Guest Editorial
Response to Morgan Stanley's E-mail Apology
by Dan Brown

From: Daniel P. Brown
To: Morgan Stanley
Subject: Your unfortunate apology

Mr. Purcell,

I am embarrassed and appalled that you would demean yourself and your 
firm by kowtowing to the extreme elements in our society still 
co-dependently bent on destroying President Clinton.

What occurred during the Clinton-Gore administration brought real 
progress to real people, and added millions of dollars to your portfolios 
from the newly expanded disposable incomes of the middle class:

The legacy of the Clinton/Gore administration:

1. The longest economic expansion in our history. 
2. Creation of more than 22 million new jobs.
3. Achieving the lowest unemployment in 30 years.
4. Real wages rising at ALL income levels.
5. The highest home ownership IN HISTORY.
6. Unemployment down to 3.9 percent.
7. Hispanic unemployment at 5 percent, the LOWEST LEVEL ON RECORD. 
8. African-American unemployment cut in half to its LOWEST LEVEL EVER RECORDED.
9. The lowest welfare rolls in 32 years.
10. The lowest crime rates in 26 years.
11. Teen pregnancy and drug abuse down.
12. Student test scores up.
13. Fewer people without health insurance for the first time in a dozen years.
14. The size of the federal government reduced by over 340,000 workers.
15. The budget is balanced.
16. The (thank you Reagan) federal debt had FINALLY begun to be reduced.

These are facts. These are real. This is progress. The Clinton-Gore 
administration brought REAL progress to the REAL people who need it most 
more than ANY Republican 'trickle-down feed the rich first and toss the 
crumbs to the poor' administration has ever been able to do.

In contrast, Reagan/Bush left us with a burgeoning $4 trillion debt and 
deep unemployment.

Bush I pardoned the Iran-Contra criminals right in the middle of an 
investigation, as he was going out the door. The ultimate responsibility 
for Iran-Contra, for the lives it cost - in Central America as well as in 
Iran, and the ravaging toll it took on our foreign policy credibility, 
will never be known because of Bush I's blatant misuse of power in 
issuing the midnight pardons of the Iran-Contra criminals.

In contrast, we are currently being treated by the media to the inane 
circus of watching the right-wing hypocritical microscope focus on 
Clinton's pardon of a larcenous investment banker who was a former client 
and buddy of Dick Cheney, and the ludicrously fabricated concoction by 
Ari Fleischer that Clinton somehow found the time to maul some keyboards 
in the Vice President's offices.

If you owe anyone an apology, it's to President Clinton for buying into 
this right-wing besmirching of his name in the name of character 
assassination.

Sincerely,
Dan Brown

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