'Rick Perry' disputes claim he was drunk on SNL's Weekend Update

digitaljournal.com ^ | NOV 6, 2011 | staff

[mylife]

That sounds even better!
I have to use these onions though.
A friends hubby bought a 50 lb sack of the durn things LoL

[mylife]

Don't let Perry have any of those beans ☺

[sockmonkey]

I have to use these onions though.

I hear ya'. Someone gave me a 9x 13 pan heaping full of serranos, and jalapenos.

[CAluvdubya]

I agree with both of you...my problems with Perry have nothing to do with his delivery on this speech.

I do think he was trying not to be so stiff. Even if he had a drink, I don't care.

[mylife]

I love the serranos.

You can always dry them.

[SamAdams76]

I happen to like SNL in spite of their obvious liberal bias and at times, they can make fun of their own (i.e. Clinton, Obama) just as savagely as they make fun of conservatives. However, it is disturbing that many Americans cannot separate the parody of SNL from real-life. There are millions of people who truly believe that Sarah Palin really did say "I can see Russia from my front porch" and that Gerry Ford really did trip and fall about 20 times a day during his presidency. (He tripped the one time down some slippery stairs coming off Air Force One and was actually quite agile and athletic for most of his life).

I don't really have a lot of respect for people who quote SNL skits as fact - it tells me that they are not very intelligent people.

[Vaduz]

digitaljournalism =Expected

[onyx]

I’ve said all along that he needs to drop his “handlers”.

All candidates are best when they’re themselves.

Governor Perry is a very likable man, but he hasn’t been likable in the debates, thanks to his handlers and his poor choice of words in the Orlando debate.

[fight_truth_decay]

You also had a case in Texas that went to the Supreme Court from a school district that wanted students of illegal immigants to pay a specified amount per year and the supreme court ruled on the side of the student's parents free of tuition..thus whatever one may try to do state wise, as with the governor in Arizona, the federal government steps in and favors illegals.

Not much a state can do under those circumstances when the federal govt over rides what is good for the state.

I will try to find that court ruling later, if you do know it; which you may being from the great state of Texas.

Question for you:

Why did FEMA deny funding for your national emergency issues you faced in 2011? Or am I misinformed.

[BobL]

“..thus whatever one may try to do state wise, as with the governor in Arizona, the federal government steps in and favors illegals. Not much a state can do under those circumstances when the federal govt over rides what is good for the state.”

Yes and no. First, there’s no assurance that the courts will keep ruling in favor of the Illegals. In fact, some strong parts of Alabama’s law did actually start getting enforced, which is why the Illegals started leaving that state (and the sob stories started). The key is that YOU HAVE TO TRY, and you definitely don’t want to make your state a magnet for them, as we are here in Texas.

“Question for you:
Why did FEMA deny funding for your national emergency issues you faced in 2011? Or am I misinformed. “

Not sure...maybe the wild fires last summer? As to denying aid...same reason we didn’t get a Space Shuttle - we’re simply not liked a whole bunch in DC right now.