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    Ross Perot---RIP

    From today's NYT:

    Ross Perot, the wiry Texas gadfly who made a fortune in computer services, amazed the nation with bizarre paramilitary missions to Vietnam and Iran and ran for president in 1992 and 1996 with populist talk of restoring Norman Rockwell’s America, died on Tuesday at his home in Dallas. He was 89.

    The cause was leukemia, a family spokesman, James Fuller, said.

    They called him the man from Texarkana, but he really came out of an era — the Great Depression, World War II and the exuberant postwar years — when boys had paper routes, folks tuned in to the radio and patriots rolled up their sleeves for Uncle Sam and built innovative companies and a powerful nation.

    “Most people give up just when they’re about to achieve success,” Mr. Perot liked to say. “They quit on the one-yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.”

    He was no quitter: an Eagle Scout, a Navy officer out of Annapolis, a top I.B.M. salesman, the founder of wildly successful data processing enterprises, a crusader for education and against drugs, a billionaire philanthropist. In 1969, he became a kind of folk hero with a quixotic attempt to fly medicine and food to American prisoners of war in North Vietnam. In 1979 he staged a commando raid that freed two of his employees, and thousands of criminals and political prisoners, from captivity in revolutionary Iran.
    "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
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    He gave us Pres. Bill Clinton.
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    “You can vote your way into socialism, but you have to shoot your way out.” — Too fundamental to have an attribution


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    Quote Originally Posted by wacojoe View Post
    He gave us Pres. Bill Clinton.
    The American voters gave us the Clinton dynasty when the traditionally conservative voting bloc felt compelled to split their vote...I do not blame Perot for that...He was a good, effective and decisive leader in other ventures, but we'll never know what kind of President he would have made when dunked into the DC cesspool...R.I.P......Ben
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    Back then I wasn’t quite sure what to think about him. RIP Mr. Perot
    This is your mind on drugs!

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    I remember him saying, "I'll focus like a laser..."

    Hunter
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    His focus was principally on the national debt, and he was the only one interested. As no one has focused on that issue since he lost, we can see what has happened on that front with no one really focused on it.
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    Perot had some good ideas. Much of his warnings and predictions about the economy have been proven as true. However the US being a judgmental and superficial society would never have elected a short squeeky voiced man to the office. So in turn we got a rapist whore hopping pervert. So it goes.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Honda View Post
    Perot had some good ideas.
    He said all he wanted the US government to do was, "defend our borders, deliver the mail and leave me alone!"......Ben
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