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To: jlallen who wrote (14190)6/5/2002 3:20:19 PM
From: Original Mad Dog  Read Replies (2) of 21057
 
I think it depends on the nature of the language used in connection with the promise. Here is the full text of the elder President Bush's 1988 pledge:

"The Congress will push me to raise taxes, and I’ll say no, and they’ll push, and I’ll say no, they’ll push again and I’ll say to them, read my lips, no new taxes."

He didn't just say "no new taxes" or even just "read my lips, no new taxes." He set it up with a preface which said that he would be the bulwark of resistance against those who would cite circumstances as making new taxes necessary. That is why the electorate punished him.

Clinton painted himself into a similar box with his early denials of the Lewinsky affair. It wasn't just "the allegations aren't true", but rather this:

""I want to say one thing to the American people. I'm going to say this again. I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky. I never told anybody to lie. Not a single time. Never. These allegations are false and I need to go back to work for the American people."


<accompanied by a wagging finger if I recall correctly>

I do not recall the specifics of GWB's statements in the campaign about the SS surplus. I am sure someone will dig them up. It could be that he qualified it at some times but not at other times. I certainly don't remember anything as memorable as the two lines quoted above from his father and his predecessor.
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