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- From: bd@fluent@dartmouth.EDU (Brice Dowaliby)
- Newsgroups: talk.rumors
- Subject: Re: Why Perot dropped out/was in?
- Message-ID: <BD.92Jul22155911@fluent.UUCP>
- Date: 22 Jul 92 19:59:11 GMT
- References: <1992Jul20.114340.23430@mr.med.ge.com>
- Sender: bd@fluent@dartmouth.EDU (Brice Dowaliby)
- Reply-To: bd%fluent@dartmouth.EDU
- Organization: Fluent Inc., Lebanon NH
- Lines: 60
- In-Reply-To: hinz@bonfire's message of Mon, 20 Jul 92 11:43:40 GMT
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- in article <1992Jul20.114340.23430@mr.med.ge.com> hinz@bonfire (David Hinz Mfg 4-6987) writes:
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- >1> $10 million ego trip
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- Not likely
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- >2> Thought he could do it but decided he really couldn't (his claim)
-
- Not likely
-
- >3> He wanted to shake up the rep's & dem's for the betterment of the country
- > (riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.........)
-
- Not likely
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- >4> He is in kahootz with Clinton, positioning his platform as one of change,
- > feeding into it, then announcing, it just so happens, on the eve of the
- > dem's convention, that he's not running because the dem's are doing OK.
-
- Not likely
-
- >Any ideas?
-
- I'll ventuire a theory.
-
- Like many people who are not politicians, H. Ross probably thought that
- any fool could do a better job than the fools we have doing it now. I think
- H. Ross thought that the press and the people would rally aound him since
- it was _obvious_ that he was a better person than any politician could
- be.
-
- I don't think he had a clue about how hard-ball politics is today, and
- I think he wimped out.
-
- It was clear that the NY Times, at least, had made it a 1992 political
- goal to dig up info on Perot (and I agree with their doing so), and given
- how paranoid Perot was I don't think he wanted tom face this.
-
- I heard an interview with Perot (telephone conversation, more than
- planned interview) when NPR person for All Things Considered called
- him up at home, and asked him about the deal with the tax break because
- of his attempt to save the Wall St. brokerage firm. Perot's
- response, after saying that he had never heard of ATC, was to say that
- the interviewer (I forget if it was Totenberg or Roberts) must have owed
- someone a favor and now they've paid the person back, implying that the only
- reason All Things Considered was asking about whether he tried to get a
- multi-million tax break put through in the dark hours of the morning
- was because they owed someone a favor. Like it wasn't a reasonable question
- to ask Perot, for some reason.
-
- The guy didn't have a clue what American politics was all about, and when he
- caught his first glimpse, he chickened out.
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