Perry mixes up the dates of the Revolutionary War

[hue]

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/perry-mixes-dates-revolutionary-war-130234574.html

Rick Perry two centuries behind in calling the Revolutionary War!! His statement sounds like a Palin word salad!

"Rick Perry's troubles weren't limited to the debate floor on Tuesday night.

After the Washington Post/Bloomberg forum, the Texas governor made an appearance at a Dartmouth College fraternity house, where he appeared to mix up the dates of the Revolutionary War.

The gaffe occurred when Perry was asked about states' rights during a question-and-answer session at Dartmouth's Beta Theta Pi fraternity.

"Our Founding Fathers never meant for Washington, D.C. to be the fount of all wisdom," Perry said, per ABC's Arlette Saenz. "As a matter of fact they were very much afraid if that because they'd just had this experience with this far-away government that had centralized thought process and planning and what have you, and then it was actually the reason that we fought the revolution in the 16th century was to get away from that kind of onerous crown if you will."

But the Revolutionary War was fought in the 18th century...."

[tanyev]

1. That's my governor! Doesn't he have nice hair?

[Citizen Worker]

6. But how does that hair grow on infertile ground?

[opihimoimoi]

2. Was it in a Texas History Book??

[Angry Dragon]

3. Not a big deal

[OswegoAtheist]

4. Completely accurate...

...if you consider that he wants to return us to the Gilded Age of the Nineteenth Century.

Oswego "Offsets" Atheist

[Enrique]

5. maybe he's talking about the Reformation

not the Revolution. :shrug: