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cal04

(41,505 posts)
Sun Jul 6, 2014, 12:09 PM Jul 2014

Martha Raddatz Schools Rick Perry On The Real Reasons For The Migrant Children Crisis

ABC Host Schools Rick Perry On The Real Reasons For The Migrant Children Crisis
http://thinkprogress.org/immigration/2014/07/06/3456735/rick-perry-children-asylum-raddatz/

Martha Raddatz, host of ABC’s This Week, grilled Gov. Rick Perry (R-TX) Sunday about the growing number of unaccompanied children coming to the United States from Latin America from Central America seeking asylum. When Perry insisted the issue is solely one of border security, Raddatz quickly debunked his talking points.

Perry blamed the influx of children on President Obama, complaining that there are not enough border patrol agents along the border between Texas and Mexico (despite agents monitoring every mile of the border every day). Raddatz pushed back, noting that the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008 requires that those seeking refugee status from Central American countries receive due process:

RADDATZ: But, governor, this is about a law. This isn’t necessarily about border patrol. This is about a law.…They have to let these people into the country when they’re from non-contiguous nations, when they’re from Central America or South America, should that law be changed?

(snip)
Raddatz did not let Perry change the subject, asking him to focus on “the 2008 law that was signed into law by George W. Bush,” and suggesting that that has created a backlog in the courts that must be addressed first. But Perry continued to dodge the question, arguing that Obama simply did not care about keeping these children out. Raddatz again pushed back:

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Martha Raddatz Schools Rick Perry On The Real Reasons For The Migrant Children Crisis (Original Post) cal04 Jul 2014 OP
Saw The Interview. rsmith6621 Jul 2014 #1
Juanita Jean had some fun with Goodhair's latest act of stupidity Gothmog Jul 2014 #2

rsmith6621

(6,942 posts)
1. Saw The Interview.
Sun Jul 6, 2014, 12:15 PM
Jul 2014


.. I hope Perry doesnt go out and steal money from donors for another attempt at the White House. He is nothing but a TOOL.

Gothmog

(144,919 posts)
2. Juanita Jean had some fun with Goodhair's latest act of stupidity
Sun Jul 6, 2014, 05:25 PM
Jul 2014

Juanita Jean could not pass this opportunity up http://www.juanitajean.com/2014/07/06/oh-yall-its-gotta-be-brain-freeze/

Rick Perry has to study-up to be dumb.

I swear on all that is holy that he’s been taking America-lessons for the past two years so he can run for President and be two IQ points smarter than Sarah Palin.

It didn’t work.

Dumb as a sack of hammers.

Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) is not backing away from a conspiracy theory he recently floated about the Obama administration somehow coordinating the surge of immigrants coming over the border for some unknown reason.

Perry recently suggested on Fox News that the Obama administration might be “in on this somehow” and helping move immigrants over the border. Asked about that statement on Sunday, Perry didn’t back away.


What? President Obama is going to use refugees from a Central America drug war to herd us all into underground bunker reeducation camps ruled by the New World Order in Roswell, New Mexico, with Janet Reno’s, the woman who shot Kennedy, black helicopters hovering overhead?

Well, crap Rick, everybody knows that. Just go ahead and say it.



And by the way, please make Rick quit torturing the English language. In an attempt not to end a sentence with a preposition, we get this …

I have to believe that when you do not respond in any way, that you are either inept, or you have some ulterior motive of which you are functioning from,” Perry said on ABC’s “This Week” on Sunday.


Nice try, Dumbo, but you could have ended the sentence at the word “motive.”

I’ll give somebody fifty dollars cash American money to go convince him that he’s already been President and now it’s time to go to the ranch and paint pictures of himself in the bathtub.

I mean it.

Goodhair is a really stupid person
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