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Economists say it's too early to gauge the overall effect of the North American Free Trade Agreement, which took effect in January. But seven months after Al Gore and Ross Perot, right, squared off over the treaty, the Administration and Perot are still going at it. The Commerce Department publishes the relentlessly upbeat NAFTA News, while Perot's United We Stand America publishes the pessimistic Afta-NAFTA Update. Some excerpts...
...election, Bill Clinton received 58 percent of the class' votes, while George Bush drew 34 percent and eight percent chose "other" candidates--notably Ross Perot. A full 92 percent of the respondents are glad of the presidential vote they cast, according to the poll...
This time-Worn message came form none other than billionaire Ross Perot, who told seniors at Boston University that "Financial success and happiness are unrelated...I'm no happier today than I was as a boy in the Depression in Texarkana...
...have chipped away at our notions of intimacy, dignity and content, leaving behind a fat appetite for sheer spectacle. Not always by design, the Clinton Administration is far and away the most entertaining in recent memory (excepting, of course, its wonky bits). Nannygate, the $200 haircut, Gore- Perot, Whitewater, Troopergate, Hillary's commodities trades ... we've had a government in chronic sweeps mode for more than a year...
That's some psychodrama for you, complete with echoes of H. Ross Perot, a consummate whiner who had the feeling anyone standing in his way to the White House was somehow not a true American...