Posted on 08/31/2011 9:02:33 AM PDT by opentalk
In their quest to widen the low-road and increase its rider-ship, the liberal Washington, D.C-based Politico just offered up this hackneyed but oh so predictable headline: “Is Rick Perry Dumb?”
Really? While it’s no surprise to conservatives and independents that the liberal mainstream media would pull out the old “attack Ronald Reagan” hand-book, dust it off, and use its previously discredited assaults to go after the surging Perry, a better question to be asked is:
“What are they all so afraid of?”
First of all, something which must be highlighted and stressed by all who care about fairness and accuracy is that Texas Gov. Rick Perry not only honorably served in our military but that he was a decorated Air Force pilot.
At about the same age that President Obama (by his own admission) was trying to find himself and experimenting with drugs, Perry was strapping himself into the cockpit of multi-million dollar Air Force aircraft.
For those on the left who may not understand as many look down upon our military and mock its very existence, getting through flight training and becoming a pilot in the United States Air Force is a very exacting process which actually does take a high degree of intelligence, skill, judgment, and even courage.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
Was Obama smart enough to make it as an Air Force pilot?
Answer: No. This is the easiest test that I think I ever took.
He is not smart enough to win a Soap Box Derby.
Don’t think he could get A security clearance
That's because there are no teleprompters in flight school.
One has to say he would never have looked in that direction to start with.
From that point on...
Does the USAF has planes that are fly by teleprompter?
The Left tries this on on every single conservative candidate, Reagan was an amiable old dunce, Bush I was a rich fool, Dole was a geriatric dummy, Quayle was a stupid young frat-boy (so was Bush II), Palin and Bachmann are both back-woods rednecks and bible-thumpers. Now Perry is in the media, the same is being tried on him.
The urban leftists will of course eat this narrative up, and they are the MSM after all - but I’m surprised they think the rest of us are so gullible, seeing that it is used every single time.
Obama is the product of affirmative action policies. He got into Columbia because of them, he got into Harvard Law because of them, and he got elected President because of them.
I hope they keep pressing this issue actually. The inevitable rejoiner is, okay Obama release your college transcripts. Lets see how smart you are.
not even close....
While Rick Perry spent his youth piloting C-130s for the United States Air Force,
Obama was getting high in an entirely different way.
from link
Only time he would fly then was when he was all “weewee’d” up.
Obama augered in the US economy...so I doubt it.
I suspect Obama wears velcro strapped shows or slip ons, because he’s too stupid to have learned how to tie laces.
Thanks for posting that.
Saw it the other day and it reflects precisely the difference between the two, we don’t call him Zer0 for nothing.
As one of those USAF pilots and one who was an IP at Edwards AFB...nope, the Obamabutt couldn’t even find the mechanisms to close the canopy.
Oh, W managed to get through UPT and get qualified in a 1-seat interceptor - a plane which had some “interesting” handling characteristics that could bite a spazmo pilot.
Perry completed UPT - the latter half of which required safely piloting a T-38 supersonic machine. Again, this one can also bite (try getting just a few knots slow during the final turn, and it will really be your FINAL turn).
Does anyone think our Spaz-O-Matic Cretin-in-Chief could even get through the light plane portion of pilot training?
Bwahahahahahahah!
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