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GOP CANDIDATE BLASTS CLINTON, LIBERAL MEDIA.


Byline: Katharine Q. Seelye This article is about the reporter for The New York Times. For the NPR reporter, see Kate Seelye.
Katharine Q. Seelye is a political reporter for The New York Times.
 The New York New York, state, United States
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 Bob Dole issued a ``wake-up call'' to the nation Thursday, warning that President Clinton does not reflect America's values and that the liberal media are protecting the ``disgrace'' of his administration.

With renewed aggressiveness, the Republican presidential nominee, still trailing in the polls, acknowledged that he was ``frustrated'' and told voters that they should be more fed up than they appeared.

``I wonder sometimes what people are thinking about - or if people are thinking at all,'' he declared in an impassioned speech Thursday morning in Pensacola, Fla. ``Wake up, America

You're about to do yourselves an injustice if you vote for Bill Clinton!''

Later, in Montgomery, Ala., he demanded of a huge throng at a rally there, ``Is there no honor in this administration or in this White House?'' The phrasing echoed the withering denunciation DENUNCIATION, crim. law. This term is used by the civilians to signify the act by which au individual informs a public officer, whose duty it is to prosecute offenders, that a crime has been committed. It differs from a complaint. (q.v.) Vide 1 Bro. C. L. 447; 2 Id. 389; Ayl. Parer.  of Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy's anti-Communist tactics in the Army hearings in 1954, when Joseph Welch, the Boston lawyer who represented the Army, asked the Wisconsin senator: ``Sir, have you no shame? Have you no sense of decency?''

Dole, continuing his attack on the president, asked, ``When will the American people have had enough?'' and asserted: ``Don't inflict this on America for four more years. We can't take it.''

Here in New Orleans, the former Senate majority leader sounded another call for alarm: ``We better start focusing on education in America, or this country is going to hell in a handbasket Going to Hell in a handbasket is an American expression of unclear origin describing something or a situation taking a turn for the worse or towards disaster without effort or in great haste.  before we know it.''

With the election less than two weeks away, Dole has been full of fire and brimstone fire and brimstone
n.
1. The punishment of hell.

2. Homiletic rhetoric describing or warning of the punishment of hell.

Noun 1.
 at boisterous rallies across the South, warning of the dangers of a second Clinton administration and forcefully stressing conservative social, cultural and military themes.
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Publication:Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
Date:Oct 25, 1996
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