Rick Perry has been denied a meeting with Obama

[mike r]

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/tx/7178648.html

Aide: Perry denied meet with president

AUSTIN, Texas — A governor's spokeswoman says Gov. Rick Perry has been denied a meeting with President Barack Obama when the president visits Fort Bliss on Tuesday.

Perry spokeswoman Katherine Cesinger says the Republican governor had asked to meet with the president on Tuesday to discuss border security. Cesinger said Monday that White House aides said the president would not be available for such a meeting.

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment Monday evening.

Perry was one of the first people the president saw when he stepped from Air Force One during an Austin visit on Aug. 9. On that occasion, Perry hand-delivered a letter to Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett, warning about the "dire threat" from drug violence along the U.S.-Mexico border.

[undeterred]

1. I hate it when Democratic presidents go to Texas.

Maybe he's got a good reason.

[Cirque du So-What]

4. Didn't faze LBJ

Go figure.

[Orangepeel]

9. El Paso is barely Texas. Much more like New Mexico.

:-)

[UTUSN]

2. Well, I'll K&R #1 THIS !1 n/t

[Xipe Totec]

3. Tell him the president is having a bad hair day n/t

[Kerrytravelers]

5. Ok, RWers... get ready... get ready... get ready...

COMMENCE WHINING!

[KeepItReal]

6. Perry will chase down Obama, but hides from a debate with his Democratic challenger

http://www.perryisacoward.com/

[w8liftinglady]

8. I was going to say the same thing..Perry is a coward

[scheming daemons]

7. Perry wants to secede from the Union... Obama should say:

"I don't talk to traitors"

[Subdivisions]

10. Well, Rick, you could always go with that secession plan. That way

you could take care of your own border problem and not have to have the federal government, which you apparently hate, to help you with it.

[AlinPA]

12. The talk of Texas seceding has been quiet lately. Did Perry give up?

[UTUSN]

11. Could Goodhair have his human CARD withdrawn?!1 He only works 2 hrs per week

I'll repeat what the glorious Molly IVINS reported years ago in the '90s, that Texas is a WEAK GOVERNOR SYSTEM state, and this a-hole only "works" something like 2 hours per week. Yet he is called "GOVERNOR" and Shrub ................ oh, nevermind................

[cynatnite]

13. Awe...darn it to heck....

Maybe if you hadn't hated 'Merika so much as to want to secede it would have turned out differently.

[Anakin Skywalker]

14. Ha Ha! Smacked Down!

[NTXDem]

15. Good stuff

I'm embarrassed that I have to claim Governor Good Hair as my governor. Hopefully he's out on his ass come November.

I guess words have consequences, don't they? Should have kept the secession talk in your head. Of course, it would be lonely in there since it would be all by itself, but still.

[asdjrocky]

16. Governor Good Hair.

Good one. Welcome to DU friend :hi:! :smoke:

[NTXDem]

17. Thanks!

Wish I could say I came up with that one, but alas, it was not to be. I'm not that creative... Unless alcohol is involved. :beer:

[muntrv]

18. Maybe Barack doesn't want to be teabagged by Perry.