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Rick Perry on Saturday commented again on the shooting deaths of nine people in a historic church in Charleston, South Carolina, an incident which he previously described as an accident .
A campaign spokesperson subsequently said the candidate had misspoken, saying: From the context of his comments, its clear Governor Perry meant incident.
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/06/rick-perry-condemns-charleston-shooting-after-accident-remark/
City Lights
(25,171 posts)onehandle
(51,122 posts)He was trying to order some guacamole from his desk in the Oval Office and accidentally nuked Finland.
Oops.
ck4829
(35,076 posts)treestar
(82,383 posts)You know you are out in public. Dumb slip of the tongue indeed.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)LynnTTT
(362 posts)But why is "incident" any better? An incident is when someone butts in front of you in line and you "have a few words". Nine people murdered is not an incident.
MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)What an idiot!
merrily
(45,251 posts)His case of premature self-disqualification is even worse now than it was then.
rurallib
(62,415 posts)didn't he also own a ranch where they had to paint over the name once people found what the name was?
4139
(1,893 posts)randome
(34,845 posts)"One is 'accident'. The others are...um...well, I'll get to those later."
[hr][font color="blue"][center]There is nothing you can't do if you put your mind to it.
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vanlassie
(5,670 posts)making fun of this guy, he's so stupid already.
Octafish
(55,745 posts)Accident or Incident, Perry missed the point.
cilla4progress
(24,733 posts)oops?
Kick him to the curb where he belongs.