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Remarks at a Kentucky Democratic Rally in Louisville 2702 Oct. 31 / Administration of William J. Clinton, 2000 wanted this education bill. There was a big But I just wantÐI want to start these ne- majority for this in both Houses of Congress. gotiations again and get back to work. I think But the leadership of the Republican Party that's the important thing. And I thinkÐI killed it because of the lobbyists on K Street. didn't have any choice to do what I did last Now, that's what happened. And it's not night. I didn't want to do it, but you know, right. And we ought to go back to the agree- we just can'tÐwe cannot run the Congress ment that was made. in a way that says we can have an agreement, You know, wherever we work together and we can put our kids first, we can get the Re- we get majorities of both Houses and both publicans and Democrats together, and then parties, we do fine. It is the leadership of the leadership of the Republican Congress the other party in Congress and its excessive can just say, ``I'm sorry, our interest groups sensitivity to the special interests that has don't like this; they won't accept it. And so kept so many of these things from passing. never mind what happens to the 52 million Why in the world could you justify not pass- kids that are out there in our schools.'' We ing a hate crimes bill, for example, when a just can't do that. And that's the real story majority of both Houses is for it, you've got here. It's an astonishing development here, plain bipartisan majority? I think we all know after all we've been through these last 6 the answer to that. years, to see this happening again. And it's So look, we've still got time to do this, and very sad, and I hope we can get by it in the we ought to do it. I'll do my best to do it. next 8 daysÐ7 days. There is no point in getting upset and name Thank you very much. calling. Facts are facts. The one fact is indis- NOTE: The President spoke at 12:36 p.m. in the putable, that we had a process set up; there Rose Garden at the White House. was an agreement reached; the hard-working Republicans and Democrats worked until 2:30 in the morning. And they showed up Remarks at a Kentucky Democratic with the agreement, and their leaders Rally in Louisville wrecked it. They said, ``But our special inter- October 31, 2000 ests won't like this. I'm sorry.'' Now, those are the facts, and they are indisputable. The President. Thank you very, very So we just need to go back to work here much. Thank you. Let me say first of all, did and calm down and do what's right. Eleanor give a good speech, or what? That was amazing. [Applause] You know, I have ``Latino and Immigrant Fairness Act'' some passing experience at these kinds of Q. Mr. President, the ``Latino Immigration events. [Laughter] And I was sitting there Fairness Act'' consists of three major provi- thinking, this girl is good. She is really good. sions. My question is, are you going to fight I want to say more about her in a moment, for all three of them? And youÐyour peo- but I also want to tell you how honored I pleÐand I think you may have said it your- am to be back in Kentucky with your great selfÐwould veto the State/Commerce and Governor, Paul Patton, and his wife, Judi, Justice appropriation bill if it did not contain who have been such good friends of mine. the ``Latino Immigration Fairness Act''? My longtime friend who had so much to do The President. I feel very strongly about with much of the good things that Al Gore that. As I said, the Congress isÐthe leader- and I were able to accomplish in Washington, ship of the Republican Party is against it be- Senator Wendell Ford, we miss you. Thank cause they say thatÐapparently they think you. With your great mayor, who owes some they made a mistake with the Cuban and of his success to the fact that he and I were Nicaraguan immigrants, and they don't want born in the same little town in ArkansasÐ to make the same mistake with the others. Hope, Arkansas. Thank you so much, Dave I think they did the right thing with them Armstrong, for doing a good job here. and should do the right thing by the other I thank your State party chair, Nikki Pat- immigrants. That's what I think. So we're ton, for being here, and for all you Demo- fighting for it, and we'll see. crats who have showed up to hear a guy who Administration of William J. Clinton, 2000 / Oct. 31 2703 is not running for anything this year. [Laugh- So what I would like to ask you to do is ter] I want to thank our young president of just indulge me one more time for a few min- the school's Young Democrats here, Rashi utes and let me make the arguments that I Sheth. Didn't he do a good job today? Let's hope you will go out across this district and give him a hand. [Applause] across this great State and to your friends And I want to thank Charlie Owen for beyond the borders of Kentucky and share chairing the Gore/Lieberman campaign. But with them between now and election day I'm especially here, as all of you know, to why they ought to vote, what the stakes are, support Eleanor Jordan. She represents the and what the consequences are. Because I best in our party, the best in our country, believe, in profound ways, that this election and what we need for the future of our Con- is every bit as important as the one which gress. sent Al Gore and me to the White House You know, Kentucky has been awfully 8 years ago. good to me. I was standing up here on the Why do I say that? Because we've done stage thinking about the first time I came everything we could do to turn the country to Kentucky as a GovernorÐlisten to thisÐ around and move it forward, to pull it to- in 1979. I served with six Kentucky Gov- gether. But all the best things are still out ernors, counting Governor Patton, who has there. We have a chance for the first time been with me this whole time in the White in my lifetime to conduct a national ref- House. And I love this State, and you have erendum on our dreams. been so good to me. Eleanor talkedÐhad that wonderful quote You've been so good to me and Hillary from Benjamin Mays about dreams. We have and Al and Tipper Gore. You voted for us never in my lifetime had this much pros- twice, given us a chance to serve America. perity, this much social progress, the absence And you know, the temptation in a rally like of domestic crisis and foreign threat to our this where it's hot and we're all committedÐ security. We can use this election to dream [laughter]Ðis, just sort of give one of these our dreams and decide how to get there. But hallelujah speeches and go on and get out in order to do it, we have to be quite clear of here, you know, because we all know that not on saying our opponents are bad folks, we're for Eleanor and we're for Al and Joe, but saying we have honest differences, and and we know why we're here. here are the consequences to those decisions, But let's face it. All over America and here so then the people can go and vote, and all in Kentucky, these races are close. And I be- of us can accept the result happily as democ- lieve they're close because times are good, racy working. and people are relaxed, and everybody run- But those of us who have strong convic- ning seems like a nice person, and they all tions about who should be President, who sound good. should be Vice President, who should be We've taken a lot of the poison out of Senator or Congressman, we can't let the America's life. And I'm proud of that, and next 7 days go by without doing everything I'm glad that we're not having all that poison. we can to make sure that all of our fellow But nonetheless, it is quite important that citizens understand how important it is that we acknowledge that not just Democrats but they go to the polls and how important it Republicans are good people who love their is that they understand the real and honest country and will do what they think is right. differences. And we ought to be in a good humor in this Now, look at 8 years ago, when you gave election year, because we're a better country Al Gore and me a chance to go to Wash- and a stronger country and a healthier coun- ington. We had an economy in terrible trou- try than we were 8 years ago. ble, a society profoundly divided, a political But that does not mean that just because system that was paralyzed.
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