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Rick Perry Admirably Refuses To Shake Obama’s Hand At Airport
Daily Caller ^

Posted on 07/09/2014 8:00:02 AM PDT by TigerClaws

Don’t call him Chris Christie.

Republican Texas Gov. Rick Perry refused to greet President Barack Obama at a tarmac photo-op this week, and instead challenged Obama to hold a “substantive meeting” with him to discuss the illegal immigration crisis currently engulfing states along the U.S.-Mexico border.

The White House requested that Perry meet Obama on the tarmac Wednesday as he gets off Air Force One on his way to Democratic fundraisers in Texas, which could have created another tableau like the “Chris Christie hug” during Superstorm Sandy, which helped Obama in the 2012 election. But Perry wasn’t having it.

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2014/07/08/rick-perry-admirably-refuses-to-shake-obamas-hand-at-airport/#ixzz36z37Z2UM

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: illegals; rickperry; texas
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Smart move by Perry.

I'll never support or vote for Christie for hugging Obama and giving him that photo op a few days before the general election.

1 posted on 07/09/2014 8:00:02 AM PDT by TigerClaws
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To: TigerClaws

Nice gesture BUT Perry needs to do MORE... much more!


2 posted on 07/09/2014 8:01:07 AM PDT by SMARTY ("When you blame others, you give up your power to change." Robert Anthony)
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To: TigerClaws

Good for Perry.


3 posted on 07/09/2014 8:02:16 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: TigerClaws

It would be cool if Ted Cruz showed up unannounced at the round table meeting today with Perry and Obozo.


4 posted on 07/09/2014 8:03:00 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin.)
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To: TigerClaws

“...Smart move by Perry. ...”

Sure is. GOING there shows deference and weakness.

Make HIM come to see YOU, if it’s so important to meet.

Nicely done, Governor.


5 posted on 07/09/2014 8:05:15 AM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: TigerClaws

I myself would not shake hands with that POS. Lord knows what those hands has been doing lately especially around Reggie Love.


6 posted on 07/09/2014 8:05:30 AM PDT by Patriot Babe
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To: All

what happened at their meeting off the tarmac?


7 posted on 07/09/2014 8:07:27 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: NFHale

Agreed, well played.


8 posted on 07/09/2014 8:08:42 AM PDT by Lakeshark
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To: SMARTY

It was a good start. But only just that.


9 posted on 07/09/2014 8:10:28 AM PDT by yorkiemom ( "...if fascism ever comes to America, it will come in the name of liberalism." - Ronald Reagan)
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To: TigerClaws
Not since Harry Truman was kept waiting on the tarmac at Wake Island has a president received such a deserved rebuff. Mac Arthur's rebuff was deeply resented by Truman, deeply resented by historians like Arthur Schlesinger Jr. and might have contributed to Truman's decision to fire MacArthur.

Obama cannot fire Perry and Obama loses because he's been diminished while he is vulnerable in the polls and Perry gains because he has elevated himself in the stature game over the president of the United States.

We the people gain because it illustrates how Obama has played the image game and avoided substance throughout his administration, just as he is doing now in Texas attending fundraisers, avoiding the border, and condescending to the people of Texas through is treatment of their Governor. Perry has learned from Obama's treatment in similar circumstances of the Governor of Arizona and quite nicely turned the tables.

Bravo!


10 posted on 07/09/2014 8:10:41 AM PDT by nathanbedford ("Attack, repeat, attack!" Bull Halsey)
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To: Lakeshark

I recall the picture of Governor Brewer meeting the clown at the tarmac, where she appeared to be lecturing him.

Even though that one still image showed her having an upper hand, it still showed her as going to meet HIM, instead of him coming to her.

Image is everything in this day an age. It used to be “character” meant everything, but that seems to have died when Ronald Reagan left us.


11 posted on 07/09/2014 8:12:31 AM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: Lakeshark

I recall the picture of Governor Brewer meeting the clown at the tarmac, where she appeared to be lecturing him.

Even though that one still image showed her having an upper hand, it still showed her as going to meet HIM, instead of him coming to her.

Image is everything in this day an age. It used to be “character” meant everything, but that seems to have died when Ronald Reagan left us.


12 posted on 07/09/2014 8:13:12 AM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: Lakeshark

(sorry for the double post...)


13 posted on 07/09/2014 8:13:48 AM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: TigerClaws

When Obama shakes hands he tries to hug ,embrace and put his hand on their back to try to dominate the person


14 posted on 07/09/2014 8:14:19 AM PDT by molson209 (Blank)
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To: TigerClaws

Good article. I love the comment that Perry should pack Air Force One with illegals while Obama is at fundraisers.


15 posted on 07/09/2014 8:16:07 AM PDT by lilyramone (The only time success comes before work is in the dictionary)
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To: TigerClaws

I’d love to read the DUmmie comments on this but don’t want to infect my computer.


16 posted on 07/09/2014 8:16:26 AM PDT by YourAdHere (Barack is the wife.)
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To: TigerClaws

Perry probably didn’t have any hand sanitizer readily available.


17 posted on 07/09/2014 8:16:51 AM PDT by Right Brother
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To: NFHale

No apology necessary, I’ve had it happen a few times myself. Besides, it was worthy of a double......:-)


18 posted on 07/09/2014 8:17:14 AM PDT by Lakeshark
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To: SMARTY; All

Banning the teaching and speaking of Spanish in Public Schools would expel many Illegal Alien Invaders from US Public Schools, and thus reduce the financial impact to US Taxpayers whose taxes pay for Public Schools.

The failure of the Obama Administration to protect the Citizens of the US from the expenses and job losses caused by the Invasion of Illegal Alien Invaders from Spanish-speaking countries proves that this Obama-caused “Dreamer” Invasion was implemented by Obama to “Fundamentally transform the United States of America.”


19 posted on 07/09/2014 8:17:56 AM PDT by Graewoulf (Democrats' Obamacare Socialist Health Insur. Tax violates U.S. Constitution AND Anti-Trust Law.)
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To: nathanbedford
Maybe not so "Bravo!" Why the hell are they meeting in Dallas? El Paso would have been more like it, so the 'foto-op' can show these supposed children in the background.

Obama engineered this damned invasion. Who's going to slap him around over it? Meet him? A real Texan would take a stick and beat him.

20 posted on 07/09/2014 8:21:20 AM PDT by Kenny Bunk (The GOP is dying. What do we do now?)
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