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

To: greenspirit who wrote (35983)	9/9/2000 11:58:15 PM
From: Mr. Whist	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

I was never an admirer of Geo Wallace. Did you watch the PBS special on Geo Wallace about a month ago? A veteran Montgomery newspaperman/columnist was asked, at the end of the lengthy program, if Wallace ever did anything good for the common man-common woman in his beloved state of Alabama. The newspaperman thought for a moment, then said, "Nope. Can't think of a thing." I caught Wallace's act in St. Louis in '68, before you were born. I was a high school senior at the time. George was quite a fiery orator. He was a rooster-weight boxer who, unfortunately, became a popinjay, then he had a spiritual awakening the last year of his life. He reconciled his behavior in the '60s and '70s with people of all races that last year of his life. He asked their forgiveness. May we all learn from what he did. We also must do as George did and look to the future and improve upon the economic foundation that Clinton-Gore have laid for the past 7.5 years. I reiterate: If you think the successful schools in the burbs will have an open-door policy to the disadvantaged youth of the inner-city, you're smoking something that ain't tobacco. A widespread voucher plan is dead in the water because it'll create a schism in the white 'burban vote. If what you say is true, then tell me why 93 percent of schools in Florida refuse to accept voucher students. You must realize it's one thing to try a voucher program in a specific city or even state; it's quite something else to expand it nationwide. Instead of using money for education vouchers, take the money and pump new life into our inner-city schools. Otherwise, the ghettoization of America will become even more acute.