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...White House cannot just shrug off such barbs; it takes Perot seriously as a political threat. In the latest TIME/CNN poll, 52% of the respondents have a generally favorable opinion of Perot, while only 50% have a similar opinion of Clinton personally (and many fewer approve of the job he is doing as President). On Perot's current major bugbear, the North American Free Trade Agreement, 63% agree with him that it will result in a loss of American jobs, vs. only 25% who believe with Clinton that it will create jobs...
...Administration is beginning to . . . well, not shoot but talk back. Clinton, pressed by reporters for a response to Perot, said, "Well, we know he doesn't like my state . . . but that doesn't have much to do with America." Three senior officials -- Trade Representative Mickey Kantor, Labor Secretary Robert Reich and Council of Economic Advisers chairwoman Laura Tyson -- appeared at a press briefing to answer in advance the attacks on NAFTA Perot was preparing to make in a TV speech Sunday night...
Administration officials are also trying to set up a special task force charged with further monitoring and answering Perot's assaults on NAFTA, but it is not staffed yet. Even so, the Administration seems stumped. Suffering in silence or making restrained replies when unavoidable plainly is not working. But trading raspberry for raspberry with Perot might only lower Clinton's presidential dignity without being very effective either; it is Perot's natural style but hardly Clinton's. The White House has not yet found a way out of that dilemma...
...Ross Perot didn't help the President's week, declaring in a TV interview that Clinton is too inexperienced to run the government. If he came looking for work, Perot said, "you wouldn't consider giving him a job anywhere above middle management...
After months of light jabs, billionaire gadfly Ross Perot threw a wild, roundhouse punch last week, suggesting Bill Clinton is unqualified for high office and stating that he "wouldn't consider giving him a job anywhere above middle management." While Perot's characterization seems severe, the criticism about Clinton's administrative skills is echoed in private by some of his closest associates and colleagues. Said one, to whom Clinton turned last week for late-night advice: "His management style . . . just doesn't work at this level of government...