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max
08-22-2009, 08:20 PM
His whole presidential campaign was based on the National Debt...back when it was far less than what it is today.

I wonder why he never comments or makes TV appearances to talk about the current madness?

Anyone have any idea? His silence is deafening.

dr. hfn
08-22-2009, 08:22 PM
He should do it again.

ItsTime
08-22-2009, 08:25 PM
I was wondering this the other day. How many of his predictions came true? I mean he had all those graphs, lets compare!

pcosmar
08-22-2009, 08:25 PM
Perhaps he watched that last couple elections, and said "screw the ignorant F**ks".
Why should he waste his time and money again?

ItsTime
08-22-2009, 08:27 PM
Perhaps he watched that last couple elections, and said "screw the ignorant F**ks".
Why should he waste his time and money again?

Same reason I wasted my time and money on the Ron Paul election ;)

pcosmar
08-22-2009, 08:34 PM
Same reason I wasted my time and money on the Ron Paul election ;)
I spent mine on something I believed in, Still do. That doesn't make it any less futile.
Now , educating the few that I am able may pay off it the future, but that is yet to be seen.

I don't know the mind of Perot, I thought he was the best choice at the time. The ignorant folks chose differently.

Now we have Obama. :(

ItsTime
08-22-2009, 08:38 PM
I spent mine on something I believed in, Still do. That doesn't make it any less futile.
Now , educating the few that I am able may pay off it the future, but that is yet to be seen.

I don't know the mind of Perot, I thought he was the best choice at the time. The ignorant folks chose differently.

Now we have Obama. :(

Yeah I was like 15 (I have not done the math) when he ran. I thought he was the best as well.

However, the time is now. People, thanks to Ron Paul and his grassroots, are more awake then ever. Lets get on that stump again!

clb09
08-22-2009, 08:45 PM
YouTube - Ross Perot Launches Public Information Website ... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dR38yCC5js)

Dr.3D
08-22-2009, 08:49 PM
Probably he is silent for the same reasons he dropped out of the presidential race.

Akus
08-22-2009, 08:56 PM
His whole presidential campaign was based on the National Debt...back when it was far less than what it is today.

I wonder why he never comments or makes TV appearances to talk about the current madness?

Anyone have any idea? His silence is deafening.
He probably said fuck it and decided to enjoy his golden years or whatever is the expression for the time reight before you die.

Working Poor
08-22-2009, 09:13 PM
I think he and Ron could really get this country on the right path.

roho76
08-22-2009, 09:17 PM
I liked him even though I didn't know what I was talking about. I felt like he was telling the truth. Maybe this was why it felt so comfortable with RP. I knew something was wrong with Clinton/Bush but I couldn't put my finger on it but it was probably because I was naive and in high school.

Pericles
08-22-2009, 09:32 PM
http://perotcharts.com/

Been there, done that. Lesson learned - "Don't let your opponents define your public image"

Long_Lamkin
08-22-2009, 09:33 PM
My parents voted for him in '92. When he came back early last year with his graphs, I thought he was going to come out in support of RP.

lynnf
08-22-2009, 09:35 PM
His whole presidential campaign was based on the National Debt...back when it was far less than what it is today.

I wonder why he never comments or makes TV appearances to talk about the current madness?

Anyone have any idea? His silence is deafening.


maybe because saying "I told you so" is a hollow victory?

and maybe because not enough listened back then.

lynn

Pauls' Revere
08-22-2009, 09:38 PM
Perhaps he watched that last couple elections, and said "screw the ignorant F**ks".
Why should he waste his time and money again?

EXACTLY!!

WE GOT WHAT WE DESERVE.

http://perotcharts.com/

YouTube - Ross Perot - ECONOMIC crisis 2008 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71zH7EUlUHc)

Todd
08-22-2009, 09:50 PM
Because his mission to defeat Bush Sr. is over. That's all his election was ever really about anyway. If he really believed all that stuff he spouted in 92, then he would still be active. He had a history of hating Bush and he got what he wanted.

pcosmar
08-22-2009, 10:03 PM
Because his mission to defeat Bush Sr. is over. That's all his election was ever really about anyway. If he really believed all that stuff he spouted in 92, then he would still be active. He had a history of hating Bush and he got what he wanted.

Well then , God bless him for that. :)

YouTube - George Bush New World Order (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rc7i0wCFf8g)

PreDeadMan
08-22-2009, 10:05 PM
Well Apparently, I was reading a Wikipedia biography of Mr. Perot when i found this: In January 2008, Perot publicly came out against Republican candidate John McCain and endorsed Mitt Romney for President. He also announced that he would soon be launching a new website with updated economic graphs and charts.[24] In June 2008, the blog launched, focusing on entitlements (Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security), the U. S. national debt and related issues.[25]. Hm.... Why couldn't he endorse Ron Paul?

EgwaTlvdatsi
08-22-2009, 10:14 PM
http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-67666038.html

http://archive.newtimesslo.com/archive/2004-04-07/cover/index.html

http://www.calcoastnews.com/news.php?viewStory=172179

ScoutsHonor
08-22-2009, 10:42 PM
http://ndn1.newsweek.com/site/redesign/images/newsweek-print-logo.png (http://www.newsweek.com/)
When Ross Perot Calls…
The former presidential candidate blasts John McCain, and gets an education about Barack Obama's religion.
By Jonathan Alter (http://www.newsweek.com/id/182970) | Newsweek Web Exclusive
Jan 16, 2008 | Updated: 9:25 p.m. ET Jan 16, 2008

The phone rang and it was Ross Perot, who hasn't given an interview in years. Perot, who won 19 percent of the vote in the 1992 presidential election, making him one of the strongest third-party candidates in American history, got straight to the point.
"Remember what you wrote about John McCain in the March 13, 2000, NEWSWEEK (http://www.newsweek.com/id/83307)?"

"Sure," I lied.

"When McCain called Perot 'nuttier than a fruitcake'?"
The Texas billionaire, now 77, still has some scores to settle from the Vietnam era, and his timing is exquisite. Just days before the South Carolina GOP primary, he wants me to know that McCain "is the classic opportunist--he's always reaching for attention and glory. Other POWs won't even sit at the same table with him."

Mark Salter, McCain's longtime top aide, says the Arizona senator has plenty of veteran support and many close friendships among other former POWs.


The Perot-McCain relationship goes back to McCain's five and a half years of captivity in Hanoi. When McCain's then-wife Carol was in a serious car accident, McCain's mother called Perot for help. "She asked me to send my people to Philadelphia to take care of the family," Perot says. Afterwards, McCain was grateful. "We loved him [Perot] for it," McCain told me in 2000.
Perot doesn't remember it that way. "After he came home, he walked with a limp, she [Carol McCain] walked with a limp. So he threw her over for a poster girl with big money from Arizona [Cindy McCain, his current wife] and the rest is history."


Perot's real problem with McCain is that he believes the senator hushed up evidence that live POWs were left behind in Vietnam and even transferred to the Soviet Union for human experimentation, a charge Perot says he heard from a senior Vietnamese official in the 1980s. "There's evidence, evidence, evidence," Perot claims. "McCain was adamant about shutting down anything to do with recovering POWs."
Not surprisingly, McCain sees it differently. He has told me several times over the years that the myth of live POWs was a cruel hoax on the families. He chaired hearings into the issue in the 1990s and found nothing. "The committee did an exhaustive job and pored over thousands of records and every claim of a sighting, no matter how outlandish," says Salter. "It was all untrue."
Perot says he intends to vote for Mitt Romney in the Texas Republican primary on March 4, citing Romney's experience in business and his family values. "When I went to the Naval Academy and met my first Mormons I asked why so many were excellent officers," Perot recalls. "I learned it was because of their strong family unit."


When I asked about Barack Obama, Perot said he admired his eloquence but thought it "a little odd that we would be less concerned about his background than being a Mormon." Perot was pleasantly surprised when I told him that Obama was a Christian, not a Muslim, and relieved when I informed him that the e-mail Perot (and untold others) received about Obama not respecting the Pledge of Allegiance was a fraud.


Perot isn't a Hillary hater, but he's not a fan either, relating the bumper sticker he received that reads: "Monica Lewinsky's Ex-Boyfriend's Wife for President."
The founder of a data-processing empire is still sharp in diagnosing what ails the United States. "The situation in 1992 was not nearly as bad as it is now," he says. "If ever there was a time when it was necessary to put our house in order, it's now.
"It's like having cancer and being in denial. The conduct of the House and Senate is an embarrassment to the nation." President Bush, Perot says, is a "decent person, but you can't say the same thing about the people around him."


Perot is appalled at the specter of big banks having to borrow from foreigners to stay afloat: "We have to go around the world with a tambourine and a tin cup."


He attributes the success of China to the fact that even uneducated Chinese must learn 3,000 characters early in life, compared to the 26 letters in the English alphabet. "Their hand-eye productivity is incredible because of drawing the symbols," Perot says, noting that most of today's Ph.D.s in engineering are from China and India, and only a small percentage from the United States.
Perot offers no easy solutions, instead emphasizing "a strong moral and ethical base, strong homes and the finest schools." He says he's disappointed that big textbook companies successfully lobbied in the Texas state legislature to reverse his landmark school reforms.

The pint-size Texan with the funny voice and the big ears isn't planning to run for president again, but says he will launch a Web site next month with plenty of the charts and graphs he made famous when explaining the deficit in 1992.
Before hanging up, Perot asked me to read the books he recommended on live POWs. I promised him I would.

Find this article at [/URL][url]http://www.newsweek.com/id/94827 (http://www.newsweek.com/id/94827)
© 2008
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My Comment: I went internet-shopping for current info on RP (hey!:)) and found that all was disturbingly quiet. Not a peep from this man to speak of for at least the last 3 years. Except for his "perotcharts.com" website--a barren place, where he never shows up in person either..... Hmmmm....I'm getting a spooky feeling about this.

I hope this man, who I believe was a genuine patriot, is alive and well. :confused:
(I guess this is what comes of reading too many conspiracy theories!:eek::o)

Conza88
08-22-2009, 10:49 PM
I think he and Ron could really get this country on the right path.

ORLY...


The one break from this has been in 2005 when he was asked to testify before the Texas Legislature about proposals to extend technology to students, through making laptops available; and changing the process of buying books, through making electronic books available and allowing schools to buy books at the local level instead of going through the state. Perot promoted the legislation. In an April 2005 interview, Perot expresses concern about the state of progress on issues he had raised in his presidential runs.

In January 2008, Perot publicly came out against Republican candidate John McCain and endorsed Mitt Romney for President. He also announced that he would soon be launching a new website with updated economic graphs and charts.[24] In June 2008, the blog launched, focusing on entitlements (Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security), the U. S. national debt and related issues.[25]

Pericles
08-22-2009, 11:17 PM
Because his mission to defeat Bush Sr. is over. That's all his election was ever really about anyway. If he really believed all that stuff he spouted in 92, then he would still be active. He had a history of hating Bush and he got what he wanted.

This theory is the perfect explanation why Perot was the Reform Party candidate in 1996 when a Bush was not running for president.

V4Vendetta
08-22-2009, 11:36 PM
Perot I probably worried about his and his families life. I'm sure he was warned to keep quiet after he won so many votes in 1992.

muzzled dogg
08-23-2009, 09:34 AM
cause he's too old?

phill4paul
08-23-2009, 09:41 AM
Probably he is silent for the same reasons he dropped out of the presidential race.

;)