Clinton Campaign Uses Fake Menu to Roast Bush

Bill Clinton’s campaign was quick to seize on President Bush’s Waffle House excursion, handing out special menus Friday that suggested the President was the proprietor of a Waffle House that served up “Iraq of Lamb,” “Deep Voodoo Pie” and “Half-Baked Head Start.”

Bush put the Waffle House chain on the political map by making a breakfast stop at one such restaurant in Spartanburg, S.C., on Thursday, and then, after some prodding by aides, telling audiences Clinton would turn the White House into a Waffle House if he were elected.

On Friday, a Clinton agent came into the Bush’s campaign’s press filing center here and distributed a fake menu.

“The White House is already George Bush’s Waffle House,” declared the bright yellow menu, which was encased in plastic, just like the real thing.

It features “Read My Lips Service,” “Jobs on the Short Side” and a “Pay Raise Souffle.”

The reader who chooses “Sunny-Side Up” learns that “Bush said: ‘The American people think we’re in recession and we’re not,’ on Aug. 4 of this year and said a month later that ‘we’re in a global recession.’ ”

Under “Choice of the Day,” the menu recalls that Bush told Rolling Stone magazine in 1980 that he thought the Supreme Court’s Roe vs. Wade abortion decision was right, but said in 1989 that it was wrong.

“Yesterday’s Special” is “Chicken George,” and “Tomorrow’s Special” is “Lame Duck.”

The back page shows a sign “Going Out of Business” hanging across “George Bush’s Waffle House,” and notes that it was “Established Jan. 20, 1989, and Closing Nov. 3, 1992.”

And there is a footnote:

“Tax not included, never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever. . . . “