Ross Perot has died at 89

[kage69]

RIP

BTW. On the Wings of Eagles was a very good book. Written by Follet about Perot getting his IT workers out of Iran after the revolution.

That is the thing about Perot that always impressed me the most, that and his support for the enlisted in general. Didn't they make that into a movie?

Shrewd and maybe even a little nutty, he at least put his money where his mouth was. You have to respect that. And he didn't look at the presidency as a money making opportunity like dipshit does.

RIP Ross Perot.

 

[darkswordsman17]

That is the thing about Perot that always impressed me the most, that and his support for the enlisted in general. Didn't they make that into a movie?

Shrewd and maybe even a little nutty, he at least put his money where his mouth was. You have to respect that. And he didn't look at the presidency as a money making opportunity like dipshit does.

RIP Ross Perot.

Read the article in the post previous to yours. He was quite Turmpian.

Down in the Caribbean, meanwhile, Perot was staging his own ersatz war on drugs, hiring an ex-Green Beret, Richard Meadows, who scooted around in speedboats but interdicted nothing. Perot presented the U.S. Customs Service with a scheme by which he would purchase a Caribbean island as a base against drug traffickers in exchange for which the government would grant him a monopoly on the services they needed, such as fuel. “If I’m going to buy a damn island down there,” he told a customs official. “I want my money back.”

Perot seems a lot like Turmp, in all the worst ways. Conspiracy theory jackass that is at all times out for himself and rages when he doesn't get his way.

The pattern of his behavior in both the GM and POW affairs is remarkably similar: when he fails to get his way, he turns vindictive, looking for someone to destroy.

Who does that sound like?

JHumeC, this guy was like if Turmp were reasonably intelligent instead of a complete and total raging dumbfuck:

After his GM debacle, the themes all came together at a huge dinner he staged at a Dallas hotel in 1987. Ostensibly, the gala was a homecoming, to welcome the hero from his “foray” in Detroit. A hotel clerk dressed in a POW’s fatigues was literally chained to the hors d’oeuvre table. “The house lights dim,” reported David Remnick in The Washington Post. “Perot walks down the center aisle flanked by two uniformed combat soldiers.... The soldiers escort him to a makeshift throne on the stage.... The set decorations are a dark dungeon cell and an angry-looking banner behind him written in Arabic.... At one table a woman can no longer contain herself. `Run Ross! Run for president!’ she shouts.... The band pumps out ‘Hail to the Chief,’ a gigantic American flag unfurls above the stage, and Perot rises from his throne.”

 

[sandorski]

He was wrong, that giant sucking sound was Monica Lewinsky baddum..tish

 

[blankslate]

Too bad people in office didn't listen to him about NAFTA and the high improbability of moving everyone from a manufacturing economy to an information economy without any significant numbers of people left in the lurch.


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