Way to go dummy!

Upvote for the vid description. Well done, I say, well done!

It's threats like Rick Perry from the right that has forced Obama to make his politics more conservative.

And this is the guy that got elected. Ah ha ha ha ha ha!

2012.

This made me laugh like Butt-Head.

Next up we see a clip of some Fox folks talking about how Rick Perry would still make a better president than Obama. I'm thinking right wing voters believe the president is some kind of inspirational figurehead that doesn't need to be all that bright, as long as his heart, and god, are in the right place.

WOW, just WOW.

Get rid of the department of education. How deliciously ironic.

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Wow. Stick a fork in 'em he's done.

Perhaps the third department he would abolish is the DEA?

He seems to enjoy a little sniff of something before most of his appearances.

Rick Perry would still make a better president than Obama. So would Obama's Teleprompter or a fire hydrant.

Left wing voters believe the president is some kind of savior voters must serve and the media must not question, as long he's shuffling around wealth in the name of 'social justice'.

>> ^Phreezdryd:

Next up we see a clip of some Fox folks talking about how Rick Perry would still make a better president than Obama. I'm thinking right wing voters believe the president is some kind of inspirational figurehead that doesn't need to be all that bright, as long as his heart, and god, are in the right place.

Man O Man! I love how Ron Paul senses Perry is drowning and throws him a couple bricks.

Dude, seriously?! One guy got tripped up explaining his point. The other guy forgot a crucial key element of his entire policy. When you're talking about completely eliminating an entire federal agency, which is a big deal, you should at least know which one you're talking about. That's just ridiculous.

Perry's done. Let's end the idiot parade and hear from Republicans who can actually remember what their ideas are in more depth, or who aren't completely off their rockers. Perry, Bachmann, Santorum shouldn't even be invited to debates at this point if they're not gonna withdraw from the race. I want to hear more ideas from people who have brains, and can actually solve real world problems.


>> ^quantumushroom:

And this is the guy that got elected. Ah ha ha ha ha ha!
2012.

>> ^csnel3:

Man O Man! I love how Ron Paul senses Perry is drowning and throws him a couple bricks.


I laughed my ass off when Perry turned to Ron Paul for help. Its the dumb kid asking the smart kid next to him in class for the answer to question 3.

"oops."

Are you even paying attention? You sound less coherent than siftbot!>> ^quantumushroom:

Rick Perry would still make a better president than Obama. So would Obama's Teleprompter or a fire hydrant.
Left wing voters believe the president is some kind of savior voters must serve and the media must not question, as long he's shuffling around wealth in the name of 'social justice'.
>> ^Phreezdryd:
Next up we see a clip of some Fox folks talking about how Rick Perry would still make a better president than Obama. I'm thinking right wing voters believe the president is some kind of inspirational figurehead that doesn't need to be all that bright, as long as his heart, and god, are in the right place.

I didn't know many of the departments either, besides the most topical ones. Here is the completely list for the interested other peoples ignorance turns into my own education a lot

Romney's EPA line was the brick, in this case.>> ^csnel3:

Man O Man! I love how Ron Paul senses Perry is drowning and throws him a couple bricks.

Looks like someone forgot to take notes at the Koch pre-debate coaching session.

>> ^quantumushroom:

And this is the guy that got elected. Ah ha ha ha ha ha!
2012.


Honestly, I'm kinda with shroom on this one, although I probably come to a very different conclusion:

The dude lost his train of thought. Happens to the best of us.

I don't like Perry, and at this point I wouldn't vote for any of the Republican candidates except Ron Paul over Obama, but having this be a "fatal blow" to Perry's campaign makes very little sense to me.

>> ^quantumushroom:

Rick Perry would still make a better president than Obama. So would Obama's Teleprompter or a fire hydrant.
Left wing voters believe the president is some kind of savior voters must serve and the media must not question, as long he's shuffling around wealth in the name of 'social justice'.
>> ^Phreezdryd:
Next up we see a clip of some Fox folks talking about how Rick Perry would still make a better president than Obama. I'm thinking right wing voters believe the president is some kind of inspirational figurehead that doesn't need to be all that bright, as long as his heart, and god, are in the right place.



this is pretty much backwards as to what someone on the left believes

but is dead on for the right

we want media that questions, but asks real questions, not questions prepared in advance by the interviewee (ala FOX)

and if the RIGHT hasn't been shuffling money from the poor to the wealthiest, man... I'd like to live in your world

Presque Vu? I think so.
( http://videosift.com/video/The-Vus-explained-Deja-vu-jamais-vu-presque-vu )

That said, it isn't the fact that this happens to Perry that is so bad, it's how poorly he handles it. When Obama had a case of Presque Vu, as our friend, @quantumushroom, points out, he just sorta dances around his stumbled words making light of the situation after explaining that he's been campaigning like crazy; he handles the mental trip up as well as anyone could. Perry wasn't able to do that.

Frankly I don't see it as that bad in the grand scheme of things. Like a lot of people have said: even the best of us have a brain fart here and there.

Still, the presidential race is an unforgiving one. Remember how Dean lost his chance just because of an excited yell at a rally?

A meme can be the death of a candidate's chances...

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>> ^quantumushroom:

Rick Perry would still make a better president than Obama. So would Obama's Teleprompter or a fire hydrant.
Left wing voters believe the president is some kind of savior voters must serve and the media must not question, as long he's shuffling around wealth in the name of 'social justice'.
>> ^Phreezdryd:
Next up we see a clip of some Fox folks talking about how Rick Perry would still make a better president than Obama. I'm thinking right wing voters believe the president is some kind of inspirational figurehead that doesn't need to be all that bright, as long as his heart, and god, are in the right place.



Again you are wrong about the Left Wing...any left wing voters thought he'd be better than McCain. They don't like him or agree with his policies. You continue to attribute the Left Wing to anything you disagree with and that's simply not the case.

>> ^Yogi:

You continue to attribute the Left Wing to anything you disagree with and that's simply not the case.


To me the worst part about a lot of right-wing assumptions about the left is that they assume we're their mirror image, and project their hostility, dishonesty, ruthlessness, and groupthink onto us.

The truth is, as a group we're too nice, too honest, too forgiving, and too independent, which is why the right ends up eating our lunch so often.

Oh yeah, and they deny that they've ever eaten our lunch. They insist on pretending to be some sort of oppressed underdog, even though they've been effectively running the show for as long as I've been alive.

I'm sure I've never forgotten a word that I should really know! Because that would, idk, human or something.

I mean, I once forgot how to spell "but". Like I seriously just blanked. Not that I like Rick Perry or anything, but can all you fuckers allow your politicians to be human just once or twice?

The truth is, as a group we're too nice, too honest, too forgiving, and too independent, which is why the right ends up eating our lunch so often.

NICE
http://michellemalkin.com/2011/01/10/the-progressive-climate-of-hate-an-illustrated-primer-2000-2010/
http://michellemalkin.com/category/unhinged/assassination-chic/
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2653895/posts
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.8760/pub_detail.asp
http://conservapedia.com/Liberal_hate_speech
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=41108
http://jonjayray.tripod.com/hate.html

Liberal/leftist philosophy is prodominantly driven by hatred, not kindness.

HONEST
http://www.ivorydome.us/category/unhinged-liberals/showcases-of-liberal-dishonesty/
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1905914/posts
http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/50lies.asp
http://www.audacityofhypocrisy.com/fashion-shows/
http://www.nationalreview.com/campaign-spot/4701/long-post-complete-list-obama-statement-expiration-dates
http://scottthong.wordpress.com/2007/10/10/mainstream-media-dishonesty-101-liberal-media-lies/

How do you know a leftist is lying? His lips are moving.

FORGIVING
http://conservapedia.com/Double_standard
http://www.gargaro.com/bias.html
THIS VIDEO

If leftists were 'forgiving' then this video would never have been posted, right?

INDEPENDANT
http://blog.chron.com/sciguy/2006/04/a-majority-of-american-arent-intellectually-curious/
http://jonjayray.tripod.com/rudin.html
http://www.carolinajournal.com/issues/display_story.html?id=679
http://www.intellectualtakeout.org/content/quotes-liberal-bias-education-campus-classroom-college?library_node=67198
http://webpages.charter.net/tomeboy/leftout.html
http://snorphty.blogspot.com/

Most leftists are (politically and intelectually speaking) a bunch of lemming-sheep. When they encounter ideas that oppose thier own, they do not try to mentally adjust to them. They seek to repress them and criminalize free speech that differs from theirs.

Now - this cuts both ways. The right wing is no haven of fairness either. However, to claim the political left is just so gosh-darn nice/tolerant/forgiving is absolute bunk. The political left contains some of the most intolerant, least forgiving, cruellest, bunch of brain-dead robots on the planet. To claim otherwise is to ignore facts and reality.

But on topic - yeah Perry blew it big time and diamonds to dollars he is toast. He just doesn't do well in public speaking. Last night's winner? Newt Gingrich. He kicked @$$.

Oh, how I wish Ron Paul's helpful suggestion had been "Defense"... Too snarky for the occasion, I suppose.

Defense could use a judicious trimming, but eliminated? That's just crazy.

You can be human, it just helps if you are really good and honest about what you do. then you dont need a good memory, i hear.

You misspelled Cock.. oh well, same thing.
>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:

Looks like someone forgot to take notes at the Koch pre-debate coaching session.

@Winstonfield_Pennypacker I love how your links were all to right-wing sites leveling accusations at the left, rather than links to left-wing sites doing something that undercuts what I said.

It's also funny that you don't even really try to deny that the right is essentially a bunch of dishonest, uncaring, lemming-monsters.

As for the content of the links, it's almost like you were trying to collect evidence to support my claims, rather than refute them.

plausible deniability... this guys obviously got it, get him in office!

He shoulda wrote that shit on his hand.

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Granted, I think the radicals in the GOP are definitely bigger douches than radicals in the left, but there's more of a mirror than you're suggesting. The left isn't susceptible to group think?! You're kidding me, right?

Where I do agree with you is the moderate branches on the right have gotten squeezed out of their own party more so than the left. But the radicals on both sides? They're both pretty bad.

>> ^NetRunner:

>> ^Yogi:
You continue to attribute the Left Wing to anything you disagree with and that's simply not the case.

To me the worst part about a lot of right-wing assumptions about the left is that they assume we're their mirror image, and project their hostility, dishonesty, ruthlessness, and groupthink onto us.
The truth is, as a group we're too nice, too honest, too forgiving, and too independent, which is why the right ends up eating our lunch so often.
Oh yeah, and they deny that they've ever eaten our lunch. They insist on pretending to be some sort of oppressed underdog, even though they've been effectively running the show for as long as I've been alive.

I agree Perry's done, for reasons other than this.

You say, I want to hear more ideas from people who have brains, and can actually solve real world problems.

Thanks for not mentioning the Telepromptesident. Since Cain's ideas are "no threat", how about letting him get a word in edgewise before the leftmedia trots out another lying asshole who's made a litigious career out of being "sexually-harassed"?


>> ^heropsycho:

Dude, seriously?! One guy got tripped up explaining his point. The other guy forgot a crucial key element of his entire policy. When you're talking about completely eliminating an entire federal agency, which is a big deal, you should at least know which one you're talking about. That's just ridiculous.
Perry's done. Let's end the idiot parade and hear from Republicans who can actually remember what their ideas are in more depth, or who aren't completely off their rockers. Perry, Bachmann, Santorum shouldn't even be invited to debates at this point if they're not gonna withdraw from the race. I want to hear more ideas from people who have brains, and can actually solve real world problems.

>> ^quantumushroom:
And this is the guy that got elected. Ah ha ha ha ha ha!
2012.

Thanks for a civil response. I'm not sure what you're referring to. Do you mean now that Obama has "let the left wing down" with broken promises they don't like him or agree with his policies? Cause everyone was buying this guy's cylindrical brownies back in '08.

Most--not all--of what I disagree with has its source in left-wing politics, and it's not a matter of personal taste. There is ample evidence of what works and what doesn't, and most of neo-liberalism either doesn't work outright or is unsustainable.



>> ^Yogi:

>> ^quantumushroom:
Rick Perry would still make a better president than Obama. So would Obama's Teleprompter or a fire hydrant.
Left wing voters believe the president is some kind of savior voters must serve and the media must not question, as long he's shuffling around wealth in the name of 'social justice'.
>> ^Phreezdryd:
Next up we see a clip of some Fox folks talking about how Rick Perry would still make a better president than Obama. I'm thinking right wing voters believe the president is some kind of inspirational figurehead that doesn't need to be all that bright, as long as his heart, and god, are in the right place.


Again you are wrong about the Left Wing...any left wing voters thought he'd be better than McCain. They don't like him or agree with his policies. You continue to attribute the Left Wing to anything you disagree with and that's simply not the case.

@NetRunner

I'm genuinely surprised you would think the left has "lost" over the decades, especially after petty tyrant FDR rewrote the US Constitution, distorting the commerce clause to mean government can do anything it wants.

Then again, Jefferson said, "The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground," and that's EXACTLY what's happened. If Democrats create all of this big government (e.g. like Nixon creating the EPA) and Repubs do nothing to dismantle it and in fact vote to fund it, then effectively both sides are Democrats.

Don't you see? You've WON!

We are a few beats away from becoming a socialist outhouse like Europe. It's nice to declare that everything is "free" by birthright (and great for the politicians that promise it) EXCEPT when there are no more productive souls to pay for the phantasy. GREECE is the word.

>> ^NetRunner:

>>.

To me the worst part about a lot of right-wing assumptions about the left is that they assume we're their mirror image, and project their hostility, dishonesty, ruthlessness, and groupthink onto us.
The truth is, as a group we're too nice, too honest, too forgiving, and too independent, which is why the right ends up eating our lunch so often.
Oh yeah, and they deny that they've ever eaten our lunch. They insist on pretending to be some sort of oppressed underdog, even though they've been effectively running the show for as long as I've been alive.

I wasn't talking about "the radicals" I was talking about the mainstream of both groups.

I definitely wasn't saying the left is immune to groupthink, it's just that IMO the left tends to have the opposite problem -- not enough group cohesiveness, rather than too much of it.

The right clearly suffers from the reverse problem. Anyone who refuses to toe the party line gets ostracized, and viciously so.

>> ^heropsycho:

Granted, I think the radicals in the GOP are definitely bigger douches than radicals in the left, but there's more of a mirror than you're suggesting. The left isn't susceptible to group think?! You're kidding me, right?

>> ^quantumushroom:

Thanks for a civil response. I'm not sure what you're referring to. Do you mean now that Obama has "let the left wing down" with broken promises they don't like him or agree with his policies? Cause everyone was buying this guy's cylindrical brownies back in '08.
Most--not all--of what I disagree with has its source in left-wing politics, and it's not a matter of personal taste. There is ample evidence of what works and what doesn't, and most of neo-liberalism either doesn't work outright or is unsustainable.

>> ^Yogi:
>> ^quantumushroom:
Rick Perry would still make a better president than Obama. So would Obama's Teleprompter or a fire hydrant.
Left wing voters believe the president is some kind of savior voters must serve and the media must not question, as long he's shuffling around wealth in the name of 'social justice'.
>> ^Phreezdryd:
Next up we see a clip of some Fox folks talking about how Rick Perry would still make a better president than Obama. I'm thinking right wing voters believe the president is some kind of inspirational figurehead that doesn't need to be all that bright, as long as his heart, and god, are in the right place.


Again you are wrong about the Left Wing...any left wing voters thought he'd be better than McCain. They don't like him or agree with his policies. You continue to attribute the Left Wing to anything you disagree with and that's simply not the case.



This is what I mean QM...neo-liberalism is not "the left." Neo-Liberalism is exactly what OWS and anti-globalization (faulty name) people are protesting and have been. Anyone on the left that thought Obama was going to change much if not anything for the better was kidding themselves and most voted for him while holding their nose. BUT Obama has actually been worse than we thought he could've been.

@quantumushroom, I'm not old enough to remember things before FDR, much less the time of Jefferson.

I'm not old enough to remember Nixon either, but while I agree that he did found the EPA, I should point out he was a Republican, not a Democrat.

I guess the real difference between us is that I see America's progress over the period from the Civil War through to about 1968 or so as being mostly in the right direction. Increased individual rights, increased equality, increased prosperity, and a largely shared prosperity.

Sometime in the 1968-1980 period that started to break down. In the Reagan-era, I mostly just saw the pieces of what was the American Dream being hauled off and sold, with the rich keeping the proceeds.

My goal is not to see government controlling everything -- that's the mirror-image assumption again.

I would like to see us have a more generous set of welfare programs, like many European countries have. But that's not socialism, it's still capitalism, just like we've had since the country was founded. Socialism would be the government literally running everything, with private ownership of capital being illegal. The only place that still runs that way is North Korea, and I'm no more eager to emulate them than you are.

I don't like corporations using government to stamp out competition, or to line their pockets with subsidies and tax cuts, either. I just think the solution to that problem is to get corporations out of government, rather than government out of corporations.

I want to see everyone get richer, I just don't think that cutting taxes on the rich and abolishing environmental regulations helps anyone, not even the rich.

And I've definitely not "won" with millions of people unemployed, millions without health care, millions of children needing food stamps, and seeing our roads, bridges, and schools crumbling away, while the military budget keeps on going up and up and up.

You're winning! The public sector is shrinking! Corporate profits are at all-time highs! Union participation is at historic lows! Taxes collected are at historic lows! The Pentagon budget is bigger than ever, and we're at war with two countries!

The world outside your window is the result of your triumph! Aren't you happy?

>> ^quantumushroom:

Rick Perry would still make a better president than Obama. So would Obama's Teleprompter or a fire hydrant.
Left wing voters believe the president is some kind of savior voters must serve and the media must not question, as long he's shuffling around wealth in the name of 'social justice'.
>> ^Phreezdryd:
Next up we see a clip of some Fox folks talking about how Rick Perry would still make a better president than Obama. I'm thinking right wing voters believe the president is some kind of inspirational figurehead that doesn't need to be all that bright, as long as his heart, and god, are in the right place.



Against that I would say I would not be reassured to hear the U.S President is a guy called Rick.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sngWRpzhcVU

Running the gov't is NOT the same as running a business. Why do you think that being a successful CEO means jack crap? Businesses are for profit; gov't is not. George W. Bush ran the Houston Texans, but was he an effective president? HELL NO!

I don't give a crap about the sexual harassment stuff with Cain. I care about the video above. He clearly does not understand the issues. This has nothing to do with my disagreement with his ideas.

That's the difference between you and I. You define your opponents as teleprompt reading, constitution rewriting, deficit spending, fascist, communist, socialist, marxist scumbags because you disagree with their ideas. You of course conveniently forget about a lot of those tendencies when it's a Republican. Where's your name calling with Reagan running all those deficits under his watch? I disagree with Ron Paul vehemently, but I don't call him any names. I just say he's too rigid in his ideology in my opinion to be an effective President. Cain however would be a bad president, regardless of his ideology because he clearly doesn't understand the issues.

You can call every Democratic president ever elected all the names you want, but FDR was an effective president. Ditto Truman, JFK...


>> ^quantumushroom:

I agree Perry's done, for reasons other than this.
You say, I want to hear more ideas from people who have brains, and can actually solve real world problems.
Thanks for not mentioning the Telepromptesident. Since Cain's ideas are "no threat", how about letting him get a word in edgewise before the leftmedia trots out another lying asshole who's made a litigious career out of being "sexually-harassed"?

>> ^heropsycho:
Dude, seriously?! One guy got tripped up explaining his point. The other guy forgot a crucial key element of his entire policy. When you're talking about completely eliminating an entire federal agency, which is a big deal, you should at least know which one you're talking about. That's just ridiculous.
Perry's done. Let's end the idiot parade and hear from Republicans who can actually remember what their ideas are in more depth, or who aren't completely off their rockers. Perry, Bachmann, Santorum shouldn't even be invited to debates at this point if they're not gonna withdraw from the race. I want to hear more ideas from people who have brains, and can actually solve real world problems.

>> ^quantumushroom:
And this is the guy that got elected. Ah ha ha ha ha ha!
2012.

.

>> ^eric3579:

Rick Perrys "Top 10 excuses" for his debate gaffe
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I'm not sure it's already been stated and I don't feel like reading all the comments right now, but I feel like people are really missing the point. It's not that he forgot the word, or fumbled trying to remember it, people do that all the time -- yes even presidential candidates. Presidents/candidates give a LOT of speeches and talks so its really not that hard to find or cherry pick moments when they misspeak. The problem here is that this exposes the fact that Rick Perry is a candidate who can only memorize talking points and has no real concreate understanding of the the actual policies he's talking about. He had no Idea what the third department actually did, just memorizes and spouts the names of the departments because reducing government size by eliminating those departments sounds good to his base.

I'm not saying either way whether axing those department IS indeed a GOOD or BAD thing, just that a candidate who has no understanding of what he's talking about but is only talking about it to get elected is probably NOT a GOOD thing.

*Apparently heropsycho already covered everything I just said.

It has been killed, *dead, I'm afraid.

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Found a new embed code. Thanks, Ron Paul!

Judging by that performance, I would've thought he'd already abolished education.

Perry throws some more stupid on the fire, he's wants those propaganda steaks well cooked through with a bit of crispy on the outside.

>> ^Deano:

>> ^quantumushroom:
Rick Perry would still make a better president than Obama. So would Obama's Teleprompter or a fire hydrant.
Left wing voters believe the president is some kind of savior voters must serve and the media must not question, as long he's shuffling around wealth in the name of 'social justice'.
>> ^Phreezdryd:
Next up we see a clip of some Fox folks talking about how Rick Perry would still make a better president than Obama. I'm thinking right wing voters believe the president is some kind of inspirational figurehead that doesn't need to be all that bright, as long as his heart, and god, are in the right place.


Against that I would say I would not be reassured to hear the U.S President is a guy called Rick.


Hey! That's my name you British #@&%:))!!!