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Quote:

Originally Posted by glatt (Post 773867)

I think Rick Perry is a tool, and don't think he'd be a good president,
but his brain freeze is not something I hold against him too much.
It's amusing, and I even feel a little bad for the guy.<snip>

Of course I meant this thread in humor.
But it's hard, if not impossible to say there is no politics in it.
I'm sure Obama will get his turn later.

OTOH, Perry did show he does have a quick wit and
sense of humor during the GOP debate on 11/12/11
The text is below, but it's better to watch the video in the link

The Hill
Joshua Altman
11/12/11

Quote:

During Saturday night's foreign policy debate, Gov. Rick Perry (R-Texas)
made light of his now famous misstep in the last Republican debate.
He praised Scott Pelley, the debate moderator, when he asked a question
about the Department of Energy, the agency Perry forgot earlier this week.
“Glad you remembered it,” Perry said when asked what he would with
nuclear material if the department was eliminated.
"I've had some time to think about it, sir," Pelley said.
"Me too," Perry shot back to applause from the crowd.

Tony, relax, enjoy the humor. The originator of your user title also sang (kind of) "sex and drugs and uhhhh"

Spexx: check your P...uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

I agree with you to some extent glatt.
But still the guy is a tool, even if he was the gov. of uhhh...

Andrea Mitchell just interviewed Rep Barney Frank, about a House Bill
that blocks standards for school lunch programs... something about pizza is now a vegetable.

Franks reply was that Republicans took three Bill and combined them,
and then would not allow Amendments to their final Bill.
He started naming the three Bills and got two of them, but then said:

"I'm having a Perry moment"

For another entry in the urban dictionary.

nice.
We should trademark it and make T-shirts.

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Originally Posted by Lamplighter (Post 773955)

"I'm having a Perry moment"

A latest Perry commercial took an Obama comment completely out of context to claim Obama was disparaging American workers at an Asian trade conference. NBC News rather bluntly (I was surprised how blunt NBC was) accused Perry of misrepresenting facts. Then played the Obama quote in proper context. NBC then said rather bluntly that what Perry claimed and what Obama actually said were different.

NBC was doing what Peter Jennings of ABC so often did. Which is why George Jr Republicans so routinely attacked Peter Jennings.

Sometimes the stars align....

I must admit, I did feel a little sorry for him in that moment. I do think that someone putting themselves forward for the most powerful, and therefore most high pressured job in the world, should be able to handle the pressure of a televised debate a little better though.

Having had a brain fart moment, he could have done much better on damage control.

Rick Perry not remembering the third agency to cut is funny because we all like seeing people make fools of themselves on TV. It's not really a political attack, or has little legitimacy as one. It happens to everyone. It blows my mind that there has been so little actual analysis of the POSITION beyond him forgetting it. The fact that he wants to AXE the department of EDUCATION should have you worried.

Yeah, that kind of got all lost in the melee, didn't it?

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Originally Posted by Ibram (Post 776574)

That and his brain freezes are what will get him elected. Stupid Americans do not like a president that makes them feel stupid, they like a president that makes them feel smart or at least that the pres is "one of us"

Note George Bush with his awe shucks misunderestimating etc.

I have to stop now.

Probably because so many people thought he was going to ASK the Department of Education something.

"Let me axe you this: does the Department of Education rilly fulfeel our nids?"