Posted on 06/30/2011 1:18:07 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
......Perry asked that the Justice Department "take immediate steps" against those found to be violating U.S. law, including bans on participating in a naval expedition against people with whom the United States is at peace and providing "material support or resources to a foreign terrorist organization.".......
"Fundamentalist Christians have Israel as one of their central concepts, so anything that a presidential candidate could do to identify with Israel would pay dividends with the fundamentalists who comprise 60 percent of the Iowa caucus," said Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at....
In his letter, Perry noted media reports of American citizens and organizations working with others to organize the breach of Israel's blockade of the Gaza Strip, which is controlled by Palestinian militant group Hamas.
He said the reports - along with information from a lawsuit and from Shurat HaDin, which describes itself as an Israeli-based civil rights organization - indicate that at least two participating ships are registered in Delaware, and that U.S. organizations have raised or channeled money for the effort using U.S.-based Web sites.
A 2010 flotilla was intercepted by Israel, resulting in nine deaths.
Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, Shurat HaDin director, said by email that her group requested Perry's assistance. A New York Times story from Athens on Wednesday cited the group's work against the planned flotilla.
"We knew of his strong support for the State of Israel and his powerful opposition to terrorism and believed that if he was provided the details of all this criminal activity being perpetrated against the citizens of Israel in the United States by Hamas supporters, he would be moved to take action against it," Darshan-Leitner said in the email.
.....Perry has more than once visited Israel and has touted what he calls its "special kinship" with Texas.....
(Excerpt) Read more at chron.com ...
Perry... Mason?
http://www.jewishpolicycenter.org/1376/gov-rick-perry-says-texas-can-learn-from-israeli
August 2009 — “Gov. Rick Perry compared Mexico to the Gaza strip, saying Texas can learn from Israeli security efforts after touring a town that has been hit by Palestinian rockets.
Perry, who has demanded a heightened U.S. troop presence along the Rio Grande, went to Israel’s border with Gaza earlier with week and was briefed by Israeli Army officials.
“Kassam rockets have killed 28 Israelis over the last eight years. Well, 1,000 people have been killed in Juarez since the beginning of the year,” the governor told the Jerusalem Post in Friday’s editions, referring to the drug-related killings across the border from El Paso. “So we’re trying to find ways to secure that border, because just like it’s important to Israelis to keep heavy security on their border with Gaza, it’s important to citizens of Texas to keep out the illegal activities that are going on with drugs.”
Perry’s office has been mum about his exact whereabouts during the trip. His wife Anita, their son Griffin, and Griffin’s fiancee are reportedly with him, and he returns to Texas on Saturday.
The Gaza-Mexico comparison was far more strident than the tone struck by President Barack Obama on Monday in Guadalajara, Mexico, at the so-called “Three Amigos Summit” with the leaders of Mexico and Canada, although border violence was among the topics there and Obama pledged ongoing support in Mexico’s fight with drug cartels.
“We went to Sderot and saw the police station with all the Kassam rockets piled up, we saw playgrounds that had to be covered from rocket fire. It’s a powerful place,” Perry told the Post, referring to the town near Gaza that took the brunt of attacks in recent years.
While in Israel, Perry also has met with President Shimon Peres and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and, according to his office, visited “sacred and historical sites,” including Jerusalem’s Old City, according to the Post.”
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/special/07/legislature/4535418.html
Perry’s vaccination order still stoking fires
AUSTIN — Blowback continued at the Capitol on Wednesday over Gov. Rick Perry’s order mandating
that schoolgirls be vaccinated against a sexually transmitted disease linked to cervical cancer.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/special/07/legislature/4528909.html
Critics rip Perry’s vaccine mandate
Governor rejects opponents’ calls to reverse order
AUSTIN — Gov. Rick Perry stood firm Monday against a political firestorm generated by his
order that sixth-grade girls be inoculated against a sexually transmitted virus linked to cervical cancer.
Social conservatives from Texas to Washington called on Perry to reverse his order making
Texas the first state to require the vaccine, saying the mandate makes sex seem permissible
and that parents should be the ones to decide whether to immunize their daughters.
And several Texas lawmakers expressed outrage at Perry for circumventing the legislative process.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/26/us/26texas.html
The vaccine, Gardasil, is manufactured by Merck, which was represented in Austin by the
lobbyist Mike Toomey, who was chief of staff for Mr. Perry from 2002 to 2004.
Ainsman, a prominent Democratic lawyer and Pittsburgh Jewish community leader, was trying to explain that Obama had just been offering Israel a bit of “tough love” in his May 19 speech on the Arab Spring. His friends disagreed — to say the least.
[snip]
“When Obama was running, there was a lot of concern among the guys in my group at shul, who are all late-30s to mid-40s, who I hang out with and daven with and go to dinner with, about Obama,” recalled Scott Matasar, a Cleveland lawyer who’s active in Jewish organizations.
Matasar remembers his friends’ worries over whether Obama was “going to be OK for Israel.” But then Obama met with the community’s leaders during a swing through Cleveland in the primary, and the rabbi at the denominationally conservative synagogue Matasar attends — “a real ardent Zionist and Israel defender” — came back to synagogue convinced.
“That put a lot of my concerns to rest for my friends who are very much Israel hawks but who, like me, aren’t one-issue voters.”
Now Matasar says he’s appalled by Obama’s “rookie mistakes and bumbling” and the reported marginalization of a veteran peace negotiator, Dennis Ross, in favor of aides who back a tougher line on Netanyahu. He’s the most pro-Obama member of his social circle but is finding the president harder to defend.
“He’d been very ham-handed in the way he presented [the 1967 border announcement] and the way he sprung this on Netanyahu,” Matasar said.
A Philadelphia Democrat and pro-Israel activist, Joe Wolfson, recalled a similar progression.
“What got me past Obama in the recent election was Dennis Ross — I heard him speak in Philadelphia and I had many of my concerns allayed,” Wolfson said. “Now, I think I’m like many pro-Israel Democrats now who are looking to see whether we can vote Republican.”.............. -- Jewish Dems losing faith in Obama
Gardisal (HPV vacinne) was always Opt-Out.
Three months after his executive order Perry allowed the law that recinded it.
June 30, 2011......”Is America ready for a president who was George W. Bush’s lieutenant governor, who was George W. Bush’s successor as governor ... and who, like George W. Bush, was also a Karl Rove puppet?” taunts Garry South, a Democratic consultant, referring to Bush’s strategist.
But that jibe ignores what has been, at best, a cool relationship between Bush and Perry, and a lingering hostility between their top political advisors.
The two share some characteristics, sometimes unnervingly so. They have similar accents, the same cowboy gait and many of the same mannerisms. But the two come from starkly different backgrounds, approach politics in utterly different fashions and even draw their support from different parts of the GOP. It is the difference, said a campaign consultant who has worked with both, between Yale and Texas A&M, between Phillips Academy Andover and Paint Creek High School.
To a certain upper crust of Republican, “Perry is the low-rent country cousin” who lacks Bush’s prep-school polish, said R.G. Ratcliffe, a longtime student of Texas politics who is writing a book about Perry. “They see him as a hick and are embarrassed having someone like that as governor.”
Privately, the former president has spoken of his successor as a political lightweight and someone not all that bright. Perry scoffs behind closed doors at Bush’s privileged background and popularity among country-club Republicans, suggesting the New England native is a faux Texan.
Perry’s story is the kind of up-by-his-bootstraps saga that Bush might have scripted for himself, had he been able.
He grew up in West Texas, in a farm town so small it literally was not on the state map until Perry, as governor, put it there. Life was austere; Perry was 6 before the family had indoor plumbing. His mother sewed his clothes, including the underwear Perry wore to college......
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-0630-perry-bush-20110630,0,5018631,full.story
June 30, 2011......”Is America ready for a president who was George W. Bush’s lieutenant governor, who was George W. Bush’s successor as governor ... and who, like George W. Bush, was also a Karl Rove puppet?” taunts Garry South, a Democratic consultant, referring to Bush’s strategist.
But that jibe ignores what has been, at best, a cool relationship between Bush and Perry, and a lingering hostility between their top political advisors.
The two share some characteristics, sometimes unnervingly so. They have similar accents, the same cowboy gait and many of the same mannerisms. But the two come from starkly different backgrounds, approach politics in utterly different fashions and even draw their support from different parts of the GOP. It is the difference, said a campaign consultant who has worked with both, between Yale and Texas A&M, between Phillips Academy Andover and Paint Creek High School.
To a certain upper crust of Republican, “Perry is the low-rent country cousin” who lacks Bush’s prep-school polish, said R.G. Ratcliffe, a longtime student of Texas politics who is writing a book about Perry. “They see him as a hick and are embarrassed having someone like that as governor.”
Privately, the former president has spoken of his successor as a political lightweight and someone not all that bright. Perry scoffs behind closed doors at Bush’s privileged background and popularity among country-club Republicans, suggesting the New England native is a faux Texan.
Perry’s story is the kind of up-by-his-bootstraps saga that Bush might have scripted for himself, had he been able.
He grew up in West Texas, in a farm town so small it literally was not on the state map until Perry, as governor, put it there. Life was austere; Perry was 6 before the family had indoor plumbing. His mother sewed his clothes, including the underwear Perry wore to college......
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-0630-perry-bush-20110630,0,5018631,full.story
Give it a rest with the focus on celebrity photos which have nothing to do with the topic and think about writing an actual comment. Thanks. Dude.
“In 1990, under Rove’s tutelage, Perry switched parties and was elected agriculture commissioner. Eight years later, Perry ran for lieutenant governor. By then, Rove was working for Bush; the conflict between their political camps grew out of that year’s races.”
And some nice pics you won’t see on Prick Perry’s website available at
http://www.theismaili.org/?ID=901
Perry looks more likely to make peace in the Middle East than Obama or Carter or Clinton or -—— ever were likely to or wanted to.
Cynthia McKinney is swinging by to pick up her dad and on her way to catch the boat.
What a bunch of dangerous nut jobs.
These arguments that person A is really just person B have already been tried when George W. ran and was said to just be his father, George H.W. Bush. If someone managed to carve out the differences when they have the same name, it should be easy to differentiate from someone from the same state. People are who they are.
If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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And what of Israel building a security fence, when Perry opposes a border fence?
Politics should not be put ahead of security. This is a mark against Perry.
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