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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: greenspirit who wrote (34659)	9/5/2000 6:48:27 AM
From: ColtonGang	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

" It was not known which of Clymer’s articles Bush was unhappy about, but in April the reporter wrote a hard-hitting piece about health care in Texas, critical of the governor for not making public health a priority. The article began, “Texas has had one of the nation’s worst public health records for decades. More than a quarter of its citizens have no health insurance. Its Mexican border is a hotbed of contagion. The state ranks near the top in the nation in rates of AIDS, diabetes, tuberculosis and teen-age pregnancy, and near the bottom in immunizations, mammograms and access to physicians.” The author of a biography of Sen. Edward Kennedy, Clymer has reported extensively on politics, elections and public opinion. He was the paper’s national political correspondent for the 1980 presidential campaign, polling editor from 1983 to 1990, and political editor for the 1988 presidential campaign. In a statement to CNN, Andrew Rosenthal, national editor of the Times, defended Clymer’s coverage as “fair and accurate.”.....SEEMS BUSH CAN"T HANDLE THE TRUTH!