Bush Team Trimming Clinton-like Decrees in U.N.

AgapePress ^ | 6/18/02

[Jean S]

(AgapePress) - In almost stark contrast to a report indicating the White House has written off conservative issues on the domestic front, Associated Press is reporting the Bush Administration is working with the Vatican and Muslim nations to reverse many of President Clinton’s policies at the United Nations.

“It is truly a new day at the U.N.,” White House spokesman Tim Goeglein tells AP. “The Bush Administration has a very important and a different policy position [than the previous administration] -- whether it’s family, whether it’s life, whether it is the centrality of marriage and children. In fact, it is the difference between night and day.”

And promoters of abortion and homosexual rights are expressing alarm at their loss of influence over the American agenda at the United Nations.

“On many of the social-policy questions,” Goeglein says, “that is to say, the questions of family and children and life and marriage, we tend to be in concert with some of the Muslim countries.” He said the U.S. tends to be in concert with the Vatican, and the important thing now is to move the right policy initiatives ahead in the U.N.

For instance, last month, the U.S. delegation worked with nations like Iran and Sudan to block a United Nations declaration that would have said children are entitled to “reproductive health services,” which could have been interpreted to include abortion.

“Where we can find commonality with, perhaps, unconventional allies, we will do so," Goeglein says. "The president has been very clear about his policies of family, marriage, children, and the centrality of the family -- and where we can find commonality, we intend to move ahead.”

The Bush Administration’s U.N. policy team includes former Vatican advisor John Klink, Janice Crouse of Concerned Women for America and Paul Bonicelli of Patrick Henry College.

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Associated Press contributed to this story.

[Texasforever]

because I'm a Fundamental Constitutionalist

Please deifine that beyond a cute buzz word.

[kitkat]

Now that's just plain silly!

[PhiKapMom]

Thank you! That was one of the nicest things that anyone has ever said to me on here! I really appreciate it!

[solo gringo]

it is time for the un to get the hell out of the usa and time for the usa to get the hell out of the un.where the un building is standing the real estate is to good to share with a bunch of world thugs.

[deport]

Actually a lot of the religious right stayed home (forget the number) and 17% who declared they were conservative voted for Gore.
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The number is 4 million according to Rove. I don't know where he is getting it except that this time 14% of the voters claimed to be of the religious right which equates to approximately 15 million. Rove says there should be 19 million.. where he gets his number I don't know. Thus the 19 - 15 = 4 million.. that's about all I know of it.....

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UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - To the dismay of its allies, the United States on Wednesday threatened to withdraw from U.N. peacekeeping missions if its troops were not exempted from the reach of a new global criminal court.

[TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!]

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[PhiKapMom]

Thanks -- I thought I remember 4 million but I wasn't sure! This time I wrote it down!

[Lancey Howard]

Incrementalism works both ways...

Excellent point.
But the encouraging part is that we have a Republican in the White House who is smart enough to realize it. And the all-or-nothing-RIGHT-NOW! idiots who keep showing up on various threads to "bash Bush" for "betraying conservatives" are looking sillier all the time.

Regards,
LH

[Lancey Howard]

...17% who declared they were conservative voted for Gore.

That "17%" were liars, so naturally they voted for Gore.

[deport]

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12 /12/politics/12ROVE.html
I think Rove is confused in this statement here... the exit polling I've seen says 14% list themselves as religious right and of that group 79% voted for Bush and 19% voted for Gore. About 105 million voters @ 14% = 14.7 million

http://www.christianitytoday.c om/ct/2001/150/32.0.html

[PhiKapMom]

I think he is talking about the folks that stayed home and didn't vote. I remember that was estimated to be about 4 million. You know -- the people that didn't go to the polls, but complain and say they won't vote for Pres Bush in 2004!

[JohnHuang2]

JH can you hit this with a ping and maybe help spread it around a bit.

Sure -- ping coming up...

[JohnHuang2]

[deport]

thanks..... for the help

[monkeyshine]

He should be working with South American and African countries... not just the Vatican and Muslim countries.

[Republican Wildcat]

And since Bush is no different than Gore, I suppose the Bush-bashing bots will be on here saying this is no big deal, because, after all, Gore would have done the same thing, right?

[MJY1288]

When you see one of them Bush BashingBots, post this GIF to warn us :-)