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Ross Perot, Billionaire Former Presidential Candidate, has Died at age 89:
Billionaire, philanthropist and former presidential candidate Ross Perot has died, CBS News has confirmed. He was 89.
Perot died in Texas, the state where he was born, surrounded by family.
[...] In 1992, Perot made a name for himself when he became the most successful non-major party presidential candidate in 80 years, amassing 19 percent of the popular vote, running against President George H.W. Bush and Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton.
As a boy in Texarkana, Texas, Perot delivered newspapers from the back of a pony. He earned his billions in a more modern way, however — by building Electronic Data Systems Corp., which helped other companies manage their computer networks.
Yet the most famous event in his career didn't involve sales and earnings; he financed a private commando raid in 1979 to free two EDS employees who were being held in a prison in Iran. The tale was turned into a book and a movie.
Perot first became known to Americans outside of business circles by claiming that the U.S. government left behind hundreds of American soldiers who were missing or imprisoned at the end of the Vietnam War. Perot fanned the issue at home and discussed it privately with Vietnamese officials in the 1980s, angering the Reagan administration, which was formally negotiating with Vietnam's government.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 10 2019, @03:41PM (3 children)
Man, take off the blindfold and look in the mirror. The opposite of wrong isn't always right, sometimes it's just wrong in a different way.
The republican politicians may be delusional shit-head assholes with no humanity left, but that doesn't make the democrat politicians saints or even superior. They are also evil manipulative greedy self-serving bastards.
Do you really believe that 49% of people who care enough to vote are irredeemably stupid racist deplorables? I am convinced a lot of good people voted for Trump because they thought evil was worse than stupid. Continually pointing out that Trump is stupid doesn't change them, because you aren't addressing the fact that they still think evil is worse than stupid.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 10 2019, @04:31PM (1 child)
A few years ago I would have said no. Now, I'm not so sure.
And look at where that got us; we now have both evil and stupid in the WH. I sure hope that Trump voters have learned their lesson as we approach November 2020.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 12 2019, @02:45AM
So you're advocating that they vote for evil.
Why don't you advocate that the democrats run a candidate who isn't widely seen as a corrupt evil bitch who will start wars for the profit of the 'old money' class?
(Score: 2) by ikanreed on Wednesday July 10 2019, @06:41PM
(Spoiler I don't think the democrats are right all the time. They're shit. I just think the republicans have become ideologically committed to impossibly stupid things, and very evil things that are sadly very possible)