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                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: MONDAY, February 15, 1993                   TAG: 9302150296
SECTION: EDITORIAL                    PAGE: A8   EDITION: METRO 
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CLINTON'S MANY BROKEN PROMISES

REMEMBER when candidate Bill Clinton harshly criticized President Bush's one broken promise? Clinton often taunted and mocked Bush, quoting with great sarcasm, "Read my lips; no new taxes."

Clinton is president now because 43 percent of the voters believed his many promises. Is he keeping them? Not very well. In less than one month, Clinton has undoubtedly set a record for presidents' broken pledges.

Consider Clinton's most important promise. Jobs and the economy would be his first priority, he said. He would give Congress his jobs program the day after his inauguration. Weeks after the inauguration, we are still waiting for this program.

Clinton's real first priority was something else. It was executive orders that will significantly increase the number of abortions. His second priority was to legalize the admission of homosexuals in our armed forces. He shattered his most important pledge.

Clinton promised to reduce taxes and said he would not raise taxes on the middle class. He says now there will be no middle-class tax reduction. Instead, we are assured he will hit middle-class Americans with tax increases. Down go two more of his key pledges.

We do not need more federal taxes; we need reduced federal spending. We are not taxed too little but too much. Clinton promised change. Tax-and-spend policies are not change. They are liberal business as usual.

The media crucified President Bush when he broke one promise. Thus far, many in the media are trying desperately to excuse Clinton's many broken pledges. Why the double standard? Is this one more example of the media's liberal bias? LEWIS R. SHECKLER RADFORD

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