I liked the Napoleon joke, but I was not sure what the author’s point was until an HN user eloquently wrote a closer as a comment. Going on a tangent, it was a

I liked the Napoleon joke, but I was not sure what the author’s point was until an HN user eloquently wrote a closer as a comment. Going on a tangent, it was also hard to take his Ross Perot comment seriously. Perot had one political goal: reduce and end the deficit so that we can keep our debt level sane. His campaign is what caused GH Bush to lose a 2nd term to Bill Clinton. It’s also what drove the fleeting bipartisan obsession with minimizing the deficit until GW Bush’s ascension, where budgets ballooned for national security