Texas Gov. Rick Perry, once rumored as a vice presidential nominee, was calling Barack Obama a "socialist" months ago.
This is from a February column on a Perry appearance at a Dallas bookstore:
"Forty miles and a political time warp away from Sen. Barack Obama's Fort Worth rally, aspiring author Gov. Rick Perry addressed a much cozier Dallas crowd Thursday night.
At a signing party for his new Boy Scout book, On My Honor, Perry told about 300 book shoppers that he wants to defend the Scouts' honor, morality and virtue against those who would reduce the Scouts' principles to a "shapeless form of relativity."
Afterward, he frowned at Obama's message.
" 'Hope?' " he said, rolling his eyes. "I'm for 'hope.' "
The crowds lining up for Obama are "going to his rock concert," Perry said, calling Obama a "socialist."
I asked whether he'd ever seen anything comparable to crowds Obama was drawing.
"Sure," he said, grinning.
"The Beatles. The Rolling Stones. The Who."
He frowned again.
"I just don't want anybody like that running my country."
The governor is correct on his analysis.
Posted by: Barret | October 30, 2008 at 01:19 PM
A country number 1 asset is it's people; and one cannot lead the people unless one loves the people. I believe Obama has moral courage that speaks to that truth.However, the annals of history demonstrates, that when one challenges the status quo on behalf of the poor he or she is persecuted and call every thing in the book. Dr. king was call a communist because he fought for basic human rights for his people. Obama a "socialist" ,why dont you just say, its not fundamentally plausible for a black man to be president.
Posted by: marcus Hudson | October 30, 2008 at 06:06 PM
It's not Rick Perry's "country." I wish more Texan's would connect the dots and see what the Republican's deregulation has done to "our" country. Just look at your electric bills. Call Perry and ask him what people in Austin are paying. Yeah, we have socialism all right. It's steal from the middle class to advance the greed of Wall Street.
Posted by: Staci | October 31, 2008 at 06:56 AM
I agree with Staci, the Republicans can rant all they want about Socialism, Marxism, Communism, etc. but what we have right now, whatever it truly is, is not working. Time for a change.
Posted by: Mark Pakulak | November 03, 2008 at 12:02 AM