1994_02 The Daily Collegian February 1994

              THECOLLEGIAN
Tuesday, Feb. 1,1994
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Column
Clinton's
report card
By David Mirhadi f
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About this time in American politics, it becomes
very popular for the news media to make a "report
card" of the president's first year in office.
The presidency of Bill Clinton makes this a very
intriguing task.
While there were many high points in the presi¬
dency of Clinton, he had a difficult time adjusting to
life in the world's most powerful city and its equally
powerful residents.
Clinton must be commended for the job he has done
despite his many detractors. He has managed to pass
i several key pieces of legislation, including the Family
Leave Act and the North American Free Trade Agree¬
ment, as well as passage of the Brady Bill, which
requires a mandatory waiting'period for the purchase
of handguns. -   >
Despite all these achievements, Clinton has not had
what many would call a stellar presidency.,
It has been marred by personnel problems, blunders
in foreign affairs and. an investigation into a failed
development in Arkansas and his ties to the bank that
financed the dealings.
President CI inton seems rather cool and collected
despite his many shortcomings, however. He prides
himself on having an excellent rapport with the people
and can debate matters with the best of his enemies.
.Part of the reason Clinton has been able to survive is
the fact that people, especially the baby boomers that
voted for him in November 1992, seem willing to
forgive his shortcomings.
However, Clinton is not blameless in his often
stumbling presidency. He wasted time getting his
cabinet in order, and once that cabinet was in place, he
had an equally hard time keeping the chosen personnel
in those positions.
It took three nominations for him to finally settle on
an attorney general. Les Aspin, his secretary of de¬
fense', quit and the subsequent nominee, Bobby Ray
Inman withdrew his name. Clinton's deputy White
House counsel Vince Foster committed suicide. Quite
ashakeup that most presidents probably didn't have to
deal with. By those stumblings alone, one can see that
1600 Pennsylvania Ave. has not been kind to him.
On a national front, Clinton has been stellar. He has
made the betterment of America his number one
concern and has done a commendable job. He has
pushed for a national public service campaign, put the
heat on the health care industry with his proposed
national health care package, and is in the process of
pulling us out of the recession. «
On the issue of. foreign affairs, however, CI inton' s
record has been atrocious. Because he spends so
much time making the domestic agenda top priority,
international relations seem to take a back seat. He
missed the boat on the Haiti immigration situation and
has only recently begun to realize that Europe and the
former Soviet Union need our help in realizing their
dreams to compete in a global economy. He has had
trouble dealing with the likes of China and its unac¬
ceptable standards of human rights, and can only
cringe when the words "North Korea" are uttered. To
compensate for that, his one major contribution is the
dan on nuclear arms that was recently signed with7
Boris Yeltsin of Russia as well as tile Ukraine.
What-sets Clinton apart from the rest of his contemporaries is his
willingness to take his message to the people and show them that he
will not back down from controversy. Clinton has a way of connect¬
ing his message to everyone, one of the intangibles that career
politicians like George Bush never had. Clinton is like you and me;
See CLINTON: page 3
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Origins and Armageddon
Ed. Note: This letter was re¬
ceived a week before Christmas,
with the title: 'NEWS STORY.'
Editor:
This world of beauty began in
the Garden of Eden 11, 013 B.C.
with the luscious trees of fruit for
the choice of Adam and Eve.
Genesis Chapter 2
16. And the Lord God com¬
manded die man, saying of every
tree of the garden thou may e th freely
eat.
17. But the tree of knowledge of
good and evil shalt not eat of it; for
on the day that thou eatest thereof,
thou shalt surely die. ^
The serpent tempted Eve and
she did eat and gave to her husband
and he too did eat.
Disobedience began and crime
followed. Cain, their first born son,
killed his brother Abel. Sin, now
established, increased for the next
6,023 years.
God with warning to repent, was
forced to destroy civilization and
begin anew. *
God told Noah, a righteous man,
to build an ark of gopher wood 300
cubits long, 50 cubits wide and 30
cubits high.
Genesis Chapter 7
4. For yet seven days I will cause
it to rain upon the Earth 40 days and
40 nights; and every living sub¬
stance that I haye made will We-
stray from the face of the earth.
The flood remo vedan estimated
one million unbelievers from the
Earth. Noah, his wife, their three
sons and their wives were sustained
to begin a new civilization in the
year 4990 B.C. v
That civilization was intended
to increase and become
550,000,000 andcontinuefor7,000
years until the end of the world.
God commissioned his-servant
Leonard J. Schrader of Washing¬
ton D.C., who had just completed a
17-year study ofjK)w to eliminate
world^tarvation, to write and pub¬
lish next year God's Open Letter
encouraging believers to increase
from a contemporary figure of
16,500,000 to 68,750,000 before
the world ends and equal the results
of Noah's days.
This may well be the last Christ¬
mas on Earth.
Leonard J. Schrader
Washington, D.C.
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