Interesting history: AL Gore debates NAFTA with Ross Perot, November 9, 1993

[arcane1]

[bluestateguy]

1. Gore won the debate, but Perot's argument was the correct one

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[arcane1]

3. I only caught a piece of this at the time, so I'm curious to see how it goes

[Uncle Joe]

6. Gore won the debate on the merits but with the coup of 2000, the U.S. Government

didn't have any merits.

[Gman]

2. You're not listening!

Dana Carvey did it better than Perot.

[iamthebandfanman]

14. can he finish???

can he finish can he finish can he finish !?

mr carvey is whom I will always think about when ross perot is mentioned

[navarth]

4. Goddam it Al!!! WTF

This still burns me. I voted for you 3 times Al, what the fuck were you doing??

I've learned to not be so trusting since then.

[elleng]

5. Thanks (I think) for posting.

Perot was right, realist that he is.

[arcane1]

7. Al just gushed over the fact that Mexico has the world's largest Walmart

[Uncle Joe]

8. Al also brought to light that Perot had his own free trade monopoly zone and "why was it good enough

for Perot but the not the rest of the nation?"

[arcane1]

9. Indeed, he didn't like having his own interests brought up in this one bit!

And they're both more assholish than I remember from back then

[Uncle Joe]

10. Here is another piece of trivia, Mexico is the second leading nation for U.S. Exports as of 2008.

I've never thought of Al as "assholish" then nor now he has always had the courage of his convictions, Gore challenged and was willing to debate NAFTA with Perot openly for all the world to see, there was no secrecy as to his position on the issue.

[deutsey]

11. I didn't vote for Perot,

and wasn't even tempted to do so, but I was very grateful that he laid out what he did in the way he did.

No one else in officialdom was saying what he said at the time and I remember it resonating with a lot of people.

[mackerel]

12. Ross Perot was right only once...NAFTA sucks.

Although Canada has greatly benefited from it.

[Enthusiast]

13. I watched it live.

This was my one objection to the Clinton-Gore ticket. NAFTA was worse than we ever could have imagined.