Posted on 08/25/2011 1:32:33 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
....The image of Rick Perry and Barack Obama that has been circulating is worth 300, at most. The above “side-by-side comparison,” tweeted by David Limbaugh, has torn through the Internets of late. It’s supposed to be a “side-by-side comparison.” True, Obama is not actually 22. He’s 20. From a 20-year-old’s perspective, this is a tremendous and unbridgeable gap, but to everyone else it’s a case of potato, potato. But let’s take this as a comparison.
What can we learn upon analyzing this photo?
Perry accessorizes with airplanes.
Obama accessorizes with very, very ill-advised hats.
Perry gets a cool fighter suit. Obama gets a hipster button-down.
Perry is looking heroically off into the distance through aviator sunglasses as though auditioning for a less homoerotic Top Gun.
Obama is smoking.
And “Boys will be boys….” of all the slightly offensive captions.
There is an antiquated notion that the camera does not lie, or that the camera captures your soul, or that the camera adds 10 pounds, or that – well, something to do with the camera. There is some notion about cameras. I’m sorry, let me start over.
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To me, this is a less a profile in character than it is a handy side-by-side primer on how to look good and how to look awful in a picture.
Standing next to an airplane in aviator gear? Cool. Smoking in a stupid hat? Uncool. The only way Barack Obama would look worse would be if he were wearing a fanny-pack, if he were denying an old woman health care, or if someone had drawn....
Nobody looks uncool when standing next to an airplane and looking as though he has a handle on what to what to do when he gets inside it.....
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
When the state gives a 250 million dollar subsidy to a private business, we call that Socialism, just as it is Socialism when the Feds hand our money for stimulus projects.
As for me, I am opposed to the 1.9 million dollar bike path and the 250 million dollar race track.
How about you?
Do you believe the state should be giving 250 million dollars to Bernie Ecclestone for his race track?
Kinda the point, isn't it?
He is a 1972 graduate of Texas A&M University where he was a member of the Corps of Cadets, a junior and senior yell leader and an animal science major. The younger of Ray and Amelia Perry’s two children, Governor Perry is an Eagle Scout and lifetime member of American Legion Post #75.
Awww, did the WashPost fake journalist see RACISM in the “boys” remark? Waaaa waaaa.
“Do Socialist spending and liberal social policies really have an expiration date?”
The real question is does your nonsense have an expiration date?
That was wrong. Only the first $25 million.
Probably, because they're mommas took them to 4th of July Parades and their daddys took them to the woodshed.
Hasn’t changed, has he?
Instructive! Pictures are worth a 1000+ words.
How about that?
They reveal the liberal butt kissing fools that they are when they do.
Learn about him? Hey, Petri dish, have we already learnt about him. He's evil, and a liar, and a Socialist. Class dismissed.
But a predilection for stupid hats, while admittedly prejudicial, should not stand in the way of reelecting someone to the presidency.
Note to self...add "wears stupid hats" to the list of reasons not to vote for a Social-Marxist.
Also, IMO, he’s high.
Well I personally do not want the USA to look like Texas....we can do a whole lot 'better' than that.
Perry nichols and dimes it with his solutions for border security and our national security interests are not well served at all for that. Close the Borders......
You do realize it is the FedGov’s responsibility to secure the borders, don’t you? It is one of the few things the FedGov is actually mandated by the Constitution to do. It falls under “national defense and security.” This administration has refused to spend any resources on the border, forcing the states to have to deal with it. Texas has a balanced budget, madated by the Texas Constitution, so we can’t spend money we don’t have on border security. Arizona is trying do their own fence, financed by donations, and the FedGov is suing them. Why don’t you tell us what you would do, given those constraints?
Yes, that was the whole point. He was smoking marijuana.
Posted on Friday, July 01, 2011 10:13:29 AM by Jim Robinson
“..... if Palin does not run but Perry does, he’d probably suck all the air out of the race. Either way, ..... Perry would all be excellent alternatives to Obama the commie. Anyone but RINO Romney the big government chief architect of CommieCare! …… Posted on Friday, July 01, 2011 10:13:29 AM by Jim Robinson”
Also see http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2764368/posts
Posted on Friday, July 01, 2011 10:13:29 AM by Jim Robinson
“..... if Palin does not run but Perry does, he’d probably suck all the air out of the race. Either way, ..... Perry would all be excellent alternatives to Obama the commie. Anyone but RINO Romney the big government chief architect of CommieCare! …… Posted on Friday, July 01, 2011 10:13:29 AM by Jim Robinson”
Also see http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2764368/posts
I do not base who I vote for on other peoples decisions on what they choose to do. I will not be voting for Perry. It’s that simple. Mr. Jim certainly has his freddom to choose as well....but I don’t follow any man...I already have a Savior.
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