European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 27, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 10 the stars and stripes Friday january 27,1989 James j. Kilpatrick Bush must learn Kinder and gentler won t Fly e inaugural balls Are Over the Over but a curious Melody lingers on. Call me Grumpy if you please but All this smarmy Harmony is making my stomach growl. C Mon George wipe that Grin off you face. In this City of the Long knives Kinder and gentler in t going to Fly. For the time being at least we have had a sufficiency of sweetness and Light. Over the endless weekend the country saw Bush the conciliator Bush the populist Bush the avuncular grandpa. What we did t see and what we must see be fore Long is Bush the Tough Guy. He has much to be Tough about. The inaugural address read better Thanet sounded. Perhaps we were spoiled by eight years of Ronald Reagan who brought to the forensic Art the timing and cadence of an experienced is no orator. Until he got almost to the end of his speech in his pledge to Stop the Scourge of drugs the audience sat on his Best lines. It May have been the Content rather than the delivery that startled the spectators into relative silence. Bush won his election As a conservative Republican. At times he sounded More like a Liberal Democrat my friends we have work to Are the homeless lost and roam ing. There Are the children who have nothing no love no normalcy. There Are those who cannot free themselves of enslavement to whatever addiction drugs welfare demoralization that rules the slums. There is crime to be conquered the rough crime of the Are Young women to be helped who Are about to become mothers of children they cannot care for and might not at other Points Bush sounded like William Jennings Bryan fending off a Cross of Gold. He might have Bee Teddy Roosevelt denouncing malefactors of great wealth we re not the sum of our posses Sions. They Are not the measure of our lives. In our hearts we know what mat ters. We cannot Hope Only to leave our children a bigger car a bigger Bank account and what do we want the men and women who work with us to say when we re no longer there that we were More driven to succeed than any one around us or that we stopped to ask if a sick child had gotten better an stayed a moment there to Trade a word of this was a George Bush who did mean to be sentimental but went a Long Way in that direction. He hailed the goodness and courage of the american people. He urged them to join actively in doing he was nothing if not conciliatory. This is the age he said of the offered hand. Good will begets Good Well we will see. Maybe it s Worth atry to see if greater tolerance and a Sig Wingness will prevail. The trouble i that in dealing abroad with the soviet Union and dealing Here at Home wit the likes of speaker Jim Wright Bush Howard Kleinberg May be perceived As the eternal sucker waiting to be fleeced. Those who have watched Wright in action in the House will believe in an end to Rabid partisanship when they see it. The Senate has a new majority Leader George Mitchell of Maine. He succeeds Rober Byrd of West Virginia. He is Likely to make Byrd look like a pussycat. Yes just As Bush said the people did t Send us Here to but the voters who put Bush in the White House put him there to defend and preserve certain political values of the Reagan years federalism limited government Strong defense individual responsibility before Long democrats will be whooping it up for National health insurance for greater Federal regulation of Industry for new and expensive entitlement program sin such Fields As Day care. If Bush already is urging Compromise he May have thrown in his hand before the game be gins. Without bickering he soon will have to learn How to say flatly no. It was taken All in All a remarkable inaugural weekend. Barbara Bush made a tremendous hit which was not at Al surprising she is one great lady. Dan Quayle As vice president was on his very Best behaviour the Young gentleman has come a Long Way from his breathless Inadequacy at the new Orleans Conven Tion. Bush s overtures to Black Leader were certainly Welcome. Maybe he scored some Points by inviting 4,300 visitors to have a look at the people s enough is enough. Homeless hic begins to cloy. Send the grandchildren Home Roll up your sleeves and pre pare if need be to spit in the speaker s Eye. Universal press Syndicate maybe Bush sued his punches on gift horse Well All the dirt that was fit to fling in the Las presidential Campaign was t Flung it turns out. George Bush it would appear pulled his , Why would he not have told us of the Massachusetts Law approved by Michael Dukakis that re quires Art in Public places including state prisons certainly it did not escape Bush s attention during the Campaign. He must have decided to save it for a Trump card just in Case Willie Horton and the a Lueren t enough. Or maybe he took pity on Dukakis. Hey folks in Mike Dukakis state they re spending Money for Art at a treatment Center for sexually dangerous people. I would Hope that september morn snot among the acquisitions. What the hell is it with Massachusetts anyway Testate goes for George Mcgovern one year gives us Mike Dukakis another Teddy Kennedy All the time sends Willie Horton out on the streets to do it again and tacks up Public Art for a Bunch of porno struck dickies. Your dig it out Tell it like it is investigative reporter Here would not have known anything about had it not been for a mention in the january Issue of Art Antiques Magazine. There it was reported that some what of a controversy has Arisen Over the decision of the Massachusetts legislature to include buildings under the state s department of corrections control Ina new Art in Public places program. The Law requires at least $100,000 be spent Forkart or Art classes in any Public buildings erected in the state. In Dukakis Massachusetts this year that mean spending $500,000 in the prisons. A sheriff in one county says it does t make an sense. You have people Here accused of stealing Art from people s Homes and they re going to be rewarded with a spokesman for the department of corrections tries to put us at ease when he tells Art & Antiques that the pieces will be chosen very carefully. We Don twant heavy Blunt objects or anything with Sharp edges that might conceivably be used As a perhaps the legislature had in mind using Art i Public places As a form of the death penalty. Massachusetts has a death penalty but never has chosen anyway to enforce it. Thus no one gets executed and there is no death Row. Some of the Art i have seen in Public places if use Don murderers probably could not stand the test of constitutionality. Forcing a condemned Man to sit in tiny room and do nothing for six months but stare at a bizarre abstract of aluminium Chrome and Ostric leathers could be cruel and unusual punishment. That depends on How you feel about Art in Public places. Carolyn Vicari who is manager of program services Tor the Massachusetts department of corrections finds no humor in this. She defends the program endpoints out that More than criminals see the insides of buildings operated by corrections of the inmates for example also staff people. And of course any9ne who just picks up in Boston one morn ing and decides to go to the nearest state pen to see an Art show. For the treatment Center for sexually dangerous persons her terminology Vicari says fab Ric Art was chosen As was wooden sculpture that is Lobb " As seating benches in the visitor waiting certainly that s Art. So therefore Are John Wayne s old Muddy boots toothpick House and a mix of Mustard and grape Jelly times across p3ge of sunday s new York a h1 ? Utah ,,�.se to spare the american Public a expose of Dukakis acquiescence to such proceedings either Speaks to his Promise of a Kinder and gentle nation or tells us George can t spot a gift horse when it s framed and put up on the prison Wall Cox news service opinions expressed in the columns and cartoon son this Page represent those of the authors and Are in no s2l b.e0cpnsidered As representing the views of the stars and stripes or the United states government
