Perry: Yep, last time I checked, Barack Obama is still a socialist
posted at 7:00 pm on November 19, 2011 by Tina Korbe
Barack Obama offended some when he said America has “been a little bit lazy, I think, over the past couple of decades.” Rick Perry won a few points with the base when he took him to task for it in a new ad. But the Texas governor also drew criticism from some who said he took Obama’s comments out of context.
Undaunted by the criticism, Rick Perry stood by the ad in an interview with Bill O’Reilly last night — and also repeated in no uncertain terms that he thinks Obama has pursued socialist policies — and, consequently, can fairly be called a socialist. CNN Political Ticker reports:
“Absolutely,” Perry said in an interview on Fox News. “I think Barack Obama is a socialist.” …
O’Reilly on Friday questioned Perry over whether he was being misleading with the ad.
“I believe he was talking about Americans,” Perry responded.
O’Reilly asked the candidate if he believed the notion that Obama simply doesn’t like America, to which Perry replied: “I think he cares for this country. I just think his policies are socialist.”
Perry’s comments have validity: Obama has never exactly been shy about his belief in the benefits of “spreading the wealth” or the need for the rich to “pay their fair share.” What I’ve wondered, actually, is how long it will take progressives who do embrace socialistic policies to reclaim the word “socialist” itself and refer to themselves by it with pride and transparency. Is it just that they know they never escape the connotation of the word, which carries with it the baggage of all the failed socialistic policies attempted in countries around the world in the 20th century? But, surely, with this crop of experts, this crop of central planners, the outcome would be different …
As for Perry, I’m with AP on this. When he first breathed fire with talk of the “Ponzi scheme” of Social Security, I was thrilled by his willingness to speak truth no matter how “extreme” it made him appear. Now, I’m less excited because his willingness to speak is not necessarily matched by his ability to speak. But that doesn’t mean I wouldn’t be able to muster at least as much enthusiasm for him as for any other candidate in the end.
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There is also an open offer from my home state of Maine by the current Governor.
mouell on April 14, 2013 at 9:24 AM
GTR? No, I don’t drive one. People who do are speaking. Like, every time I turn around, there is one for sale. Check your mom’s purse, you can get one. It is a kid’s car and kid’s tire of their toys and responsibilities fast.
So with you it is performance then depreciation then attacks on buyers of items then a whack at a whole section of the USA. Real problems in English and logic, huh?
Back to the GTR, How about depreciation, sport?
http://www.cargurus.com/
IlikedAUH2O on April 14, 2013 at 10:07 AM
If they can wade through your failed grammar, about a dozen people on both coasts are laughing about those comments.
Lexus even calls itself 1)the new “Buick”, 2) the poor person’s Mercedes, 3) the car for people who want to be No.1 — not to say they are there.
Nothing wrong with that but you really should read more.
Hollywood people like the Anger Management cast (and they are far from alone) want to look respectable in Mercedes, huh?
Aside from your automotive expertise and logic that leaks like a bucket without a bottom, Your point is really lost. You see, none of this is remotely related to gun manufacturing or your attacks on the South, This is a thread, son, just to let you know.
IlikedAUH2O on April 14, 2013 at 10:22 AM
Two things. First, some UAW brothers from down south would love to talk to you about quality.
Second, no lowlife’s like Lexus?
They also reveal that this brazen fraud extended to the Department of the Army, where a corrupt public official exchanged contracts for cash, gambling in Las Vegas, and a $70,000 Lexus.
Source: http://chantilly.patch.com/articles/fbi-chantilly-company-pleads-guilty-to-bribing-government-officials-for-contracts?ncid=newsltuspatc00000001
IlikedAUH2O on April 14, 2013 at 10:54 AM
“You may all go to hell and I will go to Texas!”.
Davy Crockett
Pole-Cat on April 14, 2013 at 11:05 AM
Just go away…
I’ve lived in 24 states in my lifetime d/t father’s profession and then my husband’s……..all OVER this United States.
I prefer the South. Found too many of Northerners like you: mouthy, prejudiced, and totally ignorant of anything out of their small sphere, which they’ve never been out of. (You wouldn’t believe the ignorant questions I got asked about Texas when I was a kid.)
But, that didn’t keep their mouths shut from spitting out garbage such as you’ve posted here on this site.
Even as a kid, I noticed the difference and when we finally had the last glimpse of wherever we were leaving in our rear view mirror, I couldn’t WAIT to get back to the common sense and decency, hospitality, and every day intelligence of the South and Southwestern states.
avagreen on April 14, 2013 at 11:51 AM
BTW, I’m on my second “used” Camry since 1997 as the first one which I bought “used” in 1997 finally got traded in as it reached 325,000 miles back in 2007. Still going strong, but I knew that eventually it would begin giving me problems as I was traveling 100mi round trip daily.
Some “piece of junk”. Neither have ever had to be in the garage for repairs. Fool.
avagreen on April 14, 2013 at 12:08 PM
Obama’s second term is about dividing America… NOT news… it just is.
RalphyBoy on April 14, 2013 at 2:06 PM
I’ve heard this more than once. I stayed in NJ too long… My daughter was raised here and is raising my g’kids here or I’d move. In fact I almost did 10 years ago… Hell, NJ is a pit, as is the E half of Pa.
If I wasn’t lucky enough to have good family around me I’d have left before I married. Now, all I can hope for is that the place I bought to retire to really is as off the map as it seems.
RalphyBoy on April 14, 2013 at 2:17 PM
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He’s doin his best Archie Bunker without the racists parts… but you know he has them in trump.
RalphyBoy on April 14, 2013 at 2:40 PM
What a loser. I like how it takes you 3 posts over the course of an hour to respond to a single comment. LOL!
No, no they don’t. Go ahead and link a single press release or advertisement from Toyota/Lexus where they SAY anything of the sort, you dishonest moron.
You are a fool and a joke, and it couldn’t be more clear that you don’t know the FIRST thing about cars. Hell, you are a UAW Gubmint Motors shill, that by itself says everything.
Daikokuco on April 14, 2013 at 3:30 PM
That certainly is a long career as a parasite dependent. Nice job living of being a strong self-sufficient individual and pursuing a career and life of your own and all that. Why is it any surprise that such a person would find solace in the South. A place where being a burden is commended.
I’m not from the North. You want to hear ignorant slack jawed morons who have never been outside their small sphere, listen to Southerners and their assumptions about Hawaii! LOL!
Yeah, that South, with such common sense, decency, and intelligence. That’s why Southern states have the most property crime, violent crime, welfare dependence, lowest standardized test scores, highest teen pregnancy rates, and lowest per capita incomes. Because they are just so darn sensible, decent, and intelligent.
Daikokuco on April 14, 2013 at 3:38 PM
You’re still a bigot.
A lot of the subcontracting for work done outside the Sikorsky plant is done in Huntsville by my company SES-I. The aircraft are flown to our plant and we complete the aircraft there. Hughes and Boeing Vertol too. Talking rude doesn’t make you look smart.
Moron.
hawkdriver on April 14, 2013 at 5:15 PM
Since you lack reading comprehension skills, I will say again that Mercedes sells a lot of cars at higher prices than the other brands you seem to be mentioning. I may not agree that they are a good buy but they are recognized as top dog, even in Germany.
IlikedAUH2O on April 15, 2013 at 8:33 AM
Not good with numbers are you? Washington or the media probably has a great job waiting and you can use these posts to prove you are completely bereft of math skills. For some time I thought you were from Eastern Europe, now I see you are a NEA product from our rotten school system. Nobody in the world has the bad math and logic I see in you guys! You are number 1! (Look that up.)
Please don’t look up the engine size of Cadillacs between 2006 and 2011. I think their smallest power plant was a 3.6. Most were 4 plus or 6.5 liters.
And don’t look at the back of about 96% of the Audis where it says 1.8 and 2.0. And BMW says 325 or 330…maybe even 3.5 if you want to pay through the nose. That is 2.5 liters, son. They use 2.0 to avoid Americans realizing that they have all of 120 or so cubic inches.
Your English is also a good indication of the US school system.
Logic?
Benz has larger engines, of course, sell tons of cars at higher prices than the BMWs and Audis and are pretty well accepted as better vehicles all around if you want to spend the money.
Never been to Germany, eh sport?
IlikedAUH2O on April 15, 2013 at 8:52 AM
In simple words for you:
3.6 and 4 + and 6.5 are bigger numbers and bigger engine displacements than 2.0…understand, yet?
The Lexus comments I made on market position were what they tell their sales people. You, know, the orders they get from the Toyota people you snub who own them.
And even PR articles and tests talk of Lexus “chasing” Mercedes and BMW. That generally means you are behind.
IlikedAUH2O on April 15, 2013 at 8:58 AM
Heh! Is this^^^ the best you’ve got?
Hard to believe that there are actual living, breathing Americans that walk upright who think that children/wives/mothers are ??”parasites”??
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Worker’s Republic of Hawaii?
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You have no idea of what I’ve done as an adult, but on that subject: You’ll have to forgive me for thinking you were from the North. All you’ve done is proven to the whole wide-world that there are also ignorant, know-nothing, poorly educated, chauvinistic bigots that live in Hawaii (as well as in the northern hemisphere of the U.S.), where the COL is astronomical
Hawaii, where…. SPAM ….is the favorite food (yuk!), gas is taxed at about $0.70 a gal and you can’t own land, where a highway costs $80 million a mile and almost 40 years to build,….. the land where the high cost of everyday items is due to the fact that everything has to be shipped in and you pray the shipments never stop arriving.
I hear gas costs $.80 more than the mainland, food is 175% what you pay, and where the tax structure and regulation structure is outrageous, which harms the lower- and middle-classes the hardest. Where it does nothing but rain most of the time and a number of residents there don’t take kindly to the “Haole” (amply proven by your hate-filled rhetoric on this forum). http://voices.yahoo.com/racism-paradise-why-did-three-native-hawaiians-274874.html
And, supposedly that’s “where the communist-in-chief was born and they worship him there”…… (another yuk!)
Yeah, I wanna be in Hawaii.
If you’re proof of what’s over there, I’ll just stay here, thank you.
avagreen on April 15, 2013 at 11:02 AM
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