Sunday, August 14, 2011

Rick Perry Joins the Republican Presidential Candidate Fray

(As expected, Rick Perry has declared he will seek the Republican nomination for the 2012 Presidential Election. Here are some other informative articles about Rick Perry posted on this blog:

Why It Would Be Really Bad If Rick Perry Runs for President

Rick Perry Doubled Texas’ Debt, Claimed it was a Balanced Budget Through Accounting Gimmicks

The So-Called Texas Miracle: Smoke and Mirrors and Stampedes for Housing

Big Texas Deficit Puts Governor in Tight Spot

Top Texas Government Officials Covered Up Unsafe Radiation Levels In Texas Drinking Water

Texas officials covered up dangerously radioactive tap water for years

Deleting Jefferson: More ignorance from Gov Rick Perry re: the Texas School Board's recent whitewashing of history books

Texas Can’t Afford To Buy New Far-Right Textbooks, But Rick Perry Still Resists Federal Aid

Texas to pass bill allowing guns on college campuses

Fouling the Human Nest

BP And Halliburton Try To Buy Off Government Officials Investigating Spill

States Where the Levels of Corruption and Ideological Madness Have Gotten Beyond Embarrassing
--jef)

Sure Michele Bachmann and Sarah Palin are batshit crazy. But former Democrat and 1988 Al Gore for President Texas Campaign Manager Rick Perry as a brown-shirted cadet and cheerleader at Texas A&M University... whoa!

The Texan Tribune writes:
When Rick Perry arrived at Texas A&M University in 1968, it was at the end of a summer in which Soviet troops crushed the Prague Spring, protesters at the Democratic National Convention were met by a police riot and the United States reeled from the twin assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy. With its conservative culture, military tradition and focus on agriculture, few places in the U.S. might have seemed more insulated from the prevailing currents of the age... Perry was elected a yell leader — an esteemed male cheerleader who has traditional responsibilities at major athletic events — and social secretary for his class. And he was exceedingly loyal to the corps, which he credited with giving him the discipline to get an animal sciences degree — his 2.5 grade point average wasn’t high enough to go the veterinary route — and join the Air Force.

Photos Below: Rick Perry as a student and a cadet at Texas A&M University in 1972.


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