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Then start your own d*mn thread about what you want to talk about. That's not what this one is about.
First off you are not a MOD here so you know where you can file your orders to me. Secondly My post is states the truth of the matter, I note it hit a nerve with you so I can assume it was Not what you wanted to hear, the truth does that to some people here. Good.
Casper
I don't think Rick Perry knows how to keep his fundamentalist religion out of his politics and that's what turns me off the most about the guy.
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"The answers for America's problems won't be found on our knees or in heaven, but by using our brains, our reason and in compassionate action," said Dan Barker, a co-director of the foundation. "Gov. Perry's distasteful use of his civil office to plan and dictate a religious course of action to `all citizens' is deeply offensive to many citizens, as well as to our secular form of government."
While the day of prayer will undoubtedly please many evangelicals β a powerful bloc in the Republican Party β it has provoked sharp criticism from other quarters, particularly because of its explicit evangelical Christian theme, which sets it apart from National Prayer Days and other events that normally include all faiths.
As a Rick Perry supporter, I have observed some of these mistakes in the media and this forum, already. That is the purpose of this post. To keep posters from repeating misconceptions about Texas and Perry should Perry run. The writer (Paul Burka from Texas Monthly), who has been writing about Perry since the 1980s, expounds on the following 8 mistakes in the article in the hopes that the national news media gets them right next time if and when Rick Perry runs for President.
"...we have endured a disproportionate amount of bad writing about our state from journalists who donβt know very much about the place...)"
"1. Perry is not George Bush. (Donβt assume that because Bush and Perry served together in the Capitol, or because theyβre both Republican Texans who wear boots, the two men have a lot in common. They donβt.) The differences are spelled out in the article.
2. Itβs not a big deal that Perry was once a Democrat. (When Perry was elected to the statehouse, in 1985, conservative Democrats ran the Legislature.)
3. Perry is cannier than you think he is. ( Revels in political plays that are initially misunderstood by the press and his critics.)
4. Texas is not a βweak governorβ state.
5. Perry is not a male hair model. (Hard man. Kind of politician who would rather be feared than loved.)
6. Perry is from the middle of nowhere. (Parents were tenant farmers, and not just tenant farmers but dryland farmers, which is as hard as farming gets.)
7. Perry is an Aggie. (Style on the stump is that of the Aggie yell leader βAre you fired up?β
8. Don't discount the luck factor. (Perryβs career: In the right place at the right time.)"
I could not get past, Dear Yankee. Obviously the writer is still stuck in the civil war. WHen he catches up to 21st century, then I will start reading what he has to say.
I could not get past, Dear Yankee. Obviously the writer is still stuck in the civil war. WHen he catches up to 21st century, then I will start reading what he has to say.
Maybe he can bring the rest of the Conservatives with him.
I could not get past, Dear Yankee. Obviously the writer is still stuck in the civil war. WHen he catches up to 21st century, then I will start reading what he has to say.
Hotair: I am not quite sure what you are talking about? If it is the reference to "Dear Yankee" yankee is a term many no of the Mason/Dixon line ise themselves?
These are the corrections of misconceptions of Perry?
Do people commonly think he's dumb, dull, or slow?
Do they think he's from somewhere in particular, or born with a silver spoon, as opposed to being from "nowhere" born to farmers?
Do they think he's from a different school, or has a different style?
Do they think he is unlucky?
The writer from Texas Monthly has probably gone through it before with the national Yankee media so he's strinking before the onslaught of reporters show up in Texas, this time, instead of trying to correct the misconceptions later. That's my take on it.
Haven't we already seen the articles and posts that claim Perry and Bush are peas in a pod just because they're from Texas? Like it's some exotic island in the pacific where everyone is from the same tribe and wears the same grass skirt? I don't remember anyone trying to paint Clinton/Huckabee as twins separated at birth. It would be like me saying there no difference between Bloomberg and Giuliani because all New Yorkers look and sound alike.
Hotair: I am not quite sure what you are talking about? If it is the reference to "Dear Yankee" yankee is a term many no of the Mason/Dixon line ise themselves?
Nita
Maybe, if the play for the New York Yankees. I don't know many people in Colorado, Idaho or North Dakota who refer to themselves as Yankees.
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