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Editor:
Professor Rusk ("Arizona may elect first Democrat since 1948," Aug. 28) thinks President Clinton will win re-election with or without Arizona. For the sake of the state and the nation, let's hope not.
There is little substantiation in anything the president has done these past four years. It wasn't he who stopped the Republican "revolution." Those reforms were undone by Senate liberals and misrepresentation of House Republicans by less-than-candid poli ticians who routinely use willing media to report misinformation as fact. Who ever heard of a popularity poll for the speaker before 1995? The president's advocacy of programs such as school uniforms and teen curfews is laudable, but it represents intrusi ve government. He is president of the United States, not governor of the United States.
The current economy is not a strong one. The annual rate of growth has yet to exceed that of the 1994 fiscal year, the last year of the Bush era. Deficit reduction? Outside of serious cuts in the Department of Defense, the president can claim little. Real reductions have resulted from the end of the savings and loan bailout, elimination of that bureaucracy and two years of spending reductions attributable to a Republican congress.
Objectively, Clinton's greatest strength is his uncanny ability to go with the poll. The sense of security he gives many voters is illusion. His administration has no vision, no goal other than re-election. If the "new" center of voters truly desire limit ed government, deficit reduction, reform of social programs, then President Clinton and his cronies must go.
A.J. McPherson
student's spouse
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