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kpete

(72,087 posts)
Thu Dec 29, 2011, 11:50 AM Dec 2011

That's white Christian American oil right there.

“Every barrel of oil that comes out of those sands in Canada is a barrel of oil that we don’t have to buy from a foreign source,” Mr. Perry said in Clarinda, earning a loud round of enthusiastic applause.

Later, the audience reacted again to Mr. Perry’s assertion that buying so much energy from foreign countries is “not good policy, it’s not good politics and frankly it’s un-American.”

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/28/what-moves-republican-crowds-in-iowa/?smid=tw-thecaucus&seid=auto

In Republican land, "foreign" doesn't mean what it does to you and me. It means "vaguely brown, Mooslim countries with names likes Ooz-beki-beki-beki-stan."

By Republican definitions, Canada isn't a foreign country. That's white Christian American oil right there.
Unless the subject is healthcare. Then Canada's as foreign as can be.


http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2011/12/definition-of-foreign-by-davidoatkins_29.html
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That's white Christian American oil right there. (Original Post) kpete Dec 2011 OP
More like Venezuelan oil... Balthasar Bekker Dec 2011 #1
Spot on, sadly. k&r n/t Laelth Dec 2011 #2
After Texas secedes we will have to do something A Simple Game Dec 2011 #3
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