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Posted on 06/15/2008 3:18:45 PM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
Sixteen years after he shook up American politics by launching an impromptu campaign for president, Ross Perot is about to dip a toe back into the public debates. And, yes, he's bringing his charts with him to make his point.
Beginning today, people who go to http://www.perotcharts.com will find the Dallas billionaire waiting to challenge them on one of his favorite subjects -- the "ruin" he says America is courting with its spendthrift ways.
"We are right at the edge of the cliff," the voice with the unmistakable Texas twang informed me when I called him the other day to find out about this latest venture. "We can't go on spending money we don't have."
That is not a new theme for Perot. It was his core message when he did his on-again, off-again, then back-on-again race against George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton in 1992. He led the field in the early months and, even after the confusing signals sent by his dropping out and coming back, he won more than 19.7 million votes -- almost 20 percent of the total.
His real triumph, however, was a policy victory. With simple charts that he designed and displayed on prime-time television "infomercials," he managed to convey to millions of voters the stark reality of what the record deficits of the 1980s really meant...."
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Ears vs. Ears.
PS. Just go away please........faster.....
Two things in life that a most regretful about. Voting for Perot and not having Children in that order
To my country Im so sorry for voting for Perot that was before Free Republic
I guess he feels he didn't screw thing up enough and wants another crack at it.
He misses the attention.
Spendthrift ways? Blame Congress
David Broder is a man who thinks entirely in cliches.
He should just shut the hell up.
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Perot’s senile babbling these days will make John McCain look like virtuoso of wide spectrum, impromptu communication!
Perot is a slobbering idiot if I take your meaning. That was not aimed at John McCain so don't blast me.
“Perot is a slobbering idiot if I take your meaning.”
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Of course. Aren’t all self-made billionaires?
If Ross Perot is weird and funny, that must mean that his message of economic ruin is wrong, right? I mean, we can just go on spending like there’s no tomorrow without ever having to pay the piper.
Hey, morons, economic pain is coming and you’ll wish it was the summer of ‘08 again when you only had to pay $4 for a gallon of gas.
Never too late. Even if you have to adopt.
I take it you are fan of Ross Perot. He didn't start off an idiot. He just worked his way into the position.
Ross Perot gave us two terms of Bubba and The Bitch. Don't try to sell me that his motives were altruistic.
No, a stupid electorate that voted for Bush Sr. after he broke his promise of "read my lips, NO NEW TAXES" gave us 8 years of "Bubba and the Bitch."
I take it by your protestations, you're one of those voters, blackbart.......
Nope, that would have been Daddy Bush.
Yes. I voted for both. Maybe they were the best selection but they were not hucksters to the level Perot is. But what the hell. We are screwed anyway.
Now we’ve got the mother of giant sucking sounds.
I will never regret voting for Perot and have no shame for standing for what I believed was right for our country then, and now.
Our country needs to be operated by businessmen and not lawyers/politicians.
We are lamenting the two party system is not representing the people’s demands. Perot gave us a chance to get a 3rd party involved in mainstream politics as a force to be recognized.
The attacks on Perot and his family were sleezy. No wonder we can’t get the brightest minds to run for President because respect is not a quality of mainstream politics.
But it would be better if we had businessmen running the country, just not nutcases.......
He must be needing some money to fill his coffers again. Watch out for the next scam he runs on the unsuspecting public.
You seem to be a bit confused. People voted for Perot because he didn't represent the lamestream candidates Bush and Clinton. It wasn't a vote against Bush or a vote for Clinton...it was a vote for a candidate that actually had some good ideas.
It's only a fool that votes for the lesser of two evils.
Perot was a charlatan.
Perot was a lying sleaze bucket! He said that "the people" wanted him to run after his appearance on Larry King Live and that is when he decided to get into the race. HUGE, BALDFACED LIE! His campaign had been in place for a good while before he went on Larry King. LIAR! Plus Perot said the rich should pay more taxes but then it was revealed he had invested almost all of his money in tax-free municipals. FRAUD, HYPOCRIT! Plus it was so obvious he was just trying to SCREW Bush41, someone he despised. He decides to drop out of the campiagn when Clinton was well ahead and just when Bush 41 catches up, GOLLY, big ears decides to rejoin the race.
That's right. He is full of bologna. Also, he has no solution. It's all about the oil.
That nutcase you describe is a self made billionaire.
somehow I don’t see irrational and deranged people making it big in business.
It takes a special person to rise above the scum.
An intellectual President is a threatening icon over the dumbed down people we call congress. That was the threat that Perot brought to the table. The federal book cookers knew they would be exposed if a businessman were to become President.
As for the nutcases, we already seem to elect the finest like Murtha and Pelousey and reid and Kennedy and look what they have given America. And the two choices we have for President are real winners when we live in a dumbed down society. I will be voting Libertarian this year for Mr Bob Barr and could care less about everyone else who wastes their vote on dumbo ears and McJuan.
Which was to be fooled by Perot and the moment. I know about a dozen or so who will admit that.
I commend their good sense, at least they now understand what they did.
Perot was great at some things, I have respect for a lot of things he did. His 1992 run is not one of them.
So...who are you going to be fooled by...McCain or Obama?
He was 100% wrong on NAFTA but I wish him luck in getting government to stop spending like there is no tomorrow.
“He said that “the people” wanted him to run after his appearance on Larry King Live and that is when he decided to get into the race. HUGE, BALDFACED LIE! “
Nobody enters a Presidential race without contemplating for months or years prior to making a final decision.
As for the rich paying more taxes, isn’t that the staple of every politician in our society of “lets redistribute the wealth’?
So what if clintoon got elected. We didn’t melt down because a Republican wasn’t President. Both partys were out to get Perot because they don’t like intelligent competition.
Unlike some of the other presidential candidates in the last 42 years?
A full bore Marxist vs. one approaching the edges......
Not fun.
H. Ross is a funny guy. He was born and raised in Texarkana, and is an alumnus (’49) of my high school, Texas High, as well as being by far the best-known son of that city. (Scott Joplin was actually born in Linden.) His folks (the Perotts) were imports from Louisiana; his parents were Texarkana business big shots, and ran one of the biggest cotton gins in the city for many years. He grew up in a modest but lovely little house in the nice part of the city, and was a hard worker from the very beginning.
Yet despite all this, the name Perot is little known in Texarkana today. Back in the 1980s he paid to have the old Saenger Theatre renovated and named for his parents — but besides that ol’ H. Ross pretty much knocked the dust of the town from his feet when he split for the Naval Academy in ‘49. At my high school there is no Perot Band Hall or Perot Field or Perot Scholarship. Texarkana College, which he briefly attended, likewise has no Perot legacy. The city boasts no Perot Park or Perot Square or Perot Award for Civic Excellence. In fact, to my knowledge, H. Ross Perot has given nothing (other than the aforementioned theater) to the city that produced him.
Not that he has any obligation to do so, of course. It’s his money, and he earned it honestly. But still, you’d think that one of the richest men in America (net worth $4B+) could spare a little something for “Dear Old Texas High” or some other part of the town he came from. As far as I know, however, he hasn’t given the city or anyone in it a thing (other than the theater) since he left. He no longer lives there, of course, and he never placed one of his businesses there. He even had his folks exhumed from their graves in Texarkana and their bodies moved to Dallas, where he lives today.
Again: nothing wrong with spending one’s own money any way one wants. Still, it’s kind of odd.
But, in a way, I almost understand why. While I was born and raised in East Dallas, I lived in Texarkana during my junior high and high school years, and I have to admit there is a sort of stifling, almost malevolent air of stasis about that town. The city is literally located in the middle of nowhere, halfway between Dallas and Little Rock, and, on the couple of occasions when I have passed through the city on my way elsewhere, I’ve noted that other than cosmetics little has changed in the decades since I left. Texarkana always seemed to me a self-contained world, insulated in many ways from Reality. There are many kind and good people in Texarkana, of course, but many people I know have become psychologically trapped there. There’s just something... dead... about that city, in my opinion.
Maybe Ross Perot felt that way too. I know that once he got out, he never looked back.
Anyway, I wouldn’t vote for the guy.
Your attitude is just pathetic. Many of us do care deeply. Maybe you're not a citizen of the US of A and that's why the "no big deal"...
Here! Here! It’s the only vote I’m truly proud of casting. He didn’t take my vote from Bush. If Perot hadn’t run, I would have stayed at home. I was not about to vote for “Read My Lips” or “I feel your pain”.
As for NAFTA, it looks to me like he was right. Lots of plants have closed because of NAFTA. It should be obvious to anyone that NAFTA was a bad idea simpley due to the fact that when Dole and Clinton agree on something, it can’t be good for the rest of us.
Interesting! He didn't want even his parents remains in rustic Texarkana.
My “pathetic” attitude is that democracy has a way of balancing things if the right leaders are in office.
During the Clinton years, there was a GOP congressional majority that prevented a major meltdown. The 8 years of Clinton were pretty good years for me economically. Yeah there were a lot of things Clinton did or didn’t do that ticked me off. But I can say the same for GWB over the past 8 years too.
And I do care deeply. That is why my vote is never wasted or taken lightly. Too many people vote knee jerk, or single issue, or take one media moment as a campaign breaker or maker. Voting is not a simplistic exercize although the dumbed down, whats in it for me crowd is all about what’s good for them and not their country as a whole.
GARRRRRGGHHHHH
The expression is "Hear, hear" — meaning "listen, everyone!" — not "here, here", which means nothing and makes no sense. "Hear, hear" originated in the British parliament in the 18th century as a contraction of "hear him, hear him". [Source]
Sorry. Pet peeve.
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