No medical folks asked or quoted, none.

1. I’m disappointed, because I had high hopes for Perry, and hope he can somehow shake this off. I’m still strongly for President Not Obama, and considering throwing my golden retriever’s hat … er … collar into the ring, if need be. Better educated, better breath, and undoubtedly an American down to his paws.

2. I have a lot of sympathy for Perry in this situation. In my work I periodically have to recite five items to clients, and damned if I don’t typically rattle off four of the five and then often struggle to remember the one I’ve forgotten (which one varies between occasions).

Further, when I was lecturing, once in a while I’d get confused about something I’d lectured about for decades. Rather like when one stares at a word long enough that its spelling looks peculiar, I’d get to a state when all possibilities looked odd. And that was in front of 300 or so people; I can’t imagine how it must be to do this on TV. (The joke used to be that you lose 50 IQ points when you stand up in front of a lecture theater. It’s true.)

So I cut Perry some slack. I certainly hope his boo-boo isn’t evidence of pathology, because if it is, my brain must look like Swiss cheese.

3. As pointed out above, the media are the problem, and are complicit in imposing socialism on us. We really need a revived HUAC to investigate the media and JournoList, both of which I hate with the white-hot heat of a thousand suns.

The Michigan Debate: Candidates 9, Moderators 0; The Cain Affair

But when all is said and done, while the incident was embarrassing, it was hardly definitive. It doesn’t show Perry more or less qualified to be President. We know that Perry has been an effective and re-elected governor of a prosperous state. We know that candidates can be dependent on a teleprompter and get elected. We know that Perry’s lapse of memory was both temporary and unimportant. We all, or certainly I, can cheer for a man who will eliminate those three Departments. I have reservations about getting rid of Commerce, and I doubt that he can do that one; but certainly Education has to go!
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but my conclusion from the debate is that all the candidates are alive and well, any one of them would be capable of beating Obama, and any one of the would be infinitely superior to the current president.

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He said he originally had a different position on Vietnam because when he visited the place he was brainwashed by his tour guides.

While that may have been an ill-chosen word, he was probably presented a well-produced one-act play when he was there.

A friend of mine, a crew chief on a Marine chopper, told me that for a fact-findingvisit by Hubert Humphrey they were issued new uniforms, new sidearms, and choppers without large holes in them.

Humphrey visited.

Then they had to give the new stuff back, including the undamaged helicopters, so it could be used for Humphrey’s next stop.

Killing people.

The occupiers, those darlings of Obama, are stealing, raping and murdering. Not the bulk of them, no, and most have good intentions. But the poor fools! Some of them, the better part, will create the nucleas of the apocolyptic generation, the generation who bitterly learned not to trust the professional agitators.

Obama, your day is coming. It won’t be re-election. It won’t be apotheosis.

It will be an atonement for your wrongs.

A good man to give the last word!

The Cain problem with sexual harassment doesn’t bother me. His accusers have little credibility in my opinion…bimbos, whiners, and gold diggers. However I am concerned about his lack of depth in analysis of foreign affairs and his 9-9-9 plan. As a person I like him.

I’m becoming convinced that Romney will win the nomination and perhaps the presidency. His business experience and success with the Salt Lake Olympics convince me he is competent even though he isn’t a pure conservative.

And last but not least, he ain’t Obama.

I like Perry as a person. He has a good record as the Texas governor. I had hoped he would be the one. However, with the MSM solidly in Obama’s corner, IMO, he has no chance.