Ross Perot, self-made billionaire and
presidential candidate, dead at 89
by
Mark Moore
Original Article
Posted By: StormCnter,
7/9/2019 10:42:05 AM
Ross Perot, the self-made billionaire from Texas who launched two unsuccessful presidential bids, has died. He was 89.
Perot, who founded Electronic Data Systems Corp. in 1962, died after a five-month battle with leukemia, the Dallas Morning News reported on Tuesday.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
snakeoil 7/9/2019 10:45:34 AM (No. 118556)
His legacy is he put Slick Willie into the White House. Whatever good he may have done was canceled by that.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
seamusm 7/9/2019 10:46:14 AM (No. 118557)
I don't wish him ill. May he RIP. But I'll not forget he was responsible for Clinton becoming president.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Nevadadad46 7/9/2019 10:51:08 AM (No. 118564)
Thank Perot for putting Bill Clinton and his harridan wife Hillary in the WH. And a percentage of that blame can be laid at the feet of the Republican party for running Bob Dole. Personally, I'm glad Perot is with his maker now. A sad, sad nut, indeed. But, that said, he was right about NAFTA!
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Rather Read 7/9/2019 11:01:14 AM (No. 118580)
I just finished Every Man a King by Chris Stirewalt. It's a book about the history of populism in the United States and the last chapter was about Perot. He was certainly right about NAFTA.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Troutgreen 7/9/2019 11:02:12 AM (No. 118583)
His EDS feasted at the government teat for decades as this weasel railed against that same government.
He above all others put Bill Clinton,and by extension, Hillary, at the controls. The ramifications are still unfolding, and the damage is endless.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
padiva 7/9/2019 11:09:04 AM (No. 118597)
My BIL worked for EDS at the time 2 EDS men were arrested in Iran in the late 70's. Perot spent millions to free the men. I think the book is 'On Wings of Eagles.'
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 7/9/2019 11:16:14 AM (No. 118609)
Mixed feelings about Ross Perot. He gave us Bill Clinton, but the alternatives were Bush I and Dole, and all their globalist schemes. Perot did try to warn us about the dangers of globalism.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
DVC 7/9/2019 11:16:56 AM (No. 118613)
He kept Bush the Elder from a second term, maybe that was a good thing. It did NOT seem like it at the time, but I am far, far less of a Bush supporter now than I was then. Miles.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
bpl40 7/9/2019 11:23:23 AM (No. 118623)
He is gone. But we are stuck with Corrupt, Criminal, Crooked Hillary and her Horndog husband!
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
RenoVet68 7/9/2019 11:39:52 AM (No. 118642)
Who knew that the "great sucking sound" Perot spoke of was really Monica in the Oval Office.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Axeman 7/9/2019 11:40:03 AM (No. 118643)
I have Ross Perot to thank for getting me to quit the Democrat party. There are many Republicans who think he only appealed to those disaffected by Bush. That's not the case. He lured a lot of automatic Dem voters away by getting them to see the lies and corruption and failures of both other sides. I am still not a Republican, even though I usually vote that way. Clinton was voted in partly because many powerful people knew how corrupt he was and wanted him on their side.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
stablemoney 7/9/2019 11:42:21 AM (No. 118645)
Self-made billionaire? Lyndon Johnson gave all the medicare computer business to Ross Perot, a rather large customer don't you think? We made Ross Perot a billionaire.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
zephyrgirl 7/9/2019 11:46:11 AM (No. 118647)
"I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction." - Clarence Darrow
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
NorthernDog 7/9/2019 12:00:26 PM (No. 118658)
1992 election: Bubba 43%, Bush the Elder 38%, Perot 19%. Perot drew from both parties, but more from the Right. Funny how Dems loved the electoral college that year because it gave Bubba a huge margin (370-168).
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
lakerman1 7/9/2019 12:01:56 PM (No. 118661)
Fox News said Perot ran against Clinton twice. That is incorrect. Perot ran against Bush 23 once, and Bob Dole once.
Perot was wrong about some things. (he proposed that every American could vote on every bill in Congress, by computer or telephone) but he was correct about NAFTA.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
hershey 7/9/2019 12:28:02 PM (No. 118688)
Didn't know about that vote thing, but in retrospect, perhaps it was a good idea...more representation than we now get from the baboons in congress...
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
udanja99 7/9/2019 12:36:17 PM (No. 118692)
Good riddance, you traitor.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Submariner 7/9/2019 12:42:37 PM (No. 118697)
"Roll the tape Larry."
He was all ears.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
MattMusson 7/9/2019 1:01:59 PM (No. 118717)
When I, along with 5000 others, worked at EDS in Dallas in the late 1970's, Ross Perot stood in the cafeteria line with everyone else. He felt like cutting in line was unacceptable, even though he owned the place.
(I personally saw him do it on several occasions.)
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Zbogwan2 7/9/2019 1:02:37 PM (No. 118718)
"He was known for his catchphrase "the giant sucking sound,” referring to American jobs that would head to Mexico because of NAFTA."
I voted for Ross both times he ran and no he wasn't responsible for Slick Willie getting elected. It was "Read my lips no more taxes GHWB reneging on same that did it!" Once GHWB agreed to raise taxes I found a better candidate(far better) and voted for him.
Ross was a go getter with boundless energy(much like POTUS Trump)and if he was elected I'll bet he would have rocked the boat and drained much of the swamp, similar what POTUS Trump is trying to do now?
God Bless Ross and Speed him on to Heaven!
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
lana720 7/9/2019 1:20:53 PM (No. 118737)
Ross Perot was ahead of his time in running for President. I don’t believe he understood the depth of the Swamp he was up against.
Many of us were disgusted by politics at the time. Perhaps he paved the way for President Trump.
Rest In Peace!
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
caljeepgirl 7/9/2019 1:28:03 PM (No. 118747)
Couldn't have said it better, #20! I don't now, and will never, regret my votes for Mr. Perot! My only regret was for what could have been if he had been elected. I'll just bet he was loving the current administration! BTW, Bill Clinton was elected by the fools who voted for him....
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
StormCnter 7/9/2019 2:11:00 PM (No. 118787)
I knew him and knew his son. H. Ross Perot was not an honorable man and he coached his son in his likeness.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
cedar 7/9/2019 2:29:14 PM (No. 118803)
#20 and #22 are right. Perot did not elect Clinton, Clinton's stupid voters did! Perot was an intelligent business man who knew in advance what NATFA would do to this country. He was also a philanthropic man, donated millions of dollars to worthy causes during his lifetime.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
YorkieMom 7/9/2019 2:46:43 PM (No. 118819)
A lot of people “donate” to causes. That doesn’t make them honorable people. Think Clintons. Perot fooled too many people who thought he was the answer.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
Sam1 7/9/2019 3:05:34 PM (No. 118838)
GHWB's "Read my lips - No new taxes was what lost Bush the election. Many thought him untrustworthy, and as it turns out they were right.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 7/9/2019 10:10:40 PM (No. 119185)
Ross Perot Sr. was a great American patriot, and a great American businessman. He would do anything for our nation's warriors throughout his life. He was keenly interested in the brilliantly planned, but unsuccessful Son Tay Raid into North Vietnam by U.S. Army Special Forces to extricate a American POWs. Those SF men volunteered and secretly trained for over 6 months at Eglin AFB, but they never received any official recognition for their sacrifice and courage. The Americans had been moved 300 meters from the camp, but a contingent of Red Chinese soldiers were found sleeping there. The team dispatched them all without casualties. Even though the raid had been a failure, it resulted in the North moving all American POWs into the Hanoi Hilton, where they received much better treatment than they got in outlying camps. Perot hosted reunions for these men for many years to come on his ranch here in Texas. When his employees were held captive in Iran, Ross Sr. hired those same Special Forces legends from the Raid to get in there and safely extract them all. That story was made into a book and movie, "On Wings of Eagles."
RIP, Mr. Perot
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
Aubreyesque 7/9/2019 10:51:20 PM (No. 119196)
I was already ambivalent about Perot in '92 because as a Texan, I fell under his "No Pass No Play" legislation that he got pushed through the Texas Congress. It sounds like it was a good idea but what happened was it ended up punishing the middle student the most: if you were already a straight A student, it didnt bother you, if you were in the bottom third of the student population, it didnt matter, you were either already not going to go to college and go to trade school or you were the kind of person who didnt care about grades. No it was the average middle student who was pretty successful at most of their classes except one or two, and those were subjects that one had to struggle with. For me it was algebra. I damn near missed the opportunity to go to Washington DC on a CLOSE-UP tour for high school seniors because of that No Pass No Play because no matter what I did, algebra killed me. I also ended up with an algebra teacher who bragged about flunking as many students as she could. So there I was making A's and B's in everything else EXCEPT algebra and Ross Perot's legislation nearly broke my heart. It was the same with a WHOLE bunch of other students.
So Perot was already on my crap list.
Then again, I watched what Poppy Bush did and I despised him as well. I sure as hell didnt want to willingly give my vote to Clinton. But as Rush so wisely pointed out, voting third party did anyway.
May Mr. Perot rest in peace. His fate is all of ours. And he did do some spectacular AMERICAN things.
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#20 I voted for him too. If you didn't know what that "Giant sucking sound" was back then, you know now. NAFTA was a bad deal. Look what is coming across the border now.
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The Dallas Morning News requires a subscription. I'm sure there will be other sources soon. I have nothing nice to say about H. Ross Perot.