comes to him," Mr. Clinton said yesterday. "He just says whatever sounds good and worries about it after the election. "He talks about taxes. He said 'Read my lips' and he stuck it to the middle class about taxes." The Clinton campaign is in a near-frenzy of appearances now as public opinion polls show wide swings in public support for him, Mr. Bush and independent candidate Ross Perot. Mr. Clinton said that he would consider Mr. Perot for a position of "some involvement" in a Clinton administration. He didn't say whether that means a Cabinet position. Two callers on "Today" criticized the governor's decision not to serve his country during the Vietnam War. Mr. Clinton tried to explain to one that he didn't agree with the American intervention in Southeast Asia. She shot back: "Excuse me, my husband did not agree with it either, but because he was called he had to go. In your instance, you were able to not go." This article is copyright 1992 The Washington Times. Redistribution to other sites is not permitted except by arrangement with American Cybercasting Corporation. For more information, send-email to usa@AmeriCast.COM