"It is during our most challenging and uncertain moments that our Nation's commitment to due process is most severely tested; and it is in those times that we must preserve our commitment at home to the principles for which we fight abroad."
Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, Hamdi v. Rumsfeld - 2004
Yes. Ross Perot was pivotal. No one thought Bush I (Sr) was vulnerable, until Perot poked him in the eye. Clinton had jumped in the race as a gambit, and reaped the reward of momentum from Bush's Perot-inspired decline. At the time, I was a ABB (anybody but Bush) person going around wearing a Perot hat and registering voters. Not that I was crazy about Perot. That was just the tactic of the day. Not that I got that excited about Clinton, either. Whatever positives I felt about him were demolished between the time he was elected and the time he was inaugurated. (Don't get me started!)
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Yes. Ross Perot was pivotal. No one thought Bush I (Sr) was vulnerable, until Perot poked him in the eye. Clinton had jumped in the race as a gambit, and reaped the reward of momentum from Bush's Perot-inspired decline. At the time, I was a ABB (anybody but Bush) person going around wearing a Perot hat and registering voters. Not that I was crazy about Perot. That was just the tactic of the day. Not that I got that excited about Clinton, either. Whatever positives I felt about him were demolished between the time he was elected and the time he was inaugurated. (Don't get me started!)
Thanks! I heard Thom Hartman say that Perot was right about economics.
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