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Vice President Al Gore '69 and former presidential candidate H. Ross Perot squared off last night on national television in a debate on the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA...
...logic crumbles even if Perot doesn't win. The President knows the public opposes NAFTA, but he thinks he can fool people into thinking this is a beauty pageant. That is incorrect. Stopping Perot will not stop the wave he's riding...
Watch the debate tonight. It might be interesting. It should be fun. It could be a defining moment for the political careers of Gore and Perot. Maybe Larry King will show up in a jacket...
...political logic of the Clinton team is tortuous. They hope that the debate will make more people associate opposition to NAFTA with support for Perot. They further hope that Perot will discredit himself by arriving ill-prepared to debate the issue. Therefore, since Perot will lose, NAFTA will win. Q.E.D., and four more years...
...course, this logic crumbles if Perot actually wins the debate. Poor preparation didn't prevent Perot from creaming the wonked-out Clinton and Bush in their debates last year. With two cute phrases--"I'm all ears" and the NAFTA-related "giant sucking sound"--Perot came back from the dead as a serious contender for 1600 Pennsylvania...