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Democratic presidential candidate Bill Clinton on Sunday released his debut in the fall race, a spot that pushes his 12 years of "battling the odds" in Arkansas and pledges to create 8 million new jobs.
The 60-second advertisement, which will begin airing Monday in several targeted states, seeks to counter Republican attacks on Clinton's record in Arkansas. It also lists various achievements in job growth, income rates and moving people from welfare to work.
Except for the unveiling of Clinton's new ad, the campaign rhetoric was confined mostly to the television studio Sunday as Vice President Dan Quayle and Clinton's running mate, Al. Gore, argued over taxes.
Quayle continued a familiar Republican refrain, claiming that Clinton is for raising taxes. Gore returned the fire, renewing Democratic accusations that the Republicans are distorting Clinton's record.
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President Bush spent the day at his secluded Maryland mountaintop retreat where he attended chapel services and continued to keep track of hurricane recovery efforts in Florida and Louisiana.
First Clinton ad targets economy
The Associated Press
Clinton's aides refused to say exactly which states were targeted for airing the candidate's first ad, saying they didn't want to tip their hand to the Republicans in advance of the broadcasts of the spot.
The ad uses footage of flag-waving crowds found along the routes of Clinton-Gore bus tours, and urges viewers to join up.
The ad promises that Clinton will take the country in a new direction.
"Those making over $200,000 a year have to pay more. The rest of us get a break," the commercial says, providing viewers with an address for obtaining a copy of Clinton's economic plan.
"People are ready," the ad says.
"They've had enough ... Enough of a government that just doesn't work."
In Washington, Bush representative Torie Clarke said the Democrats' pledge of 8 million new jobs was not realistic. Clinton's defense cuts — which are double Bush's — would cost 1 million jobs and his health-care plan would cost 700,000 more jobs, she said.
George Stephanopoulos, Clinton's communications director, said the 8 million new jobs that would be created over four years — a new figure for the campaign — came from government predictions of how much new employment would come from defense conversion, investment credits for businesses and investment in roads, bridges and other projects.
"He has absolutely promised $150 billion in new taxes and $220 billion in new additional government spending, which will wipe out jobs rather than create them," Clarke said.
Clinton told reporters Sunday that he wasn't worried that the GOP charges on taxes would stick. He said that Bush and former President Reagan presided over the biggest increase in domestic spending in peacetime history.
He said his state is one of the five lowest in the percentage of income residents pay in taxes.
"This is not a high-tax state. It's a low-tax state. Why do you think people come down here to retire?" he asked.
The Democratic nominee said Bush and Quayle knew that charges that he had raised taxes 128 times were untrue.
"Like they said, they know it's not true, but they do it because they think it works." Clinton told reporters.
Quayle, interviewed on CBS's Face The Nation, maintained that Clinton
Gore, appearing on ABC's This Week With David Brendley, called the GOP charges a "propaganda, big-hete technique."
Meanwhile, Clinton criticized the Bush campaign for having a top aide on the payroll who was a high-paid consultant for Japanese auto parts makers. They called it one more example of saying one thing and doing another.
"The American people need to know ... they've got somebody on their payroll making $10,000 a year from foreign car manufacturers, while they're in Detroit claiming we're going to take away auto jobs," Clinton said.
The Democratic nominee was referring to James Lake, a deputy campaign manager for President Bush's re-election team. Lake has worked as a consultant to the Japan Auto Parts Association, according to the Clinton campaign.
Clarke said the association that Lake works for includes several U.S.-based companies that employ U.S. workers. "Anybody who has probabilities Americans having good jobs should understand for president," she said of Clinton.
Clinton and Gore also both kept up their counter-punch on Republican charges that Clinton has raised taxes 128 times.
Clinton said the recent Bush criticism that the Democrats would cost jobs because of their support for higher fuel-efficiency standards was unwarranted.
Gore said on ABC, "If they continue saying this, it is a classic example of the propaganda big-lie technique to just make something real by constant repetition."
"If we tried, we couldn't cost the auto industry as many jobs as they lost the last 10 years under Reagan and Bush," he said.
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