Beware of Rick Perry, the French cuff cowboy (Al Jazeera: "He's A Fraud")

[kpete]

As the presidential race heats up, Rick Perry is seen as just another candidate running for president.

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Should he be president of anything of more consequence than a glee club? Of course not.

He's made it clear in speeches and his recently released macho-man web advert that he'll do for America what he did for Texas - which probably involves shooting cheetahs recreationally with hollow-tipped bullets and creating benefit-rich employment opportunities for Americans, such as scraping toilets and salting freedom fries.

That's right, the much-vaunted "Texas Miracle" is as fake as Perry, built on the premise that working three minimum wage jobs and going without healthcare (Texas leads the nation in percentage of overall residents and children without healthcare) is some kind of economic Eden, as opposed to say an economic Elba Island.

Perry, meanwhile, is a "cowboy" who wears Armani suits and French cuffs (seriously, French cuffs?). Attacks stimulus spending while taking a heaped helping of it to bail himself out. Uses taxpayer money to enrich his corporate-lobbyist friends - and endangers the United States of America by inviting a Chinese telecom company into Texas that George W Bush's national security team warned him would pose a cyber-security threat to our military - after talking tough on the Chinese in his children's book: Fed Up.

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MUCH MORE:
"In other words, he's a fraud"
(delicious rips)
http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/08/20118218447380373.html

[UTUSN]

1. K&R #6 n/t

[Dawson Leery]

2. The fundies and teaklan will still support him.

As long as he looks the part of a "good ole' boy" and talks their language, he is in good with them.
All the fundies and company give a damn about is getting power.

[Nancy Waterman]

3. Sums it up well!

They should start hitting him hard now before he seals a first impression that he has crafted out of lies.

[eleny]

4. Schecter's book on McCain is still a good read

K&R