CBS Evening News - 1992-08-22
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[0:02] President Bush and Bill Clinton trade
[0:04] punches as the political campaign heats
[0:06] up. And a new showdown looms in Iraq
[0:10] over the allies plan for a no-fly zone.
[0:14] This is the CBS Evening News
[0:21] and this is Bob Schiffer reporting. Good
[0:23] evening. Well, the race is on and if
[0:25] this first part of it is any indication,
[0:26] it's going to be a wild one heading
[0:28] through the Midwest today. Bill Clinton
[0:30] accused the president of neglecting the
[0:32] economy to the extent that he's put the
[0:34] national security at risk. While the
[0:36] president campaigning for the South
[0:38] brushed off criticism that he's
[0:40] neglected domestic issues in favor of
[0:42] foreign policy by saying quote, "I saw a
[0:45] chance to finish off imperial communism
[0:47] and I took it." We start with the
[0:49] Republicans as reported by Susan
[0:51] Spencer.
[0:52] >> Mr. Bush took his message of tax cuts,
[0:54] family values, and patriotism back to
[0:57] Dixie today for an enthusiastic if rain
[0:59] drenched rally near Atlanta.
[1:02] >> If you want to see a rainbow, you got to
[1:03] take a little rain.
[1:05] >> His warm-up act, Georgia Congressman N.
[1:07] Gingrich really warmed up, lumping the
[1:09] Democrats values with those of Woody
[1:12] Allen.
[1:12] >> Measure. Woody Allen is not having
[1:14] incest with his non-daughter to whom he
[1:16] has been a non-father because they've
[1:17] had a non-f family.
[1:20] >> Now, it's a weird situation.
[1:22] >> Mr. Mr. Bush also talked of values but
[1:24] was less strident and considerably less
[1:26] specific.
[1:27] >> And it's a choice between different
[1:29] agendas, different directions for our
[1:32] great country, and it's a choice about
[1:34] the character of the man t