Perry doesn’t exactly set the crowd afire
UPDATE: Rick Perry’s speaking style proves to be no more dynamic than his debating style, which surprises me. Even from a prepared script, his delivery was flat and awkward and didn’t exactly light the conservative audience at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center afire.
According to officials with the Georgia Public Policy Foundation, Perry had agreed to use the podium to discuss policy issues and not as a forum for attacking fellow Republicans. The Texas governor did not abide by that agreement, taking several shots at fellow frontrunner Mitt Romney.
Without actually naming Romney, Perry took issue with a certain governor from Massachusetts whose health-care plan “paved the way for ObamaCare” and who signed into law a regional cap-and-trade system to address climate change.
“I knew when I got into this race that I’d have my hands full fighting President Obama’s big-government agenda,” he said. “I just didn’t think it would be in the Republican primary.”
Perry also cited news reports in which the CEO of a major American corporation had said that it had become easier to do business in China than in the United States. He didn’t happen to mention that the CEO in question was Muhtar Kent of Coca Cola, a company with a rather high profile in these parts. It’s the kind of small but telling oversight that reflects poor staff work and a campaign and candidate not yet ready for prime time.
According to Perry staff, the governor will spend the rest of the day in Atlanta at fundraisers before flying to New Hampshire for a town hall meeting.
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I’m at the Cobb Galleria waiting to hear Texas Gov. Rick Perry speak to the conservative Georgia Public Policy Foundation’s legislative policy conference. A lot of curiosity about the man and his message, although he’s only scheduled for 15 minutes. This is an important audience for someone without a large organization in Georgia. An audition, you might say.
- Jay Bookman
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Joe Mama
September 30th, 2011
1:19 pm
M. Max — “if they did, they would be coasting to 2012 w/o worry over who the Rep’s put up”
We’re not worried. Y’all’s field of candidates is only a couple of clowns shy of being a three-ring circus.
Kamchak
September 30th, 2011
1:20 pm
…… down over 100 points!
A drop of less than 1% gives you elation and cause to blame it all on Obama?
Grasping at straws indeed.
oldguy
September 30th, 2011
1:22 pm
Get,
Yeah…..at this rate we will be as big as Iceland soon.
Trotsky Foxtrot
September 30th, 2011
1:23 pm
He didn’t happen to mention that the CEO in question was Muhtar Kent of Coca Cola, a company with a rather high profile in these parts. It’s the kind of small but telling oversight that reflects poor staff work and a campaign and candidate not yet ready for prime time.
Poor staff work? How about just a dim bulb candidate period? Who doesn’t carry it around in his mental architecture where the nation’s biggest companies are based?
Mad Max
September 30th, 2011
1:24 pm
Joe, Whether you want to admit or not, Obama is presiding over a broken economy and he doesn’t know how to get it turned around. With unemployment near 10%, Wall st. being a yoyo, Obamacare being the highlight of his presidency, I think even a moron has a good chance of unseating Obama. There is going to be backlash at the guy in the oval office.
getalife
September 30th, 2011
1:25 pm
oldguy,
w lost a decade.
You want them to lose another decade?
oldguy
September 30th, 2011
1:26 pm
Have to go rob some poor…….oops sorry I am one of the poor!! Lunchtime.
Later….
theyeshaveit
September 30th, 2011
1:26 pm
Just a thought…
Perry, is trying to win the GOP playoffs using a stance he learned in the Texas League. Batting right-handed and crowding the plate most of the time is not a healthy stance once you get to the Major League – you could get beaned. On the other hand, if he doesn’t, he’s not going to get many hits and might spend the World Series on the bench.
Meanwhile, Romney is the quintessential switch hitter who looks a bit like a McCain 2012.
Trotsky Foxtrot
September 30th, 2011
1:28 pm
oldguy: “Have to go rob some poor…….oops sorry I am one of the poor!! Lunchtime.”
Well, to take a page from the Limbaugh handbook, look on the bright side, at least the poor here have Ramen noodles, which is just one step from sushi if you think about it …
Brosephus™ - Browning America Since 1973
September 30th, 2011
1:29 pm
Obama is presiding over a broken economy and he doesn’t know how to get it turned around.
And the supply-side trickery he’s done isn’t working either…
Mick
September 30th, 2011
1:31 pm
:>
oldguy
September 30th, 2011
1:33 pm
Trotsky,
As an old Southerner to me Sushi is just dressed up bait !!
Can’t understand why my daughters like it (thought I taught them better!).
Brosephus™ - Browning America Since 1973
September 30th, 2011
1:34 pm
To paraphrase dB…
Newt sheetz bitches!!
Joe COOL
September 30th, 2011
1:35 pm
HDB
September 30th, 2011
12:52 pm
HDB And BRO, thanks….both good perspectives.
Joe Mama
September 30th, 2011
1:36 pm
M. Max — “Joe, Whether you want to admit or not, Obama is presiding over a broken economy and he doesn’t know how to get it turned around.”
Irrelevant to the fact that y’all don’t have any viable candidates. And spare me the GOP-Democrat horse race rhetoric; I voted Republican for over 20 years and enlisted in the Army during the Reagan administration. I know the GOP playbook, chapter and verse.
When faced with a choice between the devil they know and the devil they don’t know, folks tend to go with the devil they’re already familiar with.
“With unemployment near 10%, Wall st. being a yoyo, Obamacare being the highlight of his presidency, I think even a moron has a good chance of unseating Obama.”
Well, what a FORTUNATE coincidence for the GOP, considering morons are all y’all have. (laughing)
“There is going to be backlash at the guy in the oval office.”
There already *has* been; perhaps you didn’t notice. The question is whether or not the GOP can capitalize on it without having a positive message of their own. I don’t think they can.
Independent
September 30th, 2011
1:37 pm
Judging from the polls, Obama does not exactly “set the crowd on fire”, in fact he has dumped water on the crowds and the economy.
2012: The Year of Anybody but Obama
buck@gon
September 30th, 2011
1:38 pm
Jay,
It’s the kind of small but telling oversight that reflects poor staff work and a campaign and candidate not yet ready for prime time.
Oooh, Bookman-hand-wringing and tsk-tsking over imagined/fabricated Republican non-gaffes, nothings and non-issues. Now there’s something we see everyday, Jay!
Coming off a president, nearly certain to lose whose mantra was “hope and change,” and whose rhetoric that once set the nation “afire,” and now whose speeches can’t fill a high school gym with a bunch of hand-picked drones, we are now realizing the importance of real substance over platitudes and hopey-changey blather. Perhaps Muhtar Kent’s words ought to be HEARD standing alone rather than couched as a stupid move by Perry.
Seems to me, in fact, that Muhtar Kent’s words spoken in that quote don’t do so much damage to Perry, but to one Jay Bookman, YOU, my friend, who wrote just last week, quoting of all things, the World Bank, claiming how easy it was to do business here. I, and most Americans think Kent has it right. Coming from Atlanta, in fact, his words have special and a stronger influence.
No wonder you think Perry made a mistake in politics. He hit YOU right between the eyes and stepped on YOUR credibility!
I like it.
Rick Perry’s speaking style proves to be no more dynamic than his debating style, which surprises me. Even from a prepared script, his delivery was flat and awkward and didn’t exactly light the conservative audience at Cobb Galleria afire.
It’s 13 months before the election. Perry is one of ten + candidates. The tea party conservatives are VERY concerned about spending #1 and big government #2. These aren’t insubstantial issues following a cult of personality.
Anyway, Obama wasn’t lighting anyone on fire in 2007, either….. and he won’t be again in 2012.
Talking Head
September 30th, 2011
1:40 pm
still waitin on that obama cash…
Joe Mama
September 30th, 2011
1:40 pm
oldguy — “Can’t understand why my daughters like it (thought I taught them better!).”
It’s not bad stuff if it’s prepared right. The trick is to get the best and freshest fish and seafood possible, and then to serve it ASAP.
If the raw stuff puts you off, try yakitori (think little grilled skewers) and tempura (lightly deep-fried) seafood, or just ask for shrimp nigiri (raw shrimp on little clumps of rice). Shrimp that way is almost like having peel-and-eat shrimp, except they’re already peeled for you.
That word is NIGIRI. Shrimp nih-GEAR-ee.
Hootinanny Yum Yum
September 30th, 2011
1:43 pm
Soothsayer @ 12:41 “Cobb Galleria: what more logical locus of the foaming-at-the-mouth rabid Right nut-cases could you possibly find?”
Been to the Cumberland Mall/Galleria area lately?
Mad Max
September 30th, 2011
1:47 pm
Joe, that’s what makes the world go around. You pin all your hope on the GOP putting up an idiot to replace the existing idiot. I pin my hopes on the vetting and the fact that the current crop of incumbants will get swept out. Look at the bright side, you might gain back control of the House.
In regard to your last point about the devil, all I can say is people vote with their pocketbooks, see Carter, the 1st Bush. When times appear tough, the guy in the office is responsible. As Harry Truman once said, the buck stops here. But the Dem’s still want to blame everything on the 2nd Bush, but he isn’t in office anymore. As the saying goes fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me. We’ve seen the devil and we can judge his effectiveness.
Joe Mama
September 30th, 2011
1:48 pm
H. Yum Yum — “Been to the Cumberland Mall/Galleria area lately?”
I was at Costco ovair just this week. Plenty of people buying snooty Frainch cheese and wine.
Maybe all the conservative shoppers go over to the Sam’s Club by the Big Chicken.
Trotsky Foxtrot
September 30th, 2011
1:49 pm
oldguy: “As an old Southerner to me Sushi is just dressed up bait !!
Can’t understand why my daughters like it (thought I taught them better!).”
You know, if you’d have told me 20 years ago, I’d see children walking the streets of our Texas towns. …with green hair, bones in their noses…I just flat-out wouldn’t have believed you.
– No Country For Old Men
Or old guys for that matter
Joe Mama
September 30th, 2011
1:50 pm
M. Max — “As the saying goes fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me. We’ve seen the devil and we can judge his effectiveness.”
I just don’t see it happening with the current GOP crew. I think this is going to turn out like 2004 in reverse.
There was a lousy President in office then, too, but the opposition put up a weak, unexciting candidate who didn’t have much to offer in the way of ideas. And so the incumbent got another term.
I think that’s going to happen in 2012, too.
Hootinanny Yum Yum
September 30th, 2011
1:55 pm
Granny @ 12:57,
“Great Photo from Occupy Wall street
Those damn hippies!”
A union is a union is a union…
AmVet - Read my lips. No new Texans!
September 30th, 2011
2:00 pm
And the intellectually challenged base think this is one of the GOP’s great thinkers???
He is just a slightly toned down Joseph McCarthy.
But like that earlier nutjob, he shares the same irrational paranoia…
Butch Cassidy
September 30th, 2011
2:01 pm
buck@agon – ” I, and most Americans think Kent has it right.”
Great, then I guess you’ll either be moving to China or spearheading the initiative to repeal any regulations that demand clean air and water, child labor laws and of course a grass roots effort to get wages down to an affordable $1.00 a day rate for all workers.
Trotsky Foxtrot
September 30th, 2011
2:07 pm
I think I can hear that fat lady warming up …
tra la laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
AmVet - Read my lips. No new Texans!
September 30th, 2011
2:16 pm
Regarding that local company that makes that nasty drink, why should they be different from any other multinational on Wall Street?
They have NO allegiance to the United States of America. And no loyalty to their employees, share holders, consumers, communities and tax payers.
And for a few more pieces of dirty silver they now prefer to get in bed with the Communist Chinese and a host of other countries run by dictators and thugs.
Which is what the anti-patriotic neo-cons want…
AmVet - Read my lips. No new Texans!
September 30th, 2011
2:20 pm
I wish beyond wish that those protesters would take that giant American flag at 10 Wall Street and give it somebody deserving.
The banksters, casino capitalists, white collar criminals and sell-outs just hide behind it.
This is the one that should be up there;
http://tinyurl.com/6cuus4g
Mad Max
September 30th, 2011
3:14 pm
Joe, One difference between then and now that you are overlooking; Bush still had some carryover from his handling of the 9/11 and the stock market and the economy were in recovery mode following the dit com bust and 9/11. Your guy is presiding over a very troublesome economy, balloning debt and all he can come up with is the very same promise and program he had for the 1st stimulus (more shovel ready jobs, school repairs that can’t start until June ‘12) . He’s playing to peoples stupidity. As I noted, fool me once…..
Joe Mama
September 30th, 2011
4:02 pm
M. Max — “Joe, One difference between then and now that you are overlooking;”
I didn’t overlook it. I just don’t agree with you.
“Bush still had some carryover from his handling of the 9/11″
Disagree. He was getting a lot of crap at home and abroad over our invasion of Iraq. Remember that we went in in the spring of 2003, and the protest marches started not soon after that.
“and the stock market and the economy were in recovery mode following the dit com bust and 9/11.”
Disagree. Job losses had continued until only a few months before the election. We weren’t creating jobs fast enough to keep up with population growth, let alone put people back to work who lost their jobs in the dot-com crash.
“Your guy is presiding over a very troublesome economy, balloning debt and all he can come up with is the very same promise and program he had for the 1st stimulus (more shovel ready jobs, school repairs that can’t start until June ‘12).”
When private consumers (both individuals and businesses) can’t or won’t spend in order to sustain the economy, government has no choice but to be the spender of last resort. You may be opposed to the stimulus on ideological grounds, but it’s pretty much an economic axiom that a moribund economy requires spending — from wherever it can come — in order to get rejuvenated. So unless those businesses with fat balance sheets are suddenly going to unlimber their checkbooks and start buying goods and services, another stimulus is pretty much an economic requirement. Maybe if the GOP would stop spending so much time and effort trying to balk every one of the President’s efforts, then we might be able to get something done.
You know, I wasn’t happy with a lot of things that President Bush did, and I left the GOP during his administration. But I don’t call him names (as a lot of posters here do) and I never once hoped or expressed a desire for him to fail. When a President fails, the country fails along with him. We all ought to be better than to wish for such a thing.
“He’s playing to peoples stupidity. As I noted, fool me once…..”
Well, we’re going to have to disagree on that. I’m no one’s fool, and I think you’re wrong on this.
Mad Max
September 30th, 2011
4:14 pm
Joe, We can agree to disagree. I do wish Obama could do something about the economy and I don’t wish him to fail. I just don’t believe he is capable and I think he has no idea what to do about the debt which at the rate we’re going is going to overwhelm us and keep us in this recession. He keeps putting off addressing it and that is a lot of the concern among investors.
1811/0311
September 30th, 2011
4:39 pm
Joe Mama :
Evil must be fought.
Joe Mama
September 30th, 2011
4:40 pm
M. Max — “I think he has no idea what to do about the debt which at the rate we’re going is going to overwhelm us and keep us in this recession.”
I am rather suspicious about the convenient timing with which conservatives magically discovered and started to care about the deficit.
It wasn’t *that* long ago that VP Cheney expressed his infamous statement about deficits not mattering.
Joe Mama
September 30th, 2011
4:42 pm
1811 — “Evil must be fought.”
Depends on what you think is evil. If you think that Democrats are categorically evil, then I don’t think there’s any need for Democrats to be civil to you, let alone try to work with you.
If that’s how you feel about us, then don’t be surprised when we start feeling similarly towards you.
Mad Max
September 30th, 2011
5:30 pm
Joe,
I ‘ve never approved of it unless in times of war regardless of who’s sitting in the chair, and then only to the extent of the cost of the war that can’t be funded through other means. The problem is we as a nation have become like spoiled children. We want to go to the zoo and we must have our ice cream. When Katrina hit, we spent like we had the money and not once did anyone in either party suggest that we shift our spending priorities. Deficit reduction takes a back seat to everything and is always going to happen through reduced growth to be offset by theoretical growth in revenues that never show up. This deficit is way more than the cost of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan combined. It’s the result of everyone from both parties not being held accountable and they have been on an orgy since the days of Reagan’s tax cuts which did produce increased revenues. Unfortunately, both parties saw all that cash and found ways to waste it, rather than being prudent with it. We would have 40% move funding if we didn’t have this debt. That 40%, along with a restrained Congress, would be more than enough to keep this country from floundering the way it is. And if we keep it up, we will be at 50% in the next 4-5 years just through the power of compounding. Unfortunately, we are using the compounding process in the wrong way and just throwing money out the door without a detailed plan is not going to really improve it. Just my opinion.
Have a good weekend.
GM
September 30th, 2011
5:49 pm
Please could somebody explain to me why unemployment in over 20 states is 9% and below? Oh I guess Obama is not the President in those states.
Rick Perry ” we need to make gov small” Oh by the way thanks for the 5 million and can we have more money for the fires”’
Jack
September 30th, 2011
6:40 pm
All you lefties have to do is vote for Obama next year. The we’ll all live happily ever after; just like in the movies.
Billybob
September 30th, 2011
7:09 pm
hussein thinks we all are soft for a couple of decades?…….did anyone see him throw a baseball……now that was soft……….this guy needs to keep talking like I suggest you do jay and he is toast. in a little over a year…..can you say landslide……….he is the most divisive leader in american history and his words and actions prove that day after day after day after day………..has he lowered the see levels yet libs? haaaahaaaaaaa
Ol; Timer
September 30th, 2011
7:27 pm
I suppose it is easier to do business in China with fewer regulations and restrictions. I remember when they had the Olympic in China, the air was so bad they had to curtail automobile traffic so the atheletes could breathe.
And the way it looks, the oligarchs in the U.S. would be willing to sacrifice air, water and employee safety for a less burdensome business environment — while they enjoy the pristine air of their Colorado mansions or their homes down in the islands.
Diehard
September 30th, 2011
8:09 pm
There was nothing short of “I’m not running” that would have inspired Jay Bookman today. I am sick of this liberal spouting his view of Republicans as if it matters.
Jay
September 30th, 2011
8:17 pm
It matters to you, Diehard. That’s all that’s important.
Sux Limbow
September 30th, 2011
8:32 pm
The “roar” for christie is mystifying: He’s for amnesty for immigrants, against guns, for the Race to the Top, believes in Global Warming, and doesn’t hate Muslims. How he’d get the GOP nomination I can’t fathom.
Martin Williams
September 30th, 2011
9:31 pm
Perry was a Democrat and used those idiots in Texas to be Governor. Come on Texas people, you all can do better. Not only that but elected him to two terms……you all are big time idiots, sorry wish I have a better word.