Rick Perry for president.

[cityconvo]

Originally Posted by Voyageur

Part of the electorate will love that he's "just like them". We see the same thing with Sarah Palin. Some people want "one of us!" to be the President. They'll actually embrace and revere Perry precisely because he got Cs and Ds at Texas A&M rather than graduating with honors from an Ivy League school.

Not me. I want the President to be an exceptionally intelligent, intellectually curious person who has always seized life's opportunities.

Exactly. And sadly there is a multi-page thread in the Dallas forum discussing Perry's transcripts and the overwhelming response at least in the first few pages is fairly close to an outright dismissal of academic aptitude. Moreover, in some cases the thread promotes the guy you can have a beer with over competence.

[cityconvo]

Originally Posted by Djuna

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Rick Perry says evolution has some holes

Just what America needs, another fundamental christian war mongerer in power.

I cannot believe people vote for this jackwagon, it is scary beyond belief the depth of anti-intellectual diatribe coming from the right.

He also says that Texas teaches both creationism and evolution. Not true, at least legally. Its reasonable to think that it probably is taught in some districts.

Gov. Perry: We Teach Creationism in Texas Public Schools. The Rest of Texas: No, We Don't. - Dallas News - Unfair Park

[JayBrown80]

Originally Posted by cityconvo

He also says that Texas teaches both creationism and evolution. Not true, at least legally. Its reasonable to think that it probably is taught in some districts.

Gov. Perry: We Teach Creationism in Texas Public Schools. The Rest of Texas: No, We Don't. - Dallas News - Unfair Park

I went to Texas public school, in a district that was 100% Catholic, everyone in my classroom went to the same church I did, and we all spent an hour in the morning BEFORE school started going to CCD (religion and bible study) classes, and I was NEVER taught creationism, nor was it ever mentioned.

There might have been some off hand comments by teachers or students saying "because the good lord wanted it that way" or somethign like that, but for the most part we learned genetics, and evolution, and science.

I don't know what Rick Perry is talking about here.