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THE 1992 CAMPAIGN: The Democrats; Clinton Says He's Not Leaning Left but Taking a New 'Third Way' [1]
['Michael Kelly']
Date: 1992-09-26
Seeking to counter this week's Republican offensive portraying him as a leftist, tax-mad, big-government liberal, Bill Clinton today began an effort to once more position himself as a "third way" Democrat, neither of the left nor the right.
At the same time, the Democratic Presidential nominee sought to turn President Bush's attack against him, depicting his opponent as a "do-nothing" President who is "out of touch, out of ideas and out of time," and who clings to the "stale, failed rhetoric of the past."
Mr. Clinton introduced his new defense in a noontime address that was almost preachily earnest to a small crowd of invited guests at the University of Connecticut at Hartford, in West Hartford. He echoed it, in a looser fashion, before a passionate, mostly young crowd of more than 10,000 people packed shoulder-to-shoulder near the historic Faneuil Hall here. 'A Can-Do Country'
"You cannot permit this election to be about false choices from America's past, about the same old categories, the same old boxes we try to put people in," Mr. Clinton said in West Hartford. "We are living in a new world, at the end of the cold war, and we have new challenges and new opportunities and we had better seize them, and we had better be willing to park all this aimless hot-air rhetoric at the door and deal with the people's problems and the people's agenda.
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