While in Iowa Rick Perry disrespects President Obama

[Tx4obama]

Perry: Obama cares more about politics than U.S. troops

Urbandale, Iowa (CNN) – Texas Gov. Rick Perry accused Barack Obama of caring more about politics than American troops on Wednesday, blasting the president for not planning a major parade to welcome home soldiers from the war in Iraq.

The last combat troops left the country last week, after nearly nine years of fighting.

“This president wouldn’t welcome home our many heroes with a simple parade in their honor,” the Republican presidential candidate told a packed house at The Machine Shed restaurant in Urbandale.

“Maybe it’s because this war isn’t popular with the Democrats, I don’t know," said Perry, who has tacked to the right in a final campaign push before next Tuesday's Iowa caucuses. "But Mr. President, our soldiers come first. It comes before party politics. We need to welcome our soldiers home. Give them that parade. Give them that pat on the back.

SNIP

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/12/28/perry-obama-cares-more-about-politics-than-u-s-troops/


p.s. Hey Perry - F.U.

[spanone]

1. desperate politicians will do or say anything that gets them attention

like spoiled children.....parade, my ass

[bluerum]

2. A parade. What a joke. How about jobs? Health care? Education?

What a first class melon head.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

18. Viet Nam vets make up the highest percentage of homeless in the US

Iraq and Afghan vets will soon be joining them. I suspect that Mr. O has a plan to fix that. At least I hope he does.

[savalez]

29. Perry won't mention this though

President Obama signed legislation that provides significant tax credits to businesses that hire unemployed and disabled veterans, the only measure in the president’s larger jobs proposal to receive any bipartisan support.

In a signing ceremony in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, Obama offered rare praise to a Congress he has otherwise chastised for months over failure to take significant action on the nation’s struggling economy.

http://whitehouse.blogs.cnn.com/2011/11/21/obama-signs-tax-benfits-for-vet-hires-into-law/

[liberal N proud]

3. That is what the GOP hateful thrive on.

No one in the GOP has any respect for the President. They have made a career out of hating Obama.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

4. Disrespect is not a verb in the English language

A minor point but it irks me.

[DavidDvorkin]

5. It is now

Changes in English often irk me, but they continue nonetheless.

The bigger problem is that we have people on DU complaining about lack of respect for Democratic elected officials. The other side used "respect" as a rhetorical bludgeon to silence respect and to elevate elected Republicans to a position above those they were supposed to represent. I hate to see our side doing the same thing.

[Enrique]

6. this is like the dog on the Christmas card

if Obama gave a parade, they'd find something wrong with the parade, etc.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

7. A parade? For what?

I know that we are supposed to honor our military men and women and their sacrifice for this country but, frankly, given the circumstances of our "involvement" in Iraq and the fact that 4-5K soldiers (and countless Iraqis) died needlessly over there in the Bush/GOP "war of choice", getting them out of there was actually the best possible way to honor them IMHO. And no, this "war" with Iraq was never that popular with Democrats-though President Obama was one of the very small number of elected officials to publicly speak out against it (one of the reasons I ultimately supported him over Hillary).

[berni_mccoy]

8. Perry must have been campaigning too hard... he missed this...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/obama-welcomes-troops-home-from-iraq/2011/12/14/gIQA3CcJuO_gallery.html

It was all over the news. Shows how uninformed he is as a candidate.

[zbdent]

17. nope ... it's just another type of smear that they can get away with

to make themselves (Perry and his ilk) look better to the masses who watch the so-called "liberally-biased media" ... you know, the ones who couldn't stop showing the footage of the three servicemen's bodies being dragged through the streets (under Clinton) ...

[Tx4obama]

27. I believe most of the GOPers are uninformed about many things.

Newt Gingrich apparently doesn't know that President Obama already asked Joe Biden to run with him in 2012, and Biden said yes.
Seems like 'all' the GOP candidates should already know that tidbit of info considering they are currently in campaign mode - LOL

See the 4th paragraph in the OP here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/100279070

[chelsea0011]

9. And after the parade when Iraq collapses into civil war they repukes

can wrap the victory parade around Obama's neck. What a bunch of crap from Perry and his sunken ship of a campaign.

[rainbow4321]

10. Simple parade...

Dumb shit.

He needs to go after the Pentagon, then, not POTUS. It was explained on TV last night that NYC had asked the Pentagon about planning a parade and the Pentagon punted it back to NYC for a decision on whether or not to have the parade down the Avenue of Heroes.

Then comes the other issue..we are STILL at war, our troops are STILL over in Afghanistan getting killed.

Perry is grasping at straws. Had POTUS made a decision to hold a parade, goodhair would be bitching about that.


Goodhair, just head back down here to TX, we are tired of seeing how much of our TX taxes are being used to fund your prancing around the country. I cannot wait until the day that he has to give his post-primary "heading back to TX with my tail between my legs" speech.

[AlbertCat]

11. our soldiers come first.

Wait...

I thought our children praying in school came 1st, not the homo-infested troops!

Make up your wee mind, Texas Ass!

[Maraya1969]

12. And they can send pictures of the parade back to the

soldiers still fighting in Afghanistan!

[Plucketeer]

22. Better than that..........

...this welcome home parade could double as a sort of heros sendoff - since alot of them will be thrust into the next needless conflict!

[certainot]

13. GOP candidates ride the RW radio bandwagon, which takes free pot shots at all things dem, liberal

and we won't get it behind us until we fix the radio

if 1000 radio stations can spew shit like this all day to 50 mil a week while protected by call screeners and continue to get a free speech free ride from the collective 'left', idiots like perry are acceptable in politics.

[MarinCoUSA]

14. Obama walks across Potomac to order Pentagon pitch parade.

Repiglickin Teabagger neo-confederate nazi wanna bees respond:
A. BO too late, wrong city, not big enough, wrong music, not enough flags, whatever shit crap they can think of,

B. Obama still can't swim.

The Rachel discussed this last night. The take away, Pentagon is not involved and it's totally up to which ever city to host/pay for it.

[JBoy]

15. The President already had the parade

[Cali_Democrat]

16. A parade for what?

Illegally invading and occupying a country while killing hundreds of thousands of its civilians and wasting over a trillion dollars?

No thanks.

[Geoff R. Casavant]

19. I can hardly wait for the Texas parade!

I'd bet there are a lot of vets who will be returning to Texas in the next few weeks -- we've got military bases galore, including Fort Hood, one of the biggies. Perhaps the governor can exercise some of his own executive power to give them a rousing welcome home.

And if not, maybe he should consider shutting up.

[Skittles]

20. LOL

repukes think it is FINE to start senseless wars that KILL and MAIM soldiers but Democrats get dinged for lack of......a PARADE?

[The Genealogist]

21. Sad little Ricky, such a sad little boy

Tell ya what, Ricky, how about better jobs for the returning (and all the other) vets? How about better medical care, better attention to their housing needs? I'm sure in your lust to dismantle the government, your plan would be to cut vet services to even more inadequate levels.

I think when he says "parade," he means "jingoistic propeganda show." I doubt the parade he has in mind would be all that much about the vets, but rather it would be to keep the American people ratcheted up and turned on to the poisonous RW.

[AtomicKitten]

23. The attack reeks of immaturity.

Perry has a wad of cash and is going for the gold in Iowa.

One more debate should finish him off.

[bluestateguy]

24. Any private organization that wants to sponsor a parade is welcome to do so

Privatization is the way to go.

[DallasNE]

25. But Bush Already Did That 8 Years Ago

Did Perry forget. I sure didn't.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_Mission_Accomplished_speech

[B Calm]

26. and if he had a parade

they would say . . . . . . . .

[Tsiyu]

28. That "the government can't do anything right

and that "Grover Norquist says the bathtub-drowned government he's helped orchestrate has no money for a publicly funded parade.

"Let all parades be privatized - how can Obama think of a PARADE when the deficit is so high! HIs spending is out of control!!!!!!"


That's what they'd be saying....

[treestar]

33. He is using the troops to score political points

[Festivito]

30. Just like the one Nixon gave the Vietnam vets -- right? Oh, yeah, none. /nt

[slay]

31. Perry is such an ass

as much as i feel Obama has let us down in a really big way - all the repubs are way worse.

[Roci]

32. Anyone

who knows or cares for Texas in any way, shape or form knows this sort of thing already, and in gruesome detail. When this no-good snake oil salesman started his "campaign" you might recall how a bunch of folks from Texas spoke up and spoke out about the bill of goods that Perry was trying to foist on voters who didn't know any better at the time. A lot of the Texans who did speak up were called everything from alarmist to liars. I'm glad these folks who know this low-life no good best are finding some degree of vindication. And for those of you who are remotely disappointing, take heart. This piece of "work" will be back in four years time, more polished and better educated, with new bottles and labels for the same old snake oil. and all the while, he'll claim that 2011 and 2012 didn't happen the way everyone knows they have for him.

[mwb970]

34. We won't have to put up with this clown for much longer.

I don't know which of the republicans I will be gladdest to see drop out, but Perry is very high on the list.