Perry Explains His Poor Performance in College

[MrScorpio]

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/14/perry-explains-his-poor-performance-in-college/?nl=us&emc=politicsemailema4

LYNCHBURG, Va. — As a child, Gov. Rick Perry of Texas was dead-set on being a veterinarian. “That was my heart’s content. It’s what I always wanted to do,” he said.

Then came a day of reckoning, during the second semester of his sophomore year at Texas A&M University, when he went to see the dean of the veterinary school. His advice: switch to an easier major.

“He said, `Son, I’m looking at your transcript,’” Mr. Perry said. “‘You want to be an animal science major.’”

Mr. Perry told the anecdote here Wednesday morning to students at Liberty University in a speech that seemed to go to great lengths to explain and rationalize his poor academic performance in college, something that has already been an issue in the race for the G.O.P. presidential nomination.


(The implications here are endless)

[BlueJazz]

1. Well..Perry is a Pig but I don't advise learning to operate on yourself

[KamaAina]

2. His "heart's content"?!

Is that a Texas thing? (most folks say "heart's desire") Or is he just a colossal :dunce: ?

It may be time to break out all the old Aggie jokes: "The average Texas family has 2.1 children. The .1s all go to A&M.", etc.

[enuegii]

6. No, he misspoke. What he meant to say was

"I just wanted to bone farm animals to my heart's content."

[Yavapai]

3. Well, he is just where he should be,

looking around at a bunch of horse's asses!

[applegrove]

4. He was so in love with his country that he couldn't do homework.... what? worked for Newt as an

excuse.

[KOfan]

5. "I was born a poor, white moron"

Yet my hair was spared by the grace of god almighty! Hallelujer and pass the plate!

[MilesColtrane]

7. He thought a degree in Animal Husbandry was going to be easy...

because of all the research he did with Bessie out behind the barn when he was a teen.