European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 24, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                If you want to work for Clinton just say no Lemuel. Gelb most americans think Bill Clinton was elected to create new jobs. Most democrats i know think his divine duty is to give them the old ones like Secretary of state. Or if the president elect begs they might consider being National Security adviser. But nothing less. Absolutely. Maybe ambassador to Paris but too soon to Compromise alas there Are too few Good jobs for the deserving democratic multitudes who have waited in the wings of Power for 20 of the last 24 years. Tragedy looms. Job contenders face the old and humbling biblical Choice either relax and let divinities decide your Fate strictly on your considerable merits or scheme. Merits being what they Are the second course beckons. But remember that lusting for Power is a Fine Art a with rules. 1. Obviously deny any interest in any position especially Secretary of state. This hides the vulgar careerism so offensive to self effacing Clinto nites _ and saves face against the near certainty you wont be offered a decent Job simply say you and your spouse  possibly leave new York or wherever because of your family commitment to Anonymous Volunteer work for the children a defense fund Hillary Clinton a pet project. Stress Anonymous. 2. Deny you worked in the Carter administration even if you did. If they say they have proof respond that it happened so Long ago that you forgot. If pressed assert you spent All your time there fighting for democracy in China and doing Anonymous Volunteer work for the children a defense fund. Jimmy Carter faces a somewhat trickier problem in denying he worked for the Carter administration 3. Admit you worked in the Reagan administration but say you did this so that America could win the cold War so that the pro communist Label could be lifted from democrats so that a centrist Democrat could be elected president in �?T92. Throw in that you condemn George Bush a abandonment of human rights. Explain the difference Between unthinking democrats who voted for Walter Mondale and Michael s. Dukakis and real democrats who voted for Reagan twice. Emphasize that this is still a dangerous world. 4. Refer to Warren Christopher the transition Honcho As  do not Call rep. Lee Hamilton a Ham a or sen. Bill Bradley  5. When asked by the Clinton team about your com editors say your enemy is your Best Friend and would e a great Public servant. Add that you love working with people particularly people uncontaminated by Washington. This last Point is critical. It signals you be gotten the Clinton message that his administration must a look like America a and shows you can get along with anyone however unqualified they May be 6. When contacted by the press about your competitors say they All worked in the Carter administration that they did not fight for democracy in China and that neither they nor their spouses volunteered anon players. To ridicule e Mously to help children. Toss in that they Are not team hint that you would not take team playing Lous extremes. This signals to the reporter or columnist that you will leak sensitive information to them when it serves the larger National interest casually mention that you think your rivals were against the persian Gulf War. A. 7. If Man toners Call you to ask if you wish them to mention your name to the press or the Clinton transition team Start by saying you share their concern for getting the country moving again. Say that you could never ask your family to accept the financial hardship of a measly $123,000 Cabinet Post unless you heard that so and so your archrival who is being frequently mentioned is otherwise bound to get the Job and give nuclear weapons to Saddam Hussein. Make sure to ask the mention or if he would like you to mention his name. Even Man toners have feelings 8. If called by Man toners on the outs with the Clinton crowd politely decline to be mentioned but strongly recommend your enemies As great Public servants. Done to be mentioned by Cable news networks Evans and Novak 9. Say to everyone that no great Leader in history has Ever endured As Many unfair press attacks As candidate or president elect Clinton and that the press should let up on a a Bill and Stop invading a a Bill so privacy and photographing socks the cat. C Tho now York Timos is Christian right a threat the talk at Fontana wis., where the Republican governors met to do an autopsy Over the remains of their party is of the a a capture of the Republican party by the a Christian  the reference is most often to Pat Robertson As the Leader of that movement and one has the feeling Reading reports on statements by gov. William f. Weld of Massachusetts that although he too feels that the Christian right is a great weight on the Republican party he Hasni to quite figured out a Way of advancing his or his party a standing by becoming anti Christian. Accordingly his words exactly were a i done to think Pat Robertson captured the Republican party. He Hasni to captured me. Ill Tell you what i wish him  if you can figure that out you Are ready to run for political office. What jumps to mind As a position characteristic of the Christian right is abortion this is interesting of course in that the parts done to fit at All easily into the whole. The general impression of the Christian right is of Southern evangelicals associated with such leaders As Pat Robertson Jerry false and Billy Graham who Are All baptists. Yet the adamantine anti abortionists Are thought of As catholics. And the majority of catholics voted for the libertine Bill Clinton. But it is True that the position of the evangelicals is anti abortion and one must assume that they had an influence on the Republican party a which at Houston came out for a constitutional amendment against k. A William f. Buckley or. Abortion. This tradition reminds us that in 1984 Ronald Reagan won 49 states. What concretely would the Christian right do to America if it were fully in Power sure it would lend its weight to the repeal of Roc is. Wade but if so there is no reason whatever to suppose that Many perhaps most states would refuse to authorize abortion a As Connecticut has done preemptively. What else the Christian right Isnit asking As its counterparts in Israel Are doing that the Sabbath be made More ostentatiously holy by requiring Church attendance or suspending commercial traffic or whatever. The Christian right Isnit asking for a return of prohibition. Is it a problem of some kind of an insular denominational inclusiveness that sends out the danger signals consider this Exchange. Gov. Kirk Fordice of Mississippi in his speech said that the United states is a a Christian nation and any dissipation of that tie to christianity has the effect of weakening the National character. Up jumps Carroll Campbell governor of South Carolina to Correct gov. Fordice. A the value base of this country comes from the Jude Christian heritage that we All  and sitting Down gov. Campbell remarked a i just wanted to add the  was that really necessary Given that Christ proclaimed himself the incarnation As promised by the jewish prophets it is really impossible to decree a nation to be a a christians without conveying that it is a a Jude Christian Quot on the other hand one out of two jews voted for George Bush against Michael s. Dukakis and one out of eight voted for Bush against Clinton. Something happened. The majority of jews Are in favor of abortion and the majority of protestants Are in favor and the majority of catholics Are in practice in favor. But we learn that Only 11 percent of the american people Are even aware that abortion under Roe is for All intents and purposes available to any woman for any reason at any time during her pregnancy. Ninety percent of the american people Are against unrestricted abortion As e.g., a gender selection device. All of this needs clarification. The republicans properly begin by reflecting on the words of Mississippi party strategist Haley Barbour who said a frankly in a chagrined that we have booted away the greatest political legacy since  there is a lot to do including some Jude Christian prayers for the future of the gop and while we Are at it for the unhappy future of a few million discarded fetuses. , Sal Pross Syndicate