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"Then why has "giant sucking sound" entered the language ? Do you remember anything Gore said in that debate ? Obviously because Perot said something that stuck in the minds of the American people as a dire warning. And because time has proven that he was right."

So Perot is leading in the polls today because everyone in America finally believes that he was right all along?!

BWAA HA HA!

You don't even realize how much in the minority you are. Citing Perot...that's rich!

So Perot is leading in the polls today because everyone in America finally believes that he was right all along?!

Gee, I wasn't aware that Perot was seeking public office.

What is fascinating is the political collapse of free trade. The only Democratic pro-free trade candidate was Lieberman and his candidacy went nowhere fast. And we see in the GOP grass roots the same factor. Non college educated workers saw what globalization did to the good factory jobs their fathers had had and now white collar workers are in the same boat. Perot and Buchanan were prophets before their time. On NAFTA they lost the battle but the very fact that Bush is so much on the defensive on this issue shows that they won the opinion war. As that poll I cited shows, the most pro-free trade sector of American opinion, high end college educated white collar professionals no longer believes your assurances because they see in their lives and the lives of the people they know that under the impact of outsourcing and offshoring their career prospects are dwindling. You've lost. All the MNC shills in the world can't convince people that what they see happenning in their lives isn't happenning.

When even Kissinger concedes that at present rates America will become a third world nation in a generation it is obvious that the complete failure of free trade to provide all those good jobs and new industries you keep promising has sunk into the American people.

Bush is trailing badly in the Midwest, the core battleground states because people there can't pay the bills with your blue sky promises. If he loses, and if he keeps this up he will, a new, reborn GOP will have to reject free trade if it is to regain the White House and the ideological initiative.