freecounterpoint: The wisdom of Ross Perot

Saturday, August 30, 2008

The wisdom of Ross Perot

4 comments:

Tecumseh said...: Well, good 'ole Ross Perot also choose in 1992 as running mate none other than James Stockdale, who asked at the VP debate with Algore and Quayle the immortal question, “Who am I, why am I here?” Let's hope Palin doesn't ask the same question when debating with Biden.; 8/30/2008 6:09 PM
Mr roT said...: Wow. Not very generous to the old guy, AI. Read up on what happened that night.; 8/30/2008 6:21 PM
Tecumseh said...: OK, I refreshed my memory here. This is what Dennis Miller says:

"Now I know (Stockdale's name has) become a buzzword in this culture for doddering old man, but let's look at the record, folks. The guy was the first guy in and the last guy out of Vietnam, a war that many Americans, including our present President, did not want to dirty their hands with. The reason he had to turn his hearing aid on at that debate is because those fucking animals knocked his eardrums out when he wouldn't spill his guts. He teaches philosophy at Stanford University, he's a brilliant, sensitive, courageous man. And yet he committed the one unpardonable sin in our culture: he was bad on television."

Life is a bitch, man. Stockdale sounds more like McCain than Palin, allright. But then, what does this episode portend about the Obama-McCain debate. What if McCain starts with the same line?; 8/30/2008 9:38 PM
Mr roT said...: Good question and good point. McCain could do poorly in a debate and Palin could do poorly. I doubt it though. Heard Palin talk a couple times. She's ok. Says "a world of hurt" a lot but she is knowledgeable (she was talking about nationwide energy policy best). Her sentences make circles but make sense at the end and have real content.
Obama never says anything other than "I feel..."; 8/30/2008 9:56 PM

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