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...envy former President Carter being able to call Ross Perot a demagogue with unlimited financial resources to undermine NAFTA...
...competition in their campaign to persuade Americans that NAFTA is a job-killing scheme cooked up by greedy corporate honchos and foreign lobbyists. So one-sided did the argument seem that it began to produce "a giant sucking sound," not of American jobs flowing to Mexico, as Ross Perot swears will happen under NAFTA, but of congressional support for the trade pact going down the drain...
...Perot also has the unique ability to "forget" specific plans on days he is asked about them, a charade he has pulled off multiple times. For a man who claims to have the substance other candidates lack, such behavior is the ultimate in cynicism...
...expertise on foreign affairs seems limited to an in-depth knowledge of the Mexican "job-sucking" worker. Perot's main contribution on foreign policy was this gem in one of last year's presidential debates: "China is a large country with many provinces." Undeniably true, but even the domestically-oriented Clinton managed more insight...
Despite all these visible failings, Perot received 19 percent of the vote in last year's election, even after his ramblings about his daughter's wedding and paramilitary assaults on his home. This display of support demonstrates both the peoples' desire for straight talk and their frustration with the major parties...