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...Instead of shaking the system up, Mr. Perot'sbeen shaking the system down," Miller said. "Hesays we ought to clean out the barn, but he's boonknee-deep in it for years."AP Wire PhotoGov. BILL CLINTON shakes hands during avisit to the Abrons Art Center in New York...
...Ross Perot, the king of content-free sound bites (whose favorite, of course, is "I could sound bite it for you, but I won't"), is preparing his first wave of television commercials. Though filming has yet to begin, Perot's ads will probably ape his insistence that campaign promises are made to be broken, so he won't make any. In other words, as befits the man who seems so far to be running for President of Hallmark, there will be lots of homilies and little else...
...almost every candidate since the '50s (including George Bush and Bill Clinton during this year's primaries) -- softball queries served up by ordinary voters that the candidates hit out of the park. By today's standards, Ike's spots were crude, but they had a bit of Perot about them. Corruption was an issue in 1952, and Ike said (as Perot would) that while he didn't know "how many crooks" there were in Washington, he would "find out" and "get rid of " them. No specifics, just the inchoate hope that a "man of action" would...
...toward the strength he and Bush share -- foreign policy. Even civil rights took on a foreign dimension in Nixon's hands. "When we fail to grant equality at home," he said, "it makes for bad news around the world." John Kennedy couldn't match Nixon's experience, so (as Perot and Clinton might do) J.F.K. used a jingle to say that he too was "seasoned through and through, but not so doggone seasoned he won't try something...
...Perot's political generals vs. his volunteer army...