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Perry: ‘Trump Owes Every American Veteran’ an Apology
Breitbart ^ | 07/18/2015 | Ian Hanchett

Posted on 07/18/2015 3:18:59 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

Republican presidential candidate and former Texas Governor Rick Perry strongly criticized fellow candidate Donald Trump for his remarks about Senator Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) at Saturday’s Family Leadership Summit in Iowa.

Perry’s discussion began with Frank Luntz asking the audience who they would invest in the most between teachers, nurses, and veterans. Perry then expressed his desire to answer the question. He stated, “if you don’t first keep this country free. If you don’t first have the investment in the men and women who are willing their hand up and say, ‘Here am I, send me,’ You will never have the dollars to hire the teacher. You will never have the dollars to hire a nurse.”

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Arizona; US: Iowa; US: New York; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: 2016election; arizona; dickperry; election2016; johnmccain; lowiq; newyork; rickperry; senatorjohnmccain; senatormccain; tedcruz; texas; trump
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To: odawg

I heard Ann Coulter on the Jeanine Piro show. Ann Coulter said that Trump tried to walk back that statement. Ann Coulter blamed the gaff on the pressure Trump is under; etc. It appears at one time he said something as dumb as I criticized him for, but, at least, he didn’t double down on his remark and, according to Ann Coulter, did walk it back somewhat.


121 posted on 07/18/2015 7:46:17 PM PDT by Stepan12 (Our present appeasementof Islam is the Stockholm Syndrome on steroids.)
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To: jospehm20

Me neither. McCain is an idiot.


122 posted on 07/18/2015 7:57:13 PM PDT by Mathews (Ecclesiastes 10:2 (NIV), Luke 22:36 (NIV))
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

He doesn’t owe me one, I don’t think he’s a hero either. I served with some real hero’s on the ground in the Infantry who never got a mention.


123 posted on 07/18/2015 8:55:18 PM PDT by Ace the Biker (I wasn't born in Texas but I got here as fast as I could.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

If Rick wants to become relevant again, he needs to follow up on his earlier boasts and seal off the Texas border with Mexico despite the Feds inaction. If you want to blow smoke, you need to be able to light the fire.


124 posted on 07/19/2015 2:45:28 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: Alas Babylon!

” but to me what made him a hero was not being captured or being a prisoner, but willing to get in a rocket with wings and fly around while people tried to actively kill you”

Are all military pilots then heroes?

Begs the question, what is a military hero? I respect and admire all members of the military, but only a small percentage I see as heroes.

Heroes to me save others lives, or die doing so, or lose limbs doing so; or lead troops to great victories.

I respect McCains military service. To me he is a war survivor, as were many. He happened to go into politics.


125 posted on 07/19/2015 9:59:12 AM PDT by Rennes Templar (NSA: The only government agency that really listens.)
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To: EnigmaticAnomaly

Dear enig,

It has been discovered, in my many years in the military, and as a civilian in DoD, that there has been a new twist, on the old saw: “’Those that can’t, teach.’””, and it is that they become .... Subject Matter Experts, and THAT ‘saw’ is:
“Subject matter Experts, seldom are.”


126 posted on 07/19/2015 4:55:39 PM PDT by Terry L Smith
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