Posted on 07/09/2014 2:55:07 PM PDT by Enlightened1
Gov. Rick Perry Monday turned down what he characterized as President Barack Obamas offer for a quick handshake on the tarmac at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport on Wednesday, but said he would juggle his schedule to accommodate a substantive meeting with the president on the border crisis any time during his two-day visit to Texas.
In a letter to the president, Perry wrote, I appreciate the offer to greet you at Austin-Bergstrom Airport, but a quick handshake on the tarmac will not allow for a thoughtful discussion regarding the humanitarian and national security crises enveloping the Rio Grande Valley in South Texas. I would instead offer to meet with you at any time during your visit to Texas for a substantive meeting to discuss this critical issue. With the appropriate notice, I am willing to change my schedule to facilitate this request.
At any point while you are here, I am available to sit down privately so we can talk and you may directly gain my states perspective on the effects of an unsecured border and what is necessary to make it secure, Perry wrote the president.
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Jeez, Obama is the dick,not Perry.
That’s right. It gets to be pretty pathetic sometimes.
He shamed Obama.
It’s politics butthead.
The border problemis not the fault of Tx, it is Federal problem and the problems lay at the federal level.
Wake the hell up
Really? Dear Leader’s hordes continue to stream across the border with little to nothing in their way, and Perry meekly surrenders instead of standing firm. The Dear Leader gets his photo op, and we Texans lose again.
Good job, Rick Perry. Way to stick to your guns...
You fix it butthead.
Yer in charge.
What you gonna do?
Perry shamed Obama into a meeting.
Thats a sght better than being disregarded completlety
Its politics.
Maybe he should have just had a taco and not engaged at all. LOL
Why dont you save your foire foe the enemy?
Barack Obama?
Perry forced Obama to meet him on his terms
That is the story here.
“promise” my @$$
This was the perfect response to avoid BO mischaracterising the “meeting”.
Probably didn’t have a rubber glove to put on his hand. No telling where O’s hand had been. Up his keister I would guess.
Of course obama barayed and heehawwed and smacked perry on the shoulder because it was an empty gesture but it is what it is.
Perry is not the Devil here.
Obama is.
Tx is not the source of the current illegal invasion.
DC is.
The only way to change this stuff is to gain power in DC.
Stop sniping at our guys.
Birds of a feather....
It’s two sides of the same Globalist coin can’t you see it? They are trying to exhaust the resources of our country in order to collapse it in to the North American Union per the NAFTA policy. This is a Cloward and Piven strategy on steroids.
Think about it they are shutting down coal plants which is 50% of our power. What do you think that is going to do to our energy prices. They are exporting many of our jobs. They have increased medical cost by 2 1/2 to 3 times when it was suppose to go down under Obama care that the insurance companies wrote, and the Republicans will not repeal. Oh and now there are death panels because they are going to have to ration it since the system is flooded. We have over 100 million people on welfare, 92 million people unemployed, and now the Feds are going to ignore the law and flood the country with illegal immigrants? This is when we are broke already.
We have federal and state law being violated. The incentives are welfare, free housing, free medical care, free education, right to vote, etc... These incentives are going to bring even more people and not just from Latin America. It will create a permanent slave class. Those that are dependent on the State. Finally, think of this as just the first wave.
Now you have to ask yourself why is Rick Perry standing down?????
What is he waiting for???
Where is the Texas National Guard?
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