Quote Originally Posted by greynotsoold View Post
Does anybody remember the Perot/Gore debate of 1993? The consensus was that Perot made a fool of himself and that Gore won the debate handily, and now, it seems, most of what Perot was "babbling" about has come true.
There is certainly something very wrong in this country; the richest, most productive nation ever has an astounding number living below the poverty level, a rich/poor gap on par with that of China, and is bankrupt on every level from the federal government on down to the millions in foreclosure. This is nothing new as it has been an ongoing thing for at least as long as I've been alive. Our 'leadership' is guilty of one of two things: gross and utter incompetence, or of being venal, corrupt and greedy.
Perot got a lot of things right, but he also got some things wrong as well. The way he was portrayed in the media was grossly mishandled as well, his Vice Presidential pick was given 0 respect when all he did wrong was be bad on tv. He was a verteran and a POW that served his time in the Hanoi Hilton (along with Sen. John McCain) he was also a professor at Stanford but he was given 0 respect at all. Perot was wrong on thinking that the US given the size of our economy could be completely and totally isolationist....he was correct on Iraq though.


Al Gore is a lying sack of dog shit but he makes up for it by being pompus and dull.