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Friday, November 11, 1994
NATION/WORLD UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Knight-Ridder Tribune
Knight-Ridder Tribune
Clinton exhausted after Election Day
Knight-Ridder Tribune and Kun Tlan
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Blame it on jet lag or post-election blues or one too many summits, but the peripatetic president, the nation's night-owl-inchief, is tired.
On the eve of yet another trip abroad, a baggy-eyed President Clinton told a Georgetown University crowd yesterday that he was headed for Asia after visiting six countries in the Middle East in three days and coming home for eight days to campaign for the Democrats.
"I'm a little bit jet lagged from the first round." he confessed.
That should hardly be surprising Clinton was home for only a few days here and there as he darted between foreign policy forays and domestic campaign trips over the past month.
But Clinton is renowned for his ability to outlast even the Energizer Bunny, so his forthright admissions of fatigue were a bit out of the ordinary.
"A lot of us haven't had a lot of sleep, and we're going to need a few days to digest all these results," Clinton said at a sometimes rambling post-election news conference on Wednesday. "I think we have to first of all ... take a little nap, take a little sleep, take a little rest."
Turns out the president had already taken that advice.
His press conference was pushed back an hour after first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton asked ales to give the president time to take a nap.
Tired as he was, Clinton still managed to find a little humor yesterday in his party's stunning defeats on Election Day.
Election gives satirists new material
The Associated Press
Get ready for more caricatures of a politician with grayish, big hair and a pudgy face. Except now Newt Gingrich, not Bill Clinton, may be dominating the editorial cartoons.
"It'll be great drawing a speaker of the House named after a lizard," laughed Steve Benson of The Arizona Republic.
Well, actually a newt is an amphibian. But this isn't rocket science.
"Newt's cut out of the mold cartoonists like. There's that shock of hair, and he speaks his mind without much forethought," Benson added yesterday.
"We have a whole new cast of characters. This is going to make great and invigorating upheaval on the editorial pages."
Even conservatives like Benson are
enjoying the upheaval that put the Republicans in control of the House and Senate.
Not only do they have Clinton and the liberals for fodder, but Gingrich and Sens. Bob Dole, Alfonse D'Amato and Jesse Helms are now on center stage.
"It's morning in America for me, I've been born again professionally," said Signe Wilkinson, a Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist for the Philadelphia Daily News and a self-professed liberal. "The electorate never lets us down."
In her cartoons, Wilkinson draws Pennsylvania's Sen.elect Rick Santorum with a chainsaw because he wants to cut government. Santorum unseated Clintonite and health care champion Sen. Harris Wofford this week.
the satirists who spoof politicians
are gleeful because the crowd taking control of Congress is straightforward about what it stands for.
And for those looking to underscore the folly and foiboles of political policy, clarity is a plus when your medium is usually a single-panel cartoon.
"Polarization makes for easy targets," said Rob Rogers, an editorial cartoonist for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and is syndicated by United Features.
"One of the hardest things about drawing Clinton was you never quite knew where he stood. With these guys, it's pretty black and white. They tend to be caricatures of themselves."
For an idea of what the new leaders will look like in print, Rogers sees Gingrich as "the Pillsbury Doughboy meets Donahue," while the eye-brow heavy Dole "likes like Boris Karloff or Dr. Jeykell."
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