QUAYLE URGES CLINTON TO SHIELD ECONOMY FROM POSSIBLE Y2K CRISIS --Seeks action to protect international currency markets --

PHOENIX, AZ  Republican presidential candidate Dan Quayle today called on President Clinton to take precautions now against possible disruptions of international currency markets that might be caused by the Year 2000, or Y2K, problem.

Even if our financial markets are the most Y2K compliant in the world, a breakdown anywhere in this incredibly complex system may feed back to us in ways we cannot foresee or imagine. We need to think through what steps we can take right now to ensure the integrity of this system, Quayle writes in a letter dated today (available upon request).

Quayle urged Clinton to consider a proposal by Jack Kemp to peg the U.S. dollar to gold in order to stabilize currency markets.

Kemp first outlined the idea to Clinton in a June 11 letter, and Quayle is urging Clinton to reconsider his decision, communicated in a correspondence dated August 5, not to move forward with the proposal. Quayle also suggested that Clinton submit the idea to Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan for review.

If you are to act on the proposal, it should be done early enough to give the other governments of the world the opportunity to link into the system. No other country can provide this kind of currency umbrella to see us through a Y2K storm, should one occur, Quayle concluded.

-- ariZONEa (blind@leading.blinder), August 25, 1999

Answers

Got a link?

-- (pshannon@inch.com), August 25, 1999.

Gee - does this mean that Quayle is a - gulp - GI?

-- Valkyrie (anon@please.net), August 25, 1999.

Who wrote that for Quayle? He never had an original thought in his LIFE.

-- Dennis (djolson@pressenter.com), August 25, 1999.

Sorry, link impaired, but it's:

www.quayle.org

-- ariZONEa (desert@sw.com), August 25, 1999.

pshannon

letters from quayle and kemp to the president at this site

http://www.polyconomics.com/

At the usa gold forum the idea has been dismissed as ridiculuous because the suggested gold value is far too low.

-- dave (wootendave@hotmail.com), August 25, 1999.

Wow!

Still thinking thru the ramifications:

Beat the price of gold down by shorting gold futures. Cajole other central banks to seel off "non-performing" gold bullion. Peg the dollar to gold with gold at 20 year low.

I imagine that would result in a super strong dollar.

It also paints Clinton/Gore into a corner.

-- Bill P (porterwn@one.net), August 25, 1999.

Dan Quayle - the Tinfoil candidate...

-- Y2K Pro (y2kpro1@hotmail.com), August 25, 1999.

Dan Quayle knows how to spell Y2K?

-- RUOK (RUOK@yesiam.com), August 25, 1999.

We are definitely doomed if people start taking advice from Quayle.

-- @ (@@@.@), August 25, 1999.

Dan Quale stands for and fights for what most GI believe in. Check his voting record and see for yourself. He has my vote. Mike

-- Mike (mwomble@luminet.net), August 25, 1999.

The final nail in the hopes that people will get it before the last second and not panic, coffin: Dan Quayle speaks & agrees with "doomers"......

-- Super (slfsl@yahoo.com), August 25, 1999.

Lest we forget... "I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have was that I didn't study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people."
--J. Danforth Quayle

"If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure."
--J. Danforth Quayle

"Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child."
--Vice President Dan Quayle

"Welcome to President Bush, Mrs. Bush, and my fellow astronauts."
--Vice President Dan Quayle

"Mars is essentially in the same orbit... Mars is somewhat the same distance from the Sun, which is very important. We have seen pictures where there are canals, we believe, and water. If there is water, that means there is oxygen. If oxygen, that means we can breathe."
--Vice President Dan Quayle, 8/11/89

"What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is."
--Vice President Dan Quayle

"The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean in this century's history. But we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century."
--Vice President Dan Quayle, 9/15/88

"I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change."
--Vice President Dan Quayle, 5/22/89

"One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice president, and that one word is 'to be prepared'."
--Vice President Dan Quayle, 12/6/89

"May our nation continue to be the beakon of hope to the world."
-- The Quayles' 1989 Christmas card. [Not a beacon of literacy, though.]

"Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things."
--Vice President Dan Quayle, 11/30/88

"We don't want to go back to tomorrow, we want to go forward."
--Vice President Dan Quayle

"I have made good judgments in the Past. I have made good judgments in the Future."
--Vice President Dan Quayle

"The future will be better tomorrow."
--Vice President Dan Quayle

"We're going to have the best-educated American people in the world."
--Vice President Dan Quayle, 9/21/88

"People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history."
--Vice President Dan Quayle

"I stand by all the misstatements that I've made."
--Vice President Dan Quayle to Sam Donaldson, 8/17/89

"We have a firm commitment to NATO, we are a *part* of NATO. We have a firm commitment to Europe. We are a *part* of Europe."
--Vice President Dan Quayle

"Public speaking is very easy."
--Vice President Dan Quayle to reporters in 10/88

"I am not part of the problem. I am a Republican."
--Vice President Dan Quayle

"I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix."
--Vice President Dan Quayle

"A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls."
--Vice President Dan Quayle

"When I have been asked during these last weeks who caused the riots and the killing in L.A., my answer has been direct and simple: Who is to blame for the riots? The rioters are to blame. Who is to blame for the killings? The killers are to blame."
-- Vice President Dan Quayle

"Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it."
--Vice President Dan Quayle, 5/20/92 (reported in Esquire, 8/92)

"We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur."
--Vice President Dan Quayle, 9/22/90

"For NASA, space is still a high priority."
--Vice President Dan Quayle, 9/5/90

"Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children."
--Vice President Dan Quayle, 9/18/90

"The American people would not want to know of any misquotes that Dan Quayle may or may not make."
--Vice President Dan Quayle

"We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made."
--Vice President Dan Quayle

"It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it."
--Vice President Dan Quayle

"[It's] time for the human race to enter the solar system."
--Vice President Dan Quayle

-- Y2KGardener (gardens@bigisland.net), August 25, 1999.

The only error I see in Dan's statement is that of assuming that the Prez either would or could minimize the impact.

-- Mad Monk (madmonk@hawaiian.net), August 25, 1999.

If someone as astooot as Quayle has really become a GI, I'm going to have to re-evalooate my position. Maybe I'm really a polly ana.

By the way, here is a challenge for you folks. It's a riddle, actually, and I'll give you a gold star if you can figure it out. No gold stars to those of you who come up with dumb answers, like, "they are both human beings" It's gotta be MY answer, or one that is FUNNIER than my answer.

Sorry this is OT, but, hey, we all could use a laugh, especially at the expense of a politician.

So here we go:

What do Marilyn Quayle and Marion Berry have in common?

Al (laughing, I just got this from my honey)

-- Al K. Lloyd (al@ready.now), August 25, 1999.

Y2KGardener,

ROFLMAO! Every one a classic. Thanks!

-- RUOK (RUOK@yesiam.com), August 25, 1999.

Y2K Gardener.......those mistatements you just gave as coming from Quayle....I recently heard them all attributed to Al Gore, on a radio program, recently. Are you sure of your sources? Al is noted for his guffaws......the only one I've ever heard re: Quayle is his mis- spelling of potato Personally, I like the guy very much!

-- Jo Ann (MaJo@Michiana.com), August 25, 1999.

I think that Dan Quayle is right on target, he may or may not be right but that's not for me to decide.

-- Chris (%$^&^@pond.com), August 25, 1999.

Wow! I just re-read my post and I impressed myself! I think I'll run for present.

-- Chris (%$^&^@pond.com), August 25, 1999.

I mean president! sheesh...is Quaylytitis catching?

-- Chris (%$^&^@pond.com), August 25, 1999.

To Al K.Lloyd:

Shame on you and your honey. (I'm going to e-mail my brother right now, and give this as an example of the diseased minds that inhabit this forum.)

-- Peter Errington (petere@ricochet.net), August 25, 1999.

I would still vote for Dan Quayle any day for President, over a Socialist President, such as Al Gore. Here are some of Al's inspiring quotes:

"If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure." Al Gore

"Democrats understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child." -- Vice President Al Gore

"Welcome to President Clinton, Mrs. Clinton, and my fellow astronauts." Vice President Al Gore

"Mars is essentially in the same orbit... Mars is somewhat the same distance from the Sun, which is very important. We have seen pictures where there are canals, we believe, & water. If there is water, that means there is oxygen. If oxygen, that means we can breathe." Vice President Al Gore, 8/11/94

"The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean in this century's history. But we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century." -- Vice President AlGore, 9/15/95

"I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy -- but that could change." Vice President Al Gore,5/22/98

"One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice president, & that one word is 'to be prepared.'" Vice President Al Gore, 12/6/93

"Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things." Vice President Al Gore, 11/30/96

"I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future." Vice President Al Gore

"The future will be better tomorrow." Vice President Al Gore

"We're going to have the best-educated American people in the world." Vice President Al Gore, 9/21/97

"People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history." -- VicePresident Al Gore

"I stand by all the misstatements that I've made." Vice President Al Gore to Sam Donaldson, 8/17/93

"We have a firm commitment to NATO, we are a *part* of NATO. We have a firm commitment to Europe. We are a *part* of Europe." -- Vice President Al Gore

"Public speaking is very easy." Vice President Al Gore to reporters in 10/95

"I am not part of the problem. I am a Democrat." Vice President Al Gore

"A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls." -- Vice President Al Gore

"When I have been asked who caused the riots and the killing in L.A., my answer has been direct & simple: Who is to blame for the riots? The rioters are to blame. Who is to blame for the killings? The killers are to blame." -- Al Gore

"Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it." Vice President Al Gore, 5/20/96

"We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur." Vice President Al Gore, 9/22/97

"For NASA, space is still a high priority." Vice President AlGore, 9/5/93

"Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children." Vice President Al Gore, 9/18/95

"The American people would not want to know of any misquotes that Al Gore may or may not make." Vice President Al Gore

"We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made." --Vice President Al Gore

-- Suzi-Q (healthy53@hotmail.com), August 25, 1999.

Bottom line guys:

I find it a bit terrifying to hear Dan Quayle commenting on Y2k, or anything else for that matter.

Signed,

A member of the Reagan Press Corps., living in terror that we were a heartbeat away from Dan Quayle.

-- too (scary@to.think about), August 25, 1999.

If you noticed, the Gore quotes I gave above are almost identical to the ones given above as being from Dan Quayle. I received them in an email, so who's to say who really said them. I am more inclined to believe they came from Gore, if anyone at all.

-- Suzi-Q (healthy53@hotmail.com), August 25, 1999.

Well, no matter what, lets not forget that it was Al Gore who invented the Internet that we are all using this very second!! I think that says something right there....

Suzi-Q, ohhh Suuuzi-Q! Do you mudwrestle?

-- King of Spain (madrid@aol.com), August 25, 1999.

To Suzi-Q:

You have just posted crap. Those are Dan Quayle statements, not Al Gore statements. (The one about Mars was especially infamous because it was in remarks he was making to a delegation of Russian scientists.)

-- Peter Errington (petere@ricochet.net), August 25, 1999.

King of Spain,

Mudwrestling aside, (and yes you are a favorite troll on this forum), can you include, in your qualifications for contributing comments with regard to Dan Quayle, ever having met or interviewed the man?

I have.

I liked Reagan because he was conservative. Misguided at times. Yep. I'll give you that. That's politics.

Regardless, Reagan's Vice-President was--bottom line--stupid. Well-connected, but inherently stupid. This is not a quality that improves with age.

Signed,

A member of the Reagan Press Corps., living in terror that we were a heartbeat away from Dan Quayle.

And, no, I don't like to mud-wrestle.

Leave this one alone.

-- too (scary@to.think about), August 25, 1999.

Gawd, I just SAID that it was AL GORE who invented the frigging INTERNET!! What more do you want me to say about the man? That as "technical weenie" for the Clinton Administration he IGNORED Y2K for years and years, and thus in a sense is PERSONALLY RESPONSIBLE for this horrible mess that we are about to enter?? What???

-- King of Spain (madrid@aol.com), August 25, 1999.

Personaly, I think that these quotes are fitting to both Quayle and Gore and both of them scare me.

Don't bother to ask KoS...

-- Chris (%$^&^@pond.com), August 25, 1999.

And don't call me a troll!! Gawd! You sure talk about people you don't even know.

Ohhhhhhhh, Suzi-Q ....

-- King of Spain (madrid@aol.com), August 25, 1999.

If one has a reputation of frequently disrupting numerous threads with comments with regard to mudwrestling, does that not qualify one as a "troll?"

Paging the "Yourdonite Forum" decorum police?

-- too (scary@tothink.about), August 25, 1999.

I don't understand why a basically good, honest man like Dan Quayle inspires such intense animosity from some of you. He may not be the world's brightest but I can't see where he is that bad compared to most of the other V.P's we've had, or Presidents, either. What I really don't understand is why people are not rising up in outrage over a president who commits rape, gives all our secrets to the Chinese for political contributions, sicks the IRS on any of his political enemies such as the Western Journalism Center, spends billions to bomb Kosovo which will cost billions to rebuild and now over 300,000 Serbs have fled the country, (quite a few more than the Kosovars who left), wants to completely disarm all honest, law abiding citizens of their guns, lies about everything. Geez, I could go on, and on, and on.

And, do I like to mudwrestle? Well, Kind of Spain, the mud has to be real cold and real wet, and they don't call me Suzi-Q "The Body" Ventura for nothing.

-- Suzi-Q (healthy53@hotmail.com), August 25, 1999.

"too" (gawd, what a dumb name): Look, YOU brought up mudwrestling. In fact, you brought up Dan Quayle, not me. I was only pointing out what a complete moron Al Gore is for having 1) claimed to have invented the Internet and 2) ignored Y2K thus setting us up for famine, nuclear explosions, and other stuff. And I was actually trying to get an opinion from Ms. Suzi-Q prior to your coyless interruptus.

Suzi-Q: Cold and wet. Huh. OK, well thanks for the response.

-- King of Spain (madrid@aol.com), August 25, 1999.

Suzi,

Quayle may be honest and he may be good (although I wonder what the difference is between those two terms), but he is stupid.

Stupid.

'Nuff said

-- too (scary@to.think about), August 25, 1999.

Sorry, King, didn't mean to leave you almost speechless.

-- Suzi-Q (healthy53@aol.com), August 25, 1999.

Apologies, King,

Don't worry, you won't hear from me again, unless Danforth Quayle decides to comment again on Y2k.

Now, you and Suzi have a good time, hear?

-- too (scary@tothink.about), August 25, 1999.

What kinds of things do you feel Dan Quayle has done that are stupid? I mean, other than the quotes that have been attributed to him. I wasn't following the news as closely when he was V.P. as I am now, but I don't recall him doing stuff that was stupid. Maybe someone would like to enlighten me. (Don't everybody rush at one time.)

-- Suzi-Q (healthy53@hotmail.com), August 25, 1999.

Given a choice between Dan "Yogi" Quayle and B.J. Clinton, I'll take an idiot over a liar/rapist/traitor any day. Gov. Ventura's got my vote should he jump into the fray. As a Libertarian, I nominate Jessie "the mouth" Ventura for President in 2000.

-- Bill (y2khippo@yahoo.com), August 26, 1999.

I give up. What DO Marion Barry and Marilyn Quayle have in common?

-- Pearlie Sweetcake (storestuff@home.now), August 26, 1999.

Um, hello, excuse me? How come nobody else seems to have picked up on this?

"Regardless, Reagan's Vice-President was--bottom line--stupid. Well- connected, but inherently stupid. This is not a quality that improves with age.

Signed,

A member of the Reagan Press Corps., living in terror that we were a heartbeat away from Dan Quayle."

You obviously are a very stoopid troll, and wouldn't know a Press Corps from an apple core. Do I really need to tell you why? Or maybe you've just got Alzheimer's like your hero?

-- (dot@dot.dot), August 26, 1999.

Good catch, dot! Glad you are here to beat the bushes for us!!

-- King of Spain (madrid@aol.com), August 26, 1999.

Well, dot

I might have a little Alzheimer's, but as I said I wasn't following politics much when Reagan & Quayle were in office. But I would rather have a little Alzheimers than be arrogant like you. And, I'm not sure why you call me a troll. I am a GI. I have been preparing for 1-1/2 years. I follow this board but mostly don't make any comments because of the arrogance of some of the people on this board.

-- Suzi-Q (healthy53@hotmail.com), August 26, 1999.

Um... Suzi, or too scarey, or whoever even cares about this... Quayle was Bush's VP, NOT Reagan's.

Wake up, kids!

-- (dot@dot.dot), August 26, 1999.

So sorry, dot. I can see you never make a mistake. As a matter of fact, this will be my last post on this subject as I can see how difficult it is to carry on a normal conversation with arrogant know- it-alls. Go ahead, you can have the last word. I know I'll never get the last word. I really don't know why you bother even posting on this board if you aren't here to try to help people but just tear them down.

-- Suzi-Q (healthy53@hotmail.com), August 26, 1999.

Suzy-Q, first you need to warm up your mud bed. Then you need to know some basic facts on the subject you're jumping on and want to discuss. Then, if you make a mistake, you go "oops, sorry" then move on.

If you can't do that, then you just keep on lurking and you won't feel hurt.

What's arrogance anyway?

-- Chris (%$^&^@pond.com), August 26, 1999.

Suzy-Q: Now don't get your feelings hurt. Most here are mean intentionally.

If you're gonna' post here, you have to get your facts straight. And you have to have a fairly thick skin. Stick around.

KOS, by the way, is not a troll and his mudwrestling queries aren't disruptive.

-- Vic (Rdrunner@internetwork.net), August 26, 1999.

Al K. Lloyd,

Okay, I'll give the obvious answer--Marilyn Quayle and Marion Barry both like to keep some dope around the house.

I'll bet your answer is a lot funnier...

-- Don (whytocay@hotmail.com), August 26, 1999.

Suzi,

I don't know why you're getting all defensive about this. You are not the one who said,

"Regardless, Reagan's Vice-President was--bottom line--stupid. Well- connected, but inherently stupid. This is not a quality that improves with age.

Signed,

A member of the Reagan Press Corps., living in terror that we were a heartbeat away from Dan Quayle."

Get it? Got it! Good!!

-- (dot@dot.dot), August 26, 1999.

oopsy Dot...maybe Suzy-Q IS Too too ;-)

-- Chris (%$^&^@pond.com), August 26, 1999.

Peter Errington:

Shame on you and your honey. (I'm going to e-mail my brother right now, and give this as an example of the diseased minds that inhabit this forum.)

Peter, lighten up already! If you ALREADY think I have a diseased mind, before I have even given the punch line, you'd best not read any further. YOU WILL CERTAINLY BE OFFENDED BY THE PUNCH LINE. IT IS A CERTAIN SIGN OF A DISEASED MIND. However, the diseased mind belongs to my honey, not me. I'm merely easily corrupted.

Don--you hit the nail right on the head, almost. (Okay, I'll give the obvious answer--Marilyn Quayle and Marion Barry both like to keep some dope around the house.)

Here's the punchline, folks, sorry if anyone is offended:

They both got caught blowing a little dope.

Al

-- Al K. Lloyd (al@ready.now), August 26, 1999.

Muhahahaha! I must have a deseased mind like your wife, I find it funny!

Can't wait for hubby to get home and tell him that one ;-)

-- Chris (%$^&^@pond.com), August 26, 1999.

To Al K. Lloyd:

Don't take my "reprimand" seriously. I loved it. And I was able to stump my brother, who is no slouch in the dirty joke department.

-- Peter Errington (petere@ricochet.net), August 26, 1999.

Uhhh, I guess I missed something.

When did Marilyn Quayle "get caught blowing" her little dope?

-- (dot@dot.dot), August 26, 1999.

To dot:

My version is: "They both blow a little dope."

-- Peter Errington (petere@ricochet.net), August 26, 1999.